Ok, I need to know what in the world this story is.

And if it’s MRI related, I’d say they’re equally stupid. There are signs on every door, besides how can one not know about MRI’s today.

I’m also confused about this story (the chain and lock guy) - wouldn’t he have to be within 2 or 3 feet for it to have that much strength? It’s an EM field, inverse-square law applies, right? I’ve had MRI’s, any steel even 10ft away is unaffected.

And how do we cross the oceans?

Let’s see even a high speed train cross the US, from LA to NY. Every state will want it to stop in at least one major city, or they simply won’t vote to subsidize it.

Not to mention the land required - find a way to acquire the land between LA and NY to support it. Same problem as above.

All this without even approaching the flexibility issues, and many more.

While planes can go wherever, so long as the airport supports that class of plane (length/weight).

Trains have their place, in well-established routes that don’t change much. They can tolerate increased use to some degree, but as soon as you lose ridership, costs per traveler balloon.

And they still require many tons of concrete, as the bed for high speed has to be even more stable than for an interstate.

And, you’re still accelerating (start/stop) many tons, regardless of how many passengers are on board.

Trains aren’t a panacea, not a free lunch.

It was on the jumbotron - surely one or two of the thousands of people at the show knew who it was. And then we’d have people watching it remotely, or the show appearing on video services, etc.

Assuming this was discovered via “Social Media Surveillance” is a leap, and a weak argument about such surveillance (which is a real problem that I’ve been arguing against since the late 90’s).

Again, this was on the jumbotron. Stuff on the jumbotron has made the media circles since the advent of the jumbotron.

I haven’t had a bootloader unlocked Samsung since the S4, and I’m not sure it was actually unlockable, it’s just the last US Samsung that I could root, which usually requires an unlockable boot loader.

Ewww, Vista.

That’s like stepping in something nasty

And there will be another currency after that.

Again, I’m not spending my time bartering the chickens my boss gave me for some crabs, for some iron, for some gas, just to trade that with the person that has the thing I need, because thats what they wanted.

If you come up with any argument about “well my simplifies that by making the trades for you”, then you’ve just re-engineered currency.

Currency isn’t the issue, it’s money lenders (you know, the table Jesus supposedly threw over at the synagogue), because it’s the generation of debt to make profit at the expense of others, while not contributing anything tangible, that’s the problem according to the parable.

You could still have debtors in a barter system, and that would still be problematic. It would still be debtors preying on people with little to start with, like payday loan places. “We’ll loan you 2 chickens today, but you’ll owe us 3 on pay day”. See, no difference.

Now if you want to make a local barter system just because, that’s different. But acting like you’re going to replace currency is naive, at best. Currency has been with mankind for thousands of years, because it simplifies trading.

Using money is just a simplification of barter. I don’t have time to play barter with 12 people to get the 1 thing I need. Instead I trade dollars/coins/gold/whatever mutually agreed upon token of value.

Also, my boss doesn’t pay me in chickens that I can’t use

The argument against money is just silly.

The thing is that with progressive bifocals, and the right size lense, this is rarely an issue, as you choose the focus you need by simply moving your eyes and head. When setup properly I rarely need to move my head at all for normal day-to-day stuff, as we naturally put what we’re viewing in the center of our vision.

For example, when looking far, we tend to look upward more, so naturally use the upper portion of a lense. When on a computer or reading, we tend to look downward. Driving is a great example, we look forward and up while driving, down to see the dash, and progressives cover that with no problem.

The only time I run into “problems” is when doing really close work for an extended period, like stuff inches from my face. But for those times, I just switch to readers only while I’m doing that work. These glasses could maybe work there.

This is nothing new in the west - plague has always been rampant in prairie dogs, yet people complain about efforts to control their populations.

Don’t fuck with prairie dogs, bats, armadillos, etc.

These things happen every few years, there’s no vaccine, this has nothing to do with RFK.

A kid in the southwest nearly died from plague ~5 years ago, I guess what RFK does is retroactive?

Again, plague is rampant in wild animals in the west/southwest, it’s not a new issue.

It’s to deter people, that simple.

Tasker, Automate,Macrodroid.

Just have them watch for volume changes and reset alarm volume then.

This is an excellent explanation. I’ve always wondered how it all worked, now I see the map data is separate from dynamic data.

Wish these mapping apps would explain that, so people would understand the apps are providing the updated/dynamic data with the map data coming from OSM.

Boy, I missed an obvious one!

Ok, fine, so I setup a VM, make a bogus account, sync the updates, copy the update files and apply them wherever.

“Walk without rhythm, you won’t attract the worm”

Or, for a more obscure musical quote from the late 90’s: “Let the rhythm hit 'em”.

I thought a couple had Lineage support?

Been a while since I looked though.

This is what I find so frustrating about Crasholan killing their peer-to-peer backup in about 2012.

It was a brilliant solution.

Get a Lenovo Yoga, install the OS of your choice.

I forget the model, but there’s a Yoga where the keyboard separates from the screen.

HP also makes a pc tablet (forget the model numbers) with no keyboard - businesses uses them as POS or client-intake systems.

Both if these will blow away any “tablet”, as you can run a full OS and use apps of your choice.

Fuck RCS.

Twenty years too late for a “protocol” that is bound to hardware - something we decided was a bad idea forty years ago, and part of why TCP/IP became the standard.

XMPP is a far better protocol, and has had all the features of RCS for 20 years.

I will never use RCS.

That’s an Android thing - to get location data for the map, you need the network permission.

I know, it’s fucked up - it was made this way in about Android 12.