SaintGhurka

A rabbit's high-contrast cottontail serves a similar purpose.

Predators focus on the tail but as the body turns, the tail very briefly appears to continue in the same direction or momentarily disappears. The predator is forced to constantly refocus, creating lots of opportunities for them to make a mistake.

A sufficiently compact electric motor enables mounting it in the nose-wheel of commercial aircraft, allowing it to be driven around like a golf cart. This means the plane can taxi without the use of its engines, just the power from the APU. [1]

Also planes would not have to wait for a tug to pull back from the gate, which improves turnaround times for the airline.

[1] https://www.wheeltug.com/

>> The storm that caused such a problem is a once every ten years storm.

This is incorrect. That storm set multiple records, most notably the longest freezing streak the state has ever experienced [1]

Houston, San Antonio, Austin and Waco hit 30 year lows while Dallas set 80 year lows.

It also hit the entire state at the same time.

Maybe there's validity to some of the rest of your post, but that storm was absolutely not a regular occurance.

1. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/monitoring/streaks/mapping/...

Strange or not, it's correct.

Culturelle contains inulin. That's the brand that takes up most of the space at my local CVS and Walgreens. Also the CVS-brand knockoff contains inulin.

>> What happens then?

Same thing that's happening in CA. Insurers pull out of the state and non-renew policies.

I'm sure it was satisfying to see the regulator stick it to the insurance companies, but you can't force them to write policies if they don't think it's worth it.

Aren't jokes supposed to be funny?

Same here. My CPAP changed my life literally on the first night. I woke up feeling 20 years younger.

This subject brings up so much rancor that I think you might have missed the possibility that there was no sarcasm intended in the post you responded to.

My Model S75 would cost me about $8 to fully charge from empty at home. Maybe $15 at a Tesla supercharger. That's for 250 miles of range.

That would only work if 51% of the shares had a sell order waiting.

Hungary's red terror and the Hungarian soviet Republic were in 1919

Is there a reason you don't just let the lawn mower mulch them up and leave them on the ground? After I mow over my leaves they pretty much disappear into the grass.

That shows a bit of a pig-in-the-python situation where you can see the 2 biggest groups today are just 2 large group from 30 years ago moving through life.

Over the next 2 decades, almost all of that 32.1% supply in the 65+ group will become available.

>> Average home price in America is over $400,000

People just starting out aren't usually aiming for the average home. There are lots of homes and condos that are half that price - depending on location.

>> which means a 20% down payment is $80,000.

If you are faced with this situation, an FHA loan requires 3.5% down and you can buy with a sub-600 credit score. FHA loans are designed for first-time buyers.

https://www.nerdwallet.com/article/mortgages/fha-loan

> ending school at noon on Wednesday are going to apply selection bias.

That's not unique to charter schools. My daughter's public elementary school in CA let out at 12:50 on Wednesday.

https://wagonwheel.capousd.org/School-Info/Bell-Schedule/ind...

Serious question - If all the profits go to the workers' salaries and nothing is left to pass through to the owner, who would have an incentive to guarantee the workers' salaries if revenue falls short? Who would be willing to risk capital to get the company through unexpected hard times? Should the workers chip in to keep it going?

>> (2) 100% free medical (few SW engineers apply, but most who are laid off would be eligible, if they cared)

Could you explain this one? Do you mean via medicaid?

Or it could be a homicidal maniac.

Also, the test for lead looks suspicious to me. The shape of the turmeric laying in the bottom of the glass looks absolutely identical between the two glasses. Like they used the same sample, but added some color to the water for the "adulterated" picture.

Edit: Which I guess is ok, since they're just showing what to look for and they aren't falsifying an actual test.

> Unless there is a deployment, the schedule is one weekend a month right?

Yes and no. I do a lot of work at home. I mostly work on our home-grown software that manages the organization (recruiting and personnel management).

> How often were you called into service?

In 6 years I've been called out by the governor twice on big missions (1 hurricane and 1 freeze). But I've also had a handful of other deployments that were more like "we need a volunteer to come to HQ for a week". I once got "deployed" for 2 days to drive some computers from Austin down to the border. I try to take those tasks occasionally if my job can spare me.

The drill weekends are unpaid, but you get paid for any deployment. All deployments are voluntary, but you are expected to be available if a big disaster strikes.

> I just moved to Austin

Headquarters is at Camp Mabry in Austin. Building 32.

I joined the Texas State Guard and found a lasting connection with my group. When I'm there I feel like I'm with family.

About half the states have a state guard. The organizational structure is military-ish, but we don't have weapons. We wear essentially the same uniform as the national guard, and sometimes work with them, but it's not related to the national guard except that we both report to the governor. The difference is the state guard ONLY reports to the governor and doesn't have any federal connection.

Since I joined I've helped run a shelter after hurricane Harvey and run water distribution centers after the freeze 2 years ago. But most of the time I just do the same thing I do at my regular job.

When I joined they needed programmers. They need everybody, tbh. It's not hard to qualify.

In addition to urgent care clinics, every doctor I've had holds a few appointment slots open for same-day or next-day visits. I just have to call them when they open.

Just checking my doctor's group, they have multiple appointments available for new or existing patients in all 7 of their locations around Austin as early as Tuesday - and that's probably only because Monday is a holiday. The only caveat is that you have to accept whichever doctor is available, rather than selecting you PCP.

I know it's a big country with a lot of variability of experience, but this has been the case everywhere I've lived.

I'd want to build dry-stack stone walls. I find them beautiful when well made and they last for hundreds or even thousands of years. Meanwhile the stone & mortar walls I see around my neighborhood don't seem to last more than a couple decades.

If you watched the spacex youtube feed there's no denying it was a smashing success. The employees were clearly celebrating even after the Rapid Unplanned Disassembly.

>> this is the whole point of the US ethanol industry and farm subsidies in general

Interesting. I never saw it as a food security program.

I saw it as a way to advantage corn at the expense of oil on the global commodities market because we had lots of corn but we were short oil (at the time). So the solution was to, in effect, turn our corn into oil.

You can see its effect in the price of corn in 2006, which jumped about 80% and never went back down.[1]

[1] https://www.macrotrends.net/2532/corn-prices-historical-char...

Not to mention cooling. How many people in the UK even have air conditioning?

San Francisco Budget has been cut 2 years in a row.

$692.3 million in 2019-2020

$667.9 million in 2020-2021

$657.4 million in 2021-2022

Source: your link.

The article's headline says it's up 4.4% but that's compared to 2019.

This ignores the voices crying in the wilderness for months about dangers at the bank.

"The risk for $SIVB is that deposit outflows accelerate at such a pace that it is forced to either raise equity capital and/or sell down its HTM securities portfolio, thus realizing substantial losses. You can bet that $SIVB is praying for a Fed pivot!"

https://twitter.com/RagingVentures/status/161582608803847373...

You don't need 16 banks to eliminate all risk. You need one bank and a treasurydirect account.

Anybody, including corporations and partnerships, can safely park excess cash at treasurydirect.gov. Buy short term treasuries and time the redemptions to coincide with next month's payrolls. The shortest bills are 4 weeks and they're paying like 4% right now.

I honestly don't understand why more people don't do it.

Also he voiced the Backson in a Winnie the Pooh movie. A mysterious creature that had everybody scared out of their wits throughout the show until (spoiler alert) he finally shows up at the end and is the friendliest sounding character you can imagine