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Sinclair blocking Kimmel's show was the first thought on my mind when I saw this headline.

If Disney had any sense at all, they would have realized back when Sinclair was first forcing all their affiliates to air right-wing propaganda,* that their association with Sinclair is an existential threat.

Back then, they should have started dropping their affiliation with Sinclar one tower at a time, as they secure alternative broadcast arrangements in each area. Starting to do it now is better late than never, but I bet Disney execs are too clueless and spineless to stand up to Sinclair is any real way at all, in part because it will cost them a few $$$.

* https://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/10/19/sinclair.kerry/

From TFA: "The sun alone cannot be responsible for making Venus the awful place it is today."

I have a better solution:

F12 -> Storage -> Local Storage -> https://neal.fun

Select "not-a-robot-level" and change this value from "46" to "47"

Refresh your browser tab.

Clever idea, but I find it all tedious (like real CAPTCHAs), and it's not even true-to-form as all of these can be more easily solved by a computer than a human.

You are actually. Watch one second, the player buffers the next minute of video, then you skip ahead 1 minute. Process repeats.

You could have been a legit viewer... clicking to skip over segments of the video, presumably trying to find where you left off last time, or for some scene you remember, or the climax of the video... whatever.

Youtube does try to throttle the data speeds, when that first happened, youtube-dl stopped being useful and everyone upgraded their python versions and started using yt-dlp instead.

I doubt that is a thought on anyone's mind... I find people orient themselves by the direction their house / street faces, to a lesser extent the position of the sun, and north at the top is a completely arbitrary thing imposed on us.

As evidence, see GPS navigation, which shows "forward" at the top.

That's a real method:

https://digital-photography-school.com/taking-photos-in-busy...

https://petapixel.com/2019/09/18/how-to-shoot-people-free-ph...

But it only works well if the crowds move out of the way reasonably quickly. If we're taking about areas packed with people all blocking a certain area, and you need hours of shots, the change in ambient lighting over time will have negative effects on the end photo.

What does that accomplish? You can just read the web page as-is...

Are you going to share your two screenshots, and provide those instructions, with others? That seems impractical.

Video recording is a bit less impractical, but there you really need a short looping animation to avoid ballooning the file size. An actual readable screenshot has its advantages...

Of course not, they would have had to "adopt" NC's shortcuts (as I said). Apparently, NC wasn't popular enough, for others to want to imitate.

I use EmelFM all the time, but despite being "orthodox" it doesn't use keyboard shortcuts anywhere close to NC/MC's.

Just renaming a single file, with a rather LONG file name that includes spaces and other symbols that need to be escaped, can take FAR longer at the BASH prompt, than starting up nnn and doing it there. Same goes for moving several of the most recently updated files to another folder, or similar.

Right, but other file managers didn't adopt them. Do you use Norton Commander keyboard shortcuts with Nautilus, Dolphin, Thunar, Windows Explorer, Finder, etc? Did anything else adopt most of them? Because if you're only appealing to those who used Norton Commander, that's not a big user base. Using Windows Explorer keyboard shortcuts, instead, would give you a vastly larger audience.

You can take TWO screenshots, moments apart, open in GIMP, paste one over the other and choose any one of these laying modes:

Lighten, Screen, Addition, Darken, Multiply, Linear burn, Hard Mix, Difference, Exclusion, Subtract, Grain Extract, Grain Merge, or Luminance.

https://ibb.co/DDQBJDKR

I never could use mc. None of the keyboard shortcuts were at all intuitive to me, who had been using many different GUI file managers over the decades. Which is a shame, because I use SSH a LOT and doing normal file housework via pure CLI is super tedious and error-prone... Fortunately, I went looking more recently, and found the nnn file manager, which works properly with the basic keyboard commands I would expect, and really helped improve my workflow a lot:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nnn_(file_manager)

> the person beside you in the supermarket etc can carry a lethal weapon that can end your life.

You're referring to a steak knife, correct?

> To be fair China can rapidly setup factories in many countries or just use them as re-sellers.

Then China should setup factories in the USA. Problem solved.

It's idiotic to claim the tariffs on the rest of the world are because of China. CBP has real, non-idiotic ways to deal with incorrect country of origin labeling, and illegal transshipments. See: United States v. Akua Mosaics, Inc. and Kenneth Fleming

Trump's tariffs aren't any lower on countries that have already cracked down on use of their ports for illegal transshipments from China.

> By 2005 I expect 90% of new PCs sold were already 64 bit ready.

You're several years off:

"The FIRST processor to implement Intel 64 was the multi-socket processor Xeon code-named Nocona in June 2004. In contrast, the initial Prescott chips (February 2004) did not enable this feature."

"The first Intel mobile processor implementing Intel 64 is the Merom version of the Core 2 processor, which was released on July 27, 2006. None of Intel's earlier notebook CPUs (Core Duo, Pentium M, Celeron M, Mobile Pentium 4) implement Intel 64."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86-64#Intel_64

"2012: Intel themselves are limiting the functionality of the Cedar-Trail Atom CPUs to 32bit only"

https://forums.tomshardware.com/threads/no-emt64-on-intel-at...

Intel had 80% of the CPU market at the time.

You've drunk the kool-aid. BLS revisions are no fault of their own, and simply because businesses send in their data whenever they feel like it:

"many businesses do not have their payroll data ready to report by the scheduled date that BLS initially releases the data."

"BLS continues to collect outstanding reports from the businesses in the sample as it prepares a second and then a third estimate for the month. With each subsequent estimate, more businesses have provided their information."

"and occasionally the revised data produce a different picture altogether."

https://www.bls.gov/opub/btn/volume-2/revisions-to-jobs-numb...

"the revisions aren’t mistakes. They’re a deliberate, transparent part of a statistical process designed to balance two competing goals: providing timely economic information while ensuring the greatest possible accuracy."

https://govfacts.org/federal/labor/why-job-numbers-change-ho...

> Can you attribute it directly to tariffs?

All economists and financial analysts seem to say so:

“It will be difficult for the U.S. to avoid a recession if the tariffs stay at the level that’s been announced,” Claudia Sahm, chief economist at New Century Advisors.

"Fong says that could lead to changes in businesses’ cost structures, such as downsizing operations and laying off workers."

https://time.com/7275987/trump-tariffs-global-economy-recess...

"J.P.Morgan ratcheted up its odds for a U.S. and global recession to 60%, as brokerages scrambled to revise their forecast models with tariff distress threatening to sap business confidence and slow down global growth."

https://www.reuters.com/markets/jpmorgan-lifts-global-recess...

"industries impacted by tariffs have shed tens of thousands of jobs."

"Torsten Sløk, chief economist at Apollo Global Management, observed job growth in tariff-impacted sectors is negative, while those not affected by tariffs have seen slower growth but remain in positive territory."

https://fortune.com/2025/09/08/tariff-job-losses-trump-trade...

“Tariffs represent a negative supply shock, which hurts production and raises prices – a much smaller scale of what we experienced in the pandemic,” Nationwide economist Kathy Bostjancic wrote earlier this year.

https://thehill.com/business/5488614-us-economy-adds-22k-job...

To reduce dependence on China, tariffs should ONLY be on China, and not the entire world including neighbors and close allies.

To help bring manufacturing back to the US, the tariffs should have been fixed, in legislation, with 2+ years of advanced notice before implementation, to allow companies to plan for them and implement something.

The ad-hoc approach taken by the current administration ensures 100% that neither of those will happen.

> replacing/reducing domestic headcount with the more physical automation

But if wages continue to fall, due to the looming recession, your automation may be more expensive than headcount.

By all means, point us to your sources that show California's inflation is much worse than all other US states, "over the last decade and a half".

> the high minimum wage here is just part of the over all inflation spiral

Inflation in the west is lower than the rest of the country:

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/mapped-annual-inflation-rat...

Even going by CPI, inflation in California is lower than Texas, Florida, Alabama, etc.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2024/04/09/states-highe...

I agree with you that restrictions on new housing is a big problem, but it is NOT just a California problem.

The $20/hr wage is only an 18% bump over the normal CA minimum wage, and it came at the tail-end of the pandemic... So A) it just replaced the "hero pay" and B) fast food prices had already been climbing due to supply chain issues, inflation, and veiled corporate profit-taking.

The kiosks were just the threat fast food companies used to try to push-back on the proposed law, and when lawmakers called their bluff, there were some deplyments, but not everywhere, and in general fast food employment has gone UP (not down) since then.

"the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics showed California had approximately 750,000 fast food jobs, roughly 11,000 more than when the higher minimum wage law took effect."

https://www.nbcbayarea.com/investigations/california-minimum...

I'm not seeing the shorter hours you are. Might be unrelated to wages. There was a general decline in fast food sales across the country (not just in CA) because of the crazy corporate price hikes (which consumers pushed back on).

https://www.gov.ca.gov/2024/10/03/californias-20-fast-food-m...

https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2024-10-10/column-the...

Is that even necessary? Is their menu so large that you can't just have a menu with a push-button next to each item?

Are fast food companies so mentally locked-in to replicating the old model of verbal order-taking that they can't see how cheap, fast, easy and accurate it would be to switch to photos and buttons?

We all manage to use a soda fountain, without needing a person (or AI) to take our drink order... and use vending machines.

Land in Texas and Arizona *is* rather cheap.

They already have fabs nearby, and so, fab suppliers/services in the area.

They have a large employee pool in the vicinity, with modest salary expectations.

The southern US mostly doesn't have blizzards and ice that regularly knocks out electric supply lines, and/or makes it impossible for employees to get to/from work for days/weeks at a time.

Water is about the cheapest resource around. Even in water-stressed areas (while it may cost several times what it would in wetter parts of the US) it's still an insignificant expense for any industry that doesn't need an absolutely obscene continual supply.

Roof-top PV solar power works out a lot better in the southern US than further north.

You can also take a wrench with you, to quickly remove the locking wheel from your cart. Maybe replace it with a non-locking wheel from another cart.

Shouldn't be difficult to find carts left near or beyond the edge of the parking lot.

I find the locking wheels annoying, because they're so often defective and make it a noisy struggle to get your cart through the store. But years ago I also had a neighbor in my apartment complex who would walk home with a cart every week, and would just leave (a dozen of) them there... she couldn't be bothered to push the empty carts back to the store, not even once. I'd think a $1 deposit/return system for carts would work better, and give the homeless in the area some gainful employment.

Intel certainly will use 18A for their own chips:

CEO Lip-Bu Tan: "Job number one is ramping Intel 18A at scale. Intel 18A and Intel 18A-P are critical nodes for Intel Products and will drive meaningful wafer volumes well into the next decade – starting with Panther Lake later this year."

But they don't want to be the ONLY customer. Intel wants other companies to invest, and as early in the processes as possible, so Intel doesn't have to bankroll the whole thing.

"Going forward, our investment in Intel 14A will be based on confirmed customer commitments. There are no more blank checks. Every investment must make economic sense. We will build what our customers need, when they need it"

https://newsroom.intel.com/corporate/lip-bu-tan-steps-in-the...

Perhaps the guy suggesting that you: "cut off your balls"