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(Edit: small "l" libertarian does not equal political party or affiliation)

Thanks for that link. Tasty visions of things that could-have-been...

Nice. So JavaScript/Ajax frameworks?

Is your impression that the service is improving?

[We are South of the 45th parallel, by the way.] I think service is improving for us; we don't get the regular 5-10 second disconnects that were occurring every 10 or 15 minutes. According to fast.com, our loaded and unloaded latency has improved. Most media consumption (web pages, video, etc) compares favorably to a terrestrial service.

However, Xbox Live (the limit of our online gaming) is still inconsistent. We get disconnected from game servers and from Live itself pretty regularly.

Our Starlink connection (backup WAN) recently switched from a New York ip to one near Chicago. I think we've switched to a downlink station that is geographically closer and we're getting better pings and, possibly, better throughout (needs more testing).

The service is expensive, but it's been a fun way to "participate" with all the exciting stuff SpaceX is working on.

What are some examples of "problematic ideas"?

Those sound like topics worthy of debate. Hopefully you take advantage of the opportunity to provide counterpoints to Rogan's "nonsense" when it presents itself.

What's "dangerous" is the intolerance of thought that permeates society right now. We seem to have lost the ability to listen and then respond.

I always thought Joe Rogan might be more of an Art Bell-type personality. Personality, not authority.

Look on the bright side: people are talking about (and thinking about) topics they might not normally be exposed to. The blame for lack of critical thought skills might fall more upon our parents and educators than Joe Rogan.

This seems analogous to Howard Stern moving from terrestrial radio to satellite radio. Big financial win for the star, but ultimately less accessible content for the casual listeners.

That being said, I think every show has been pirated and is available for download somewhere.

I don't know anything about the "stories" you're referring to, but the website I linked to also provides data on the Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union's:

1. Basic info (including membership, which has significantly fallen in recent years) -- https://www.unionfacts.com/union/Retail,_Wholesale,_and_Depa... 2. Leaders and salaries (they seem to be well-paid) -- https://www.unionfacts.com/union/Retail,_Wholesale,_and_Depa... 3. Crime and corruption (are they more/less corrupt than an average union?) -- https://www.unionfacts.com/union/Retail,_Wholesale,_and_Depa...

... And so on.

If the data is incorrect, then there's reason to object to linking to the website. Is the data incorrect?

Is there a "pro-union" website that provides/aggregates the same data?

So, you're implying the 11 union decertification petitions in the link I provided are fake or something?

MD certainly isn't the first niche media format to surprise onlookers with its staying power. Laserdisc lived for many years past the advent of DVD, too.

The Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union hasn't always worked out for those workplaces that have brought them in.* In this instance, maybe unions aren't the solution to the "problem" or maybe the problem doesn't really exist?

* https://www.unionfacts.com/union/Retail,_Wholesale,_and_Depa...

I had no idea NetMD and Hi-MD were things. Sony certainly shows determination when it comes to continuing development of their technology (even when it's clear they'll only ever be a niche player).

Be sure you get to the penultimate paragraph:

"After we approached Google, the company also blocked all the hate phrases that we pointed out were in conflict with the social and racial justice ad blocks. Google began blocking innocuous phrases with other religious words during our reporting, after we began conducting interviews in which we revealed our findings to third parties."

That almost sounds like an "old programmer" joke. Are you sure he wasn't pulling your leg?

Money can't buy everything nor can it be the salve for all indignities.

At least there's little chance of suffering ageism as a career COBOL technician.

I guess it depends on how you define "successfully".

Most of the money went to the attorneys.

"Irving took legal action against Uber, resulting in an arbitrator this month awarding her $324,000 in damages plus legal expenses of $805,313"

https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/Uber-drivers-re...

Thanks. Your article echos the claims in the JBIS article of gravitational perturbations affecting the orbital dynamics of comets, etc. There's also the interesting (though highly speculative) dynamic of dark matter particle accretion in the Earth's core leading to temperature rise on Earth. The area outside the galactic middle plane is apparently DM-dense.

I don't think the primary source is online, but it was referenced in the article "Defining Intelligence-Favoring Galactic Parameters for targeted SETI searches" in the 15 Feb 2021 issue of the "Journal of the British Interplanetary Society".

When you consider that extinction events are cyclical and correlate with our solar system's oscillation through the galactic middle plane, you can bet life on this planet will get wiped out again and there's little we can do about it. The question is: how much time do we have left? (My guess is 20-30M years.)

Nuclear weapons are Taiwan's only defence against their asymmetry with China. Unfortunately, that ship sailed in the 1980s.

... which doesn't taste nearly as bad as you've heard and is produced in limited quantities only as result of the few bycatch sharks accidentally netted each year.

Almost certainly, anyone who calls themselves "alcoholic" should probably give Alcoholics Anonymous a try. However, alcoholism is not a disease and AA isn't the only answer.

Rational Recovery, an alternative to group therapy, has been around for 30+ years.

https://rational.org/

Yin Yoga is pretty good, too.

Excuse me, but I offer a rational alternative to the religion of Alcoholics Anonymous. Would you say AA is the bastion of reason and science?