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Amtrak sleepers have showers in the bedrooms and the roomettes share 2 per car.

“Doctor gave me a pill, and I grew a new kidney!”

I watched this film last night and hadn't seen the news in a couple days. Was strange to wake up to this coverage

Where I live in New Mexico has consistently poor reception withing about 60 miles. My Spotify is almost always in offline mode since it chokes on poor signal. Radio and TV have repeaters on a nearby mountain that rebroadcast a few stations. Meanwhile Sirius works everywhere except in my garage.

For me it mostly replaces my CD changer, which doesn't exist in newer cars. When I can't decide what to listen to, have poor signal, or don't want to fiddle with the controls, it gives me a nice selection on fallbacks.

Yes most rentals I've lived in and and visited have these cheap recirculating hoods that do nothing for combustion byproducts, if they have a range hood at all.

I had a similar experience at a mid-sized nonprofit. We would get generous pricing from vendors with reasonable terms, then the next time around I would find we were 5 months late paying them. The internal answer was "cash flow" and "well we wouldn't want to pay them too quickly", or worse "they shouldn't be complaining, they got their check much faster than X"

This might consistently be my favorite channel on YouTube. Kirsten and Faircompanies do very good work documenting interesting and innovative examples of sustainable living, building, growing, etc.

https://youtube.com/@kirstendirksen

Fwiw, my definition of conservative in this case is someone with views traditionally in line with the Republican and Libertarian platform. Someone who tends to vote Republican and tends to view things through that lens.

I think your goal is to attack the person and and not the idea, which has nothing to do with my experience-based opinion that it's more nuanced than "dominated by liberals".

I disagree that most "make a difference" fields are dominated by liberals. In my experience, many non-profit board members tend to be wealthy conservatives - bankers, car dealership owners, real estate brokers, etc. This can lead even organizations where the mission, staff or clients are mostly liberal to develop a conservative, elitist culture. Combined with the revolving door of donors and relatives into senior leadership roles, it also can lead an upper management that trends conservative.

Many low-paying social service jobs are filled by spouses of people with high-paying jobs. This can lead to an elitist culture, even in the lower levels.

There is also a lot of overlap between social service orgs and religious orgs which can lead to a conflict between mission and church doctrine.

All in all, I perceive it as being as diverse a field as the rest of society, and filled with many viewpoints. It doesn't seem dominated by one "side" or the other

My perception is that very few specialized hourly jobs start above $20-25, and when I hear business owners talk they seem to feel that's robbery (it isn't).

Without any research or context, I'd expect a first-time bike mechanic job to pay $18-22 depending on the city. The ski shops nearby are advertising ski tech jobs around $16 and calling it "better than competitive pay"

I lived in the area after completion of the big dig and often commuted through the tunnel. While it may have been a boondoggle and it definitely didn't fix traffic, it makes quality of life in the city much better, both as a pedestrian and a driver. It also reconnected the north end with the rest of the city.

Low effort post that doesn't cite sources and misuses punctuation.

Neat, and very cool that they're open sourcing design and software elements. The video had me thinking that this kind of thing must have been made before. It's exactly the sort of thing they used to sell in the skymall catalog. Sure enough: https://youtu.be/mrDy0dF8aQw

How about a magnetic base on each piece and a table built on top of a pair of xyz movements holding two magnets. That way the brain can at any time grab its piece and make a move while nudging any obstructions out of the way temporarily. It could probably made to filp the polarity on the lower magnet causing the opponent piece to topple gently when appropriate.

Seems very human proof and also exciting to watch in action.

As of March 2022 it sounds like they are targeting mid-2023 to pass final testing, after which the plane would enter full production [0]. There's certainly many F-35s in service worldwide though.

[0]: https://breakingdefense.com/2022/03/full-rate-production-for...

I think partly this comes from the general perception of the F-35 program as a boondoggle and failure combined with the decades long production hell this film went through. Also the sponsorship from Lockheed Martin.

While it ultimately produced a capable plane, the Joint Strike Fighter spent 15 years as the next generation, failed to meet several critical goals, and still hasn't entered full production.

Better to stick to concept planes (SR-72), the plane from the first movie (F-14) and another common carrier plane (F-18).

I clicked comments first curious if this would be Doug's video. His reviews and retro reviews are so well constructed and thorough and, as with the cars, his "quirks and features" really shine through.

Quite amazing journalism. There is a lot of value in such a thoughtful and traveled on-the-ground report.

More than once I was reminded of a portion of Herman Wouk's novel The Winds of War that portrays a journey and escape from the Polish countryside to Warsaw ahead of the German invasion and siege in 1939.

Agreed on this and it predates Covid, though has gotten worse. Suvs, cheaper sports cars, and above all, pickup trucks, are the models I see most often. It's worse when driving our prius, but happens in any vehicle.

It's as if certain group has learned to drive by driving as fast as possible until they reach a hurdle, then tailgating that hurdle until they go faster or get out of the way. Speed, speed limit and road conditions aren't a consideration; only this asshole that's in my way.

The soil at my former house (built around 1920) on a major street in a large college town, next to a bus stop, tested for significantly elevated lead and PCBs. I believe the soil on the other side of the building tested much closer to normal for the area.

I would test if there is even the slightest concern of contamination. Eating a few garden veggies here and there likely won't have much of an impact on an adult. If you're regularly supplementing your meals and/or feeding children, you may want to be more cautious.

At my current house on a busier, older street, I wouldn't consider eating anything grown in the soil. Most near me seem to use raised beds or the community garden.

I've run the Surface Pro 7 i5 since 2019, which replaced a SP4 i5 (though that had a fan, which I'd tuned to almost never come on). For most things it's more than enough and always silent. I sometimes point a fan at it if I'm doing something heavier or driving external displays.

For, I think, $799 with pen and keyboard its a great mobile machine and remote terminal. If I could go back in time I'd maybe spring for the 16/256gb upgrade, though that was more than double the price.

Based on my limited experience with pre-revolution Egypt, the answer would be both. A large part of society was tip/bribe based, tourism in particular, and corruption or incompetence is pretty common. The political leadership was also elitist and formed in the image of the British colonial government they replaced.

The president of Egypt and others of that level were likely not more concerned with supporting street-level payoffs over maintaining Egyptian cultural purity. These were military dictators accustomed to commanding something and, more or less, that becoming reality. And they were deeply proud and protective of their cultural identity.

Not only is the title a deliberate Marx reference, the article itself is about an elitist government banning lower-class entertainment.

"This title is misleading because this article is about something I don't understand. I assumed that since the source was a literary magazine, this must have been about radical open source software, which has nothing to do with class tensions."

Specifically, the previous Dept of Ed administration torpedoed the program. When the first class of PSLF candidates hit the 10 yr mark in 2017, 99% were rejected [0].

[0]: https://www.politico.com/story/2019/05/23/public-service-loa...

In the US, an 18 year old is too young to drink, old enough to vote, old enough to send to war, old enough to be tried as an adult in a court of law, and too young to rent a car.

It seems our age of majority is already an arbitrary measure.

Unless students are educated in financial literacy and professional life as part of the curriculum, I'm not sure we can expect them to be making competent, experience-based decisions on the cost benefit of education on a 20+ year timescale.

And that's not to mention that many loan providers use predatory tactics, including the companies that administer federal loans.

In my experience, OPs perception is generally correct, though perhaps less conspiratorial and nefarious than a reality of the system in place.

Across the many nodes between you and a destination, all sorts of traffic management systems move data around at different priorities. When something gets overloaded, stalled tabs are a visible system of the breakdown.

By initiating a large, typically sequential, high-speed transfer in both directions, you give each node an amount of time to recover, naturally move up the queue, and identify yourself as needing more resources. Once the speed test is moving along, everything else is 'along for the ride', to an extent.

On a home network, wifi aps are typically the biggest bottleneck, followed by underpowered or overheated routers/gateways. Depending on your isp's tech, there might be a bottleneck at a neighborhood hub, the central servers, their uplink, or more.

Anywhere along the way, this could be due to a mix of technical limits, high traffic, wear, negligence, incompetence, or intentional malice.

So you can assume your isp (or their isp) is throttling you in numerous ways. While some might be to deprioritize specific traffic or for political means, I think more is negligence, incompetence and under investment. When you identify yourself as someone needing more, or experiencing issues, it's in the isp's interest to silently resolve the issue automatically if possible (unless they think they can exploit it for a profit).

This is even more visible with the isp-owned speed tests, as you're naturally communicating to the fastest server available, plus they can shape the traffic and build the test to show you what they want you to see.

iPerf tests are a good tool for testing real world speed. As a basic tool, speedtest.net allows you to select from many test servers, often including your isp, a few local competitiors, and a close by university or tech company server. Individual numbers are less useful than a comparison between numerous tests and destinations.

A VM of smokeping or smokeping-speedtest is useful tool for monitoring these sorts of things as you can go back and look at what drops out when to get a feel conditions across the internet.

I am not a radar operator. My understanding is that radar reflections are related to the size, shape, and texture of an object. A normal plane will be a large blob on the return, while, for example, a B2 stealth bomber is designed with special materials and angles to appear around the size of a large bird.

So an intact jet fighter will show up as a big dot, while falling debris might look like many small dots, or be too small for the resolution of the radar display.

There's also numerous sources of interference and background noise, including from weather. So on a stormy night it might not be apparent what is debris vs water.

The article is really more of an advertisement for a TV show than journalism and doesn't give a very clear account, but it sound plausible that two dots converging and disappearing from radar could represent an in-air collision. And if over the great lakes during a storm, investigators would be looking underwater for hundreds of pieces of non-magnetic aluminum spread over many square miles.

FYI you can often press the (unlabeled) second soft button from the top on the right side of the screen to mute video ads on the gas pump.

Que Sera Sera

I remember a long evening on the Ocean City boardwalk spent doing this to a payphone and waiting to see who would walk by and pick it up.