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Comment · 1 day ago
Just wait for bioluminescent snake oil supplements soon.
Comment · 1 day ago
Something interesting to me here: "Darker skin" as a standalone term implicitly means white skin is the baseline. We pretty much only see "lighter skin" or "paler skin" when it's in a comparison. We do see the absolute of "pale skin".
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Comment · 2 days ago
I recently saw a doc on the 2013 Spanish crash and it was full of absurd system problems. The govt pinned it on the driver as best they could but it's clear that it was entirely preventable.
Comment · 2 days ago
He had many lives. It's cool to note that he didn't take on the Picard role until he was 47.

Never too late to do the other thing. Keep going.

Comment · 2 days ago
> the way he takes a role both so seriously and ridiculously makes him so fantastically hilarious.

Don't forget he voiced the Poop emoji in that movie. If only we could tell his younger, Shakespeare-acting, self.

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Comment · 2 days ago
Then what? In this case, Suspend the train engineer? The company itself is incentivized to ignore the warnings to keep things on track.

(...on track)

Comment · 2 days ago
Why isn't there basically adsb data for trains?! They can broadcast speed and position. Other trains can then see things ahead on their track. This seems like a solved problem so I must be missing something obvious.
Comment · 2 days ago
Vox is paywalled too?
Comment · 3 days ago
It would be cool if they had an add on battery that fit seamlessly. Or imagine a swappable battery? And then ensure you only use the 100wh when flying?

The airline rules are a bit arbitrary. They have allowances for mobility devices but don't seem to take any extra precautions for them when they have bigger batteries. There are still a lot of dangerous gaps in airline safety when it comes to lithium batteries.

Comment · 3 days ago
I'm in that class. My iPhone has more power than my MacBook it seems. But I do love the m1 still for what it can do.
Comment · 3 days ago
With the surface books, the bigger battery and graphics card in the base ensured that it was the heavier part.
Comment · 3 days ago
My god they finally did it. After all the fears of canibalizing iPad sales and gorilla arms. An Apple touchscreen MacBook.

Absurd it took this long when they basically led the field in touchscreen innovation (especially on the UX side of things)

I always thought the Surface Book design by Microsoft was very Apple like and it always seemed like the logical step: let the screen detach but keep the extra horsepower in the base.

Comment · 4 days ago
Using transit or roads outside of normal commuting hours?? How suspicious. Driving somewhere without a destination? Suspicious.

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