Federal Surveillance Tech Becomes Mandatory in New Cars by 2027

Not quite, but almost

I’m pretty sure it wasn’t a war zone when they got there.

Wonder no longer: no.

Ticks can, too.

As New England Winters Warm, Ticks are Killing Moose at High Rates

If you average 10 mph on a bike, it’d be over 120 miles each way. If you have to spend like 5 or 6 hours each day just commuting, you probably should just move closer to your work.

As a girl Dad

I might be a little out of the loop. Is that like… a mother?

Although Spielberg recognized that his films were a significant part of the 1980s popular culture cited in the book, he opted to remove many references to them to avoid accusations of vanity.[75] Cline believed Spielberg wanted to avoid self-references to films he directed, due to the criticism he received for his film 1941, which lampooned his own previous works Jaws and Duel. Cline said he had to convince Spielberg to include some iconic elements, such as the DeLorean time machine from Back to the Future, which Spielberg conceded as he only produced the film.[76] Spielberg also allowed the Tyrannosaurus rex from Jurassic Park to be included.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ready_Player_One_(film)#Cultural_references

For your last paragraph. What references to old Spielberg movies do you think you remember in Ready Player One?

The fourth power law (also known as the fourth power rule) is a rule of thumb which states that the stress on the road caused by a motor vehicle increases in proportion to the fourth power of its axle load.

First line of the linked wikipedia article.

Absolutely, we still have 3.6 million births per year, but the problem is teens and young adults. From the ages 15-19 the fertility rate is down 7% and it’s down 70% over the last two decades, meaning we’re telling people that are young not to have babies, to wait until they’re in a more stable life situation till they’re more financially secure, maybe they haven’t found the right partner.

To your point, by the way, you said before we came on the air something really really important: which is we also have the technology to say “okay wait, you’re still going to have a healthy child, you’re still going to be fine because we can support pregnancies much better than we ever have before.”

Of course I want to add to that some downsides: there’s a higher obesity rate that interferes with fertility, there’s a risk of poly cystic ovary and endometriosis, there are more overall medical problems and diets are worse and then we’re talking about all the chemicals in the environment, ultra-processed foods; you might want to have a kid, but maybe as you get older you might not be able to.

My wife by the way, when she was 36 years old was going to have our second kid and I said to her obstetrician “She must be your oldest patient,” he said “She’s my youngest patient.”

Dana, people are having kids in their 30s now, not their 20s. And again, that’s leading to one thing I want to point out: the replacement rate is down to 1.56. Meaning every couple is having on average 1.56 children in the United States. We need 2 or above to keep the population at the same amount.

Maybe you watched a different interview than the one linked, he sounds like he belongs on Fox.

You just feed any savings from efficiency into the insurance and healthcare systems, like a true American.

Only if you remember your PIN number.

No matter what you purchase under capitalism, you are supporting bigotry and oppression to some degree. There is no escaping it. So instead of arguing about the arbitrary line at which the degree of separation is far enough removed before you can enjoy something without guilt, maybe start talking about actually dismantling the system that allows them to oppress others to begin with?

https://slrpnk.net/comment/21718703

I’m a little confused why you suddenly want to start drawing lines about what’s ethical.

Yeah, let JK Rowling do the entertaining, it was kind of her job.

In February 2023, Rowling participated in the podcast The Witch Trials of J.K. Rowling, hosted by former Westboro Baptist Church member Megan Phelps-Roper and produced by Bari Weiss’s The Free Press. The show purported to add more nuance to the controversy surrounding Rowling, but in practice it mostly served as another pulpit for the author. Part of the draw was that Rowling gave a forthright interview on her beliefs about trans people for the first time. “I believe, absolutely, that there is something dangerous about this movement and that it must be challenged,” she said.

She then compared trans people to Death Eaters, the evil collective in the Harry Potter books that are often read as a Nazi analogue. “Some of you have not understood the books. The Death Eaters claimed, ‘We have been made to live in secret, and now is our time, and any who stand in our way must be destroyed. If you disagree with us, you must die,’” Rowling said. “They demonized and dehumanized those who were not like them.”

“I am fighting what I see as a powerful, insidious, misogynistic movement that has gained huge purchase in very influential areas of society,” Rowling continued. “I do not see this particular movement as either benign or powerless, so I’m afraid I stand with the women who are fighting to be heard against threats of loss of livelihood and threats to their safety.”

https://www.thecut.com/2025/06/heres-what-j-k-rowling-has-really-said-about-trans-people.html

We can all laugh at the pure fiction she invents, and quietly ignore how the money we give her affects the world around us.

Wizarding World fans can no longer deny the rumors that JK Rowling is using her wealth to fund transphobia in the U.K. Many supporters of the “Harry Potter” author claimed that she limited her anti-transgender activism to social media posts…until Rowling admitted to funneling her immense wealth into a fund dedicated to revoking trans rights “in the workplace, in public life, and in protected female spaces.”

It’s rarely so cut and dry how the money you spend will be used to hurt people. And it’s also rare for such visible harm to be tied to something so unnecessary. You can move on from this 20 year old children’s book, I’m sure it’ll be okay.

At least they’re (hopefully) all into it and consenting

To be fair, those look like US numbers while the video is Australian, based on the channel being called 7NEWS Australia.

The plant, which produces vehicles including the Chevrolet Silverado EV and Hummer EV, has ​had choppy production over the last year ​as GM confronts waning demand for battery-powered models

I mean… maybe it’s not all that bad.

Are there orks in rogue trader? I’ve been waiting for all the dlcs before I replay it.

Deathbringer’s Reign

Welcome to Deathbringer’s Reign! We are a team of modders remaking the entirety of the first Baldur’s Gate in BG3’s engine, and this mod allows you to play through our first milestone: the complete prologue in Candlekeep! Our next major goal is to release a second demo which expands the world to include the areas of High Hedge, Beregost, the Friendly Arm Inn, and Shipwreck’s Coast, as well as the classic companions found in those regions. We’re actively looking for volunteers to help us bring this massive vision to life; if you have any skills to contribute (such as Level Design, Writing, Modeling, Animating, Concept Art, or Programming) or just want to follow our progress, then consider joining our discord: https://discord.gg/usbG9RbFkF. Our discord also contains a FAQ to give you a better idea of the scope of our project and exactly how we plan on translating the original game into BG3’s engine.

https://www.nexusmods.com/baldursgate3/mods/18315

This looks like it

if you get a million people to flip a coin 50 times. Some of them will get all 50 to be heads.

Flipping a coin 50 times has 1.1 quadrillion possible outcomes, only 2 of which are all heads or all tails. I think you’d need more than a few billion to reliably see those results.