They get non-voting representatives in congress.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-voting_members_of_the_United_States_House_of_Representatives

It’s not about the crops, farmers work by the sun, not by the clock.

It was able conserving candles and oil, for lighting rooms.

Suffocation by CO2 is a pretty painful way to go, so I wouldn’t recommend.

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So it’s at least acknowledging that there’s something there.

I think they’re talking about it from the other end: more cheap tech like wifi security cameras means more people are vulnerable to “an improperly sealed microwave”

Yeah but Putin dying is like the tiniest shade of gray below “Russia Collapses” at this point.

Sarcasm noted, but: mibi/gibi are the powers of 2 version.

We all say megabit or gigabit when talking about internet speeds, but in many cases under the hood it’s actually measured in mibi/gibibits. Just means it’s 2% more when converted into base 10 ;)

Super loose definitions of “every single” and “recall” here.

The oldest models are recalled, yes. Most of the units or on the world just need a software update.

I watched a video about maintenence for commercial passenger jets recently. Light engine maintenence takes on the order of a week, heavy maintenence takes several months. For heavy maintenence, they literally disassemble every component of the engine, so even if everything goes perfectly, it still takes forever.

That said, I imagine they just swap a new engine into the plane while the old one is under maintenence.

I forgot how we didn’t have taxis until uber came around.

Good thing we brought all those bitcoin miners to “incentivize” the power companies to improve the grid. And then we give them millions in energy credits to make them stop so we don’t have a total meltdown.

10/10 plan, there.

We’ve written plenty of legal justification around it, but ultimately it just comes down to the fact that police CAN physically place your finger into your phone, but cannot extract a password from your brain that you don’t want to give up.

If we had the ability to read minds, there’d be legal justification to grab your password within a year.