I wasn’t aware, that’s surprising from NPR. Could you please share the title or link to the NPR articles you’re referring to?

EV producers in the US are going to take a hit, whereas the ones in China and the EU would probably be fine.

Sounds like shooting itself in the foot.

Moreover, it’s big government interfering into business decisions.

I wonder if the same elected politicians support the right for business to refuse customers based religious beliefs, and oppose the right of business to invest or not based on objective sustainably assessments.

I hope businesses aggressively oppose these regulations in court.

Telling your contacts not to use Google nor Meta/Facebook. If everyone you email use gmail, then Google has all your emails.

This is a 2016 article but this isn’t well known information.

The common swift is thought as fastest by most people, myself included, until I learned today that this bat is even faster.

Says the man always dragging his feet when time comes to support Ukraine’s self-defense

The article is indeed underwelming.

I expected to read about plans to reduce CO2 emissions by recycling cement, or replacing limestone with alternative materials. But they’re planning to keep using highly polluting processes, and to try to capture pollution at the output.

It might not be a pleasant choice. But it’s not the first nor the only occasion to make a choice of candidate in this election cycle.

US citizens are also voting for house representatives, and senators. They can also vote in primaries to select who is going to be the party’s candidate for a specific seat.

There’s the environmental impact: these ultra-fast planes burn through massive amounts of fuel, releasing far more emissions than regular aircraft

Hypersonic flights are a way to get us to a NON-inhabitable earth faster than ever before.

Is Russia starting to lack cannon fodder?

Less drugs, more drags.

Update from Brewster Kahle:

Archive.org sub services coming back up when they can, safely. e.g. Email working.

Now contract crawls for National Libraries (important to keep collections whole)

Thank you for the patience. More as it happens. @internetarchive

Top speed is 70 km/h but average speed is 28 km/h. That’s probably better than buses, but sounds a bit slow. Given the number of stops and turns it’s not surprising. In a city center only subways go faster, and they’re much more expensive, so a tramway might be a decent compromise.

I hope Gimp 3.0 stable will happen before the heat-death of the universe.

Most sunken containers — some still sealed, some damaged and open — are never found or recovered.

The Coast Guard has limited powers to compel shipowners to retrieve containers unless they threaten a marine sanctuary […]

That’s BS. Where I live, if someone steal my car and drive it into a lake/river, I’ll be help responsible for recovering the car, and in practice my car insurance would do it on my behalf.

The shipping company or the container’s owner should have similar responsibilities. The average container is a larger risk to the environment than the average car.

Hovering over a checkmark will display a message that explains “Google’s signals suggest that this business is the business that it says it is,” which is determined by things like

I guess this due diligence cost time and money. And doing this due diligence for every ad customer might affect their bottom line.

Every time a train rumbles to a stop, the energy generated by all that friction is converted to electricity

Friction is how classic braking work, and all the energy that goes into friction is lost. Regenerative braking typically rely on magnets and rotors to slow a train. When a train brake, it uses part of its kinetic energy to spin a rotor, which generate electricity using spinning magnets.

The article is otherwise interesting, it’s just unfortunate they got the basic physics wrong.

Reference: Review and trends in regenerative braking energy recovery for traction power system with inverter substation in subway’s of São Paulo city

What about winning hearts and minds?

Fighting ennemies while antagonising civilians create new ennemies. I fear that strategy is fueling an endless war, rather than ending a war.

What about not collecting the data in the first place?

Better late than never.