A very good assumption. However, knowing the state of things is still powerful, and also helps one better thwart the nonsense.

2023 article. Would be good to have current information.

It is still historically weirder than usual. And with snowpack lowest on record ever. Don’t fool yourself.

Not that they know or care, but Toyota (and most) hybrids like that Prius have fully-electric AC. It runs at full blast with or without the engine turned on.

Real fun when descending a mountain and you realize that gravity is powering the HVAC.

Toyota Tundra: 80.2 inches

GMC Yukon 81 inches

Dodge Ram: 82.1 inches

CyberCuck: 79.99 inches

Sorry, as there is so much easy access to worry these days, but then also don’t read this: https://csl.noaa.gov/news/2025/427_0428.html But actually, do at some point, but just store it in the same file as “things that suck that I can’t control, so I have knowledge and can learn, grow, respond, while realizing it just goes in the same pile of bad decisions people of power are doing to destroy our planet.” The knowledge is annoyingly necessary to build onto the next puzzle piece, despite the frustration. Although we kinda do have control if we just stop playing their game.

Incorrect, they don’t have natural de-orbit. They have to be controlled. They haven’t solved natural de-orbit, and every de-orbit puts more aluminum oxide in the upper atmosphere that will decimate the ozone layer in 15-30 years.

Xcel literally does nothing right. What a garbage company anymore.

That paying extra to get faster service thing is a complete scam too, at least with DoorDash. But they probably didn’t bother researching anything about how these junk services work either.

Muskrat is clearly an alien sent to Earth to ensure our doom.

IIRC, Apple’s “open” browser implementation was so fundamentally broken and difficult that it made the actual implementation of a third-party browser exceedingly difficult. Kinda like how their call-blocking API is nothing more than a database loader with no feedback, so call blocking apps can’t share data back to improve through crowd-sourcing. The products all have to learn from Android phones on the same product to be able to share with iPhones.

The entire universe could collapse and these tabs will live on. Forged by Satan himself.

Oh, yeah, you’d think, but no. Instead you have to try and bend the clips, and while doing so, they catch the two layers of the spindle-hole and either crack the disc, tear the disc, or tear the layers apart. Sometimes the disc even comes out.

I’ve seen a dozen DVDs cracked in the spindle-hole across multiple box sets from this travesty of a design. Bought replacements and exchanged them. Seems they went back to a more sane storage format and these disc-eaters were just unloaded over the holidays or something.

Their deluded vision is that they think the traditional user interface is going away. Rather than interact with a machine, you’ll just be walking around, sipping coffee, having thoughtful conversations with a bot laughing along with your jokes as it writes your letter and does your taxes.

And GM was never one to understand electricity. They make the worst wiring harnesses, do stupid shit like mounting computer modules next to the HVAC core where large heat/cold changes happen leading to corrosion. They don’t use the right metals in even bulbs/sockets, so it looks like you have a burned out tail light and, lo and behold, it’s just galvanic corrosion.

It is amazing they managed to get an EV to leave the lab, let alone assembly line.

Most recent old ep I saw that I remember, there was a chloroform store with bottles of chloroform, up close, they each had a scribbled “chloroform” label on them, but they edited and lazily scribbled out the word on the bottles with a slightly different color at that, except for one angle when Homer’s holding a bottle and they didn’t scribble out the edge. Not the best example, just can’t recall others. Scenes are completely cut, edited, removed.

Other shows have similar, there was an American Dad ep from the early seasons on replay now, news headline in the intro credits said a pro-union joke and they just whiteboxed over the headline.

Not that it’s a new concept for them, apparently the original The Santa Clause movie had a 1-800-SPANK-ME joke I recall hearing as a young, that they edited out on the second VHS run of the movie and all subsequent runs.

Disney constantly edits old TV shows. Episodes of the Simpsons are slowly being sanitized of “bad” things, for example.

iPhone user, so no long screenshot capability except in Safari. Among other issues…

A dying Egyptian Pharoah wanting to fill his tomb with baubles.