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The company said its IT complied with industry standards

Clearly not. Even with MFA bypass and backup aware malware, it’s still effective to have backups and MFA.

I think the key is to huff leaded gasoline fumes until it makes sense. (≖_≖ )

Compare money spent on roads, airplanes, and trains per-passenger and you might find the answer there. Outside of China.

Wonder what the tolerances are. That is a big piece to fixture.

Someone told me that “the global elites” wanted to chase a policy of reducing the worlds population (vaccines came up as one way) as part of environmental policies and that was why they needed to support Trump (neither of us has any material attachment to the USA, naturally).

It’s ironic, because that’s actually what Trump is doing. painfully ironic, as people are being hurt and killed by the policies. Not to say that a different president wouldn’t move in their own interest.

That’s a high pucker factor situation.

I believe that the driver assistance systems encourage inattentive driving. Tesla rightly gets a lot of press for this, but when the car holds the lane and brakes for you 99.9% of the time, it sure seems safe to send that email, formatting and all.

But the problem is that one would require self-awareness to identify what degree of inattentiveness is OK (change the radio station) or not (review the PowerPoint Jane sent over). With our current technology situation, those systems probably are net positive for collision avoidance.

My kids get to learn to drive with all that shite disabled. Except the emergency stuff (auto braking), which seems like a good idea. Check your own blind spot, dummy.

Standard saccharomyces will ferment all the simple sugars, unless interrupted. Some fruit don’t have much in the way of complex sugars (which are responsible for rounding out flavour), and some fruit just don’t have a pleasant flavour without sugar present. It’s also possible that there’s a Brett or other bug in there that ferments the less simple sugars and brings it down stupidly dry. I think plums are on the stupid dry list; I’ve had them in a sour beer and it was… crushingly tart.

I love spending time in my garden watching the butterflies and bees, but gosh the mosquitoes are terrible, better spray them with a residual effect insecticide.

what happened to the birds and butterflies and bees?

My neighbour buys grapes, presses them (not trampling), and puts them into demijohns with an airlock. He adds nothing. It ferments using yeast on the grapes over several months. Over the course of a year, he decants from one demijohn to the next, which clarifies yeast, then he bottles and lets it rest some more. It’s in a cool part of the house, about 14-18C.

It’s very tasty wine, but doesn’t have any oak overtones or adjuncts (whether lead or vanillin or whatever else is added), it’s not blended, and it’s moderate abv (around 10%).

This process requires very little in terms of specific materials other than the glass instead of clay. Clay vessels, being porous, would alter the flavour and would harbour yeasties and other microorganisms. But even accounting for that, I don’t think there’s any basis to say ancient wine would be dogshit. It may be different, accounting for taste, but not bad. (Consider the popularity of sour beers (kettle sours or otherwise) and hazy beers. Both of those were considered highly undesirable properties of beer for most of the 20th century - so tastes change. )

I’m saving this one for later today when I have time, but came here to say - when I visited Toronto I was struck by how bad the streetcars were. The way they’re done is like busses, except they can’t detour because rails, and they block two lanes of traffic at many stops because they run in the middle two lanes. So they’re held up by car traffic and traffic signals, and themselves contribute to car traffic by blocking the road. And they allow parking in the outside lanes. It’s a bad system. They should give the trams dedicated space. Take the cars out, put in a bike lane and give the trams space.

But isn’t this the city that’s ripping out bike lanes

A balloon full of helium has more mass than a balloon without helium, but less weight https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_versus_weight.

~~Methane weighs more than nitrogen (70% of atmosphere); you lose weight and mass. Molar mass of nitrogen 7; methane 16. ~~

https://discuss.tchncs.de/comment/19776581

Edited to comment about mass: Except that a) methane is leaving the body and is not necessarily being replaced; the volume is simply taken up by a contracting colon and b) methane may be less dense than air, but it does contain fecal particles as well, which are tiny but still heavier than air.