I had not seen the news about Shanahan being in a car wreck!

Wait, are you my child? They’re doing something extremely similar

There are two startup passenger jet manufacturers building factories at the Piedmont Triad Airport in Greensboro, NC. One is Boom SuperSonic, the other JetZero. Of the two, I think JetZero is most likely to succeed. If they can actually deliver 50% less fuel burn than the current offerings from Airbus and Boeing they will have airlines clamoring for their aircraft. Even if Boom gets their plane in the air (itself a big question mark since all the engine suppliers told them they could not build an engine to their requirements so they decided to also build the engine themselves), it’s not clear to me that there’s a more viable market today for supersonic air travel than there was when the Concorde was flying. Plenty of people would like to fly that fast, but I don’t think there are plenty who can afford it.

People keep acting like this is unprecedented, and maybe it hasn’t specifically happened this way before, but boom/bust seems to happen every few years.

To hear my dad and other older folks talk, though, it sounds like things were really good in the ’90s and they haven’t seen commission checks like that since.

“Our viewership numbers are not looking good, so let’s give them to investors less often so we don’t scare them.”

GameStop beat out Hot Topic in bidding for ThinkGreek, with a winning bid of $20/share compared to Hot Topic’s bid of $17.50

So many of the foreigners visiting for the World Cup have missed out on another great American culinary tradition smh my head

Emporia, Virginia is another notorious one, right on heavily traveled I-95 as well as US-58. Virginia has front license plates, so the cars that don’t have front plates definitely aren’t from Virginia and if there’s a group of cars all going the same speed it’s the easy way to pick out the non-local. Saw it happen when I was a passenger.

I’m assuming one or two significant players will go bust, but probably not the biggest like Google, Microsoft, Amazon. They might take some serious hits, and they’ll deprioritize AI, but still exist. Maybe someone like Oracle or xAI goes under and gets parted out like an airliner getting scrapped. A lot of data center projects will be cancelled, others will shut down, and the local politicians that pushed for those data centers will see their political careers end as their districts are left with big empty buildings and infrastructure debts that will be hard to pay.

Even when it was easily proven incorrect it remained a common talking point from people opposed to EVs. Much of that opposition was for ideological/financial reasons, so facts didn’t really matter.

I think the smaller character limit comes in from Asian countries if they don’t use the basic Latin characters that came out of ASCII. But yes, there’s no reason for the service provider not to offer unlimited SMS messages other than greed/lack of competition. I remember over 20 years ago reading a high level phone company employee talking about how the SMS plans were basically printing money for the phone companies because it cost them almost nothing in terms of bandwidth, utilizing an otherwise unused part of the connection protocol. Back then most companies charged for the messages as in @OP’s question, and the plans were relatively expensive. Nowadays most plans I see in the US and Europe offer unlimited talk and text, or limits that are so high they would be hard to reach. I think it’s a combination of competition and smart phones offering SMS alternatives that offer more functionality while using a tiny fraction of your data allowance, or none if you’re on WiFi.

It says that process doesn’t apply for HFS+ encrypted Time Machine drives? I think that’s the only place I’ll be impacted