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The loss of ~40 seconds today (due to a crash, not his fault, apparently) isn't going to help. But anything could happen in the Vuelta.

. . . this time.

This is how it often works, people cry bloody murder until they get the human-oriented infrastructure and then most people love it and forget they ever complained about it.

Sounds like the beginning of a supervillain origin story.

I don't have much sympathy for the McMansions, but there are huge sections of Pacific Coast rail line threatened by coastal erosion, and it sure would be nice to get some nice high-speed rail along there.

100% agree with this. Dune 1 sets up the world, Dune 2 gets to tell more of a story.

apart from some Harkonnen costume choices.

Oh, man, I forgot about those. 😄 The miniseries is good, though.

Way too high for that class of vehicles. My fear is that it won't sell well, and carmakers will say, "See, there's no demand for a 7+ person EV, we'll never make them again."

Phil Williams, the investigative reporter in this article, is an absolute treasure in Tennessee. This dude has broken open more corruption, fraud, conspiracies, government waste, etc. in his career than I can even list. As an elected official or business owner, the sight of Phil Williams with his microphone and camera crew is the thing you fear the most, but he's very measured and patient.

TL;dr: support your local journalism!

Torchlight 2 and 3 are fun looting co-op experiences.

Sandersons ... too much of a choir boy to match Martin’s tone

I'd agree, it's not an ideal match. But another talented, perhaps up-and-coming writer (as Sanderson sort of was at the time) could do a good job.

Remember when GRRM was so pissed that people criticized his friend Robert Jordan for faffing around for over a decade and never finishing the Wheel of Time series? Yeah, same.

¿Porque no los dos?

Hey, while we're on the subject, does anyone remember the forum thread that went viral a few years ago of a guy whose HOA booted his car, and he managed to hide the booted car in his garage and the towing company freaked out? He updated the forum posts as the saga developed, and it's a very funny read.

https://www.jeepforum.com/threads/epic-hoa-parking-boot-battle.572540/

our Search Choices might be of use here

Thanks, I think that's a valuable option! It's probably not what I was looking for. As I understand it, the "bang" use is just a way to use the search on a specific webpage, and is just a nice little hack to speed up searches on commonly used websites (i.e., Wikipedia, YouTube, BBC, etc.) I can probably get used to going straight to those sites, but it was a feature that got me using DDG at first and broke my reliance on Google.

For anyone seriously considering this tactic, they already have your license plate and VIN when they boot your car. If you manage to remove the wheel and destroy the boot, many jurisdictions will come after you for damage to city property and it will cost you a lot more than paying to get the boot off. I had a buddy who found this out the hard way.

They just need to be better than humans, which is a rather low bar.

Man, hard disagree. These systems have to be WAY better than humans to justify their huge costs. From a policy perspective, "better than humans" isn't good enough. And from a fiscal and legal perspective, it's disastrous. Companies need to achieve perfect or nearly perfect records to avoid being sued out of existence in products liability suits.

Also, just a friendly reminder that Cruise (competitor to Waymo) admitted that it had an average of 1.5 employees directing each so-called autonomous car. Waymo hasn't had to disclose those numbers yet, but it employs far more people than Cruise, so I think it's safe to assume that the number is not zero. As much as I want it to be true, this tech is nowhere close to actually autonomous yet. My suspicion is that true autonomous vehicles are still many decades away, due to computing power constraints, sensor fidelity, etc. https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2023/11/one-and-half-remote-cruise-employees-were-supporting-each-driverless-car.html

Mojeek

Thanks for the rec, I'll give Mojeek a try for a while. So far the results seem better than Brave (which I didn't seriously consider using regularly anyway) but I miss the bang options (!w, !yt, etc.) that DDG has.

Propoganda and marketing spin. Waymo also said its previous cars were safe and they've still had multiple incidents.

It's utterly unacceptable that these companies have been allowed to beta-test their 2-ton vehicles and beta software on public streets.

Like, one decent pull from any of her teammates after the crash would have been a 4 second difference.

Patrick Broe on the Lanterne Rouge compared it to if Jonas Vingegaard had a crash and Visma had Christophe Laporte there but didn't drop him back to ride for him. That would never happen, literally no one thinks that would be okay, and yet SD Worx did just that with the best stage-racer in the peloton.

As for the Alpe d'Huez climb, I think Evita Muzic was trying to get on the podium, FDJ rode so hard all week for seemingly no reason, I think they thought they coudl put Muzic on the podium on Sunday. Unfortunately for her, Rooijakkers was getting a magic carpet ride on the wheel of Vollering, and Muzic was a minute and a half back, so all she did was give Niewiadoma a free ride. By that point she and her DS in the car had to have known the gaps, and she should have attacked and broken the elastic, or if she couldn't, then wait in Niewiadoma's wheel and then snap like she did at the end.

It's crazy how much Pauliena Rooijakkers decided the ultimate outcome of this race, her presence arguably slowed Vollering's descent enough to let Lucinda Brand come back and give the chasers a train ride across the valley to the base of the Alpe. Wild, exciting racing, way more exciting than the men's races this year, to be honest.

Even more of a clown show than visma at last year’s vuelta

I don't know if SD Worx's dsyfunction rises to that level, but truly that is the standard to which all terrible team dynamics should be held. And even then, Visma patched it up before the end and at least got to stand there smiling with the win. SD Worx didn't even manage to do that.