I’d argue yes. And it’s still a combination of “exceedingly competent and yes still incompetent in other ways”. The intelligence is here, to paraphrase William Gibson, it’s just unevenly distributed

Sure, years later. They flew the stealth fighter f-117a around in Nevada for 10 years before it became public knowledge. The government is simultaneously capable and incapable. Different groups have different responsibilities, different budgets, different helpers and detractors, etc.

Same thing with Trump. He is simultaneously capable and incapable. He can barely put sentences together, but has like-minded people who are less incompetent, able to push extreme policies through. And there are other groups using him as a tool as well. They don’t care about and will shove him once he’s no longer useful. But he’s very good at taking attention away from other things.

Overall you’re right. But there are some notable exceptions. Arguably Iran/Contra, the CIA spying on all phone calls, the Drug War. But the big one would be The Manhattan Project, since it employed literally hundreds of thousands of people.

Jwz’s 2nd law!

Thanks for the info. Yeah, that support is even better than I’d thought, and it was already top-tier

Huh? I was pretty sure it’d fall out of OS support this year. And without security patches, shudder

Go do the demo. It is honestly really impressive. Had no intention of doing it, I’m not the target demographic or audience, but I was there to get a battery replaced and while I waited they did it. My jaw dropped at least twice.

I’m at a loss for the kind of things it can do for me day-to-day right now (and yeah, they have to come up with good selling points there), but for a virtual desktop I’d be there if it were cheaper. But you kinda see where they’re heading - glasses where you could read the web, check weather, watch tv, or play games, the UI, and the phone is just a computing brick that sits in your pocket all day

Sit, Ubu, sit! Woof. Good dog.

Imperialist propaganda. At least one X-wing fighter had two aboard . Or don’t robots count, scum?

Okay, I’m denser than the subjects discussed in it. Thanks for the detailed explanation, it’s appreciated.

How can you tell it’s a review? That sounds like an easy way to learn about a subject’s state-of-the-art, and I’d like to find more.

Alas, nothing stateside, but looking forward to the new album!

Some countries reverse commas vs periods. 5.599,99, almost 5600

Upvoting because they typically have good (and fair) reporting, even if the subject of this one whiffs

Yup, that one’s even bigger! I need to go see that one. Here’s the Mason bar cave info. https://www.nature.org/en-us/get-involved/how-to-help/places-we-protect/eckert-james-river-bat-cave-preserve/

Fun fact: once a year a 100‘ x 100‘ cave in Mason Texas becomes one of the most populated bat caves (bat nursery), holding anywhere from 2 million to 7 million. In the spring, pregnant bats come to this cave for some reason (they don’t know why) and hang out here until they give birth. Once they do, they spend the next couple of months rearing their young, eventually taking them on flights, and 1-2 months after giving birth the babies are now the same size as their mom, and they all go back to whichever cave they originally came from.

the trick’s on you - it’s not open for tours at night.

Dang it. Because something keeps me a couple of degrees cooler than some-wicking-fabric would be nice

What are examples of “broadband emitter “ fabrics that I can buy? The only links I can find are for this article.

Beach, but don’t like hot. You are awesome to your SO! Have fun!