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Very true, your example is airtight. Where mine gets a bit more in the weeds, is the air conditioners and filters in the cabin have an express purpose of manipulating the temperature and climate, that is their only purpose. Otherwise the air coming into the cabin would be so hot from being compressed in the engines everyone would die and all the machines onboard would overheat.

It was a bit more technical, complicated, (air inside a plane in the atmosphere is still air from the atmosphere being manipulated!) and on the edge though, and not as easily conveyed as umbrellas.

Kudos for yours though, it was to the point.

So perhaps, they should just ban the air conditioners on jets to get it technically correct?

Freedom costs a buck o' five.

Also, every commercial passenger flight is a felon. They are an apparatus released into the atmosphere, and affect weather/climate/intensity of sunlight by causing global dimming. Furthermore, they take the atmosphere in through their engines, and run it through a bunch of air conditioners to cool and filter the air for the cabin, expressly for the purpose of affecting the temperature and climate inside the aircraft, and then exhaust it out of the aircraft back into the atmosphere. Checkmate.

Even that is a challenge, with facial-recognition camera systems and wifi position tracking in stores. Time to just stop buying stuff except for what is necessary.

These "verify you are human" things should be made illegal at this point. They were training OCR scanners, then self-driving cars, now they're designing them to be anti-AI and we've gone full circle where captchas are on the defense.

They were always abusive and exploiting free labor, and more so now. If you dumb companies can't figure out how to filter fraudomation/AI/whatever, just go out of business.

Tech industry, stop using us.

The absolute cowardice of the Democrat party is supremely laughably sad. The US is no longer controlled by a government. Just rich people. Maybe it always has been.

Many years ago I ripped my CD collection and always live off of it. I buy CDs when I can to this day. Found my CDs in storage recently and it was just a delight picking up an album (which, parallels with vinyl too, obviously, with the advantage you don't have to flip it in 30 minutes or less, also cassettes, MiniDisc, 8-track, you name it) and knowing from color, text, images what you're about to play. Then physically stick it in the slot and it comes out the speakers.

I always wanted to embrace full digital, it's so simple and convenient. Digital just can't replicate the physical-emotional connection of an album, even if it's "Summer Mix 2012" CDR that is old, degraded, and only plays to track 11 before it is now too degraded to be readable at the slower RPM of the outer edge of the disc.

Even with searching and tapping on a digital album cover, swiping away 3 notifications to buy car insurance, feed the dog, and remember to do squats, it just isn't the same somehow.

You live in a place full of stupid rich people. Or stupid people that don't understand what debt is.

Google is on an enshittification speed-run. Close-source Android, combine with ChromeOS. Advertise the crap out of YouTube, draconian login requirements. Wherever their income is coming from now, it isn't from making products users want. Probably the military "AI" overseas contracts.

I've been de-Googling the last few years casually as functional replacements came along and I'm down to threads now, but the icing on the cake was their injecting an ad into a funeral ceremony stream from a church on YouTube. Sure, software-side, we all know why it happened, but just. No.

while you’re propelling a tonne of metal

The Model S weighs 2 tonnes in fact, or 2.2 US tons. Electric cars are insanely heavy, so much so that existing traffic safety items like guard rails aren't really designed to handle the heavier ones.

Not sharing to be Pedantic Internet User, just mind-boggling how heavy those things are.

Wow, just something like 1200 baud FSK on 70cm. That's stupid simple, and stupid. They could use cellular modems (the locomotives already have one, normally) or LoRaWAN or....anything without even trying and it would be an improvement.

One would think that MAGA would be enraged at all the waste, fraud, and abuse in this process of inhumane torture, their tax dollars being wasted.