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Powderhorn , 13 hours ago to Science in Hurricane Beryl is the terrifying storm that scientists have been expecting

This is an example of the terrifying extreme storms scientists have been expecting

No one at NOAA was looking specifically for Beryl.

Powderhorn , 1 day ago to Politics in Supreme Court says Trump has absolute immunity for core acts only

That ship sailed with Bush v Gore.

Powderhorn , 2 days ago to Politics in Opinion | To Serve His Country, President Biden Should Leave the Race

I don't see Biden stepping aside. This is somewhat of a milquetoast piece that ignores the absurd amount of legwork that would need to be done. It's not just a vote at the DNC; it's turning a battleship around in terms of communications against a guy who would paint it in a particularly vile way as weakness. Which is to say, fucked either way.

The only way this conceivably happens is Biden dies before the election, which I'm sure there are contingency plans for, but that is the ultimate in-case-of-emergency-break-glass situation.

These thinkpieces about how Biden turned in a poor showing (he did) that also ignore that Trump was abysmal ... I don't know what to make of that. Biden was low energy and a bit rambly, but he at least allowed the truth to come out of his mouth once. That should not be the bar, but with the candidates we have, it has to be.

I cannot understand how anyone watches Trump and thinks "this guy gets me." He's not the second coming of Christ, he's the second coming of P.T. Barnum.

Powderhorn , 2 days ago to Nature and Gardening in Need some advice with chilis,

Daily watering is likely far too often ... I'm not seeing quick useful links to peperone (as you can imagine, I'm getting a lot about pepperoni and pepperoncinis).

But if this is a C. annuum cultivar, these are adapted to arid climates. Let the plants tell you when they need water (droopy leaves); they spring back remarkably quickly, like in under an hour. It sounds like you're drowning them and ending up with other issues as a result.

Powderhorn , 6 days ago to Politics in 'Traffic tailspin': Far-right websites seeing as much as 95% decline in visitors since 2020

This is not a case of great editing ... solid reporting, good numbers, takes a turn in the last graf and then summarily falls off a cliff. You can't claim a trend, show one data point and then run the tagline.

Powderhorn , 6 days ago to Politics in 'Traffic tailspin': Far-right websites seeing as much as 95% decline in visitors since 2020

There's a certain level of amusement in trying to picture what those college end-of-party conversations that turn into breakfast at Denny's look like for conservatives. I enjoy a good, heated argument, but you don't bond over those except under very specific circumstances one doesn't run into at that time.

Powderhorn OP , 6 days ago to Chat in It looks suspiciously as though Roberts doesn't want to be remembered as the chief justice who obliterated all respect for the Supreme Court

I wonder if he lets Harlan refer to him as “boy.”

This is actually funny if done in a Foghorn Leghorn voice.

Powderhorn , 7 days ago to Technology in Windows 11 is now automatically enabling OneDrive folder backup without asking permission

I could swear Google wasn't broadly a thing yet. The startup I worked at in 1999 had an elevator pitch for how we "could be the next Yahoo." Not a great thing to aspire to in retrospect, but Google wasn't on our radar.

Powderhorn , 7 days ago to Technology in Has Facebook Stopped Trying?

I left Facebook in 2014, having had to rejoin because in that era, you had to have an account to get a job. Which is another topic but worth keeping in mind.

If I don't know why I'm somewhere, I leave. Rave, website, bar ... these are all the same questions, just with less external pressure because you aren't the product in the other two situations.

Powderhorn , 7 days ago to Technology in Windows 11 is now automatically enabling OneDrive folder backup without asking permission

Remember what that landscape looked like. The only major players we know today that existed then are Microsoft and Apple, and Apple had just been bailed out by MS to get in front of antitrust issues. Amazon existed as a bookstore, Google was not around yet, Facebook would still be several years out ... MySpace wasn't yet around. AOL was still a behemoth. Adobe sold perpetual licenses.

This is a far more recent development.

Powderhorn , 7 days ago to Technology in Windows 11 is now automatically enabling OneDrive folder backup without asking permission

There's always the option to store things locally. You want to get fancy, you can set up a NAS for remote access.

Saying "isn't X also doing Y" implies the behaviour itself isn't the problem, when it is. Doesn't matter who's using dark patterns for rent-seeking; it matters that we've normalized it.

Powderhorn , 7 days ago to Technology in Windows 11 is now automatically enabling OneDrive folder backup without asking permission

... they said Archly.

Powderhorn OP , 11 days ago to Technology in YouTube is dedicated to making itself worse; destroys SponsorBlock with ad injection changes

This is an underrepresented viewpoint. We are at the point of "find out," which so many tech companies thought they could stay just to the other side of the line on. Thing is, you can only move the goalposts so often before they're in someone's yard, and they didn't sign up for this shit.

It was OneDrive upgrade nagging that made me switch to Linux. Microsoft could have, you know, not done that and kept a user. They also could have not gone regressive with how the taskbar functions. Or any number of other things that were dismissive of users.

At a certain point, you're sitting in ever warmer water in the pot, and it occurs that maybe you're being turned into food. That's when the Linux pots start looking appealing. This was a completely avoidable problem brought to you by greed.

Greed! Because we don't think making a good product is what capitalism is about.

Powderhorn , 11 days ago to Technology in The DJI Drone Ban: A Uniquely American Clusterfuck

That is a uniquely awesome hed. And only strengthens my belief that 404 Media is going to make corporate journalism wish that they'd not shit the bed to the extent that viable alternative options sprang up.

Powderhorn , 13 days ago to Politics in Roger Stone Caught on Tape Discussing Trump’s Plan to Challenge 2024 Election

Here's the original Rolling Stone report

I didn't hit a paywall, but here's an archive link in case that's my Firefox extensions.