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Carbon steel > cast iron. Lighter, basically the same heat properties, and you don't get peer pressured into unnecessarily babying a lump of solid metal.

Seriously no reason to dote on either of them so much. Only real care you need to take is that they can rust, so don't leave them wet. And don't needlessly scrub them with chain mail or angle grinders, or you might need to take a few minutes fixing them with cooking oil and the oven.

He controls a propaganda machine that's popular with an increasingly wide array of their constituents, and he's personally popular with those same people. The only real thing an elected representative cares about is not being elected again, and musk is a threat of that to some elected representatives.

I figured it was more about fresh snow. :) fresh snow in the city is at least white, and pretty in a ... Chaotic sense.

Heh, I like that.

It can definitely haul cargo, and we have much less use for the type of bombing that it does in modern times. It was still built as a strategic bomber.

The b-52 is a US long range strategic heavy bomber. It's been in service for a very long time, and the reference seems to be that we'll just keep updating it until it's eventually also "new" and refreshed when the enterprise is being decommissioned.

If it's not snowing, it's still not green. It's just grey. Grey is worse because at least the snow is pretty.

I believe filling out the divorce paperwork doesn't actually make it happen, it's just an application for divorce.
It has to be filed with the court and a hearing held to make sure it's all good and then the judge does the thing and you're divorced.
Mostly this is a rubber-stamping type situation, and the judge mostly makes sure that asset division is done fairly and any children are cared for.
If no one has objections, the money is simple and everyone agrees, and there's no children the whole thing is relatively simple.

So filling out or destroying the paperwork doesn't actually do anything.

They just wouldn't believe it. They wouldn't accept that it was real, and any investigation would either confirm that belief or be obviously political and corrupt.

I mean, you're not wrong, just a hair off. It's the most universally possible to implement.

Every version of every phone can support SMS, and no one worries that someone is spying on them when they get one.

SMS is a terrible solution, but it's extremely easy to implement, and very accepted by people at large. That makes it all those things you mentioned, but it's backed by a very legitimate motivation.

In other contexts this explains part of the popularity of federated signin systems, since users may not trust you, but they probably trust their email provider, and if you can piggyback off their MFA, you don't have to hope the user will find you special enough to do the extra work.

Dedicated phone apps have a similar advantage, since you can leverage the phones built-in identity management.

Passkeys are currently being pushed very hard by security folks because, if done right, you can make the user more secure while making their sign-in process simpler, and letting them need to remember less and not install or manage anything.

You still have the ultimate issue of the atypical user who is valid and can authenticate, but for whatever reason has decided to only posess the dumbest of dumb phones, and can only accept SMS or phone calls.

It should have been a proper entitlement instead of worker funded.

If we fund it through general taxes instead of payroll, you have the wonderful effect where everyone is covered and the program can never go insolvent. When population dynamics result in a generation of retirees bigger than the current workforce you just need to change tax rates or deficit spend.

I mean, I just read through the platform of the Canadian conservative party and they're pretty left by US standards.

True, but in the modern era so is aluminum, and I would have expected essentially everywhere to have updated by now since we're more than a century into knowing lead and food don't mix.