If we knew what city/route/service and day, we might be able to get a better idea.

• Sometimes operators declare a ‘fare holiday’ when everyone rides free, usually as compensation for some major fuckup previously, or for some other PR stunt. Metlink in Wellington doesn’t charge on Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, or New Year’s Eve.

• Operators sometimes half-strike and refuse to collect fares.

• The specific route, service, or time of day might be free.

• It’s an express service that you can’t pay cash on (only fare cards) and it’s easier/nicer to tell you to ride for free than to tell you to get the next bus because they don’t take cash.

• You might be part of some group (youth, students, elderly) that doesn’t have to pay.

• Something is broken and they can’t collect fares.

• They don’t want to deal with the big banknote you had.

Even disregarding the orientation, people hate auto-next on YouTube, but will tolerate/accept endless scroll for shorts, especially because they’re short.

While a problem, this seems out of the community’s scope.

Isn’t that fundamentally the idea behind ‘separate but equal’, which has been pretty thoroughly smacked down in the US? It very quickly turned into (always was) separate and not equal.

Doing it in an ironic, performative way for art is one thing, but I’m not sure it’s a great blueprint generally.

From article:

He said the term “coconut” was a “well-known racial slur which has a very clear meaning” to the effect that “you may be brown on the outside, but you’re white on the inside. In other words, you’re a race traitor – you’re less brown or black than you should be.”

That’s a different definition of ‘coconut’ than I hear here in NZ. Here it’s usually just a (derogatory) term for any Pacific Islander, because they come from where coconuts come from.

Gotta love slang/slurs.

Interestingly the US greens seem to no longer be a part of Global Greens. I wonder why that is? /s

There’s still a Russian green party there.

As a person in neither Georgia nor Georgia (nor the US at all), I agree that it seems like an easy mistake to make.

But for anyone in Georgia or a neighboring state, it seems like something that should be pretty well known. Especially if you work in marketing.

I’d normally expect these kinds of ads to be produced by the local party branch but this suggests that either the local Georgians don’t know there’s another Georgia, or the ads came straight out of the national HQ or Moscow.

Tumbleweed, at least per marketing spiel, is rapidly updated like a rolling release distro,(e.g. Arch) but has good testing and stability like a conventional fixed release distro.

It’s not quite lived up to that fully for me, but I’m pretty sure the times it’s broken have mostly been my fault.

Any hard drive can fail at any time with or without warning. Worrying too much about individual drive families’ reliability isn’t worth it if you’re dealing with few drives. Worry instead about backups and recovery plans in case it does happen.

Bigger drives have significantly lower power usage per TB, and cost per TB is lowest around 12-16TB. Bigger drives also lets you fit more storage in a given box. Drives 12TB and up are all currently helium filled which run significantly cooler.

Two preferred options in the data hoarder communities are shucking (external drives are cheaper than internal, so remove the case) and buying refurb or grey market drives from vendors like Server Supply or Water Panther. In both cases, the savings are usually big enough that you can simply buy an extra drive to make up for any loss of warranty.

Under US$15/TB is typically a ‘good’ price.

For media serving and deep storage, HDDs are still fine and cheap. For general file storage, consider SSDs to improve IOPS.

I don’t remember if they fully closed the loopholes, but there are inputs that programs cannot catch unless you actually replace the OS.

Livestock aren’t an efficient use of land in the first place, and you can absolutely graze around turbines, at least according to this: https://www.windenergy.org.nz/resources/for-developers-and-landowners/how-to-host-a-windfarm

It appears there are even advantages to crop farming under turbines: https://agupdate.com/agriview/news/crop/wind-farms-impact-crops/article_bb057e6c-e58b-5990-b4d5-62640803121f.html

Obviously can’t do any aerial crop dusting around turbines.

You don’t normally need to specify that the sides are parallel if you specify four right angles.

It looks like the WLTP range is about ¾ the Chinese range on these vehicles. Assume a faster highway speed and you’ve basically got the difference.

It’s 30% lighter than a model 3, not a third. Still ~1200kg.

Here in NZ they do a factory reset on your calculator at the start of every exam.

Exercising eminent domain can mean a long and expensive legal and media process. I’m not sure about Texas (or the rest of the US, for that matter), but many projects in the first world do everything possible to avoid using it.

Yes. But my point is that the IRS has a process for declaring and paying tax on income that you got illegally, whether it’s from being a mobster or working without the right visa.

Capone didn’t follow that process, so got done for tax evasion.

These illegal immigrants are paying their taxes, and therefore a) they aren’t exposed to prosecution for tax evasion, and b) the IRS won’t rat them out to ICE.

In a follow-up statement this afternoon, Potaka clarified that, in keeping with the Government’s policy, he’s changed his name to Tim Pawlenty.

*A current version of this story incorrectly referred to Tim Pawlenty as “Tama Potaka”

Yes, satire ‘news’ site, hence being posted to The Onion.

As with all good satire, there’s a very tiny kernel of truth at the bottom of it.

Boeing doesn’t make many of the parts in the aircraft, especially things like pressurization controllers. Those come from contractors like Honeywell.

What they do is design the systems around the parts, including selecting the desired level of redundancy, and commission the custom parts needed.

The 737 is still mostly a 1960s design built mostly to 1960s rules. There have been plenty of improvements but that’s not the same as a clean sheet design built to be entirely automatic even when stuff breaks.

When you download a torrent, you’re downloading it from someone else’s computer. That ‘someone else’ is usually an individual, not some file sharing site with redundant servers.

When you download a torrent, someone had to send it. It’s a small cost for individual torrents, but they had to pay for energy, internet connection, hard drives etc. If more people seed the torrent, you get a small bit of it from each seed, spreading the burden.

If no-one with the torrent has their computer on and seeding it, you cannot download the file, because there is no-one to download it from. If there are several seeds with the torrent, then you can still download it even if one or more seeds turn the computer off at night, delete the file, or are overloaded.