ABC is owned by Disney, there’s an equally likely chance they were afraid Trump would retaliate by blocking a merger or something. I don’t know what merger it would have been, but it feels like there’s a pretty good chance Disney is trying to buy some other company at any given time.

The effects of these mega-storms are especially challenging in a region more used to disasters caused by the absence of rain. Niger, one of the world’s 10 poorest countries, saw tens of thousands die from famine during the late 20th century droughts. Now, it sees more deaths from floods than droughts. Fierce storms during the 2024 monsoon season inundated the capital, Niamey, and in rural areas washed away more than 150,000 mud-brick homes.

The extreme rains are causing massive floods that kill a lot of people, but overall it’s probably better to have water.

The sun is about 8 light minutes away from earth, so depending on what fraction of the speed of light kryptonians can fly, it’d take at least 16 minutes of traveling there and back instead of 2 to brush their teeth.

Only if the process for renewing the license was more involved than you saying “give me another one” and paying a fee.

Really, really sounds like trying to make two works of fiction seem like they’re historical in basis.

I’m pretty sure it’s just a movie, and isn’t trying too hard to make you think it’s historically accurate. I kind of doubt there were giants, cyclopes, witches, lotus flowers that make you forget, and sea monsters. I’m also pretty sure they didn’t speak english back then, but it’d be a little harder to enjoy the movie if you had to read subtitles, which also didn’t exist back then.

I haven’t read The Odyssey, so I wouldn’t exactly know all the additions or changes. I did hear that Sinon wasn’t actually in the original text though, so you’re wrong about that at least.

This is referencing Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, where Penelope says she’ll marry any man able to string and shoot the bow that only her old husband was able to use.

Surely we could send an embassador and some embassy staff?

https://www.celebritynetworth.com/articles/entertainment-articles/1-trillion-dollars-look-like/

You got me thinking what that’d look like. The picture of the guy next to the pallet of cash kind of looks like ai, but it still seems at least close enough. And the article only shows up to 1 trillion, not the 10 we were talking about.

Let’s take 10% off…50*0.1=5…50-5=45, so $45.00.
Let’s take 600% off…50*6=300…50-300=-250, so -$250.

I was wondering why it didn’t make sense, thanks. The inconsistent decimals and use of ellipses to separate ideas probably doesn’t help either, though.

If you suddenly spent ten trillion dollars. If you don’t spend it, it might as well not exist.

I don’t know about hover, there are drones that are basically small planes. My definition would probably include landing and being reused.

I don’t think charging stations requiring an app to use/pay is an improvement, but you do you I guess.

I don’t know big American banks to be very consumer friendly, and

There is currently no fee or charge on the transaction to users.[1] Instead, participating banking institutions are charged a fee per transaction.[4]

This part tells me that your individual bank probably isn’t a huge fan of it, and there’s no guarantee that it won’t change in the future. And finally,

The Zelle service has received negative publicity due to fraud incidents where bank customers’ accounts were compromised through social engineering tactics. In these cases, fraudsters set up Zelle accounts in the victims’ names and used them to transfer funds out of the victims’ accounts, often leaving the victims with limited practical or legal options for recovery.

If there is a problem with the service, I’m not sure how helpful Zelle would be in fixing it.

I’m not sure there are any TV manufacturers that won’t try to fill your screen with ads and track what you’re watching, you just need to make sure your TV can’t access the internet.

Zelle (/zɛl/) is an American digital payments network run by a private financial services company owned by Bank of America, Truist, Capital One, JPMorgan Chase, PNC Bank, U.S. Bank, and Wells Fargo.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zelle

I don’t know how much of an improvement that would really be in the long-term

Electric bicycle enthusiasts are in shambles

https://www.drugs.com/imprints.php?color=19&sort=rel&maxrows=89

A blue and white capsule could be a lot of things, I’m not sure the original image is actually supposed to be any individual drug at all

Car owners in Southern California are most likely to have the device installed due to its popularity among car dealers in the region, but the UCSD researchers warn that they’ve found the devices installed in vehicles across the US and even in other countries.

The part I was most interested in. I thought California was supposed to have slightly better privacy laws, but I guess it really doesn’t mean much.

Data from Insomniac Games, leaked last year

The article you linked makes me think it isn’t quite that easy to find proof.