Not only the sibling comments points, but cars aren't exposed to the radiation of space...

Well, one car is... and it's a Tesla!

At some point my wife recommended listing animals, flowers, etc. alphabetically as a way to distract the mind to help get to sleep. It's a great exercise.

We flew a couple legs on Virgin Atlantic yesterday. The info session before takeoff made several mentions of batteries - unplug devices when not on use / not in your seat, if your battery gets hot, don't leave your seat/notify a flight attendant immediately. (I think they have containers to try to contain lithium fires onboard FWIW.)

We transited through LHR yesterday. Still had to go through security - not sure why since we stayed on the air side.

Anyway, signage required us to empty our refillable water bottles. Odd. Thankfully we eventually found a refill station.

The scanners flagged a still sealed can of ginger ale left over from our incoming flight. It was "fine" but she still swabbed it. Shrug.

If you come in from a country that doesn’t fall under the TSA, you have to clear TSA before getting on a flight that does.

The worst I had was in India, flying to the US. Not only was there the normal airport security (despite having come in on a connecting flight from within India), but when I got to the gate (with only minutes to spare), there was a whole TSA check at the gate itself. Bags x-rayed (again), metal detectors (again), guy with a wand (again), the whole deal. Just getting to the gate, I had to show my papers to at least 6 people; every time I turned down a new hallway. That was my far my worst airport experience.

Flying with connections mostly within Schengen, or EU<>US via CDG, I never had to clear security again at layover, but I recently learnt this is rather an exception, and apparently it's a very common thing in most airports to have to clear security again.

LHR is actually notorious for this; you don't have to clear security again at LHR only when the connection is domestic.

In many other airports it's the same when e.g. you switch a terminal. Best to check for a particular airport what are the rules before booking.

It's super frustrating losing the contents of your water bottle and then having nowhere at all that you can refill it.

I think all UK airports have easy to find water bottle refill stations

The ones at LHR suck though. Often broken/next to no water pressure. Easier to just ask a coffee shop.

Pretty common to have to re-clear security at large airports if you've come from another country, I've had to do it every time when transiting through Dubai for instance.

As an aside, your it appears that your albedo-stuff.com domain has expired.

There are simpler ways to get a conduit under a driveway than a huge DB machine. I'm boarding a flight, but look up using water (dig a pit on either side of the road, attach water hose to piece of conduit, and push the conduit under the driveway using the water to erode a hole as you go.)

The there are also smaller hydraulic ram tools designed for pushing a pipe under a driveway.

More unsprung weight. Great!

Not everyone qualifies. Thanks to tax software company lobbying.

https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-utl/free_file_fillable_forms_use... says "Free File Fillable Forms has no age, income or residency restrictions".

IIRC if you have other than some basic income types, you cannot use it though.

They used two hyphens -- instead because typewriters don't have em dashes —.

Sure, but that's not what I was talking about :)

I read it as path to profitability for the AI companies buying Nvidia's chips.