Ok, but you started out claiming that it couldn’t be done because of ‘bedrock’, and now your argument is it’s too expensive. I doubt the expense argument too. As noted, new developments are almost all putting utilities underground. It apparently isn’t all that expensive. But yes there is obviously a cost. The offset is drastically reduced maintenance costs. The problem is that it takes a long time for the maintenance offset to balance out the installation expense.

Well ok I'm sure there may be geographical features in some areas that prohibit underground conduit, but for example, my road is pretty much exactly the same region as my house, and all the new-ish (like within the last 30-40 years) houses here have underground connected to the poles on the street. We have a lot of long driveways too. Most of the rest of my town is pretty much the same, except the newer developments and clusters all have underground systems for the whole area. So, in summary, sure they could bury a lot, perhaps almost all of the local distribution systems, they just won't because it doesn't make short term financial sense.

Lol. It’s local delivery that gets broken during storms, not the supply system.

Oddly enough most new construction uses underground conduit for utility wires. I guess the bedrock is only a problem on the roads.

Is summer's eve paying your gyno to shill?

The class warfare continues. However, calling it a war when one side is organized, united, and clear on objectives, strategy, and tactics, while the other side is fighting each other, mostly doesn’t realize there is a real war they are losing quite badly, and has no clue who is the enemy, is vastly over generous.

maybe we ought to have biological sex (which is a meaningless term) segregated , parking lots, as they actually are a frequent location for sexual assaults, unlike bathrooms.

human rights ought to not be a partisan issue.

It always looked more like a bar than a restaurant, so I've never tried their food, or drinks either.

Eh, La Caretta: awful. El Tapatio: almost as awful.

right - it might be in the 'fusion reactor' mode of breakthroughs that never actually pan out into something functional. Or not.

Things I learned: governments have archives of encrypted communications that they will decrypt as soon as they have a viable QC up to the task. It’s sort of the encryption apocalypse.

It’s definition is ‘wisdom’.

Well we will have to disagree about ‘is planning essential for consciousness’. But I disagree that ai cannot ‘plan’. It’s exactly what autonomous vehicles do: they process real-time data to update their navigation ‘plan’ by building and maintaining a model of the space around them.

sapience is even more ill-defined than consciousness. It's use here seems to just be a circular 'but its not HOOMAN CONSCIOUSNESS' argument. Which of course it isn't, obviously.

> It does not day dream, or plan, or anything else.

Well that might or might not be true, especially the 'or plan, or anything else', but it is also irrelevant unless you are asserting that these activities are essential properties of consciousness. If you are asserting that, how do you justify it?

She at one point confronts him and demands he ignore the Official Secrets Act, which he actually can’t do, but of course he gets interrupted by the Russian calling him, and they just canceled that arc.

I couldn't get past the first scene.

She does have a magic pen though.

I gave up as Oona Chaplin gets all suspicious because THE HEAD OF MI6 HAZ A PRIVATE PHONE CALL!!!!!!!
I do give the actors credit for managing to sort of look like they are acting through this crap.
Oh plus the trope of the willfully disobedient daughter in peril - this kills every show.

No ads and no algorithm trying to capture your attention.

The older generation now being boomers, almost all of whom have smoked pot.

If we can’t see the meme this post is obscene.

The crackdown continues. That scary moment during the official pandemic when the workers of the world started to realize they were essential? That has to be remedied.

Chinese people are not that controlled.