I’ll check into it, thx! It took me almost a decade to convince nearly all my extended family to use a vault service and at the time LastPass was one of the better ones. I spent much of the Xmas weekend apologizing and asking folks to change their MP. Embarrassing…

How do they monetize their service?

That’s a lovely white urn.

You’re cordially invited to push back the keyboard, pack a bag, and fly over there to help. You won’t of course.

I wish them the best. Short of genetically engineering better humans I don’t see it happening.

And it costs much less lifetime cost of ownership so you’re golden all around. 😉

Dropbox has had their issues.

You don’t actually have to charge to the maximum capacity the battery lets you.

To be fair, no matter how drunk great-great grandpa got the horse got him home. The first self driving transport! 🤣

EVs typically break even with their ICE counterparts around 12k miles in terms of fuel costs. It takes longer for total break even costs simply because there is far less regular maintenance with EVs.

Rather than dismiss deportation you went with this weird Canada dodge. 🙄

He’s not going to be deported. He was born in South Africa.

And smuggled contraband emeralds with his dad Errol, who was apparently stealing them from the mine he had a minor stake in for a handful of years.

Where was he born…

Is it safe to return home at this point? What are the alternatives.

Weird headline. Suggests there is something about Emirati astronauts that they can use regular airlocks 🤣.

Group W bench…

You mean not cheese? And this is added text because auto mod hates pithy succinct sentences. Unless there is irrelevant and unnecessary verbiage added. To make it less pithy. And succinct. Who doesn’t appreciate excess verbiage?!

“Don’t you realize we’re breathing our own [loud noise]?!”

I’ll see you on the dark side… of the moon.

Heh. No. WC was in fact probably one of the most competent men of his age with the power and money behind him to make it stick. In early years he was a glory and attention seeker, lied extravagantly to get what he wanted. He was what Mark Twain would have called the perfect humbug, a liar to get what he wanted but once there a competent beast who changed the direction of world history. Just like Mark Twain.

Churchill was basically one of the last scions who had to endure Americans propping up their lifestyle. His mother was a rich American who, by the terms of the day, whored herself across European aristocracy to claim titles not available in centuries before. They sought her out for her acumen with money and power, and she was an intelligent woman who understood the times and her powers. I admire her but she was not a nice person.

She built up a rich and broad network of lovers with circumspect values and neglected young Winston but in later years as she grew up enlisted them all to launch Winston. His meteoric career would not have been possible without it.

Georgia O'Keefe? Andy Warhol? George W. Bush?

Fun fact, the alcohol thing was staged and overstated. Part of late Victorian norms. His own employees said it was basically a single rocks glass that was mostly ice and soda water, refreshed over the day with again mostly ice and soda water, and at most ten fingers over the course of his typical sixteen hour day. Not to say he could not hold his liquor. He could. But it was performance art that was hardly unusual at the time.

>"They laughed at the Wright brothers, but they also laughed at Bozo the clown."

Yeah. That was kind of, no actually was, Bozo's business model. And they made millions. That's a strange take.

That said I appreciate the knowledge you brought to this thread even as it is a peculiar mix of optimism and pessimism.

That’s why they’re called Proofs of Concept. The Wright brothers first functional aircraft was widely ridiculed too but ten years later they were essential in WW1.