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I think about 18 billion of that was me
I think about 18 billion of that was me
Expected work hours seem to be increasing everywhere over the last twenty years or so. It’s gotten pretty nuts.
Celebrities get wide latitude to protect themselves from imitators. Impressionists can do “satire” etc. but this isn’t that. It’s explicitly a reference to her voice in the movie, and as such she’s protected by law from them going around her and hiring someone else to imitate her.
It was explicitly represented as her voice when he tweeted “Her” in relation to the product, referencing a movie which she voiced. It’s not a legal grey area in the US. He sank his own ship here.
He tweeted “Her”, which explicitly tells us it’s a deliberate imitation of Scarlett’s voice in that movie. And he tried to negotiate licencing her famous voice, which she rejected.
So it’s more than just a coincidence, it’s deliberate bad faith behaviour. Legally you can’t misrepresent a product as being from a famous person when it wasn’t, and he very much did that. I guess he was hoping she’d give in and accept the licensing agreement post-facto. But instead it looks he’s in legal deep water now.
When I lived in Switzerland I literally used a bike to haul furniture (flat packed). Honestly it’s easier than you might imagine.
I brought a big tv home on my bike too. It’s quite achievable, if awkward.
But a cargo bike would have been a better choice than my conventional bike.
All this tells me is that they have a great PR department.
Meanwhile Mercedes has already reached level 3.
I remember many years ago New Scientist magazine did a review study of many different alternative medicine techniques and found that the only benefits they provided were placebo effect.
Except acupuncture. That was the only one with an effect greater than placebo.
Lithium is used in grid storage:
And that’s just what I could find in a couple of minutes.
They’re meant to survive an order of magnitude more cycles than Li-ion. But I’m containing my enthusiasm until we see them lasting a long time in real life use.
They’re meant to have a much wider temperature range than Li-ion, theoretically.
It’s a great heat conductor too
For Australians: they mean American opossums, not Australian possums. Our cute little marsupial friends have appropriately wrinkly brains, thank goodness.
In my country that means you wouldn’t respect (for instance) ordinary people who’ve paid off a house. 1 million isn’t as much money as it used to be.
Close… That moon’s called LV426
And politicians drink alcohol so they’re not exactly lining up to ban it.
Nice. I guess Antarctica’s next.
Traffic was close to zero here during covid lockdowns. It was bliss - it was quiet and serene like I’ve never experienced before.
Is it wrong to be wistful about the car-free depths of a pandemic?