You just know someone in the chain wanted to be able to say, 'we were the first', then they got fact checked and had to add in that qualifier of commercially available ground station.

Surely any rational individual already acknowledges that subject as lunacy. The segment of people that after seeing the joke would fall victim to the conspiracy is bound to be smaller than the segment that find it mildly amusing.

Strikes me as fishy that the finance ministry went to court with Apple to say 'no don't pay tax'.

If they don't want the tax, have the cheque made out to the EU.

“Ireland does not give preferential tax treatment to any companies or taxpayers,” stated a spokesperson from the Irish Ministry of Finances.

I wish the media would eviscerate these people like they used to.

Oddly enough, last year I used dish soap in the laundry for a few months without noticing, and nothing like this happened. I was surprised when I looked it up and saw this kind of thing as a common occurrence. Couldn't believe I had picked up this container each weekend for months without noticing the picture of plates and glasses on the front.

I understand now these soaps are quite different from one another and the fact nothing happened to me is a fluke, so definitely don't do this on purpose.

These things happen to everyone from time to time.

I myself misworded some comments just the other day in frustration and inadvertently caused an upset. No worries at all. It's big of you to come in here and correct yourself. It speaks volumes to the type of person you are.

Cheers.

I've been using Organic Maps (from F-Droid) and it has a "Keep the screen on" option in the settings. That said, I've never had the screen dim while navigating to a destination. The setting I mentioned prevents timeout when you've got the map open but not on route somewhere.

Funny how I even typed December and it didn't click in my head it was a different season.

Writing when tired isn't a recipe for well thought comments evidently.

I was curious about what happens to the roads at these temperatures and turns out, they melt.

Oddly, this article seems to say last December nearly tipped 50, so not really sure what to believe about record setting. Either way, it's not good.

This is a contributing factor to why we transitioned from 'global warming' to 'climate change'. It isn't about getting hotter - it's about how the effects will be wildly inconsistent across the globe, both in terms of geographic region and severity.

I didn't format my comment to show it was a quote from Ron Johnson as Jerboa crashes time to time when adding a link to text, and I ignored formatting altogether the third time I tried to make the comment. I've edited it to include what should have been there in the first place.

My client crashed twice when trying to add a link in to my comment, and then I'm frustration I neglected to add it when it when I wrote it the third time. I have edited the comment to reflect the fact that it's a direct quote from a climate denying senator. Apologies.