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I recently booked a campsite inside totality, about 5 hours from here. Going down Sunday, coming back Tuesday.

When we went to see the last one, we did it all in one day. That was a mistake. Traffic on the way there was bad, traffic out after was horrible. If you have a plan to travel for this, it would serve you well to try and avoid having to travel back on Monday, unless you're already pretty close.

Edit: I'll also add - bring your own food and water for your whole trip; do not expect to be able to buy anything on the road, especially on the return trip. We stopped at the sketchiest Chinese restaurant I have ever seen, and they were out of rice.

Justin Mohn has “been ranting and railing about the government for 10 years now and how they’re out to get him,” ...

And

Justin Mohn, 32, ...

He was at least 22 when this started, maybe earlier. That's kind of the prime time for symptoms of schizophrenia to appear, and it can happen to anyone, even you.

It is no secret that culturally approved magical thinking can mask those symptoms at best, and encourage them at worst. Religion is magical thinking, and for the last several years, so is right wing politics.

No matter who or where you are, especially when you're in your 20s, please take note of magical thinking in your own head, and check in about it with professional mental health care. This is doubly important if you are also surrounded by and influenced by other kinds of magical thinking.

Mohn is absolutely responsible for his own behaviors and actions, as are we all. But it would be irresponsible to remain blind to understanding the circumstances that brought him to those actions, so that we can take preventative measures to avoid this in the future.

So ... it's okay for Texas to ignore SCOTUS about federal border patrol and razor wire, but it's not okay for subsections of Texas to ignore Texas law, got it.

For everyone who only read the title, a couple of Russian TLDs were no longer available in DNS. That's a far cry from "internet offline."

They're going to have to get a roommate, and lay off the Starbucks and avocado toast.

To-MAY-to, to-MAH-to.

Religion is a coping mechanism? Who could have guessed?

It's clear that it's a plane, and I'm sure they've compared the size of the sonar image to the size of an Electra. To say that it could be Earhart's plane must mean that the size of the sonar image doesn't exclude that plane.

Then the question becomes "Which other plane could it be, for the size and shape, and for where it is?" Now, obviously it's a wreck, and it's been at the bottom of the ocean for a long time, but based on that sonar, it looks pretty intact. That suggests that whatever plane it is was ditched in the ocean relatively intact, as opposed to suffering a catastrophic impact. Just based on the sonar, though, those wings look to be swept back more than an Electra's are.

Electra is a bit over 38 feet long. A MiG-15 is 36 feet long, and an F-86 Sabre is 37 feet. Both seem to match that wing sweep more accurately, though I have no idea if either of those aircraft were ever lost in the area of Howland Island.

If it's true that the bones found on Gardner Island "are almost certainly" from Earhart and/or Noonan, I find it highly unlikely that they could have landed at Gardner, and then the plane be swept all the way from there to Howland, while remaining so intact the whole way.

No, I don't think this is Earhart's Electra.

I just realized something. Making people work in expensive office buildings is how the rich extract more wealth from the working class.

How can I get more money? Start a business! Perfect. Now how can I get more money from that? Well ... If I owned an office building, then I could rent office space to the business. But what is the business going to do with an office building? Ohhhh, the business, that I own, or am the majority shareholder in, the business in which I make all the decisions, could decide that employees have to come into the office. That I rent to the business, because I own the office building.

Would it really matter? It's just as easy to subscribe and then say/do whatever. Only accounts that have been subscribed for a period of time? Subscribe and wait. Have a certain post and/or comment reputation? It's not terribly hard to speak to a specific audience and accomplish that. Make any of those extra parameters too severe, and you limit the community growth.

Crowdsourcing of ideas means that bad ideas are no worse than good ones, and in an evolutionary way, they're probably better at replication, strength, retention - and when a core tenet of that "bad" idea is that you must actively reject the opposing good ideas, that's how bad ideas overtake good ones.

What if I call the iPad a "really big iPhone"?

You can honestly start your own TLD for a lot less with any DNS server. That doesn't mean anyone else will necessarily use it, but you can.