Why oh why can’t people use the right names for things?

Open Source didn’t die. NPM just proved its controls insufficiently trustworthy.

This is kin to red hat including a subscription check in their branded Linux distros and then screaming that “Linux is no longer free” just because one vendor wants to get paid.

Except, of course, that it’s even dumber that that because it’s about “enterprise IT”, where everything is either a billion dollar project or a hack put together by some salaryfolk in their spare time. (Or both, simultaneously.)

The progressive and conservative “movements” in the USA were named the same way Greenland was. By picking a word that would help appeal to low information folk.

Neither has any actual adherence to either change or tradition for the sake of such.

Wherever you are on earth, regardless of season, the only stars you don’t see at night are the ones blocked by that rock you’re standing on.

ISome of the stars rise or fall under the horizon as the planet spins, and which ones of those you see can and do vary based on the season. These are the ones that the earth (and the sun) block due to the orbit of our planet.

There will be stars due north or due south that you’ll see all year. This part of the sky isnt blocked by the earth or the sun at all. In fact, if you use a camera with the right hardware to see through the diffuse sunlight that makes the sky seem blue, you could see the same small disk of the sky at any time during the year, regardless of season or time of day.

Note that the above assumes you’re in one of the temperate bands between the tropics and the polar bands, where sunlight varies throughout the year but every day has a night.

On the poles you only get one night a year, and it’s always the same stars. And on the equator you need a clear horizon to see the polar stares, while the seasonal constellations will be more or less right overhead.

What sort of circumstance could possibly make buying cheaper compatible batteries unethical?

1. Did you make an express promise to only buy brand-name batteries? (I.e., are they paying you money to showcase their brand? Did you lease or rent tools with a contract that specified brand-name-only batteries? )
2. Are you spending someone else’s money who wants name brand batteries?
3. Are the third-party batteries illegal in your country?
4. Is there a known greater ecological harm in the manufacture of the third-party batteries?
5. Are you expecting to have your power tools be harmed by the third party batteries and returning them for warranty repair you caused?

For a typical consumer in America, and likely most professional contractors, the answer is “no” to all of these. And DeWalt apparently only offers a one year warranty that specifically excludes “normal wear and tear”.

https://www.dewalt.com/en-us/support/warranty

Anything up to and including prying open the proprietary casing and swapping in new cells is entirely ethical.

As I understand it, litigators have pretty wide latitude to call whomever they want to provide factual testimony in support of their case. At worst, in some jurisdictions the opposing council has a right to be prepared and can ask for a recess while they do so.

And AFAIK states that grant spousal privilege limit that to private conservations, not overt acts or utterances made to a third party.

Since most automobiles are water-cooled, the pickup truck temp is probably about 110 f / 43 c, so you’d want to preheat to 3 1/2 pickup trucks.

Similarly, since the mean life of trucks is probably 20 years, we’d measure casual time in a subdivisions of 175,320 hours / 10,519,200 minutes. One picotruck would be 1/10th of a minute, so you want to bake for 300 pico-trucks

We will of course maintain this system once trucks become 50-year lived semi-autonomous drones that never get over 35 c, because the one constant in defining units is that rejiggijng definitions is preferred to technical precison.

The Democrats introduced as their HR 1 a bill that would outlaw gerrymandering nationwide the last two cogresses where they picked the Speaker. They’ll almost certainly do so in January next year and two years later.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_the_People_Act

All Republicans have to do to end the gerrymandering in VA and CA and who knows where next year is get on board. They could even get a national voter ID rule if they really wanted.

Sadly, like Trump, the whole GOP is really bad at the jobs our tax dollars pay them for.

Nothing in the constitution demands that we segregate prisoners by sex or gender.

Doing so is just a fair shortcut to avoiding the cruel punishment of denying prisoners safety from assault in prison, but these RWNJs think prison is supposed to be inhumane.

There are few adjectives which are both homophones and homonyms for verbs.

I wonder if there are any such pairs not related to violence or sex…

Not a physicist – they know the math.

Just a sci-fi enthusiast who got really annoyed by a trilogy that didn’t understand what the “delta” in “delta-v” meant and so the space ships spent a lot of time getting to a very high orbital speed before each fight.

Time dilation is your subjective acceleration veering into more “time” than “space”.

If you somehow were in a flat universe with parallel velocity to an object several light-years away, and somehow managed to accelerate towards it at 1 g, you’d impact at the time on your watch that pure Newtonian physics says you would.

The subjective clocks of the place you’re hitting would measure your travel time as a lot longer, however. But it wouldnt be infinite at all – a relatively small multiple of “several” years, in fact.

(Before the relativistic impact recused both you and them to an energetic plasma, that is.)