It doesn't have to be the sky is falling, it's reality. In one year Europe went from "can we fight Russia with American help" to "can we fight Russia without American help" to "can we fight America". If Europe doesn't get itself unencumbered with the US they are in a very vulnerable position.

That looks very interesting. Could use a demo or examples for us short attention spanned individuals. Would be cool to feed it into TTS or video generation like Sora.

Argh. Saying the opposite of what you mean and expecting the recipient to guess.

Proof by contradiction is a powerful tool.

This is aggregated data from info stealers not from compromising Google or FB systems.

Nice find. The gap in the Spanish track is massive. I don’t know enough to speculate on technical reasons but it seems quite odd.

Rails expand and contract according to the temperature (11mm per degree C per km). They are continuously welded together and installed under tension and heated to a neutral / median temperature for the location. It was around 0C that night in an area that gets up to 47C (and rails might get hotter under the sun) so there was at least 300mm of contraction per kilometre of rail.

The rail fractured into pieces during the derailment. You can see some of those pieces lying around in the photographs.

As the article notes: the initial break left marks on the wheels of several previous trains. The final gap is big enough that no train could possibly make it past it, so it is pretty clear that the gap got larger as the incident progressed.

That’s funny, but this is about physical health not productivity. I’m guessing you are relatively young. Desk jobs are tough on the body!

I don't see anything in your comment history that would indicate a strong engineering role. Mostly political engagements really. You haven't said anything useful on this thread regarding TFA and it's content. Listing your credentials while making obviously false and dismissive statements is not good faith discussion.

lol… “I checked your post history and made bad assumptions” is the most Reddit Detective vibe I’ve ever seen outside of Reddit :D

You own an EV right?

I'd have to agree with the "Redditor Detective" here. I've asked you a lot about your statements and all you basically said is "i know shit".

The redditor comment here is sort of a projection. Kind of like ..a redditor mod.

What's the context? I'm assuming this is in a workplace? IT or non IT?

These are my personal systems on my home network. I have a strict policy that logins aren't shared, so everyone gets their own.

It definitely bogs things down. I would have preferred even an AI summary of the text, granted that it was accompanied by additional commentary to tie that to the subject at hand, rather than dumping in text with the assumption that the reader will understand the implicit connection.

I had no idea a click could cost this much and be sustainable (guess it might not):

"Personal injury lawyers are paying 568% more per click than they did in 2021. The keyword 'Las Vegas personal injury attorneys' costs $500 per click. Some legal keywords have crossed $1,000."

Always remember that if you're looking for a deal, the people who pay for expensive advertising probably can't provide it. Those ad campaigns have to get paid for somehow.

Personal injury lawyers are free. Literally anyone could be their client so relatively untargeted mass advertisements like freeway billboards pay off. Omnipresence of advertising signals that the firm is good at extracting money for their clients.

I wonder if that's just a quirk of Las Vegas lawyers, because they're super competitive and advertise aggressively here. Personal injury lawyers in particular. If you drive on the 15 or 215, you'll see dozens of billboards, often for the same few guys/firms... plus the ones who put their face on buses... and the ads that run on TV... and the geo-targeted ads on streaming services...

The article links through to a list of the most expensive: https://attorneyatlawmagazine.com/legal-marketing/why-law-fi...

Baton Rouge truck accident lawyer at $1000

Probably because the bidder is an aggregator sending the referral to many law firms, not just one. Individual law firms thus get outbid for an exclusive referral click, but can still pay the aggregator for a non-exclusive referral.

How does that work? The user is expecting to click a link and go to a page, not multiple pages. Or does the aggregator have an interstitial page? It sounds like a generally good idea but I don't understand how it works from the user's perspective.

It's a bit more complex and nothing new.

Roughly: An individual lawyer creates a "national brand" law firm and advertises it widely to find new clients. Of course, an individual lawyer can only take so many clients a year, so advertising nationally doesn't make sense since they'd quickly have more clients than they could ever manage. Additionally, a lawyer advertising nationally would need to be licensed in many jurisdictions and possibly also be able to handle many different legal specialties. This is essentially impossible for one person to do themselves.

Instead, the lawyer sends clients to their "associates" in the client's jurisdiction with the specialty that the client needs. For this referral, the lawyer gets a fee, agreed to beforehand.

Does this not make you want to search those keywords and click the link?

Depends entirely on what you're selling, the margins, the conversion rate of their landing page, and conversion rate of their sales funnel. Some companies are on auto pilot and are over paying, but the math and techniques are simple for SEM ROI when done with a little attention.

If what you're selling is mortgages or franchise businesses the cost you are willing to pay for a click just to get a chance to convert to a lead, just to get a chance to convert to revenue, is surprisingly high.

I guess the average person doesn’t really have much of a reference to comparison shop lawyers so if they’re googling a lawyer, don’t really check out alternatives?