For people in eastern USA or Western/Northern Europe, the jet stream collapse is gonna be "the big one". Up until now, climate change has been a gradual-ish slow-boil process.

If the jet stream collapses, your long-term climate changes overnight. Eastern USA cities underwater, Western Europe 5C colder.

[1] appears to be a spider or some kind of bug, suspended by a web or fiber. It's really close to your IR leds, what's why it's blown out in white (overexposed) and casting a shadow into the distance.

The fundamental problem with your hypothesis is the time-value of money: overnight deposits can be moved around, well, overnight, but a 30yr bond (for the bondholder, ignoring secondary markets) locks up capital for decades. A bondholder can't take advantage of future preferential interest rates when their capital is already locked up in low-yielding bonds.

This is why bond price and bond yields have an inverse relationship.

any US resident with a pulse and a SSN can open an account with Interactive Brokers and trade /BTC futures.

Just because they don't doesn't mean they can't.

pretty poor, as a percentage of land mass.

not too bad, as a percentage of population.

Most of Indiana by land is (very) rural, and in probably half of counties the fastest internet available will be sub 10Mbps.

In the major metro areas, Verizon/Frontier, Comcast, and AT&T "compete" and provide 1Gbps, with Frontier at least offering FTTH. I pay $60/month for 400/400 fiber.

source: i worked for a (rural) ISP in Indiana.

This would have been my vote.

In 2050, there may be a Northern Hemisphere Jet Stream collapse. Everyone here is posting about how things are gonna warm up - Western Europe is going to cool down probably in a 1C or 2C warming scenario. W. Europe is further north than people think.

The Med is a great heat sink / battery and regulates the local climate. Imagine Nice in the spring, or Barcelona.

I've taught a stripped down emacs/org-mode to my partner to manage a hand-crafted meatspace recipe book. Their only "computing" otherwise is done on a smartphone (no laptop or desktop usage at all).

They use org-mode to give structure to the document and then export to HTML with and embedded .css I made with appropriate styles added. This .html page gets printed from Chrome and cut up / added to the recipe book.

My partner couldn't be less interested in tech/computing, but is using emacs as a tool to create a handmade art project. I dunno about weirdest, but this is my example of how emacs can be anything to all peoples.

If we have SSH tunnels and rsync, why do we need this?

I always say "the best compact pickup truck these days is a Grand Caravan"

That's what we replaced the GMC Safari with but it really didn't hold up the same and the '12 Grand Caravan fell apart in just a few years.

the GMC Safari is a real body-on-frame truck, with a van body. I have seen Astrovans with half a million miles on them, going strong.

I agree that the Grand Caravan is a bit flimsier, but mine has been in the family since it was new and well-maintained. Still strong 12 years later

You have fine taste, my friend. I felt a little bit like an idiot making this choice, but once I came out of the closet the number of people who thought it was a good idea was downright gratifying.