50% of the aircraft is composites. The leading edge of the wings is aluminum while I believe the rest is composites.

https://www.planespotters.net/airline/Scoot

The average age of their 787-8 fleet is 7.8 years and 787-9 is 8.8 years so not brand new. Being a low cost carrier I suspect they don’t invest too much in maintaining their paint jobs.

As for Libby/OverDrive, you aren’t restricted to your local library. Try looking into other libraries in your region as many libraries will allow you to get an account online which you can use for this. Just note, if you do have multiple libraries associated with OverDrive, kobo doesn’t really support that and will only use the one you log into on device.

I have a Kobo and much prefer it over kindle. While they have a bookstore, it’s not intrusive like Amazon, and it’s super easy to load books over usb (I use Calibre but I’ve also just directly copied books over).

There are also a multitude of android based e-ink devices which are much more open and configurable but they tend to be more expensive and not as smooth of an experience if all you care about is reading.

Not spiritual myself but you might want to look into Unitarian Universalism. It’s all about diversity, inclusivity, and spiritual exploration without a particular set of required beliefs or dogma. I believe it’s mostly concentrated in the US but you might find congregations elsewhere around the globe.

This time next week, it’ll probably be at 420.69% to get Musk on board

A separate entrance is more then just a door:

To build out the Canadian entrance, the Haskell has to create a parking lot with reduced mobility spots, install reduced mobility access ramps and entrances, and build another proper building entrance to the facility.

Looks like their GoFundMe has a good response so far, already receiving over the expected $100k needed.

They use air pockets but they are of the stiffer variety that are fitted around each drive, not the super cheap and thin air pockets that just get jammed in to fill the box.

I usually wipe them down with a wet wipe if they start getting streaky. They also tuck in pretty well when not in use and I’m pretty diligent clearing off my windshield in the winter so nothing really gets stuck underneath them to deform.

I’m also parked in the shade, so very little sun exposure to cause dry rot.

Blending and drinking through a straw

If I remember correctly, it comes from measuring volume coming to/from large bodies of water where surface area (acres) and depth changes (feet) are easier to measure and there is little reason to do unnecessary conversion to other, more common, units of volume for industry-specific purposes, especially if others outside the industry rarely see or care about such values.

The board is pushing against it and I’d doubt they’d move counter Apple leadership in this instance. While I don’t like the sucking up to Trump and the effective bribery of inauguration donations, outrage for this specific instance should be placed on the conservative group driving a shareholder vote rather then leadership that seems to be against it.

Pulling the ladder up behind him.

This isn’t coming from Tim Cook or people internally at Apple but a conservative group, I’m assuming activist investors, trying to reverse DEI programs via shareholder vote.

I’ve been gorging myself on satsuma mandarins, super juicy and sweet.

I’ve been using Hardcover. Still very much a WIP and community is still pretty small but it seems very promising with a public api and ambitions to open source.

America has thousands of tax jurisdictions, every state, county, city/town can impose their own set of taxes. For the longest time, online shopping was effectively tax-free shopping unless you happened to be based in the same state as the seller. That is largely not the case anymore though as various states passed legislation to enforce tax collections on online sales rather than trust the consumer to volunteer that info when it’s time to fill out tax forms.

Agreed 100% but it is more complicated for online shopping in general as sales tax is largely unknown in many cases until you have billing or shipping address which is not always known upfront.

In the case of this rule though, related to events and short term lodgings, there is a pretty obvious jurisdiction in most cases so allowing a “government charges” exemption is nonsense.

There is already traction here at the state-level. It’s been the law in California since the summer and Minnesota has something similar going into force on Jan 1st.

I expect many more states to follow with their own rules if these federal rules die with the new administration. I expect some noise to be made but wouldn’t be surprised if it survives for some time to avoid more complex state-level that would be more expensive to manage.

I’d recommend keeping the signal digital for as long as possible, so you should go through S/PDIF if you are able to. Not only will this reduce the amount of noise/distortion introduce by extra analog components, it’ll also avoid any potential ADC the amp may be doing if it applies any DSP before outputting, which is extremely common in modern hardware.

It’s Terranigma, it never got a North America release so not well known there. I’ve never played it but I hear it’s pretty good.