Here, but not as much as there

I'm not opposed to this exactly, but…

Teen Truckers Soon to Get Interstate Nod to Help Supply Chain
January 06, 2022, 11:32 AM EST

…"Motor carriers in the program will need to submit monthly crash, inspection, safety and exposure data." 

Read in Bloomberg Law: https://apple.news/AVP7K3yyUR7-xkReQViFOOQ

Shared from Apple News

I used to know a guy who was a bomber pilot in WWII; when he came home after the war he couldn't buy a drink. Too young. 

And couldn't vote. 

Years later, the voting age and, in most places, the drinking age got lowered to 18. 

Now, a number of states have raised the legal drinking age back to 21. Imagine the uproar if they tried to do that with the voting age.

Someday, we should get this whole matter of "teens" figured out. (But I'm not holding my breath.)

A welcome bit of sun

Some people will do anything to escape the snow

Airlines won’t fly maskless, partying influencers home after Trudeau calls them 'idiots'

Now, the group is stranded in Cancun.

Bangs

People Are Increasingly Choosing Private Web Search

[ From Schneier] Google often gets me what I want faster than DuckDuckGo does. To solve that, I use use the feature that allows me to use Google’s search engine through DuckDuckGo: prepend “!Google” to searches.

White

Closed for now

One of several reasons to be glad I don't drive anymore

Motorists have been stranded on a major interstate in Virginia since last night

(It's about the snow.)

[Updated 10:36 AM EST January 4, 2022]

From Apple News or CNN

Phone home

A cautionary note

Jan. 6 proved that what happens online doesn’t stay online

If the worst happens, we can be sure that it won’t just be the events of Jan. 6 that appear in history books, it will be a description of our inaction over the past year and what that fueled.

From a piece in this morning's Boston Globe by Claire Wardle (behind a paywall). 

One way out

The wall

Just when we were running out of things to panic over

Experts warn of space cannibalism if colonists’ food systems fail

Dr. Cameron Smith, a co-founder of Pacific Spaceflight, agreed that it will prove vital to “establish a really good farming system and put in a lot of stored food.”

Whew. Close call, that. 

Park it

77 days until Spring