On the S-RTC, it was used in that specific game to control time ruin events. When you start the game you're asked to input date and time, and from there the game tracks time to enable certain events.

The Florida Orange was NEVER the Florida Orange to begin with.

Of note from the story: "...because it came from China, where oranges also came from in the first place." Technically yes but also no, what we have for the modern navel orange came from a mutation that happened in Brazil in the 1800s - 200 years after its introduction from China. The parent trees for literally the entire navel orange (aka Florida aka Sunkist orange) industry are in Riverside, CA, I see them every day driving to work. The now-deceased Queen of England used to get two boxes of oranges from those very trees every year.

FWIW, "navel" oranges are grown for eating, not for juice. People prefer them because they are easy to peel and they don't have seeds.

Juice oranges have a tougher, thinner rind that doesn't peel easily, and they have seeds. But they have better taste and more juice than navel oranges.

"FWIW, "navel" oranges are grown for eating, not for juice."

I'd beg to differ - navel oranges produce the smoother flavor and are what get used in making Tropicana. Always has been that way.

I'll pick a bone on the flavor comment because a good Washington Navel is probably one of the best tasting oranges in existence.

I guess it might depend on the variety then. I've had navel oranges that were almost like damp cellulose to eat. Very little juice or flavor.

You got a bad/dry one. Happens all the time with home grown and less frequently with commercial products. My backyard trees have improved, but only with fairly intensive upkeep.

The flavor coming right off the tree can be truly candy-like given optimal conditions. After tasting the best ones from my own tree, I had the revelation that so many things that are "orange flavored" are mimicking navels specifically.

Makes the disease even more confounding, as one would assume that orange trees evolved alongside it. Normally invasives are destructive because the species has never seen it before.

Citrus greening wasn't documented in Asia until the early 1900s so it's possible they didn't evolve alongside it.

You saw it, the human visual response curve is horribly uneven between individuals. Some can see fairly good into the UV range (especially those who have had cataract surgery,) while some can't even see 415nm violet but can see blue and red-mixed purple all day.

Don't forget to include your suiseki.

I have several, extremely hard to find ones, high-silica volcanic ejecta found in silica-poor environments (like basalt) that are very prized by bonsai artists. I've had offers of tens of thousands of dollars for an organic-looking rock.

"The best most of us can really hope for is some small piece from tailings."

Just this past weekend I pulled a plate full of rare tellurides out of Otto Mountain for a Caltech PhD. You have to be very observant to find a good spot to acquire minerals out of the ground, but excellent large specimens are still out there to be pulled.

This is what you get when you purchase Apple products. Nothing new here, I had to deal with this back in the G3/G4 days when the laptops were so stupidly-locked you couldn't even apply security updates.

Overpriced COTS garbage.

Preventing me from typing until you SCAN MY SYSTEM?

Fine, by extension, you agree I can scan all of your systems for whatever I desire. This works both ways.

I've done software dev and manufacturing and engineering- QA is ESSENTIAL EVERYWHERE - ALWAYS.

I would ask anyone that thinks QA is unnecessary to spend a few days on an actual aerospace production line. Software and hardware get EXCESSIVE QA. For good reason.

Write it yourself, fuzz/test it yourself, and build it yourself, or be forever subject to this exact issue.

This was taught in the 90s. Sad to see that lesson fading away.