It’s not complicated, American voters vote out the incumbent if they’re not happy with how things in general are going. Obama won reelection because he was a fantastic speaker and politician. Trump would have lost this election if he was the incumbent.

Palestine isn’t really a religion problem, Israel just wants the land for themselves, they didn’t really care that much in the end about the people there as long as they’re not.

Cloud sync makes even using a virtual container not a guarantee you won’t lose files. Deleting isn’t as bad as changing the file and ruining it. Both of them love enabling cloud sync when you didn’t want it to without even notifying you.

It’s not ai specific. It’s literally everything including basic stuff like sorting newsletters into its own category. That’s why I said it’s all or nothing. It’s just called " smart features" and they’ve had it for a decade, long before ai became a thing. But if you decline then you decline everything. That’s how they do it. They make a huge category and if you decline then you decline everything including things that are considered pretty basic.

The only option is smart features, on or off. That requires Google to read the email to categorize them and do a lot of basic stuff. It doesn’t let you narrowly have more privacy on specific features. It’s all or nothing, and if you get a lot of emails then it’s hard to turn it off if you already use categories. Google always does all or nothing because they know people need some of it, same with location. It has to be precise location tracking to use things, you can’t just do rough location.

The 100k+ over asking was the big deal because that never made it into the housing data properly so prices looked like they were lower than they were and we don’t have accurate comparison data now

Very dependent on the field. A lot of jobs are concentrated in a handful of major cities, mostly very HCOL but with high salary. That’s why remote work becoming bigger partially caused the housing surge nationwide.

Asymmetric warfare basic.

No one that is an American politician will be directly financed by Russia. It would always be indirect or hidden shell companies.

Senate investigation is sadly partisan and doesn’t mean much anymore. They’ll find what they wanted to find.

Yeah, it was meant to be a joke. Practically it will have unequal impact based on whether you can wait until tariffs are gone to buy something.

Within the hardened plaque it’s probably pretty inert. But I don’t know if there’s any data on that.

Yeah. Those usually suck. Official mail truck is way better.

You’ve forgotten supply and demand, if there’s less stuff the stuff that’s already here increases in value so it’s basically the same.

“Online”

If you haven’t heard, coal ash, fly ash, isn’t really a thing anymore since they discovered that the ash, similar to volcanic ash, can act as a pozzolan and be used 1:1 to replace carbon intensive Portland cement for concrete, up to half off the cement mix. Since then the ash that is now valuable has been used for that instead of just being dumped. The old stuff in ponds is less useful but might be used after some light processing.

https://www.thespruce.com/fly-ash-applications-844761

https://www.concrete.org/frequentlyaskedquestions/faqid/688.aspx

Lol. I just have a writing style that I use. It can be considered eclectic with a mix of various influences. The pluralized word is a buffy “whedonesque” influence.

But the point is that Russia has been running alternative warfare efforts and cyber stuff for a long time. They stoke various movements and invent ideas and spread them with bots and shills. Basically anything that strengthens Russian imperialism and weakens or fractures NATO.

Weakening NATO is their goal.

There’s been a number of news coverages of this. It’s not like it’s the biggest operation or anything but they have been trying to plant that seed intentionally.

https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article264043131.html

https://archive.thinkprogress.org/russia-texas-california-separatism-9809aca9f61d/

https://www.latimes.com/world/europe/la-fg-russia-separatists-snap-story.html

Lots of it is still pretty shit, but that’s what happens when you have an entry on incredibly obscure things where there’s not a lot of sources information.