So Russian security service agents use it to provide funding to handlers in the west, still waiting for a positive use case.

Media trends come, media trends go. Meanwhile the young are putting their best stuff on Tiktok and YouTube.

ALICE: Crypto means FREEDOM!
BOB: YES! Here's to cryptography!
ALICE: Here's to cryptocurrency!
BOB: Wait, what?
ALICE: What?

If you read the fine print, some of the bricked Macs are 2019 models (2). Yikes!

Mine is from 2020 and I'm not going to upgrade for a while.

There's a world of difference between sheets of drywall attached to a frame with fasteners and a stack of drywall on pallets.

As far as composite woods, almost all new construction is done with at least some LVL or similar lumber products, it's stronger, cheaper, and more uniform than the fast growing pines that are otherwise used.

Manufactured homes have historically been real low end products, fortunately today there are companies out there making better products, I remember watching a this old house episode post-Sandy about a lady in NY or NJ who had her replacement home brought in as a manufactured home and it seemed to be at least as good as your average home builders workmanship and probably most importantly it didn't look like a double wide.

Interesting, despite what TFA says this is what I get on your results:
Amazon Basics "Featured from our brands"
Energizer "Sponsored"
So, not only do they have the right to move products around just like every other retailer on the planet, but they're actually transparent when they do so unlike say Walmart where you get zero explanation for why something is on and endcap, at eye level for the intended buyer, etc.

I came to say exactly this. The editors of this site should know their audience. Their audience is the tech sector, not the financial sector. The White House trying to "oversee crypto" in the sense of the financial sector -- that is, overseeing cryptocurrencies -- is great news. There's a lot of BS in cryptocurrency and it really needs oversight. On the other hand, the White House trying to "oversee crypto" to the tech audience comes across as trying to oversee cryptography, which smacks of the kind of BS the Clinton Administration tried to pull with key-escrow and the Clipper Chip - all of which was really, really bad.

I understand why people reject "Latino" for being inherently male but Latinx is just a bad alternative. There's another alternative which is both (1) widely used both inside and outside the community for decades and (2) not gendered. "Latin". As in, "Guatemala is part of Latin America". Or "Latin American literature". You already understand it and there's no weird linguistic bullshit to deal with.

You might not be aware of this but cars now implement Carplay and Android Auto over WiFi Direct to transport video, audio, touch information, etc.Because of this the implementation of WiFi protocol, WiFi Direct, and Android Auto/Carplay protocols matters to people who want to use those features.

IIRC, Wolfenstein 3D did this by having the doors go behind the wall (now, you couldn't close the doors). I also can't recall a single person complaining about this who wished the doors functioned in a more realistic way while they battled mecha-Hitler. They're still used in this way in the competitive FPS Valorant for example. Doors are a solved problem and every game that has deviated from this very simple formula I have found the door behavior annoying.
You want a hard problem? 3D Ladders. I haven't climbed a ladder in the past year IRL so you could simply not have them, which is what the vast majority of games choose to do (2D ladders are fine -- Donkey Kong is a great game).

This isn't news; this is opinion, and I really wish The Guardian did a better job of labeling it as such (although it is in fact labeled opinion).

I'm just sad to see the River Oaks shut down this past year. So many great off-the-radar films -- I saw Tommy Wisseau do a Q&A after "The Room". Richard Linklater (director, Houstonian) wants to try to do something to keep it a movie theater -- so many of that eras movie theaters got turned into other things (such as the Trader Joe's on Shepherd).
I don't think there is any place to even see such films any more. The other theater I would go to was the other Landmark (now closed -- thanks Joel Osteen!) and the Angelika/Sundance which has morphed into a boring AMC.

Preprint, not peer-reviewed, and not yet repeated by other similar studies. The results are concerning but we shouldn't act on them yet.

Unfortunately Darwin won't select just for being anti-vax. In areas with a lot of anti-vax sentiment, many hospitals are being overwhelmed by COVID-denying patients who treat the medical staff like shit. Consequently medical staff are getting overworked and burning out. Consequently hospitals are closing to new patients that don't have COVID. Consequently people are dying of other things that a hospital would be able to treat if they had the beds and the staff bandwidth.

This is going to get a lot worse before it gets better, and your best chance of surviving what's coming is to get vaccinated and move to an area that voted for center-left parties (since there seems to be a correlation between conservative sentiment and COVID denialism).