Then you only wish you were dead.

Correct.

Kennedy and Noem are disruptive. You say you want nothing different. Your description of a response to this disruption as a "hissy fit" runs counter to your narrative. Pick one or the other going forwards if you want to be taken seriously, thanks.

That does a lot, and you should do it. But it doesn't do it all.

You can do an ad filtering web proxy with SQUID that can do the rest of it. In the past when I had a separate Linux-based firewall/server running nonstop, I set up such a proxy and used packet mangling to send the connections to the proxy without proxy configuration. If you wanted unfiltered internet, you connected to a proxy on another port. That way it got all the devices.

AFAIK to do this today meaningfully, since everything is encrypted, you have to install a certificate for the proxy on the browser? Haven't looked into it since I don't care any more, I use noscript and ublock origin together on Firefox, and the only "server" I have running nonstop is just an AP with the transmission daemon and a 512GB SATA SSD in a USB3 adapter I got for about tree-fiddy on aliexpress.

That's boogey man, or sometimes boogy. Chrome isn't open source though, Chromium is. There are parts missing from "Chrome" if you build it yourself which are relevant to some mainstream uses.

I shudder to think of what happens when you need to charge your phone from a power bank. Do you drop everything you're holding and shudder uncontrollably at the agonizing effort of installing a plug into a receptacle?

A 2.5 ton couple-gear truck from the 1930s slightly famously did that. Not sure if it was ore or not. They also used hub motors and large models like a 2.5 ton had four wheel steering, and they offered optional onboard range extender generators.

What I'm getting at is that using "high" to describe income which is barely enough to live on in those countries is offensive at best. It's not accurate at all.

I thought you said the goal was to force everyone to move into cities. But you're saying everyone is moving near cities.

Within one year, from April 2023 to Jan 2024, market prices per kWh dropped 50%, from about $200/kWh to $95/kWh. And this is no fluke powered by one-time events. A lot of progress in the last few years was indeed technological and came not from new chemistry. The Cell-to-Pack and Cell-to-Blade processes, which allow very large but still stable cells made the LFP cell viable for automotive application and Sodium cells at least for stationary use. Doting the LFP with Maganese, creating LMFP cell types can add another 20% of capacity within the same technology. Anodefree cells (where the anode will form itself with the first charge) will allow for even cheaper production. Organic cathodes might boost the capacity of sodium cells up to 600 Wh per kg, but are currently very expensive compared to iron phosphate - but if the organic compounds are cheaper to made, they will become competitive.

You won't find many of the new ideas in your everyday cell. But that's not because the ideas are not viable. It's because the current cell types are progressing themselves so fast, that they are still the most marketable option. But whenever the development slows down too much on them, the other options are ready to shine.

On one hand what you say is true, but it misses some potential nuance which I would like to believe the OP intended, not that I have any faith.

Appearance is a proxy for hormones. This should not be surprising since hormones' effect is to alter the function of cells. The Russian fox breeding experiments tell us that as you breed animals to be tractable you are actually changing their hormonal balance, and they also change in appearance at the same time.

It's well known that e.g. hair growth in humans is governed in large part by hormones, so this speaks directly to what's being discussed.

What you say may actually even be playing a part here; it's possible that there is some sort of cultural shift that is causing men who have a hormonal advantage in the breeding department to be less favored as partners, perhaps perceiving them (rightly or wrongly) as more likely to be abusive at a time when that is increasingly seen as unacceptable. (And if so, yes, good! But it's not the morality or even the reality that causes the shift, but the perception, hence the sentence.)

IME they love taking care of the great-grandchildren, just not the children or grandchildren. We were all scared to shit of our grandparents except for the oldest kids. All the youngest were judged against their standard.

The problem isn't average or even median home prices, it's the bottom prices. In some markets this is very much caused in large part by airbnb but mostly it's venture capital buying starter homes and turning them into rentals, and going on to collude on the prices.

Oh good, a bigger debt.

That part's true. 1 out of 3 is OK in baseball:

They have to house all of those kids. They have to clothe them. They have to take them to things. GA and SNAP don't pay for those things. Welfare does, but since Clinton's welfare reform act of 1996, that only lasts for five years.

Thanks to shutting down all the programs that used to keep them busy.

If you want this fixed, then you educate people and make birth control available. But Republicans are opposed to both public education and birth control. They therefore clearly want there to be more kids running the streets causing trouble. Why would you vote for that?

Press of what kind?

Thanks, Obama.

IKYKWIM.