Is it really intangible, though? If someone wanted to do a study, I'm quite sure it would be possible to directly measure the effect of law enforcement. Crime rates. Property valuations. Personal income. Business revenue. Diversity of businesses. The amount people walk outdoors. Body Mass Index, calories spent, etc. Since you bring up art, I expect the number of outdoor art installations could be related to law enforcement. If your area is basically little Mogadishu, public art is probably low on your priority list especially if it's likely to be vandalized or stolen and sold for scrap.
A whole host of statistics could be inferred and extrapolated when comparing one area to another.

How is people feeling safe non-economic? That's silly. People from all walks of life expend unfathomable amounts of money to feel safe every year--whether or not it actually makes them safe in any meaningful way. Feeling safe is one of the great drivers of real estate value: separating oneself from unsavory characters can be quite expensive, whether it's choosing an apartment with window bars on the right side of town versus one without, owning a home with a network connected camera system in the burbs, owning a home in a gated community, owning a flat in building with a doorman and security in the city, or a multi-millionaires building personal fallout vaults in New Zealand. the home security market is surely in the multi-billions in the US alone, even without considering real estate. It's all economic.

Catching criminals is tangible, tautologically so. If they're in custody, a criminal cannot commit more crime. Segregating the criminal element from polite society is an economic activity that affects other economic activity. Nobody but criminals, crazies, and trust-fund socialists want to live in an area with no, or ineffective police.

I've never used google home, so I'm totally in the dark here--but if they haven't previously implemented a feature as simple as a button or switch, how can it do anything else at all? It's the most basic of input methods.
At any rate, occupancy sensors / motion sensors basically operate on the same premise as a physical switch in any home automation system I've ever used. Without that capability can it even be called a smart home system?

Because it involves him being an Israeli asset. How does an non-credentialed private school teacher with a history of poor performance and allegations of misconduct with the young ladies move into the financial sector with Bear Stearns and immediately begin making tens of millions of dollars? They don't.

One must never question the methods or the motives of our greatest ally, or they will be branded an antisemite and made a pariah of polite society, the one that's cool with turning predominately women and children, and unarmed men who occupy a densely populated open air prison camp into bits and pieces using our tax dollars.

Why burn it when you can sell it to someone for a whole lot more? It's not like there won't be a buyer for it in the future.

The US government gave moderna alone $10+ billion in grants and advance purchase agreements regardless of the eventual effectiveness; that doesn't count what their extortionist salespeople gleamed from the rest of the world. More billionaires were created at that time than any other point in history. It's said that among all of those companies producing C19 vaccines, the eventual PROFIT was 90 billion USD.

Just between us, I think they did a little bit better than "free". A sensible corporation, of course, would be expected to retain some of that windfall and expend it on research and making their products better, more effective, safer, etc. rather than immediately turning around and making their boards, main shareholders and a handful of executives unfathomably, impossibly rich.

Renewables makes little sense in the context of AI focused data centers, which require very consistent power supply. Some of them are planning on 1GW of power usage once fully built out, but there are some already in the 500MW range. We are talking about an installation needing ~2000 acres of solar panels just to power the base load of a midrange AI center with NO consideration for night time use, basically double that to account for the night usage, add in another 20-30% for variability in either solar or wind sources. And throw in some ginormous battery system the likes of which the world has never seen, and you're beginning to get an idea of what's required just to support one data center.

The one thing people fail to recognize about dog whistles is that you have to be a dog to hear them.

Perhaps the gay dating portion of the site was a better, more productive use of time, but the straight side represented only the dregs of society. As I remember, the sheer quantity of low quality mutants was most impressive; and that was once one managed fed to filter out the obvious sex workers, scammers, trafficked individuals, etc.

Regarding the "Fishing boats": even the most adherent of the mainstream lefty agitproppers have long since abandoned that narrative, because it's so easily disproven by even a layman with a modicum of knowledge. Fishing boats don't have a hundred thousand plus dollars worth of Yamaha outboards on them. They don't go 80+ miles per hour, they don't go beyond the horizon in the middle of night, and they actually carry fishing gear and tackle, which anyone with a functioning eye can plainly see none of those boats had.

You're like five news cycles behind the times, bub. There is no argument that you can provide which would prove these boats were not up to no good. On the other hand, is there an argument that maybe we shouldn't blow them out of the water? Maybe try making that argument instead of repeating stale propaganda.

If a teacher earning 100k can't improvise a short lesson on how to read an analog clock and make it also applicable to other aspects of the class, or life in general (fractions, counting by fives, understanding of language, time management) then the teacher / curriculum may be the lowest common denominator.

As I've outlined, there is already violence. There has been violence. Literal nonstop violence. It will end when both sides want it to end, but that is the one condition that absolutely must be met, since without a will there is no way.

I don't even think it would be that hard, if there were truly a will for it, and if peace were truly pursued it would heal so many facets of life in the area, Israel wouldn't need Iron domes or Samson options; IDF budget could be repurposed in meaningful ways that help the population.

A) Israel needs to stop being the stereotype in its relations. Full stop, whatever things that could be perceived as Jewy: just stop doing them.
B) start recognizing your neighbors as human beings instead of amalek. Honor the intent of agreements and don't weasel your way around them. That includes ceasefires: if your people open up on unarmed civilians, they need to be publicly PROSECUTED instead of privately ATTABOY'D. Also stop justifying rape of POWs. It's beyond sick.
C) don't murder peace delegations, especially don't send missiles into foreign countries to murder peace delegations. Crazy, right?
D) absolutely stop settler activities
E) acknowledge how you've manipulated the situation (supporting Hamas publicly and secretly) and prepare to institute reparations
F) recognition of the Palestinian people internationally, lead the world into supporting a Palestinian government you'd be comfortable having as a neighbor.
G) build reasonable accommodation (not tent cities) in NEGATIVE FIRE ZONES, with international oversight, and invite survivors to start new lives there. Strictly uphold their security.

The idea that "before oct 7 the violence was mostly not going on" is insane on the face of it, as the population of Gaza has been under constant blockade since the early 90s--therefore under constant military threat and in fact enduring a constant act of war throughout the last 35 years--multiple generations essentially living in an open air concentration camp.
Blockading a civilian population can be considered at once: an act of war, and a war crime; especially if aid is withheld as it has been multiple times. People have an individual and a collective right of self-defense. That includes Israelis, of course, but it also includes Palestinians.
The situation is entirely untenable all around, and it doesn't help that it's been engineered to be perpetual by the more powerful, more connected side of the conflict--so they can continue to nibble away at Palestine with the settler strategy. I can only imagine the righteous indignation we would witness if the situation were reversed.

You can go back clear before Israel was a country and find that j-ish terrorist agents bombed British policemen, hotels, did drivebys against civilians in the days after WWI wrapped up. How far back do you want to go? 1890s, when it was still Ottoman Empire clay, and schemers were trying to bring Europe into conflict with the ottomans? Because it's there too.

Who started what and when? What does it matter? Who holds the power NOW? You can scarcely call what is being prosecuted a war any more than fish in a barrel are capable of waging war against someone with a gun shooting randomly at the barrel.

Generous tax breaks, favorable exchange rate, labor rates are generally lower, and large pool of potential actors who look like, act like and sound like your typical white protestant Americanââthe typical Jane / Joe, except more attractive and healthy on average. The scenery is familiar to small towns all across the rockies, and snow is more predictable than a lot of areas in the US rockies, all of which lends to wintery Christmas vibes.