Then you get USians complaining about the rest of the world freeloading and non-USians complaining that they're not getting paid.

Depends on the model. Wix (the Windows installer builder, not the website builder) has switched to a model whereby the source is always available for free but they charge for compiled binaries.

I assume my phone is less secure than my desktop, because it's less frequently updated and probably a preferential target.

the part where one side admits that Hamas and the Ayotallah are really the bad guys

That phrasing implies that their opponents are the good guys. Real life isn't as simple as fairytales aimed at pre-adolescent children. Hamas and Khamenei have both performed indefensible actions, and so have Netanyahu and Trump.

How do these numbers make sense?

Using conservative numbers, $500 in gas at $3/gal is 166.67 gallons x 20 MPG means driving 3,333 miles/month. That's a lot of driving. I believe the average EV gets 3.4 miles/KWH and the average cost per kwh is about $0.20 so 3333/3.4 * .2 = $196.

Estimating your miles driven on $70/month for electricity that's $70 month/.20 KWH = 350 KWH x 3.4 Miles/KWH = 1,190 miles/month. $500 in gas to go 1,190 miles seems unlikely.

When I was looking at an EV I priced the fuel cost of a Model Y versus my current SUV for 10K miles/year and ICE came out cheaper, especially when including the new $250/year EV tax. But at 40K miles/year the numbers would be different.

That's not how he tells it. He says he invented it after independently inventing insertion sort and realising that he wanted something subquadratic. He was "in college" in the sense that he was a postgraduate student. Mergesort had been published more than a decade before, but it had the disadvantage of not being in place.

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And wildlife isn't having its circadian rhythms sufficiently disrupted by manmade lighting.