For a majority of the electorate, the price of eggs won out over whatever antics he did in the preceding four years.

Harris ran her campaign on "orange man bad" and "abortion good". Many people do not care anymore. Everyone knows he's a convicted felon. Trump supporters see him as a martyr and Trump opponents see him as the devil. As for abortion, there was no repeat of the 2022 blowout and it was naive to think that one issue would carry Harris to victory.

Harris failed to really differentiate herself from Biden and how she planned to govern over the next four years, or how people would be better off voting for her.

US Mobile has unlimited (35 GB hi-speed, 1 Mbps after that) talk/text/data for 3+ lines on T-Mobile's network for $25/line. The only reason I can think of to stick with T-Mobile is data prioritization but that really hasn't been an issue in the 4+ years I've been with US Mobile.

The problem with Stack Overflow and dupes is that:

1. The manual may be incomplete, or outdated, or inapplicable to the situation being asked by the questioner.
2. The questioner has to take the time and effort to research every last permutation of the question being asked and explain in the post why it isn't applicable to this situation.
3. And sometimes, in spite of all this, the question is still voted as a dupe because people don't read the post (ironically).

To make things worse, there are people out there who want to incentivize dupe finding.

I can't wait for Stack Overflow to crash and burn to the ground under a sea of AI-generated content. ChatGPT can identify problems with my code or possible solutions for a software question without me feeling belittled or judged for asking a question.

The nice thing about Slashdot's system is that a single moderator doesn't have much of a say in influencing the discussion either way.

(1) Moderators are randomly chosen from active participants, eliminating the incentive to kiss ass to the admins
(2) Moderators are limited in the actions they can take. 5 mod points, lost if they post in the story while not as AC
(3) Most importantly, updoots are capped at 5 and downdoots are capped at -1, limiting dogpiling in both directions and karma gain (or loss)
(4) Comments are rarely outright deleted.

Compare Reddit's system where mods are chosen from whoever kisses ass to the board owner the fastest (or god forbid, is a powermod), where popular opinions are voted up to 10000 and unpopular opinions are buried if not deleted. All of it is designed to foster groupthink and get people coming back to the site.

The problem is, some subreddits equate the proverbial "shitting on the living room carpet" with "expressing a mildly dissenting opinion."

That's a nice boomer take. Cover letters these days are good for getting past HR filters, nothing more. If you really want to assess a candidate's writing skills, ask them to provide a relevant writing sample instead of trying to divine tea leaves from a cover letter that may or may not have been generated by AI.

Appealing a Content ID claim is incredibly risky. You aren't appealing to YouTube, you are appealing to the alleged copyright owner - who has the ability to take down your video and copystrike your account without any recourse.

https://support.google.com/you...

It is a system optimized to screw over non-corporate media and YouTube knows it.

That website is literal hot garbage and proof that you should never take fancy graphs at face value.

Open Location Codes have been a thing for a very long time now.

When you have one side calling the other side assholes for wearing a mask, and then completely flipping the script once guidance changes, it's a bit hard to not have a partisan response

When you have sites like this scaring policymakers into shutting down the economy even though their models have been spectacularly wrong, is it rational to be a little skeptical?

Better than naming places which flat out don't exist. There's a piece of land in eastern Utah called Big Park which is not referenced on any state databases or on any other mapping service. It is located out in truly desolate country with no services for miles. Going out there without adequate preparations is likely to get someone stranded or killed.

Google Maps is accountable to no one. That is the problem with these corporations.

The problem is that every ad network wants some of that sweet sweet revenue stream but nobody wants to take the responsibility of securing their ad networks against malware and vetting them against some minimum standard of ethics.

So we get "promoted stories" like "38 Photos of Criminals that will Give You Nightmares!" and "WARNING! Your Android device has spyware! Install Mobogenie!", we block the ads, and the website owners are caught in the crossfire.