Do keep in mind that the "70%" number includes people who are living together as a couple but not bothering to get married, many of whom stay together for a lifetime.

It would be good if it could locate lava tubes as well. Unlike lava tubes on Earth those on the Moon and Mars are sometimes kilometers wide and can run for hundreds of kilometers. if the interior of a section could be sealed it would create a huge habitat for minimal investment.

It's rather rapidly becoming "worth the pain" since 2022. In 2021 over 95% of international trade was conducted using the USD, in 2025 it was just over 70% and this year will be lower. Just the CIPS and mBridge are replacing SWIFT, and after only two years A7 is already handling tens of billions of dollars in exchanges every month. Combine that with Bessant's panic at failure of recent Treasury sales and the upcoming sell-offs of Treasury bonds as the Gulf States try to stay financially afloat and we're looking at a whole new financial paradigm coming up.

Just tell the US to look in a mirror...

I had to show it to Fatherland Security at SeaTac Airport before an international flight. That was it, one time. I did see restaurants with signs that said a vax card was required, but I never saw anyone checking.

You should have seen SlashDot around the turn of the century. People could actually have a decent debate (but, oh the flame wars! They outshone the sun!) Folks from NASA, CERN, the FSF, and GrokLaw were regular posters, Stallman and occasionally Torvalds would stop by.

Now if a post is longer than a sound bite people will just skip it.

Or you're disagreeing with with any of the candidates who could possibly win. The presidential candidates of both major parties not only approved of a genocide, but both were committed to use our tax dollars to fund and arm it. I couldn't vote for either one.

Worked there for nine years, sometimes with people who had two- or three-digit employee IDs. In all their time at the company it had never sold customer data. YMMV

Ship From Vendor - they'll give the vendor your delivery name and address, kind of necessary
Payment Processing - they'll give the payment processor your name and credit card number, again kind of necessary
Alexa and Ring Emergency Response - They'll give the police your name, address and emergency type, rather necessary as well
Etc.

They don't sell your data. Ever.

The difference here is that Amazon never sells customer data. Ever.

I worked at Amazon for 9 years, and security of customers' data is the top priority. I could literally access Jeff Bezo's personnel file with lower permissions than I could access your purchase history or your Ring or Alexa data. We had to complete a refresher course on data protection every year.

And rely on outdated equipment with unreliable firmware to protect it.

The Democratic "leadership" is fine with it. They can give their corporate and billionaire benefactors everything on their wish list, and if voters complain just say, "We'd love to help you, but those meanies on the other side of the aisle won't let us. Maybe if you send us more money we'll try harder!"

Text of the Executive Order starts:
"Only the terrorists would vote for anyone but the greatest president ever! All real 'Mericans would vote for me, so what's the point of elections anyway? Do you want the terrorists to win?"

You don't live in a country that has been under continual full bore economic, propaganda and terrorist attack by the biggest economy and most expensive military/intel organizations on the planet for half a century. Like Cuba, the fact that the country is still intact, unified, and free is a huge testament to its people and its government. You may not like their culture or their government, but it works for them and we have no right to force anything different on them.