To steal a line from someone else (I think on this very site)-

"The magic 8-ball knows everything! I'll ask it about Exchange next."

Yes, first they put in a feature few want, then offer a kill-switch. Seems like a lot of extra steps instead of making it an optional add-on.

In any event, it can be turned off....for now.

AI...whether we want it or not. Thanks Mozilla, you could be spending your money on fixing your browser rather than....this.

Regulators back then were understood to be particular type of highly accurate clock that was used as a baseline for time keeping: other clocks were set and updated based on the Regulator. The root word was also contemporaneously used in a medical context; e.g. regular bowel movements, regular heart beat. Later, it was applied to devices which control gas pressure.

Does that mean the government, (or the king, since the root of regular is Rex from Latin) had authority over those clocks, or was particularly concerned with his subjects intestinal health, or the pressure of their gas? Of course not.

Hey! I have an M1 Garand, you insensitive clod! (Also a Mosin Nagant and Italian Carcano, both of which use clips, but that's neither here nor there...)

In the face of zionism, left and right are meaningless concepts. The adherents of that...philosophy...forever sit in the middle, tipping the scales in whichever direction is most likely to achieve the results they desire. The zionist by their nature just happens to most closely align with the religious fundamentalist Christians who want to bring Christ back, and see prosecuting wars in the Middle East as the way to fulfill the scriptures. Even in the absence of a religious element, they'll just as surely play the left or right with economics, securities, and promises of making personal fortunes by investing in the war complex and using their positions of power to always escalate the situation so the grift can be perpetuated.

It is a mathematical certainty there is life on other planets. If it can happen here, even at a 1 in 1 billion chance....there are, as far as we know, an infinite number of planets, therefore, it'll happen again, elsewhere. Now whether we will recognize or even meet that life, remains unknown.

But that's not sexy.... (and yeah, I'd switch out of FF as well, if I could find anything that wasn't Chrom* based that didn't suck and was actively maintained....)

There's just no making some people happy. I'd think you'd praise the renaming as a moment of clarity / truth in advertising. When is the last time the DoD worked in a purely defensive capacity? Never? It was a highly optimistic name from the start.

Besides, it was the War Office / War Department up to the end of WWII. If anything the renaming was returning it to its roots.

for ruining this country for decades to come.

I clearly missed this interview, would you be so kind as to post a link to it? Thank you kindly

Does Windows 10 onwards still respect the hosts file? Genuine question, because IIRC modification of it triggers windows defender to freak out

You jest, but the moment realdolls can have movement, is the day humanity goes extinct.

There seem to be a few assumptions built into to your argument:
1. There is only a marginal net reduction is NO2 from EVs + fossil fuel power plants compared to ICE cars.
2. All (or almost all?) power plants in California are fossil fuel power plants.
3. Fossil fuel power plants are located in heavily residential areas, so there are no gains to be made from shifting NO2 from residential cars to power plants.
4. You are more informed than these researchers.
5. The researchers are green-washing, acting in bad faith or otherwise biased.

Even if we leave aside your claims 1, 4 and 5, I can't see how 2 and 3 could be true in general. Claim 2 is especially easy to disprove, given that the study was done in California, which has significant renewable energy in the electricity grid.
https://www.theguardian.com/us...

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.