If you want to search an item on amazon you are better off searching in google. It will find the page on amazon far better than Amazon's search.

As previous posters have indicated Amazon ignores your terms, messes with the order of what comes back, and generally tries to make it look like:
1. there are loads of items available
2. all of them are from some unknown Chinese company
3. the ones they want to sell you are top of your list

I'm buying less and less from Amazon. The quality of most of the electronics stuff is unbelievably bad. Cables that look OK but only work for a week...

There is a lot of interesting stuff at Amazon, and physical book stores are dead while the competing online ones don't ship well, but I'm trying to go pretty much anywhere else before I go to Amazon.

On the flip side Good Omens was a fun adaptation.

The difference in mileage is based on what consumers want. Manufacturers could make more efficient cars but they go with the reviewers who want "fun to drive" and add power. I went from a 1996 car to a 2009 with negligible difference in efficiency but 50% more horsepower. Way better acceleration, not much less fuel used. More "fun to drive." Admittedly the old one was a pain to pass people with on the highway and the newer one wasn't, but human survival vs accelerating a little faster should be a slam dunk, and it is, but not in favor of survival.

Will they release security patches after 2025? If they will then no need to upgrade. If Windows 10 is end of lifed as indicated it won't be very usable after that.

If I recall correctly the virus doesn't live long unless it is in/on human fluids. If you sneeze and droplets fly out the virus will survive in the droplets for some time (potentially minutes/hours) while the virus will not survive more than a few seconds without such an environment. If the mask retains droplets it will probably be quite effective even if it does not completely block individual virus particles. With a porous mask you might still have transmission but only with prolonged close contact and not passing someone in a shopping aisle.

Always possible the above has since been invalidated, that is how science works, test and confirm/deny hypotheses. In any case wearing a mask indoors in public is a fairly small concession to avoid spreading COVID.

I would really like to see one regulation: no exclusive content. If you sell your content to one streamer you have to sell for the same price to the others. Possible exception for internally developed stuff, but if you buy rights to something you buy the right to show it, not the right to not have other people show it.

Bad for Disney, as they barely have enough content to run a service as it is, but good for consumers.

CEO and executive bonuses will increase. I doubt much of the savings will be passed along.

And in his science books for non-scientists he includes large bibliographies. He cites his sources. He is certainly aiming for funny and I'm sure some of the personal level stories are hearsay and exaggerated, but the science is good, at least I think so until someone proves me wrong. Liberal bias tends not to go for "common wisdom" but toward peer-reviewed papers.

Bryson does not have an agenda, other than meeting people, interpreting and adding entertainment to their work, and selling it, as far as I can tell. It's not like he's being paid to undermine science or lie or anything. I guess "common wisdom" is peer-reviewed science (admittedly going a little downhill these days but still good)?

In Eastern Canada rail is a serious city to city option, not too much slower than planes if you factor in travel to the airports and longer boarding/disembarking times.

There's a light rail project as well, supposed to be mostly automated, trains every 3 minutes. Should help with traffic from the suburbs, we'll see once it's done.

In the US I think status and safety come into it. The New York subway is safe now, I think, but it has not always been. Then you have places like Atlanta. I took public transit to the airport and as far as I could tell I was alone on the train with a homeless guy who'd been beat up for his panhandling money. System seemed fine, but no one used it. People actually do use public transit in Canada/Western Europe, even if they can afford to drive. I would say we read more but everyone just uses their phones now...

They've elected qanon nut jobs. How and why would anyone do that? "I pledge allegiance to Chinese and Russian troll farms and swear to make Putin and Pooh ROFL?"

If enough people get them Facebook posts will become automatic for everyone, including those without accounts.

Hmm radical white supremacists versus "radical" health care that matches all other rich countries with more successful systems. I wonder which is more "radical."

The confederacy lost and is morally indefensible. A third of America has to get over this, they are hurting everyone including themselves.

If I had points I'd pass them on. Haven't been posting enough.

At this point scanners and printers are cheap and I've found less reason to get combined devices. Scanners have limited lives so I prefer to get a cheap scanner than a scanner integrated into a more expensive device. I haven't found any down side to having a separate printer and scanner vs integrated, and I saved money when the scanner broke and I got a newer, faster one cheap.

If you are getting the huge business models there is normally a support contract.

I have a cheap networked Brother printer. The wifi interface can be a bit fiddly and the Brother branded cartridges are more expensive than I'd like (but not crazy) but I've had it for years and I'm happy with it. Brother also tried to do the ink expiry thing a while back but, there is an option to disable it, at least with current firmware.

I hate the business model where they sell almost disposable printers and expensive ink. It's inconvenient, unecological, and dishonest.

Originalist is not so much a philosophy as a cover story. When someone has racist/misogynist/deregulatory views that don't go over well today they try to explain those views by comparing them to common views at the time the constitution was written when people could be owned, women could not vote, and corporations could own countries. I suppose there could be some interpretation based on original intention but so far that has not come up, it's just an attempt to take debates that have been settled in the last few decades back a few hundred years to when they had been settled very differently.

Ignoring what we have learned is not a philosophy. We learned from the depression, then forgot and watched the banks torch themselves. Hard earned knowledge should not be disregarded.

Facebook, google, and loads of scam sites make money off the most gullible. They all do what they can to identify groups of gullible people with money who will click on ads. Most/many of those people are right wing US conspiracy nuts. Electing nutjob politicians is a side effect. There is some impact in other countries but a combination of consumer protection laws, cheap education, varied languages, and lack of money make people elsewhere a little harder to go after as a large group.