Having cut my driving teeth on manual transmissions over 30 years ago, I came to say the same thing. I am happier with the "connection" I have with an EV than any automatic transmission I have ever driven. As the EV always has the torque I want at any speed, I don't need to move the RPM into the right range to accelerate or engine brake. Oh, and aggressive regenerative breaking so feels like engine braking.

Though I will always be nostalgic for the "whole body experience" that clutch, break/accelerator, transmission lever, and steering wheel provided, I am "satisfied" with the improved connectivity I feel driving an EV vs. an automatic transmission or CVT.

Real question here, couldn't the site just switch to a cryptocurrency to get around this?

It may not be as easy as dollars, euro, or whatever it is operating in now, but wouldn't that work? What am I missing as a finance novice?

Much of the world's economy relies on consumption. In the US much of that consumption happens in the last three months of the year. US shipping is expecting to have between a 4.7 and 5 million packages per day deficit. If retailers can not get goods in stock in October they can not "demand shape" to try to get people to order/buy before the expected shipping peak in November. Long story short, there are going to be some unhappy people that feel they need a gift at Christmas this year. Retailers can't get stock, and once they finally get it they can't ship much of it. This is going to affect the bottom line for many retailers. It could be enough to push some out of business. Causing some people to lose jobs they have had for years. Hopefully, the labor shortage means they will be able to find better-paying jobs quickly.

Sugar avoidance in youth leads to reality avoidance in old age. There's the causation! Maybe.

Maybe even less as well, if we're talking amount of letter in terms of ink/pixels.

Google
Bing

Big "B" is approx. 2 o's worth of letter, i and l are pretty close, so...

Google
oolng

Subtract the common letters to get:

Ge
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Yep, looks like fewer and less letters to me.

> It isn't that it is too expensive to do the captioning, but rather that it is too expensive to do it without compensation.

I don't think this comment is as insightful as some think it is, but maybe that's just me.

> No, but you are required to license U.S. copyright in the book to the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped.

If I'm compelled to license my book to the NLSBPH, why can't they be compelled to produce the alternative media from my book? Rather than have to take the book down because I don't have the means or care to transcribe it? Substitute me with UC-Berkeley if you please.

Why not use a phone with a removable battery? Then, ditch your battery before you board the plane, and have a new battery waiting for you at your destination. Then, you're not traveling without your phone, you just have the expense of buying and shipping batteries to your destination. Border control can't force you to unlock your phone because you can't even power it on.

This only works until it becomes common enough that border control starts keeping batteries in stock, I suppose...

Well certainly insightful, but I'd suggest that a large portion of the modern left really does care, but is severely misguided in their attempts at caring. Like trusting the politicians that only care about the appearance of caring.

Probably worth examining, what counts as a public record? And what can be "off the record"?

https://www.archives.gov/recor...

I'm not saying that for love of Nielsen (because shows I've loved got screwed by the ratings system), but basically, TV shows have two models for monetization outside of PBS:

1: Give the shows away over the air and sell ads to pay for it.

2: Sell access to the channel at a premium and make the shows worthy of the premium.

The first covers all network TV and virtually all of basic cable - even though the cable companies pay to carry the basic cable channels. The second covers HBO, Showtime, etc. In the premium model, they might care about non-traditional ways of engaging with content. Because it increases interest and loyalty, thereby driving up demand for the channel - which either can result in a better deal for the channel or more subscribers.

But for a traditional channel, all they care about is the ads, who views them, when they are viewed, and if they are viewed. Looking up info on IMDB doesn't help them, ordering the season on DVD is a nice bonus but not essential, browsing the show website doesn't help them. TV channels sell ads, and they want to sell them to the right people at the right times. Viagra ads don't run during Bugs Bunny cartoons. Breakfast cereal ads don't run during Matlock (just to use obvious examples). Cadillac doesn't advertise on a WWE show, but Kia might. They want to know who the audience is and how big it is. DVRs don't help them that much, though they are awesome for us.

The fragmentation of the TV market and the explosion of channels makes it exponentially tougher to handle the advertiser-based market properly, but still the Nielsen data is the most useful metric that they have. It needs to be updated for the modern era for sure, but it still provides the raw data needed to sustain the ad-based model.