This makes no sense whatsoever. For one, you are seeing the collapse of the US in real time at the hands of the republicans right now: Military threats against allies, rewriting history (Jan 6th), turning the GOP into a cult, threats against media outlets criticizing Dear Leader, constant lies, corruption on a scale never seen before in democracies, murders of citizens, sanctioned masked gangsters operating in the streets similar to the SA in Germany in the 20s, killing of foreign people in boats far away from the US with no evidence of anything, unsanctioned (by congress) military actions for oil, banning tourists if they have criticized Trump, etc etc..

That aside, this is not why malls are struggling. They are struggling because a lot of trade has moved online. In addition, whole categories of traditional goods are almost eliminated by new technology - streaming of audio and video killed off most of the record and movie stores (and are working on cinemas), video games are mostly sold digitally, books are both less popular and a sizable chunk is just digital etc.

As an actual conservative, the whole transformation of the GOP from a somewhat conservative party to a right wing populist party and then to a nutjob cult is weird and frightening.

MTV dropped music videos and migrated to crappyvision (reality shows) many years before YouTube was founded - they started in the 90s and finished around 2000. No music, just cheap junk for idiots.

Have you played the guitar on MTV?

You can't convert the numbers. To illustrate - having 800 million weekly active users does not mean they have more than 3.2 billion monthly active users. Many of these users would be counted multiple times if "converting" that way.

3% of the British population lives in Northern Ireland , and I wouldn't be surprised if many of them drove more than 3% in Ireland - work, business trips, visiting family, weekend getaways, holiday properties etc. We have a similar border here - Norway / Sweden - and you have a lot of that kind of traffic.

If they cared about kids, they'd restrict guns.

Well, there was - but it currently suffers from some issues: the Trump-Epstein shutdown, incompetent partisan leadership, and being reallocated to be an instrument of revenge on people Trump don't like.

No, it's more like a traditional cable TV company - but on the Internet.

Hans Niemann has been proven a massive cheater. He claims it is only online and not over the board, but what stops most of the elite from doing it is morals and sportmanship - something Niemann thus has proven that he does not have.

Naroditsky - alongside a couple of other grandmasters - has been the target of disgraced former World Champion Vladimir Kramnik for a long time now. Here's what the #1 player Magnus Carlsen has to say about it, and here's the world #2 Hikaru Nakamura on the same subject.

Another one of the GMs Kramnik has been pestering was David Navara, which caused a large ruckus earlier this year.

I'm not sure I understand why having space for A means that you also have space for B? You need the USB C port for charging - and in some cases connection. A SIM tray holder with surrounding electronics takes additional space, and it's not strictly needed as eSIM is a viable alternative. The phone is not for me - I'm keeping my current phone until 29, and "thinner" is not a tradeoff I'd make in this case anyway - but I do see them need for removing anything they possibly can to achieve it.

This cycle was described in a classic book, The Innovators Dilemma. I remember getting this book recommended by Matthew Szulik, back when he was the boss at Red Hat.

By "states rights are highly dependent on context", you mean that it's OK for GOP states to do it if the Democrats are in power - but that it's OK to send military forces to states that disagree with Trump or don't praise him enough? That seems to be the golden Republican standard these days...

This is the same guy who sued advertisers for not advertising on Twitter. I can't understand why large, global brands wouldn't want to be associated with that nazi-infested hellhole by spending money there...

I'm having a hard time seeing this as a problem with Kindle (as opposed to e.g. ownership of bought content).

Kindles have a long battery lifetime, measured in weeks. If it has run out, connect it to a powerbank and you've solved the problem for days. Content that you are reading or have read on the device is available, and if you have to get a new book - just connect it to your phone hotspot and download it. They're tiny.