Obligatory xkcd:

https://m.xkcd.com/2723/

Trump won by a landslide?

Are you some kind of RINO trying to hide your TDS so you don't lose all your friends? If you're gonna pretend, at least get your facts right. Trump didn't win by a landslide - that's just a significant margin. Trump's wins are _blowouts_.

2016, Electoral College: 304 vs 227 and Popular Vote 46.1% vs 48.2%
2024, Electoral College: 312 vs 226 and Popular Vote 49.8% vs 48.3%

No one has ever win by such margins before. Biden's pathetic effort was almost shameful:

2020, Electoral College: 306 vs 232 and Popular Vote 51.3% vs 46.8%

We won't ever see anyone win as winningly as Trump did ever again in our lifetimes and we should be thankful.

Even the republican juggernaut, Ronald Reagan, didn't come close:

1980, Electoral College: 489 vs 49 and Popular Vote 50.7% vs 41.0%
1984, Electoral College: 525 vs 13 and Popular Vote 58.8% vs 40.6%

I don't know why you even mention the democrats. They don't matter anymore. They have only 212 representatives out of the total 435? Sad. Only 45 out of 100 senators? Why do they even bother showing up? Their voting base is too illiterate to understand they're being promised nonsense. These guarantees could be realized patently impossible with even a little consideration. As the electorate is too lazy to verify claims and have been trained to disregard discordant news, emotional manipulation easily stokes a selfish outrage and fictional boogeymen fill their nightmares. Now terrified and desperate, they zealously cling to an establishment that only values them for their votes and only occasionally shares their interests by coincidence.

I'm disgusted how eagerly you shit on Trump despite enjoying all the gifts he's graced upon us. He's gone above and beyond delivering everything he promised. We've never been so safe, so wealthy, and so free. /s

If you spin the wheel on Temu you can get a 20% discount with free shipping if your order is over $100,000.

Does this include the "free"/rentable routers included with most ISP broadband? The providers build in the cost of super-cheap routers and finding non- Chinese ones will be hard or more expensive. No doubt the broadband providers will use this as an excuse to raise rates (while still using Chinese equipment).

We'll be left with routers that are backdoored by:
US
China
Broadband provider

What could go wrong?

Commercial leases are often FMV or $1 buyout which determine what happens at lease end.

A Fair Market Value (FMV) lease is a flexible financing agreement -- often called an operating lease or "true lease" -- where you pay for the use of equipment over a fixed term rather than paying to own it. At the end of the term, you have the option to purchase the asset at its current "fair market value," return it, or upgrade to newer technology.

A $1 buyout lease (also known as a capital lease or finance lease) is a lease-to-own agreement where you pay off the full cost of equipment over a fixed term and then purchase it for exactly $1.00 at the end. Because the ultimate goal is ownership, this structure is essentially an installment loan disguised as a lease.

There are some tax and accounting differences between these options.

at first, but only for 12 parsecs or so . . .

M immediate reaction was to wonder if 3d printers will join C & Perl with annual obfuscation contests?

Also high frequency to allow for a turn up and go service is often more important than being really fast.

6 buses an hour is the minimum for people to not feel they are risking a long wait if they use the bus option.

How to speed up public transport.

1) Tap on, single fare OR Tap On, Tap Off OR Tap On, Multiple Journeys within an hour in that fare (e.g., London)
2) Don't accept cash, payment card or travelcard only (e.g., London Oyster)
3) Dedicated bus lanes in busy stretches of road
4) Don't stop too often, but don't go too far the other way either, it depends on the population density of that area
5) Different bus stands for different routes, so prevent contention at the single bus stop (at busy stops)
6) Accessibility must be quick to perform for wheelchairs and buggies. Coach-style buses=bad, low-floor buses=good.

>But in a good model, esp. a thinking model, one
>would expect it to think over which sorts of
>numbers are statistically over-chosen (birthdates,
>etc) and avoid them in giving its answers.

and even then, it doesn't affect the chance of *winning*, but rather the chance of being the *sole* winner, as opposed to having to share the price.

[there *is* another possibility, though, albeit unlikely: it could come across a flaw in the RNG that lets it avoid less likely combinations, or choose a more likely one. Again, though, this requires an RNG flaw.]

just like when it hit three digits?

>Mexico has a half peso coin, worth about 2 cents.

and a peso was like a dollar.

I recall my aunt feeling guilty about what she was paying down there when it dropped to about eight to a dollar.

And then they lopped three zeroes off to get the new peso.

I *think* this is half of those one-thousands of the prior peso . . .

After extreme inflation, small matters of rounding aren't even on the radar for what's important.

[Let alone the 27 or so zeroes lopped off in Germany {where, near the end, workers were reportedly paid twice a day, with their wives bringing wheelbarrows to collect, and rushing to spend it before it fell further! (which may be an urban legend; I've never been able to confirm it, but it's not inconsistent with the daily inflation)}. Or Yugoslavia, which lopped off 30 digits . . . ]

[cloudtrack, err, flare, verification? *REALLY*]

And of further interest, I've never seen one in the US that was a round number of cents--they all end in 9/10 of a cent. (although in years past, 4/10 was also common)

China calling Elon. Come in, Elon! :)

bah.

Let me know when they start making *autographic* 120 film again. I have the camera, and am dying to shoot a roll!

The last rolls were apparently made in 1932. The cameras had a flap that could flip up and allow writing directly onto the film with a stylus. When you see handwriting on an old picture print, it was likely shot on autographic.

[and, yes, in fact my autographic camera *does* have bellows!]