Didn’t he already repeatedly claim that he’s fighting directly with the West?

Even in his own words what would this change?

Having elected officials makes sense for politicians since their job is to represent the interests of the people but it’s terrible for other types of public office.

What do you want from a judge or a sheriff? Someone who’s experienced and competent. Who can best judge that? Would it be the hierarchy of their peers who they work with every day or would it be random members of the public who’ve barely even heard of them?

Edit: and no, I’m not suggesting political appointments. That’s also a recipe for disaster. Do it like Commonwealth countries: make the civil service independent of the political process and make appointments be part of the usual process of promotion.

They took them in 2020 while they were pulling out of Russia, not recently.

To be fair, the seizure happened back in 2020 when companies were still in the process of removing themselves from Russia. And it happened in retaliation for google complying with international sanctions against Russia.

They’re important details. And you would have seen them in the article if you’d read it.

It’s a tax on buying a house.

Get Rainbolt to have a look and he’ll tell you exactly where it was shot in just a few minutes.

worse than regular recycling of plastic

In case people don’t know why it’s worse - it uses a lot more energy to do pyrolysis than it does to just make new plastic. It’s bad enough that it’s worse for the environment than just making new plastic.

In any case no plastics recycler has any intention of doing this except in “pilot studies”. It’s a dead duck and everyone in the industry knows it. As /u/SeaJ said, it’s just PR.

The workplace isn’t high school.

It can be. I’ve definitely seen cases which were more high school than a professional workplace.

Traffic was close to zero here during covid lockdowns. It was bliss - it was quiet and serene like I’ve never experienced before.

Is it wrong to be wistful about the car-free depths of a pandemic?

I think about 18 billion of that was me

I wonder how many thousands of people died as a result.

They’re not wrong that democracy’s under threat. But maybe the threat’s from the guy who has literally said he’s going to murder political opponents - y’know, the guy they support.

Expected work hours seem to be increasing everywhere over the last twenty years or so. It’s gotten pretty nuts.

I thought there was a prosecutor who pursued this beyond all reasonable bounds, making Aaron’s life a living hell and driving him to suicide?

Fair enough. I’ll fix that.

It was hardly ever used in WiFi. Two spread spectrum schemes were available in the original WiFi spec, FHSS and DSSS. DSSS was always preferred over FHSS and in practice FHSS was hardly used and eventually obsoleted a decade ago due to lack of use. It was never “the basis” of WiFi as claimed in the meme - that’s simply incorrect.

Don’t get me wrong. FHSS is cool and it’s a great achievement. It just has little bearing on WiFi and absolutely no relationship to GPS.

Better examples of FHSS would be Bluetooth (which you already mentioned), cordless phones, R/C toys and some military communications.

Yes, it’s been obsoleted in wifi since 2014. DSSS was always the preferred option and FHSS was never used much in WiFi.

This is mostly wrong: while she did invent what would later be called Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum (FHSS), it isn’t used in modern WiFi or in GPS. It is used in Bluetooth though.

I should point out that techniques like FHSS are only a part of what makes up a radio communication method. You can’t say it was “the basis of Bluetooth” just because FHSS is one of the many technologies used in Bluetooth. She certainly contributed though.

Honestly that sounds like the kind of conversation I’d be into.

…is the second largest city in Australia. But also has an inflated sense of self-importance.

;)