Yeah. It is important to note that mail-in voting is only like this in states executing various forms of voter suppression.

For western states that don’t have this tradition of voter suppression, the results tend to be more mixed. For instance, Colorado saw Republicans get a bump when switching to mail-in ballots as it was thought that mobility hindered elderly voters found it easier to vote from home than have to travel to vote.

I’ve seen it a lot for over a decade. It is usually small businesses who did it since the cost to manage cash is almost zero. There was a reform bill which said that you couldn’t charge more for credit, but there wasn’t anything about giving a discount for cash.

I’ve been seeing it more for places with large transactions because the 3% is meaningful for those businesses.

Large companies don’t do it because credit is preferable for them.

I don’t think they think of it as winning. I don’t think they care.

All they know is that several states have economies dependent on fossil fuel extraction with no other meaningful economic replacement.

Part of it may be that. However, part of it seems to be that Trump is happy to look strong while others give the orders and now he’s surrounded by people who realize they can get Trump to agree to whatever.

Donate the useful bits to others, use me for science, then turn me into compost.

No. They were put there for a reason in order to help me out.

Yeah. They likely equate LLM with all AI and a company with software which is more than just a chat bot gets lumped in with everyone else.

How many people are formally hired in Argentina?

They’re fine with saying not to get vaccinations up to when there’s an actual epidemic on their hands which they have to deal with.

But how corrupt were other governments at the time?

A lot.

I hope so. However, I think the world they are going to become adults in is going to be harder for them than previous generations.

A lot of Mexican cartels also have the silver or lead choice.

What other contemporary music was as groovy?

Most discussions of 50’s rock and roll tend to approach as being significant and revolutionary for its era instead of as a piece of work by itself.

It is the Seinfeld is unfunny trope.

Or he got a bribe from the first bridge owner.

China may not be perceived as a military threat, but it is credibly an economic threat. China is returning to a state where Europe has difficulty conducting trade with China as China will only accept natural resources for trade. That can be dangerous for an economy with a large safety net, declining productivity, and little in terms of natural resources.

The EU is comprised of sovereign entities, but those entities have chosen to give up certain competencies to the Union for various benefits. The EU already handles trade diplomacy and monetary policy through democratic institutions; it isn’t that hard to imagine that could also take on competencies related to defense.

The EU also could share the competency of defense with the various nations. After all, there are other countries which have sub national entities that have their own militaries.

They’re already doing it to access the social security website.

I hate working from home. I find that I can’t get into the headspace to work while at home. I find coordination is a pain in the ass and you get to better understand what is going on by physically being there.

It is also frustrating dealing with people who say they are “doing their work” but you find out that they didn’t coordinate like they said they would and the two things they designed don’t interact with each other.

This is a continuation of Xi solidifying control over the government, which is a break from the post-Mao CCP in having power more diffused across different people. It is likely that the corruption allegations are correct, but bribing officials to win government contracts are pretty par for the course for people in those positions.