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I'll go one further:

• Assumes the bulb is in reach. When I read the problem I assumed the bulb was in a ceiling fixture out of reach. Nowhere in the text description did it specify the physical location, except "in the other room".

Crewed or non-crewed even! They can't even launch crewless Progress resupply vehicles to the ISS right now.

Preliminarily, police said the agents approached a white van, but the vehicle attempted to run them over.

I don't believe a single thing ICE says. They've already shown they exaggerate or straight up fabricate claims to act violently or shoot people.

The tune from South Parks “Blame Canada” Just doesn’t work well with blame trump but some the lyrics are spot on.

For the chorus, instead of the 4 syllable line of of "Blame Can-a-da" substitute"Blame don-ald-trump".

I doubt I ran into that, and I think a lot of it is just moderators removing things

Have you confirmed moderator deletions from the modlog or is it just a sense you have?

The Fragmentation Trap If you try to do everything yourself (the “solopreneur” route), you theoretically need a “tech stack” of 4-5 different subscriptions.

I'm not sure you appreciate how amazing it is today that a single "solopreneur" can actually perform all those roles all by themselves with software and skills of their own. Each one of those used to be an entire profession that required years of school and tens of thousands of dollars of tools and materials.

That said, there are good free open source tools that do most of those big things you cited. Examples include

• photo editor - GIMP
• Kdenlive - video editor

Would love to hear your thoughts on navigating this expensive landscape.

Starting any business requires money and time. You can "buy" shortcuts in time by spending money on more expensive tools. Alternatively if you have more time, you can do things more manually.

While those are cool, none of them help an average person, except maybe the trains, and definitely not in the US lol.

mRNA vaccines largely ended the most widespread global pandemic in human history just 5 years ago.

Cars were perfect in 05

Climate change would disagree.

Electric cars existed before gasoline cars… And you know what still doesn’t exist? A repairable, mostly analog electric car thats affordable. Doesn’t exist.

What's stopping you from buying a used 2012 Nissan Leaf for about $6k? Or how about a 2014 BMW i3 for about the same price? Neither of those are Cell network connected or touchscreen heavy cars.

After you finish the last of the 3 novels, make sure you seek out the additional short stories. They fill in some nice gaps in the before, during, and after.

For rich people, it’s not about using it or making a practical purchase. Its a way to show others how much you care about them (none).

I was thinking about this topic just a few days ago. I have another theory. Yes, yacht ownership is a method of communication, but they're not trying to communicate with the common people, but instead indicating to each other of their level of wealth so they can find equal peers or greater peers to associate with, or greater to avoid.

A rich person with $10M net worth has almost nothing in common with a rich person with a $1B net worth.

Considering OP has a Taiwanese flag in his username as well as a Japansese anime character name (with the kanji as well as the romaji, and a Chinese name (the hanzi as well as the pinyin), I'm guessing OP is at least moderately aware of non-Western cultures practices on the topic and I don't immediately suspect OP is judging people for their answers either way.

At 40 your dad is probably relying on you for many basic life needs. You're no longer living with your dad. He's living with you.

This article doesn’t explain how closing the power plants saves consumers money.

If this is like most aging coal plants, they cost more to produce electricity than they can sell the electricity for. There's a whole bunch of reasons for this but the short answer is that cheaper sources of electricity are available.

It doesn’t explain how existing energy demands can be met in spite of the closures.

Its attached to one of the largest power grids in North America, the PJM. Power generators bid for generation contracts once a year. There are dozens of other power plants stretching from New York into southern Ontario on this same grid. If the operator had scheduled this one for closure, that decision was likely made 2 to 4 years ago and all this time has been in planning for that transition.

It doesn’t explain why Trump wants them operational and his perceived benefits (even those unfounded and blatantly wrong).

It doesn't sounds like the DoE provided any reasons, but we can likely guess this is trump and his cronies trying to destroy green energy and prop up more expensive and polluting fossil fuel sources to enrich themseleves.