If this ever happened, the new state would be even more of a tax haven or credit card zone of interest than Delaware or South Dakota.

It would become a Próspera (libertarian special economic zone in Honduras that their government now trying to remove) within the United States and immediately be set upon by crypto miners and libertarians.

The existing residents would violently revolt against the fact that their rural communities now have real estate speculation, raw sewage in the rivers, and black bears in the streets eating garbage.

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Big-o and Little-o notation

FIFO and LIFO

What they did do was not pass any laws, nor even form a committee to investigate it, and then pass on the “solution” to for-profit companies that go into schools and give 5 year olds PTSD after the “drills” they make them go through.

https://www.levernews.com/the-american-roots-of-the-worlds-right-wing-nationalism/

Dwemer Soviet artifacts

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This might be known already, but I bet that Microsoft decided to switch Edge to Chromium instead of forking Gecko/Firefox because Google either bribed them or threatened to lower Microsoft sites’ ranks in search results.

Otherwise why would MS use a web browser controlled by one of their very few competitors?

Edit: maybe they were enthralled by the promise of using Proton/Chromium based “desktop applications” (which just contain an entire Chromium browser in their install directory) to cheaply create apps that people are forced to use in their jobs, like Teams. Which is still awful even after they made it a full UWP desktop app. Like Skype already was.

I’m always on a VPN usually on WiFi unless I’m driving. I get a day or so if I’m not working and not taking a lot of photos, and since my phone is usually plugged in while I’m driving around for work I don’t charge it at night except for weekends.

I should probably plug it in at night, does anyone know how the feature that does a slow charge until your alarm is scheduled to go off in the morning affects battery longevity?

I think Aldi is so successful in the US because they don’t do this. There is an aisle or two with random crap, and seasonal items in another spot, but I can be in and out with everything I went for in ten minutes. Trader Joe’s might do this too, I haven’t been to one in a long time. I wonder if Whole Foods or the other upscale stores fuck around with their shoppers like that.

Smaller grocery chains or independent grocers didnt change their store layouts from what I remember, but they went under or were bought out by the big chains that are already very profitable but still try to wring everything they can out of their captive audience.

“wife beater” is the word used frequently to refer to white a-frame tank tops (tankies) where I’m from. I do not appreciate that name, but I love the idea of using that word until a lib or conservative will try to explain what a ‘tankie’ is to me.