I wouldn't expect the economics of private jets to work out either, and yet...

Do online multiplayer video games count as a commercial use? I kind of like those

They actually changed that a while back, new heroes aren't in the battlepass any more, everyone gets them for free. I don't know how that works with the "new player experience" where you needed to win games to unlock the base heroes on a new account though.

I never watched the show, but I did visit its wiki page.

It looks like they did 6 races against public transportation, and the car won 5 of them. They also did 2 four way races between car, water, bike and public transport, and car and bike were the two first place winners.

or pledging fealty to the sound of applause.

There's a joke in there somewhere about chasing fame and the approval of strangers

rampant crimes across the nation committed by illegal immigrants

The research does not support the view that immigrants commit crime or are incarcerated at higher rates than native-born Americans.
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What’s more, the arrival of record numbers of immigrants at the United States–Mexico border over the past two years has not corresponded with an overall increase in crime in so-called “blue” cities where many of the recent arrivals have settled. In most places, the opposite has happened — crime, including violent crime, has trended downward (other than larceny and a small increase in robbery) after peaking across the country in 2020. This has been true since the spring of 2022, the year Republican governors, including those in Arizona, Florida, and Texas, began transporting undocumented immigrants to cities with more immigrant-friendly policies, including Boston, Chicago, New York, and Washington.

Windows 11's Recall feature is on by default on Copilot+ PCs

Disabling the AI snapshotter requires a trip into Settings for ordinary users

Over the weekend, The Verge's Tom Warren posted (on twitter) screenshots showing Microsoft's latest Out-of-Box Experience (OOBE), in which the Recall feature can't be turned off unless the user opens Settings after completing setup.

Now, it's possible things have changed in the last few days, but I wouldn't really expect them to based on the last time I used windows. I also didn't know this before I tried looking it up, so I'll admit I'm a little biased against microsoft.

But the real question is, what documentation are you looking at where you're pulling all this information from? Can you provide a link?

Based on your response here, I don't know what you were trying to say.

Wealthy people don't pay income [tax] very much at all, their income is made via capital gains.

Also consumption based taxes are the primary [taxes the rich pay,] so the richer you are the less [taxes] this will be as a percent of your income.

I thought you were complaining about the authors of the study not considering capital gains taxes, but it wasn't very clear.

Capital gains are profits from the sale of assets such as stocks, bonds, real estate, and antiques. Nine states (Arizona, Arkansas, Hawaiʻi, Montana, New Mexico, North Dakota, South Carolina, Vermont, and Wisconsin) provide income tax deductions or preferential rates for all long-term capital gains income. Other states—such as Connecticut, Idaho, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Mississippi, Nebraska, New Jersey, North Carolina, and Oklahoma—offer tax reductions for realized gains from certain assets located solely within state boundaries.[11] These tax subsidies disproportionately benefit high-income and high-wealth families and tend to worsen economic inequality across both economic and racial dimensions.

Oh man, if only the authors of the study had thought about capital gains taxes, then maybe the map above that's only using income to divide the population would have been better somehow.

It's a little different. The Upside Down in Stranger Things is a kind of alternate dimension, whereas in the movies Upside Down and Patema Inverted it's that gravity is reversed for some people.

If that plan worked perfectly, you'd solve the land use and, giving you an extremely generous benefit of the doubt, the emissions from manure problems.

All you have to now is figure out how to build and maintain these high-rises cost effectively, and how to generate enough power for a matrix-like experience and all the VR headsets and treadmills for the cows. And even then you'd still be wasting a lot of food by feeding it to animals rather than just eating it directly.

Then how are you supposed to know which companies produce how much greenhouse gasses?