It isn’t one person that people go onto a micro blogging service for, but a variety of people.

Amazon has been trying to make sure it can be on all streaming devices as it provides the back end to a lot of other pay streaming channels. FreeVee was probably their Trojan horse to get people Amazon accounts and a service that low end streaming devices would need to serve.

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Ethyl alcohol does dissolve some chemicals that water and oils don’t. However, it is generally considered acceptable enough to use water or soup stock if wine is not acceptable.

Chinese provincial governments also spent a lot of money building out photovoltaic production capacity as part of their way to meet their GDP goals. With the property market crash still working its way through the Chinese economy, China needs to sell solar panels to keep its market afloat.

Not that it is a bad thing that China has a financial incentive to make more solar panels, just noting that there are more direct economic reasons for China to go all renewables.

The National Guard functions like your Home Guard for the most part. Some states do full time deployment, but it is rare and mainly applies security tasks. States are allowed to have standing armies, but it doesn’t happen because it is usually considered a waste of tax payer money.

What I expect is that, as the Union military grows, individual European nations will stop operating militaries outside of their home guard. After all, why have a standing army for the country when you are contributing to a standing army for the Union?

Without having a way to deal with corruption, it is just inviting the troops to become corrupt as well.

El Salvador has seen crime drop across the country after Bukele arrested everyone with a gang tattoo.

Using the USA as a model, the federal military maintains the specialized units that don’t have a civilian use along with training the military leadership such that it can absorb a larger army.

Individual states have active reserve military units (national guard) that have both military and civilian use. For instance, a lot of disaster response activities in the USA is performed by the national guard under state control.

From that skeleton, the US military can then fill out other units in times of war.

My guess is that an EU military would follow that structure since it has been shown to work well and the union can’t rely on France to build and fund those specialty units by themselves.

What third party protest voters? Trump won a majority of votes.

People decided to stay home this election.

Regarding third parties, leftists like to claim this giant reservoir of support just if Democrats listened to them, but they never show up in an election at all. Jill Stein and other leftist candidates didn’t win even a percent of the vote. Trump won an outright majority of the popular vote.

Why listen to a group that’s just a blip?

And this is a policy the actors’ union went on strike for.

This movie has Tom Hanks. But there is now a trained AI model that can make a very old Tom Hanks look younger. That same model could probably make someone who looks and sounds similar to Tom Hanks look and sound exactly like Tom Hanks.

I thought they went on strike to make sure the next Tom Hanks movie actually has Tom Hanks.

The government has been dysfunctional for a while.

They are in San Francisco while working on their tech startups.

I feel like the main draw is location.

Most of the people living in these pods are startup founders, so it makes sense for them to live in shitty pods next to their potential clients and investors.

It is hard to run an Internet site when the government turns off your Internet.

I know of at least one golf course in Arizona that was only allowed to be built if the grass was only watered with reclaimed water. The reclaimed water plant has become a major money maker as it has been selling its non-drinkable water to farmers in exchange for a smaller amount of drinkable water

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