I think most people missed the point of my comment as an ironic statement mocking the hypocrisy of the democratic establishment in this race.

Vote blue no matter who.

I’m thinking we might be in the clear. It says items marked as a “gift” with a value of less than $100 USD should still be exempt, and this is both of those. I’ve reached out to double check that they marked the “Gift” box on the customs form and find out what specific value they declared just to be safe.

Either way I’m still expecting chaos-related delays from this.

I had a friend ship me a package via Aus Post on Saturday. The tracking page last updated at 1:33am on the 26th local time to say it’d been processed at the (Australian) airport. I assume we got in just in time to avoid being inconvenienced by this? If the package fails to arrive in the US before Friday will I have to pay an additional fee to receive it?

So… The NO WAI Act?

The true definition of the term

Given the specific names on that list, I took it as an awkward attempt to list the people they think are standing up, rather than a list of people they were admonishing for not standing up

Or averages, it seems to be absolute counts each day

A “live-man’s switch” might be a better idea. If you’re in such a high profile situation and you’re scared enough that you think you need a dead man’s switch, make frequent unprompted public declarations that you’re healthy and not suicidal, and that should anything happen to you, you blame the company.

Most uplifting news I’ve heard in a while, I’ll take it

Nah, the bill was never passed in the senate so it isn’t law at all. Just unenforceable posturing.

Notes in Google Keep will sync between mobile and web

Ads should be tailored to the content of the website they are on. Not to me in any way whatsoever.

Then you might be interested in this new technology being tested by Mozilla that aims to replace tracking cookies.

Mozilla isn’t doing anything to Firefox. The Anonym purchase you linked to was literally to acquire a technology they developed which would, if implemented web-wide, end the dystopian nightmare of privacy invasion that is the current paradigm where a few dozen large companies track everything everyone does on the internet all the time. “Privacy preserving” isn’t just a buzzword in that article - privacy is actually preserved, and the companies involved (including Mozilla) learn nothing at all about you - not your name, not an “anonymous” identifier, not your behavior, nothing. Moreso, Anonym didn’t just create this technology, the entire company was purpose-founded to create this technology.

There’s a lot of misinformation floating around about Mozilla in particular at the moment. Very little of the animosity they receive is truly deserved once you dig past the narrative and find out what Mozilla’s actually up to, and why.

Not so sure it’s correct to say he’s already in the “lame duck” phase the article mentions where most presidents stuff their clemency grants. It might be true in a literal sense, but public perception is presumably the main reason presidents wait until that period for this sort of thing, and I’m sure he’s still very conscious of how his own PR could affect Harris’s campaign.

Florida is already a swing state and has been for ages. 2 of the last 4 elections it went blue.

It wasn’t a freak accident either. There’s no sane way to look at the last 70 years of presidential elections in Florida and determine it’s been a safe long-term bet for either party in that timeframe. It usually votes for the winner, but when it hasn’t, that loser has always (in modern times) been a Republican - so the state is at least much more electorally important to them than it is to Democrats. It’s very much always been a leans-Republican swing state.

I don’t think its dysfunction has anything at all to do with having too many members. A significantly larger House may even end up being much less corrupt and more functional, at least after the growing pains.

Bush and Clinton I get but it seems like Biden was included in this statistic just to bridge the Obama years to 2016. The Bidens aren’t exactly a political dynasty.

Are you thinking of Snowden?

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