The same can be said for Ohio. Both of them used to be swing states, and potentially could be again, but are not currently.

You’re getting down voted because this entire thing is literally about the book he published.

FWIW, here is the US, the ground wire is often completely exposed. As in, no colored jacket, just the bare copper throughout the entire run. Attached to ground at the breaker box, and attached to any grounding ports or metal boxes throughout the building.

It’s like those people who bought plane tickets to January 6th, thinking they would go there and violently overthrow the transfer of power and kill any congresspeople that stood in the way of it, and then they could go home and show up to work with Trump now in power and everything would go back to normal.

Do you remember when armed militants invaded the Malheur wildlife refuge in Oregon, setting up what was sure to be a long, violent standoff with police and military?

2 weeks in, they arrested one of them. He’d taken a stolen ranger truck to get supplies at Safeway.

You can’t reason people out of a position they didn’t reason themselves into

He (and the rest of 538, where he was at the time) were criticized at the time for giving Trump much better odds than most. They were still wrong, but less so than the rest.

If the locals - as a whole, not just some prominent extremists - dislike Starbucks being there, then the location will fail.

To add to this, imagine the reverse. Can you imagine if they passed up better opportunities, just so that it could happen on a specific date on the calendar?

Sounds absurd, right?

I think you’re approaching the wrong aspect. While that could be a scam where a man is impersonating a woman, there are plenty where it’s actually a woman running the scam. There are plenty of red flags here, and those don’t change.

The problem is that I’m sure your friend is aware of those red flags. He’s also choosing to ignore them. I suspect he doesn’t do well with women IRL, and this at least gives him hope.

Assuming that’s all true, this is way above the pay grade of random people on the Internet.

Even at stores that have this feature, I rarely see people use it. It’s clearly not an experience that people flock to.

OTOH, on the rare occasion I’ve visited a Walmart in the past 10 years, I have a 100% rate of checkout taking an absurdly long time. Everyone there just seems to accept it like they have no choice.

As long as it’s advertised openly, I don’t see a big problem with it. It would probably be sold as a discount for shopping at slower times, though. It’s a tried-and-true method of smoothing congestion.

Assuming a store with 9a-9p hours (every day), a 9-5 worker can shop 44 hours in a week, vs 40 they cannot. But that doesn’t particularly line up with the busy hours. Around here, after 7 on weekdays and 5 on weekends tend to get pretty slow.

I’m really interested in what data they will use to train the AI, and how they are going to wrangle it. Will they simply feed the text of any bills to it? Will they just use stock ChatGPT (or similar)?

Oddly, this is more vulnerable to human exploitation than AI. Through careful prompt engineering, it’s entirely possible to manipulate it to give whatever results are desired. They can then wash their hands of any repercussions.

Economies of scale affects the costs to the manufacturer. Competition/demand affect the price to the consumer.

Just because the PSU works on another system (or God forbid, those awful “testers”) doesn’t mean that it’s fine. PSUs tend to fail in weird, unpredictable ways

Check your screw standoffs/spacers. Make sure that they match your motherboard exactly.

Most cases come with them preinstalled for a micro ATX board. Certain motherboards- like this one, it appears based on a stock photo- need one of those removed before installing the extras.

I really doubt he will agree to another debate. But the best way for it to begin would be at the beginning, when they thank everyone for making it happen, if she thanked Trump for his donations to her previous campaigns. She wouldn’t be there if it weren’t for donors like him.

It would immediately piss him off for the entire event.

Working class Democrats like Sherrod Brown (D-OH) do very well in most of the swing states. The problem is that there are very few of them running in the swing states.

Not true- she can serve 2 full terms, plus up to half of a term if she were to assume the remainder.

Trump voters largely don’t care about policy or scandals. They do, however, care about racism and sexism.

Holy shit, I hadn’t even realized it. I can distinctly remember each recent president laughing (at least mildly), except for Trump.