The police can screw anything up, of course, and prosecutors are sometimes little better. However, I'm not aware of any actual arrests based 'solely' or even mostly on a cosanguinity comparison. Instead, they use the cosanguity match along with other evidence to get a warrant for the suspect's DNA.
My dad, before he passed, got big into genealogy and ancestry. A 4% match, while a low percentage, is still enough to reliably indicate relationship. We have stenography systems that can still make a match with less remaining.
I've read some write-ups on what can happen. They get the initial hit of a possible cousin or such. They can then hit up other people in the family tree in many cases. The parents, a different cousin, it can all help nail down what section of the family tree the sample matches. Eventually they get it down to a person.
At this point, they generally haven't actually arrested anybody, but gotten a warrant for a DNA sample.
Haven't seen any cases where they both arrested and took somebody to trial without a direct DNA match.
As for bail - you do get bail money back if you pay the bail directly. It is a bail bond, where you pay a 3rd party to put up the bail money, that you don't get it back.
For what is generally a 'cold case', they don't arrest people willy-nilly.

The disadvantage of a bigger laptop is that a bigger laptop is less convenient to use in a cramped space, such as on a bus commute to and from your day job. It's also less convenient to pack in a cramped space, such as your tiny personal locker at your day job. A 10.1" laptop fit in (say) a locker in the back of a Walmart Supercenter, and a 11.6" laptop did not. That's part of why I was so disappointed that manufacturers suddenly discontinued 10.1" laptops at the end of 2012. I remember recommending that people affected by this discontinuation buy a cellular iPad, a Bluetooth keyboard case, a VPS, and an expensive data plan, and use the iPad to remote desktop to the VPS. I rejected that workaround as cost prohibitive at the time.

Okay, some thoughts on this:
1. The data has already been handed to the police. They've been using it to solve decades old rape cases and such.
2. Unless YOUR DNA turned up at a crime scene, it is unlikely that the police are going to arrest you over it. Unless you have an evil twin out there, it's not a very realistic problem.
3. The problem is also actually WORSE than you state. You see, YOU don't need to submit data to be found. In a number of the cases, a semi-distant relative, like a niece, submitted their DNA. This gave them a match with their suspect as a relative. So they go looking for family members who might have been in the appropriate area at the appropriate time. At least for now, only really used for rape and murder cases, where they're willing to expend a lot of funds to solve it. Between the relational DNA match and the location, they can often get a warrant for an actual DNA sample.

I've also seen video of where the suspect blew a 0.00 on the breath test and was promptly arrested for DUI despite it. Then a full test and workup at the police station, only for the police to have to release him because they found nothing. The teen was in high school sports and drug tested like every other week anyways. Of course, he ended up suing for stuff including the arrest after the 0.0 (what reasonable suspicion was there other than him being a snarky and somewhat cold teen?) and the police ended up giving him city money (because that doesn't affect the police budget at all) to go away.

Anthropic's entire schtick is about AI risks, and how careful they are at mitigating those risks..

Exactly! Can you not see what a massive lie that is?

They paper over the model they have turning Hitler with gobs of built in prompts and layers of checking levels and even that cannot always hide what is true...

Deep inside, Anthropics model also dreams of electric swastikas.

The focus they have is on how to hide it, rather than fixing it, which was my whole point. I don't trust those guys AT ALL. The safety reports they issue with models are absolute BULLSHIT.

I think it says something that despite the US invasion of Afghanistan, all the destruction and death of that, by reports most Afghanis still hate Russians more.

The US is "the assholes who don't understand us." Russia is "those fuckers"

Don't forget that one of the first actions after the failed lightening strike was to conscript pretty much every man they could out of the Donbass region (where the mistreatment was supposedly occurring) and send them to the front lines to largely get killed.

If Ukraine had been mistreating them at anything near that level, the region would have been depopulated long ago. Russia managed to kill more in the area in a year or so than Ukraine would have managed with its supposed "mistreatment" in centuries.

Restoring relations with Russia was Petro Poroshenko's platform, the incumbent that Zelensky beat.
That said, as a powerful neighbor, militarily and economically, good relations with Russia is a good thing, remember?
The invasion was triggered by Zelensky getting too close to the west.
If he was so for Russia, why would Russia need to invade?

Yes, a blurry version of it that we can't see the details of, such as his blown up version that doesn't necessarily contain the stuff he said.
Besides, I already acknowledge the Nazi link, while pointing out that the Totenkopf has an extensive non-nazi history in the area
If that's all you have to go on, it's not much.
It'd be like insisting the Nazis were nice people because they used the Swastika as a symbol, because it was traditionally a symbol of divinity and spirituality in Indian religions such as Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism.

You know that comparing him to Saddam isn't doing you any favors, right? Saddam is widely held as evil in the West, right along with Hitler, Stalin, and such.

The Klan were already in positions of power. My understanding is that while heavily right-wing and nationalist, Ukraine felt they could be contained and channeled. It's a different strategy, but it seemed to be working.

Well, if you're going to admit to being gullible, I'm not going to argue with you about that.
Again, why would I care about the Tsars? They're gone. Who are you going to pull out next, the Mongols under Ghengis Khan? This is what I mean about "whataboutism" - You keep pulling up other examples of bad things, as though that excuses Russia's actions.
Was England (and most of Europe) evil during colonialism? Yes. On the other hand, given that the 40 year period you mention ended in 1920, IE "over a century ago", that means that everybody responsible for that tragedy is already long dead.
That said, if India still had a policy of hostility against England for it, I'd completely understand, I might even bring it up as an example.
But England isn't the topic here - Ukraine and Russia are, because Russia is actively invading the Ukraine.
Heck, after Maripul, if it was really about Azov, Russia could have declared it "mission accomplished" and gone home. Instead, Putin's terms of surrender are basically "Ukraine becomes Russian again." It's blatantly obvious what his goals are, and it isn't "denazification." That's just one of a long line of excuses used to obfuscate the goal, and only the gullible (which you admitted being) believe it.

Microsoft is about Azure and Office365 now. Everything else is 'yes we also do that status'

If we are being honest, Azure ain't half bad either, its good for all reasons the past greatest hits were. It does everything it needs to do while being easier to get your head around than AWS, or GCP.

If Microsoft has a problem its that Azure and o365 were huge build outs but now are more or less feature complete. There isnt a growth story, for any company not already on them what can they offer as a compelling reason to move there?

This why you see 'copilot' being shoved into all the things. Microsoft does not have a vision right now, or to the extent they do it is - 'let's market AI stuff, and build out Azure capacity to sell AI model compute, so other people can market AI stuff.'

Long story short the next 10 years of the NASDAQ performance is either going to look like the last ten because AI powers big tech to new heights or its going to get real ugly when the irrational exuberance for all things AI runs out of stream

> How does someone get access to his location data?

  You pay $50 to a data broker, AIUI.

Half of the convenience apps you download include tracking libraries. Free apps often make their money by selling your location data to surveillance companies.

Ads are included so you don't think to ask what their revenue stream is.

Stock ROM's don't prevent most of this.

The merits aren't the point - bankrupting the little guy and sending a message to the other little guys is the point.

"The process is the punishment."

It's interesting to watch old movies and the credits are maybe 30 people.

If you see a modern CG flick there will be thousands of people in the credits including the barista at the coffee shop down the street from where the IT backups subcontractor's office is.

Similar idea with IMDB and basically everybody lying on their resumes otherwise.

Interestingly software had credits pages in the 80's but California prevents noncompete agreements and poaching was rampant so the opposite occurred.

Yeah I did not have any stats on how far the typical school bus travels in a day. If anything it just makes the argument that fleet vehicle charging is some kind of problem even less compelling.

Reality is unless you are operating a very very large bus depot, you would not need to add any wild electrical infrastructure, certainly nothing beyond what a typical small office building would require and that should not be an issue for the electric utility to deliver or a cost problem for a school district.

When it comes to charging EVs, time is a huge resource. Everything is simpler, cheaper, safer, lower wear, etc when you don't have to do it fast. Fleet vehicles are really a perfect fit for that because you typically do have 11-12 hours to 'trickle-charge' them at 14 amps.

I went ahead and looked, but could not find any credible evidence of anybody associated with Azov threatening to assassinate Zelensky, who ran more on normalizing and expanding relations with the west, while relations with Russia was more a thing for his political opponent.

IE Zelensky was the more "anti-Russia" candidate available. Even then, of course, he didn't run on having any hostilities with Russia. That's a bit like a Mexican or Canadian politician running on being hostile with the USA.

Every day ruzzian drones are used to murder civilians, including 1 year old children, not just fight against military targets, this is called 'safari'. If these creatures are not stopped in Ukraine, they will be targeting YOUR civilians next.

I already addressed the Nazi symbology:

For example, take the picture, which your video isn't actually a video of the patch, but a talk radio guy talking about the patch.
The Totenkopf actually predates the Nazis almost as much as the swastika does.
I mean, remember the skull and crossbones of Pirate fame?
Hussars were running around with it in the 1700s.
It's cool.
Obviously, they aren't very Nazi-like if Zelensky feels safe hanging around with them as bodyguards.

As for Wagnar: The difference here is that The Wagner group was named that by Prigozhin because he admired Hitler, but obviously couldn't name his mercenary group the "Hitler Group" so kind of like how 88 is special to neo-nazis, he went with Wagner.
It's the difference between naming your sports team the "German Shepards" because you like the breed and because Hitler owned a bunch.
And the wagner group didn't get folded into the military until AFTER the little revolt by its leader. Who everybody figures Putin had killed.

In either case, like I said, Ukraine had the group under control and was busily, if quietly and gradually, de-naziing them. Russia didn't need to invade.

Ah, here we go, Genocide denial.
And you can't even keep your arguments focused. I listed it as a reason why Ukrainians might hate Russians. It isn't a reason for me to hate Russians, but I recognize that it might be a bit more personal to them. Why the heck would the Ukrainians care about a famine in a different country half a century earlier? It was their own people that starved because of the Russians.

1M Irish is a bit less than the 3.5-5M Ukrainions estimated to have starved to death during the Holodomor famine. 1932-1933 is a lot more recent than the Irish potato famine of 1845-1852.
While still exporting food is a problem, at least there was actually crop failures for the potato famine, while Holodomor was deliberate government action.
Basically, you're engaging in Whataboutism.