When you were in college, the ROI on a degree was much better.

I'm going to pretend you aren't being disingenuous.

Mail in vote boxes set on fire in Oregon.
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Illegal mail in vote boxes by one party.

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This is on top of:
Voter ID laws, designed to restrict populations less likely to already have the required form of identification.
Closing of polling locations, making voting onerous for populations lacking the means to get to farther polling locations.
Attempts to end mail in voting, again to exclude populations who will otherwise have difficulty voting.

I trust that you are sufficiently proficient with Google that you can do the research yourself on those last three and decide if they have any merit.

His point is that two parties had an agreement, and party one had a reasonable expectation for basic security practices to be followed by party two.

He isn't invoking the end user. He is reframing the situation to include you or me as party one, and our bank as party two. While we do have some agency as to who we bank with and should vet accordingly (Wells Fargo, fintechs), we have a reasonable expectation for our party two to uphold their side of things.

There is certainly an anti-intellectualism factor at play. There is, mixed in with it, a factor of not having or valuing a tradition of education. You don't have to dislike intelligent people. By not instilling in children that education is valuable, the children themselves have no reason to be in school.

Too many positions requiring experience and not enough positions that allow people to develop that experience / willing to train people.

It sounds like your place was a hole if it took 20k to modernize it. I am going to guess your previous tenant had an inefficient refrigerator that predates the 90s, and that they really would have appreciated something sooner that saved their electric bill.
You should be charging enough to cover these expenses, whether it is the current tenant paying for his facility and appliances to be in good shape, or the next tenant paying for modern housing and the associated upkeep.
My last place was a hole, and I paid hole prices. The new landlord wanted to renovate it and wanted me to pay an extra $300/month for him to do it. If I thought it was worth the extra $300 to not live in a hole, I certainly wasn't going to pay an extra $300 a month for him to renovate the apartment while I am living there and essentially just slap paint on it and call it new.
Unfortunately, in my area, everyone is converting their units to "luxury" units, which are just the same units with the same grey laminate that seems be prevalent these days and some updated fixtures, but much less affordable.

It seems like the average household now needs two adults working full time to make ends meet. Pointing a finger at women being educated seems disingenuous. Although I guess you could make the claim that if half the population was out of the work force, the other half would receive greater compensation due to the labor market needing to pay more.

Some authors do.
There is an abridged Neuromancer out there, read by William Gibson.
Christopher Buehlman narrated his book The Black Tongue Thief, which was a fun, irreverent fantasy novel .

Do you use cruise control when the ground is wet, too?

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This is one of the shortcomings with Blink cameras.

The cameras have batteries, but do not have attached storage. The hub can have attached storage, but no batteries. The function of the attached storage is nebulous - nowhere does it state that the attached storage will function during an internet outage. The stated purpose is to back up your already online cloud saved videos onto your device. My attempts to clarify this with tech support were fruitless - they insisted that they needed me to give them permission to access my Blink network in order to answer the question.

I routinely have problems where I edit a spreadsheet and OneDrive fails to sync it correctly. I then have a cloud version in an unknown state and a local version that I cannot save without changing the file name.

Once I change the file name, I now have one unknown cloud version with the correct name, one local version with the correct name, and one local version with the incorrect name. I can't rename the incorrect one for fear of the unknown cloud version overriding it. It's a serious pain in the ass. I have learned to sync my files only when I am not working with any of them.

Lemmy feels conveluded and unintuitive to use. I don't know which federation I should join, or why, or if I should join multiples. Finding a sub is strange, and I don't know that the average user needs to know which federation a particular sub is affiliated with. If they do, the reason isn't clear. Certain federations don't want to be associated certain content, how does that affect my choices for where to be a user and what subs to participate in? Is there going to be an r/aww on multiple federations? It feels fragmented and like it needs a layer to obscure the fragmentation from users that don't identify federation as a key need.

There was video of a white agent provocateur calmly smashing windows at a retail establishment prior to one of the BLM protests.

Iâ(TM)m not defending damaging property and looting.
The insurrection, by comparison, had people that knew what they were there to do, and did it. I think youâ(TM)d be hard pressed to argue that Antifa secreted members among the insurrectionists and manipulated them into an almost successful coup attempt.

My biggest qualm with Netflix is that their model seems based around producing more hit shows than they are willing to bank toll for the long term. I'm generally not a consumer of the newest must see lastest TV. Compund that with Netflix canceling shows left and right, and now I have no reason to subscribe until the series finale. If the show gets axed, then I don't sub, and I don't get left with an unfinished story. My other qualm is the autoplay snippets when you're browsing content. I might have kept my previous subscription longer (after Stranger Things S3), but I couldn't get over the constant chatter when I was looking for another show to get into.