lucky 10,000!

Time to go down the Panspermia rabbit hole!

That the primary motivator towards forcing the sale wasn't the algorithm as such, it was the probability that the PRC would use TikTok as a propaganda tool.

The Republicans aren't conservative in any sensible meaning of the word. They are radicals. The Democrats are far more conservative than the Republicans these days.

Lots of medical workers, especially in rural hospitals, are on H1-Bs.

I never stopped coming in to the office. Before that I worked in industrial automation, and that work couldn't be done remotely either.

Count me in the apparently 0% of the population that likes the switch. It maps well to my body's natural cycles and that keeps me awake, alert, and happy throughout the day. My only gripe is that the fall back is a couple of weeks too late and spring forward is a couple of weeks too early -- it should be closer to the equinox than it currently is.

Second-best to keeping the switch would be year-round standard time, possibly with a culture of shifting business hours in the summer.

Year-round daylight time is a very distant third choice. Really, I find the idea of year-round daylight time offensive. The sun should be at its peak around noon. If you are on the far eastern edge of your timezone and think you ought to be one timezone ahead, cool. But for those of us in the western half of our timezones, daylight saving time means astronomical noon is after 1:30 PM.

"diesel engines are known for being especially difficult to start in cold."

When I was in the Army in Korea in 1985/86 one of the duties on the duty roster was to start every vehicle in the motor pool every 4 hours and run it for half an hour to keep it warm. Nothing like getting up at 0200 on a Sunday morning to spend an hour in the motor pool.

Yes, buying. I lived in Cedar City Utah and first encountered Linux in a RedHat 2.0 beige box at a gaming store in Red Cliffs Mall in St George. Probably in 1994 or 5. Came with a couple of manuals, a boot floppy, and a CD. Had the 0.95 kernel. Getting dial-up configured was interesting since the ISP only knew about Trumpet Winsock... Then leaving it running for a few hours in the evening to update everything.

Within a week I was at the local BN buying O'Reilly books.

of a Tom Clancy novel?

If they sell fewer they need to charge more per item to make the same amount of money overall.

Not sure where you are getting those figures, but I think they are probably a few years old. Virginia has been phasing out coal for a few years, and has been massively increasing renewables (and natural gas) to replace it. Per https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.eia.gov%2Fstate%2F%3Fsid..., Virginia is currently 45% natural gas, less than 4% coal, and negligible petroleum. 38% is nuclear, 2% is hydroelectric, and 11% is other renewables - a percentage that has been growing rapidly. And a lot of the growth in renewables has been driven by the companies running the data centers investing in solar farms to meet their own goals of being carbon-neutral.

Itâ(TM)s also blown the tracker I attached to my cheating ex-girlfriendâ(TM)s bicycle before I headed over to the range to buy a box of 9mm.

December 1 through February 28.