More that AT&T has to maintain or increase profits in an economic climate where people’s ability to spend is flat or decreasing, and so they’ve been steadily reducing their infrastructure investment rather than seeing their profits drop. Now that they can expect the FCC approvals necessary to kill last-mile service, they’re set for a few more years, and I expect their long-term goal is to become an exclusively wireless telco.
I just saw these Tonies at Target (USA) last night, it looks like that store got the exclusive distribution rights for the US. $99 for the starter box? Wow.
The current program in limited beta test is called "TSA PreCheck Touchless".
So you need to be in TSA PreCheck, and you gave them your photo and fingerprints when you voluntarily enrolled in that program. They are probably using your passport biometrics if those are available as well.
UPS drivers are unionized. FedEx drivers at the local stage are a network of third party companies that contract to FedEx and put their logo on their trucks. Look at the grey fine print by the driver door.
I've ordered expensive things from Amazon to my office in the US and they did the whole code ritual... the driver just dumped it at the door and ran. It's all for show.
Over here I was definitely told by Amazon drivers that unless they type in the code it won't mark the parcel as delivered. The same with GPS trace - unless they are within ~100m of the destination it won't let them actually mark it as delivered. Maybe your driver didn't care about having missing parcels at the end of the day, but the system is strict about it(again, over here, maybe Amazon US is different).
Looming in the background of all this incompetence is the Heritage Foundation's Project 2025, a rather malicious document -- sure to be implemented -- that will cause an enormous amount of harm to a huge number of Americans, as well as to the environment.
It's starting to become clear that the buffoons are being put in charge of agencies that don't matter to the republicans, and the P2025 authors are being put into agencies, like the FCC, that forward the agenda.
We are entering Peak Puppet Government. The flashy facelifted puppets go on TV. The suits in the shadows regress our nation back to 1950 by reconfiguring or dismantling Federal oversight agencies. I'm terrified. I'm glad I don't have kids, and I'm glad my mother has private insurance.
But I'm terrified. If they decide to invalidate a few more Constitutional Amendments, will I lose my right to vote, being a woman and person of color? Will I lose my birthright citizenship? P2025 policies suggest I might, if they decide my parents, one being a naturalized immigrant, the other the descendant of enslaved Americans, are invalid citizens. Will I lose my job? Will I lose the right to clean air and clean water?
There is so much uncertainty. It's funny now. But I'm scared of what the US will look like in a decade because of policies coming in 2025.
"Once your bid is approved, the 5,000 Euro deposit will be held in escrow along with an additional 15,000 Euros for renovations. The 15,000 euros will be released after you make the necessary improvements to the property. Since you don’t get that money back until after renovations are complete, you need a total of 40,000 Euros (or $45,000) on hand to buy a $1 home in Italy."
You're committed to renovating the property, and unless you plan to live in the rubble of an abandoned house you will be managing Italian contractors and local bureaucrats from thousands of miles away who really don't give a crap if your project is on budget or on time. Buona fortuna!
The "reduce white point" is a great hidden feature in Accessibility that dims your backlight even further for nighttime reading. You can even assign it to a triple-click or backtap (another great hidden feature).
"In 2005, the FAA announced its intention to mandate inerting systems, which pump nitrogen into the fuel tanks to reduce their flammability, on board every new airliner and on any existing airliner built since 1991. The final rule was issued in 2008, and every applicable airliner in the United States — which by now is virtually all of them — had a nitrogen inerting system installed by 2018."
And, not coincidentally, United and Delta retired their passenger 747s just before the deadline. It was never mentioned in any of the press stories about the last flights, those tended to be more nostalgic.
InfoWars audience is loyal only to Jones himself and will never visit InfoWars again. Jones will go elsewhere, 100% of his audience will follow, and the Onion is in for a big letdown. If you are dreaming about reprogramming Jone's followers by taking over InfoWars, it just shows that you know nothing about the typical InfoWars consumer.
This my view, in fact the whole thing completely puzzles me, Jones is free to publish his vile views elsewhere and his followers will find him. Infowars "onion-style" would have to be pretty dammed subtle to "trick" Jonesites into consuming it sincerely.
How the parents of the Sandy Hook victims use their compensation is their business but I feel supporting advocacy for better mental health facilities in the USA would be a better use of the money.
I will never cease to by amused by the idea that Jones' fans value the InfoWars brand and website above Jones himself. He is a celebrity among his fans. Exactly 0 of them will pay any attention to InfoWars the minute Jones is no longer associated with the brand.
I don’t think they expected anything different. I think they saw the brand for sale at firesale prices, and decided they could use it. In fact, they’re one of the only ’mainstream’ outlets that can use the InfoWars brand, since it’s funny. Perhaps they will set up a ‘competing’ ‘right-wing’ satire site ala Colbert Report vs Daily Show.
The difficulty with this is that anything that isn’t a hard 180 involves continuing to publish approximately the same type of content for a while, which is probably unpalatable to The Onion. Anything that is a small enough course correction to retain its audience is too small a shift to get away from that hateful nonsense. It’s a nice idea to try to steer people away, but you have to start off by driving in the same direction, which nobody wants to do.
> The trick is to lie to them to get them away from their hateful and conspiracy theories
I can't articulate what you're admitting to exactly, but it's an interesting admission.
On a more serious note, most of the readers of these kinds of outlets aren't stupid in this specific sense. They go looking for confirmation, rather than new information. This is why they're hard to untangle.
> They go looking for confirmation, rather than new information. This is why they're hard to untangle.
This applies to most readers of most things, not just fringe content on the Left or the Right.
Most people are stuck in their confirmation biases, and few make an intellectual effort to look at topics from multiple angles and via multiple media outlets on various sides of the political spectrum.
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