Not really. Politicians have a lot of control over those contacts and they are written to benefit the government.

Dealing with government contracts, a lot of governments prefer to outsource some activities when the private market can provide these services. The idea is that it makes it easier to fire individual non-performers.

It isn’t just one country doing it, it is just the one most reported on in English language news.

I can’t remember which show it was, but fans wrote in letters on KFC bucket packaging because KFC was a major advertiser on the show.

A spelling mistake that bad deserves some shade.

It is a low cost airline like Spirit.

So yes.

If it weren’t for the bubble, we’d already be in a recession.

I’m taking about default behavior. 20+ years ago, the default phone call was pushing a piece of technology against an ear an next to your mouth. That hasn’t been the default for a while.

Probably how children were raised to speak to people over the phone.

Until the iPhone, I can’t think of too many personal phones that could put the call on speaker. So, if families with kids called other family, it was usually a form of one on one calls where people handed the phone off between each other. Nowadays, the default option is to put the call on speaker so everyone can hear everyone else. That set an expectation to where calls are on speaker unless there is a need for privacy.

“In these two wars, security cameras are being hacked as a way to gain intelligence”

Fixed the headline.

Yeah. These quotes from Londoners before compulsory education show how bad it was:

https://youtube.com/shorts/i4TICZ67Ws4

I think it is the future, but the future is much slower getting here than people think and will likely be more bespoke than dumping the entire written contents of the English language into a computer.

I don’t see why not. Israel attacked oil infrastructure, showing this was as much an economic war as anything else.

I don’t see it as “recreational” because it has a quantifiable benefit to physical health.

Some people do it because of the cost of living differential. If pay in the city is over three times what you could make local, you might be incentivized to take a long commute and deal with it.

There are some supercommuters who travel long distances to work in Manhattan. I knew of some who live in Pennsylvania.

It depends on the states. I won’t be surprised if some states cancel their elections because the incumbents don’t want to risk the results not being what they want.

The closest that I get to watching pure Star Trek content is some videos of Lore Reloaded.

Even then, his content isn’t so much about the current Star Trek but more going into politics and military theory of the Federation.

He didn’t even inform Congress before the attack.

Bush spent months trying to convince the world that invading Iraq was justified.

Trump didn’t even do that.