37% in 6 months. It takes a long time for international travel plans to change. That’s a significant number who canceled a fully planned/booked trip, and even more that were tentative.

I’d really like to see the data graphed by month.

TIL that was part of it as well

Related: JC Penney very publicly stopped pretending everything was always on sale, and just set everything to the “sale” price.

Despite the publicity of the move, sales tanked. Just a few months later, everyone involved was sacked, and they went back to pretending everything was always on sale.

This is a very old meme. It looks to be from 2019, and is just another repost by a random person (or bot) on the Internet. It has nothing to do with Epstein on any level.

This is a terrible article, conflating “parties” with any sort of socialization. Even worse is that it seems to imply “house parties”, which involve teens/young adults and binge-drinking.

On top of all that, it’s based on the question of these activities on a typical weekend. Having some time to yourself, or just having a variety in your free time, is approached negatively.

Watts (and gigawatts) are not a unit of energy. They are a unit of power, or you can think of it as a rate.

900 watts for an hour is 900 watt-hours, or 0.9 kWh. For 24 minutes (3 minutes x8) is 360 Wh, or 0.36kWh.

All of the major public LLM and diffusion models (ChatGPT, copilot, Grok, etc) are absolutely using more than a gigawatt. And I mean constantly. They are trying to create nuclear power plants exclusively to power an AI Datacenter. You could math out how much that is per query (not per person), but it’s absolutely insane.

I’m assuming you’re in the US and looking at Dell Latitude, HP EliteBook, or Lenovo Thinkpad, possibly on eBay from a recycling company.

Many large corporations buy these with a 3 year warranty, and stretch those to 4 or 5 years unless they break. Once the devices are too old, they go through a decom process. This usually includes sanitizing the data. Depending on the corporation, this could mean a secure erase, or it could mean physical destruction with a grinder. Then they send it to a recycler or refurbisher, who pays them a pittance for the remaining value. It’s also why they are frequently missing the hard drive caddy - the difference in value is minimal, so they remove it the fastest way possible.

Power bricks and docks are usually usable on other models/generations, so those aren’t sent to recycling until they are useless. That’s why you often see laptops listed without bricks.

7th gen is from 2017. Most corporations are on a 4-year cycle, so have already been replaced twice since then. Very few are motivated by the Win11 requirements.

What makes you think they won’t, or haven’t already?

Gerrymandering is an old technique, and (tragically) ingrained in US politics. The difference now is how boldly and specifically the lines can be drawn to gain an unfair advantage.

Whether or not California does it, you can count on Ohio and Florida doing their worst.

This is terrible advice. Ask any urologist and they will tell you the same. OP, ask YOUR urologist about it.

Vasectomies can, in some circumstances, be reversed. You should not plan on yours being one of them. You should plan on it being permanent and irreversible.

It’s tough to predict the future. Most people don’t start wanting kids until they’re older than that, or at least until they’re in a serious relationship. Given that you did not mention one, I’m going to assume that you are unattached. Most single people in their twenties want to get laid without having kids.

You may find that a vasectomy is a complete blocker for certain relationships. However, if you truly do not want kids, those would be doomed regardless.

Will you change your mind? Perhaps. Many people’s views on the subject change as they enter their 30s. But that doesn’t mean yours will.

It might also be worth considering why you want a vasectomy right now. If you are single, you should not be hooking up with random people unprotected. If you are in a relationship, this is something that you should discuss with your partner.

I specifically mentioned Les Wexner for a reason. While the public information includes an absolute ton of red flags, and it’s very likely that he bought child prostitutes, it doesn’t reach the level proof beyond a reasonable doubt. IOW, it’s unlikely to reach a conviction in court.

These people are also rich enough to drag out a court case for decades, even longer than the government. As such, they aren’t likely to take a plea agreement that’s more than a slap on the wrist and without admitting anything serious.

Legal Eagle just released a video about “the real Epstein files”. The main point they covered in the video is victim impact. The victims could be threatened and harassed because of the info.

Another point not covered is that criminal case info is typically not disclosed. Releasing a list of accused perpetrators (i.e. pedophiles/child rapists) encourages vigilante justice. It also interferes with any ongoing investigations, which should (at least in theory) still be ongoing.

I don’t want Trump to release the case info. I want his DOJ to announce charges against people like Les Wexner, based on that info. And I want it to not just be his political enemies and bullshit lies.

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