Election polling, analysis, and prediction is a mature industry with plenty of reliable commentators who can help answer your question. Here is just one example:

https://www.cookpolitical.com/analysis/senate

Portrayal to the contrary is mostly due to non-experts pumping their own ego, or deliberate media spin.

Let's undo the great vowel shift and modernize English spellings :-D

I also lament the landscapes covered by solar panels. Even deserts are not dead barren ecosystems. Some of these installs are only slightly better than paving the whole area.

But I get it, and tradeoffs are necessary.

Another reason China may prefer this to more concentrated nuclear power is that is is much more distributed and resilient to targeted attacks.

>Some of these installs are only slightly better than paving the whole area.

Utter horseshit.

Putting up what amounts to a bunch of shade on steel pillars just doesn't harm the environment. There are more than a few contexts where it improves the environment.

There's no identified or predicted harm from large scale photovoltaic installations.

Putting aside the salt water, you'll also just have lots of crud and debris on the panels if they get over topped, which then requires cleaning. Unless the rain in that area is strong and consistent enough.

Seems like a weird location to me, but what do I know.

Please, if you want good pesto, worry less about the ratios, and use real Parmiggiano Reggiano instead of "parmesan".

I live in Europe. When we say "parmesan" we almost always mean real Parmigiano Reggiano, and sometimes, in emergencies, Grana Padano.

If you want to understand these people, watch the Daily Beast podcast "Inside Trump's Head" with Michael Wolff. It's a little slow but will paint the picture of their motivations, friendship, falling out, etc etc.

Epstein died in 2019. People have suggested they had Thanksgiving dinner together in 2017 based on vague references in one of the emails, but Trump's presence at Mar a Lago is confirmed that day.

Ah sorry, I was anchoring "beginning of first term" and misplaced that as 2020. Fuck how time flies!

The "vague reference" is Epstein himself seeming to suggest he was having dinner with Trump. But you're right that there isn't direct corroborating evidence beyond Epstein saying so and their travel schedules aligning in South Florida over Thanksgiving.

IMO it should not be hard for large services like Roblox and Instagram to get together with device makers to come up with a sensible solution.

When you create a new profile on Netflix you mark it as "kids" and voila. Devices should have kid profiles with lots of sane defaults. The parent profiles have a thorough monitoring and governance features that are dead simple to use.

As always it's not perfect but it will go a long way. Just getting a majority of parents on sane defaults will help unknot the broader coordination problems.

I agree. There were attempts to do something like this with porn sites via the .xxx TLD I believe, but that inverts the problem. Don't force the public to go to a dark alley for their guilty pleasures. Instead, the sites that want to target kids need to be allowlisted. That is much more practical and palatable.

Yeah.. the opposition was just a bad take IMO... "but it will create a virtual red light district" which is EXACTLY what you want online, unlike a physical city, you aren't going to accidentally take a wrong turn, and if you're blocking *.xxx then it's even easier to avoid.

Then require all nudity to be on a .edu, .art or .xxx, problem mostly solved.

> Then require all nudity to be on a .edu, .art or .xxx, problem mostly solved.

Who's doing the requiring here? Sounds like yet another path to censorship dystopia.

In the case of cc-tlds the respective government... In the case of other TLDs ICANN.

edit: .edu provides for educational content, .art for artistic expression, .xxx for explicit content.

Who decides where the art erotica boarder is? There is plenty of content that would straddle that border, I have seen art that could legitimately called pornographic and pornography i would describe as art. Who decides? And then you have prudes Florida Texas red states trying to prevent remove any thing from an .edu and would happily ban the .xxx entirely and would find any .art suspect and probably ban it.

Government is of course the quintessential multi-agent coordination problem.

It has big problems when the people running it don't embody the values that it depends on.