If a tourism video made you not want to visit a place it would be a pretty bad tourism video.

Bare minimum for holding a conversation: Scott, Palmer, Malone, Hudson, Martinez, Martin, Howard, Kapoor, Bratton, Lapin-Vance, Bernard, Lewis, Hannon, Philbin, Halpert, Beesly, Schrute

It’s kind of fun in an ironic meme way!

Just did this myself. I had a collection of regular watches that I went back to and I’m loving it.

I also just bought a DAP for music and already have an XTEink X4 ereader. Slowly moving to get rid of a mart phone all together.

Because they weren’t appropriately punished at the time.

Why do so many in the US feel entitled to make decisions for others?

What downvotes?

Forgive me if I doubt it could be appropriately regulated and properly applied in the US.

state seizure of the vehicle

Absolutely not if you’re talking the US. We already have civil forfeiture which is abused far to easily and frequently.

lol your friends want you to come and fake it even if you’re drained? They don’t sound like good friends then.

lol

artificial scarcity

That’s called “lack of demand”

Only a little over 10% of Americans have an e-reader and their popularity is declining.

E-ink screens will continue to be niche technology without the advantages of increased development by competing manufacturers.

Way back in the early 2000s cellphones varied greatly. All the designs and models that were available and all pretty distinctive. Today the market is almost exclusively touch screen smart phones; evolutions of the early designs by Apple, HTC, Samsung etc.

Three years later the first iPad was released and that same year Samsung released the Galaxy Tab.

Widespread adoption and competition drives development.

The market works the other way. You want a lot of adoption at the mobile level which will drive development faster and then those developments can be scaled up.

The iPad exists, in part, because of the iPhones specifically and the development of touch screen mobile technology in general.

There’s a whole article about HOAs. Pay especially close attention to the part about common interest developments, that’ll be the reason why HOAs are growing rapidly across the US.

Humans are worse. Dogs, and many other animals, simply follow their instinctive behavior. We, as humans, have the ability to reason and still do all the gross and nasty shit we do.

Trump was never against war in Iran or the Middle East and he’s not for it now.

Trump’s only interest and allegiance is to Trump and always has been. Donald J. Trump is what NPD would be if it came to life off the pages of a psychology textbook.

He started a war with Iran. It was the Republican president before him, Bush, who started a war with Iraq.

Online piracy is still incredibly common, accounting for as much as 22% of online traffic during peak times.

While it has declined somewhat overall there’s starting to be a resurgence and the crackdown in 2023 that took down most of the pirating sites just consolidated a lot of it and evolved how people pirate.

https://worldmetrics.org/piracy-statistics/

https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/files/media/documents/2025/nonprofit-checklist-grant-terminated.pdf

Fund raising?

That is one common method of raising money privately for a cause or organization.

Privately funded with what?

Money that doesn’t belong to the government. For example, money that is privately owned.

The state government also already covered half the costs of the program for the state. This is just some extra funding to cover the rest so that it doesn’t have to come from private funding.

Looks like it would be private funding like before except completely funded privately.