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So your definition of a democracy is a country where one political campaign cannot buy online advertising?

>You beg the question by beginning by comparing the USPS to other carriers. I at no point made a comparison between the USPS and any other carrier. >It's one of the few public institutions …

I admit to being inexact, but my larger point remains: Shippo's analysis (and most of the anecdotal reports about "slow mail") is regarding "parcels". (If you're going to…

This analysis only covers USPS package delivery, which is different from flats. Ballots are flats. Magazines are flats. Letters are flats. Anything non-bendable isn't. This is what has been happe…

He left Disney after being passed over for CEO. Although (assuming that Microsoft or a comparable company buys TikTok) he would likely stay on as its head, with potential to rise within should he do a…

The US is disproportionately iOS compared to the entire world, and especially US teens (I've seen estimates of something like 90%). iOS, the US, and US teens are all disproportionately important …

>Brilliant ruthlessness brought us one of the most destructive tools on earth, disguised as a site for peace, love, cat content and happiness Oh, good grief. Just say "Facebook didn't sto…

>Wow that's a sobering statistic. If true it means Biden is DOA. Social media wins elections. Trump lost MN in 2016 by 1.5%; the Floyd riots and looting might give the state to him this year (…

I was wondering about that too. For those claiming that Trump is mad at TikTok[1] because kpop fans on the site sabotaged the Tulsa campaign rally by signing up for (free) tickets, a) How do you know …

I pay $25 including taxes and fees for two unlimited lines on Sprint in the US, thanks to $15 Kickstart two years ago and the recent free line for life promotion.

>You're getting up to 97-98%, you're getting VERY confident. Silver made the same point about probability before the 2016 election, and got into a similar Twitter argument ( https:/&…

>The world’s biggest social network is working out what steps to take should President Trump use its platform to dispute the vote. And what about when Trump's opponent and the opponent's …

The US is 10% of TikTok's user base but 50% of revenue. Most of TikTok's most-followed users are American ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most-followed_TikTok_a..…

>So they're not 'forced' to per se - but if they don't sell they'll lose a large part of their market. Or am I wrong? Correct. The US is 10% of TikTok's user base, but…

Which are all common results of the flu, and other diseases. (Losing the ability to smell is what causes losing taste.)

No, a small noose is just a pull handle that the knotter decided to create in a noose shape. A real "threat or a sick joke" would surely have used a human-sized noose hung somewhere else, as…

epistasis is correct. Very few people live in the mountains and only come to town every six months. Density mattered a little bit early on, but SARS-CoV-2 is so infectious that it gets around no matte…

If you're one of those who expect a) Biden to win in November and b) not continue a Trump ban, you should know that US governmental skepticism of TikTok's user data vis-a-vis China is bipart…

>It was very much not 'just a knot': it was very clearly a noose A "noose" big enough for a cat, maybe. Certainly not a human being. At least you acknowledge that Wallace was ne…

I hadn't seen this. I was referring to his interview with Don Lemon before the tweet, in which he indeed doubled down on the noose angle. https://www.advocate.com/news/2020&#…

>No hoax there, just misunderstandings (and probably somebody's old, unnoticed attempt at harassing some other driver or driver's team). Did Bubba Wallace ever say "Hey folks, it loo…

>There isn't really any fraud. Oregon, a state with mail-on voting only, has a actual fraud rate of 1 in a million. One ballot per year is fraudulent. Oregon has also been 100% vote-by-mail fo…

As I quoted earlier, Trump pointed out the fraud potential in doing so, especially given the little time remaining before ballots have to go out.

True. But my larger point is that even aside from the current drop in overall USPS non-package volume, the USPS has a lot of experience in handling lots of mail. Think of every adult in every househol…

That's the AP's wholly unfounded interpretation of what Trump said. Later on the article quotes him as saying >"They want $3.5 billion for something that will turn out to be fraudule…

No. Two extra letters per household (one ballot, then one returned ballot), largely spread out over days or weeks, is just not that much more volume for the USPS. That's of course the maximum; in…

Correct. Volume of flats (exactly what it sounds like; mail that can be bent, basically) has plummetted since COVID19 began, while Priority Mail is no longer 2-3 days to anywhere in the US.

I would hate for vmception and lisper to learn about the European heat wave of 2003, which killed 30,000-70,000 https://www.vox.com/world/2019/6/26/18744518/he…