Yeah that’s why I called out it costs money.

Its also kinda similar to taxes, the US pretty much already knows all this info already, yet somehow we can’t manage to make elections easy and free.

Have you tried getting a realID? It’s just as bad as getting a passport and costs a chunk of change. I’m pissed off states weren’t able to shut it down. Now you need a passport effectively to fly domestically.

Anyone got a summary? It’s pay walled.

Solely to go local. Given the Trump administration has been acting in bad faith there has been a push to find goods and services internal to the EU.

Yeah, I know why the guy came clean, but it would have been so much more useful if we stayed on the chat. Really a big missed opportunity.

Gifs are actually really inefficient. It’s largely a legacy format issue, but Gifs store every frame as it’s own image while mp4s (in simple terms) store the delta between frames.

This link sorta talks about it - https://medium.com/@trongawesome/gif-vs-video-9b9392ec5814

This article and thread are talking about border agents, which operate under different rules/regulations than you local police officer.

While US citizens cannot be denied entry, non-citizens can if they refuse to unlock their phone. Even US citizens can have devices confiscated if you refuse to unlock the phone for them - https://www.theverge.com/policy/634264/customs-border-protection-search-phone-airport-rights. Because at the border, it’s been decided searches don’t require a warrant.

I’ve seen this a lot recently. This isn’t about what police can do, it’s about border crossings. You can be required to unlock your device when entering the country or be denied entry (or possibly worse).

The best route is to have a phone specifically for travel.

Yeah, there are a lot of comments here berating it, but it barely passed as it was and has only been on the chopping block since. If people want something better, they need to work to help the republican voters demand it, cause it isn’t the democratic voters holding Healthcare change back.

Seeing a lot of responses that are wrong because they are talking about what police in the US can do. This article is about border crossing where border patrol can ask you to unlock the phone without any warrant/etc. If you refuse then you can be denied entry to the country (although I believe that is just non-citizens). Not sure if things can escalate from there.

Edit: which means if your phone was off, they’d just ask you to turn it on and unlock it.

Yeah, unlike Google a lot of these make sense (as in technology moved on) or were transitioned into other systems (Skype vs teams) or taken over by other products (atom vs vs code).

It actually makes Microsoft look somewhat good compared to the Google graveyard.

I thought it was okay. It’s pretty cheap at $5, but is probably only a few hours long.

That being said, digging a hole is a little thereaputic.

Thanks for adding the additional context!

What’s funny is the covid drop isn’t even that bad either compared to some other recession. So the 2022 blip is really inconsequential.

That’s a fair criticism, if things can get worse for people when we aren’t in a recession, then why would we care about recessions.

The truth is that a recession is just one metric that we use to track the economy. However, the economy is a big complex system and things like recession are there to track a global state, and aren’t refined enough to track things like inequality.

One failing in recent times for economic data is around “full employment vs part time employment” and other things like “is this person making a livable wage”. The hard thing with a lot of inequality or livable wage discussions is they are inherently political and not something that is as easy to track/detail/communicate/etc. vs numbers like GDP.

So, yes having better numbers would be great, but most likely this admin will fudge and hide numbers making things even more difficult to track (both now and in the future). Additionally while people are hurting now, during a recession even more people will be hurting (and most likely hurting worse than they are now).

I don’t disagree. My point was that we weren’t in a recession. Things may have been bad for many people, but that was when the “economy” was doing well.

Current indications are that the “economy” is heading for a downturn. If things were already rough for people, it certainly isn’t going to get better if that happens.

I posted elsewhere, but I think the real issue is that it really didn’t look like a recession. While technically it was a recession by the two negative quarters definition, if you look at real GDP it’s barely a blip.

I suspect at the time the concern was that calling it a recession would have impacted the recovery. Not that I think that’s a good excuse, but they werent hiding the data. With Trump, he’s trying to hide the downturn rather than trying to rally the recovery.

Calling out Biden here is a very “both sides” centrist kinda mindset.

Not really, maybe a blip of something in 2021-2022, but generally the US economy as a whole has been doing alright - Real GDP. Individual people though have been getting beaten up recently, but boy is that about to get worse.

I mean, it’s only been 2 months. 9% drop vs 5% gain is a 14% shift from expected. That’s impressive, and Trump administration is just getting started.

I think that’s an okay use - https://grammarist.com/usage/forecast-forecasted/

But grammar is not my strong suit.

It may be located in Virginia, but it’s the closest international airport and is on the DC metro system. If things are slow at Dulles, it means people aren’t flying to DC.