What’s the issue here? The more normal candidate is writing a letter saying she had nothing to do with the election funny business, and heading off potential demonisation by the one person everyone in the Western world is afraid of.

I mean, to be fair, it’s not the local language.

Yup.

And honestly direct regulation is hard here. Those are the two expenses that grow out of control, because it’s really hard to measure how much marketing or managing you need exactly. No empirical proof of overspending means no legal case against the directors.

Ideally, they’d have to provide something like the MER (management expense ratio) you see on investment funds. Charity kind of is like an investment on the behalf of the greater good, if you think about it.

Management and marketing bloat is extremely common for nonprofits, unfortunately. Especially large ones.

Ones that don’t do that exist too, but it’s a thing you have to be wary of.

I did say “at present”.

You can install LineageOS (assuming you have a reflashable piece of hardware) and run it in airplane mode, it’s true, although that itself is slowly getting more difficult as everything gets app-ified. Just doing stuff the boomer way is easier in practice, in my experience - which, again, is at present.

If we’re allowed completely changing the way the telecom and tech sectors operate ahead of time, yeah, I guess we can get rid of physical signs and just look at the world through our phone screens. That’s obviously a taller order than adding a single regulation, though.

Smartphones at present are small surveillance devices vaguely dressed up as a tool. That medicine is far worse then the disease. I’m going to say at least a very plain description and open/closed signs need to be up.

Las Vegas wouldn’t be the same without all the lights. Where I live there’s a limit to one moderately-sized sandwich board, and I quite like it. Somewhere else they might want totally bare streets. All could be accommodated.

Or just allow on a whitelist-only basis.

Sure, a sandwich board outside your restaurant seems nice, but it seems like the actually-socially-useful examples are few enough that you could get through them all no problem.

The colour scheme exaggerates this a little bit. 20-some isn’t that different from 30-some.

Other than the frame, what components aren’t being replaced? I’ll admit my fridge knowledge is mostly theoretical.

Oh my god, that’s horrible.

There’s several ISM bands, though, pretty evenly spaced. The 13.5MHz one is used for passive RF chips like on credit cards, for example. They’re skinny, but for purposes where bandwidth doesn’t matter they can be. For other purposes bandwidth is scarce enough there has to be tight regulation.

Actually high water absorption happens in mm wave bands up in the hundreds of GHz (and THz too, if we could make a decent transmitter). Those fucked up riot control devices that make your skin feel on fire work based on that principle, because the heat will only go deep enough to hit pain receptors. Presumably, they stop working if you get a water mixture of any kind on the window, too.

Mine doesn’t connect to anything AFAIK. Actually, maybe it has Bluetooth? I’ve never bothered with it, though.

I would hope it’s a special, heavy-duty kind at least.

They’re on everything because it legitimately just is a good way to get lots and lots of controls and displays on a limited space.

The water resonance thing is a myth, AFAIK. Strong absorption is actually a bad thing for a microwave oven, because then it would only heat the surface. The way they work is effectively bouncing the radiation through a barely-absorbing dielectric thousands of times, to get the effect really even.

The frequency is probably just an easy one to build magnetrons for.

Really!? That’s a bit of a life hack. Good to know.

Usually mass-produced is a fraction of the price of anything bespoke.

Maybe just one without proper breakers?

From what I’ve seen, it’s mostly plastic. Lots and lots plastic containers and compartments.

Look, I’m Canadian, taking the piss out of Americans is a national sport. It just was kind of a non-sequitur here.

So what you’re saying is there actually are bins fairly regularly, just indoors?

East Asia loves individually packaged everything. Americans would need to eat ridiculously more food to beat them, just by quantity like you’re suggesting. They do eat a bit more, on average, but not that much - and the gap is closing.

Uh, history? Almost all of it. You think that’s the history of a nice species? Or do you think everyone has spontaneously become nicer, just for this generation? We haven’t, at least not appreciably; we just have stronger institutions now to manage it.

Also, it’s way more than 4%. I’m guessing it’s a majority that would agree with that statement. There’s even religions about it. Weren’t you the one just complaining about everyone being littering savages? Hopefully you don’t just mean people not where you live - that would be a very historical thing to think.