He did the same thing with Biden for four years ago. He is trying to help the party rally around whoever the nominee is so he stays out of the selection arguments.
In the US you probably get 2 weeks of flexible PTO and about 5 days where everybody gets a day off. Even that is not guaranteed US law doesn't require any PTO.
Yeah I did an 11.68K system on my house with battery backup for the critical stuff like refrigerator. Cost was 18K for parts, permits, and PE drawings.
Me and my wife were able to do all the work except for moving the panels up on the roof. Two friend helped with that task.
The Intel CEO had always come from engineering fab. This kept the high level decisions made by somebody who understood the product and how it was made.
Then CEO and the head of fab was caught sexually harassing employees. They were both shown the door. So no CEO and the guy who was next in line were gone. They needed the number 2 in fab to take over fab to keep production up.
So the board decided to make the CFO the new CEO. A guy who had a MBA was running a chip company that had only been run by engines.
Profits went up for a while but then Intel struggled to maintain innovation and properly upgraded fab and chip design. Add the increasing skill of rivals and a increase in importance in chips other then server and desktop. which were the only areas Intel was king. It's a recipe for failure.
Copyright is classified as a legally enforced monopoly. So are patents.
Personally I think both have been made overly long in duration and broad in scope. But without some exclusive period I can't see things like TV shows, movies, books, or games being made with even 1% of the current quality or quantity.
Yeah Piper Peeri is the tiny blond from the meme with her and five big black guys. She has some dark stuff in her past that I always think of when that meme pops up.
You say it's a non-representative performance for Biden but that's not really true. Biden has not been doing many interviews. He does prescripted events where he can use a teleprompter.
You have to go back to Regan to get fewer press conferences. He even skipped the traditional superbowl interview that is a notorious softball.
This all suggests that his team knows he can't handle an interview and are avoiding it. If they thought he could handle it with his polling they would have him doing them all the time.
After the debate performance he needs to do something to show he can string some thoughts together in a coherent way. I think this Fridays interview is a desperate last shot to do that.
New Who tends to run on Bugs Bunny logic but also wants you to take it seriously. Try some old Doctor Who if you can handle very bad effects. Early Tom Baker or the Jon Pertwee stuff at least tries to make sense.
Also they often have the doctor have to work at the problem and have a plausible solution. Now it's just I pushed the radiation in my shoe.
Back then the sonic screwdriver was just a high tech swiss army knife. The doctor would use it to open panels and rewire things. These days it's a do anything magic wand.
Taxes in the US for crypto are easy. I sold some crypto I had and just put the amount in the other income box and paid the tax.