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  • Your answer might be all those blue squiggly bits in the first picture on the left. That part of Scotland seems to have a lot of hills. I bet the 18.7 miles doesn't take elevation into account at all, while the 21.1 miles does

    (Oh, never mind, that's the whole route, while the shorter route in the second picture is "mostly flat". So maybe not.)

  • I see a fifth option. All US passports include this message:

    The Secretary of State of the United States of America hereby requests all whom it may concern to permit the citizen/national of the United States named herein to pass without delay or hindrance and in case of need to give all lawful aid and protection.

    So, since Marco Rubio is so concerned with all US citizens' lawful aid and protection, someone should escort her back to the US, drop her off with her US passport at the Rubio house, and tell Marco that it's his job to help her out. It says it right there!

  • But this is how he "negotiates" even back when he wasn't in the throes of dementia. Be belligerent, throw tantrums, whine when things aren't going your way, gloat when they are.

    Even a fully competent Trump probably thinks that he is "putting the screws" on China by doing this, to get a "better deal". Even though we shouldn't be linking these things at all.

  • "Ban Evasion" is such a bullshit concept anyway. Do something we don't like, and try and come back early? You can no longer come here, for life! And since I bet they IP ban, it bans your entire household! I wonder if there are some public places that are Reddit black holes, silently banning any Redditor who goes there because one person once called King Steven a greedy pigboy.

    I left Reddit at the time of the great APIcalypse, and there were some businesses whose customer service was so abysmal that the only practical avenue for customer service was on Reddit. Getting a permanent ban for bullshit reasons can have an actual effect if you need support from one of these companies.

    It surprises me that they haven't banned the wrong lawyer at the wrong time to prompt a class action lawsuit over how arbitrary it all is.

  • Low effort voters who recognize the name, but forgot exactly where from.

    Other voters who are fully aware that he's a crook, "but he's our crook".

    Throw in a few other olds who liked his dad, and poof, he's the mayor!

  • Bitcoin is pretty widely traded, though. By some accounts, it has a daily trading volume of 50B. 2B is just a drop in that bucket, so it's not enough to directly manipulate the price.

    No, if you want to make money by manipulating prices, you use a shitcoin. $TRUMP has a market cap of $2.5B, and a daily trading volume of 500M. A $2B investment in BTC can then be used on dodgy exchanges to buy and sell $TRUMP anonymously.

  • Exactly. The leadership has already picked Newsom, you can tell because he is already moving to the center.

    Harris lacks a key, critical asset to win the Presidency in today's America: a penis. Newsom already has one, so is any a clear advantage.

  • There are less than 4 billion valid public IPv4 addresses. At 4 bytes per address, a table of banned IP addresses is no more than 16 GB, which is child's play to store these days.

    You can compress it further and make a lookup table with 1 bit per public IP address (because you plan on banning a lot of IPs) and the size is reduced by 32x, to 512 MB. Now they can store their ban list in RAM indefinitely

  • The difference is that there are only so many of these elected political jobs. The only way for younger people to get direct experience is to run for them. And particularly for Congress, where there are only 435 seats nationwide and their districts were likely drawn to favor one party or another -- in many districts, the primary is the election.

    Yes, these people are advocating for the older generation to step aside. But even if they don't, they are advocating that a healthy party should have meaningful primaries for every position, and have every incumbent (including those older politicians) actively defend their seats if they want to keep them. I bet that if an older politician is with it enough to win a contested primary, even these folks would support them in the general election. (Plus, that losing candidate would have had experience running that contested election, so they can do better next time.)