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Daily. On top of general search engines, I have a bunch of custom ones added to Firefox so I can skip the Google/Bing/Yandex step.

It appears there is a bug with it on Firefox. The game loads with a word and what looks like five possible answers, but after a few seconds the screen goes blank.

Self-hosted VPNs cleanly solve the port access problem using free software. As a bonus, there's generally minimal added latency because it's just another encrypted direct TCP connection.

It's a bit difficult to nail down direct citations for what is basic knowledge of how tariffs work in reality. It's covered in AP/college macroecon and U.S. history classes.

Wikipedia's articles on Smoot–Hawley and the Tariff of Abominations both have sections on their effects.

In short, we'll see a brief rise in the domestic economy, then a sharp recession. One of the reasons SE Asia, BRICS, and the EU have been so active to disconnect themselves from the U.S. is they don't want to get caught up in the U.S. economic failure like they did in the 1930s.

Given all the remote work tech that the pandemic helped mature, the answer seems obvious.

Trump is using century-old misinformation about tariffs to raise tax revenue to pay for tax cuts on the wealthy. In reality, it's an added tax on all spending that accelerates inflation.

Tariffs are theoretically supposed to encourage domestic production, but rely on the false premise that all raw and intermediate materials can be sourced domestically at a cost below the import price. That has generally proven to not work unless tariffs are in the hundreds of percent. But at that level, import taxes tend to poison entire sectors due to supply lag instead of drive domestic economies.

I'm taking bets, do you think the tariffs will:

1. be rescinded/paused in [0,2) days;

2. be rescinded/paused in [2,4) days;

3. be rescinded/paused in [4,7] days;

4. not be rescinded/paused.

The Gimme-brand seaweed snacks I get contain oxygen absorbers. So do packages of Tillamook Country Smoker jerky and meat sticks.

They seem to be fairly common with packages of jerky and other self-stable cured meats.

The ones in food are often oxygen absorbers instead of dessicants. They contain iron "sand" that is, unfortunately, not reusable. They're usually very flat and have a "do not microwave" warning on them in addition to "do not eat".

(This is not to say dessicant packets aren't used in food, just that not all of those packets are dessicants)

This seems a very odd outcome. After all the supposed changes post-9/11, I would think an international flight crew would need to be known to the destination and have entry clearance just to operate the flight.

Of h.264, h.265, vp8, vp9, and av1, h.264 is the only codec with consistent support across all of chat/messaging clients, browsers, smart TVs/phones, tablets, and streaming devices. The population of active, supported devices and software is much larger and much older than people realize. As such, it remains the only viable video codec if you don't want to be forced to provide multiple encodings.