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I honestly don't know why the GOP are attacking mail-in ballots.
It looks like it's more-or-less a wash in historical data:
Do Republicans or Democrats benefit from mail-in voting? It turns out, neither: Three decades of voting history reveals vote-by-mail does not give either party an edge
You might be able to intimidate voters or pull some other stunts locally that you cna't do remotely.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erewhon
Erewhon: or, Over the Range (/ˈɛr.ɛ.hwɒn/, ERR-eh-hwon)[2] is a utopian novel by English writer Samuel Butler, first published in 1872,[3] set in a fictional country discovered and explored by the protagonist. The book is a satire on Victorian society.[4]
In Erewhon, illness is crime and crime is illness. As a result, citizens are imprisoned for offenses like physical ailments, misfortune, or ugliness while those who commit conventional crimes like fraud or theft are seen more sympathetically as exhibiting symptoms of moral afflictions and prescribed sessions with a "straightener" (essentially a psychologist) for treatment.[5]
Officials said the man also insulted federal police officers during questioning. According to authorities, he made the remarks in Turkish without realizing that one of the interviewing officers understood the language.
I mean, even aside from that, I suspect that they're probably wearing bodycams...
Samsung is one of the Big Three memory manufacturers. Samsung's phone division had some news articles talkimg about how they couldn't get Samsung's memory division to give them privileged access, even.
(Though for context, about two years earlier, when there was a glut of memory and Samsung's memory division was losing money, they apparently went to the Samsung phone division and tried to get them to buy a bunch of the excess, which I suppose would have meant putting more memory in their phones than would have been optimal. The phone division told them no way.)
And now it's the phone division losing money and the memory division making a ton of money.
https://www.megamobilecontent.com/news/2026/07/17/samsung-phone-division-first-loss-memory-prices/
Samsung's mobile division may have posted its first-ever quarterly loss in Q2 2026, despite strong Galaxy S26 sales and record-breaking profits for Samsung Electronics overall.
The culprit is memory. DRAM prices have reportedly surged roughly 850% year-over-year, driven by insatiable demand from AI server infrastructure. Samsung's semiconductor division is reaping the benefits, but its mobile division is paying the bill.
It takes 4-5 years to build a new memory fab from scratch for companies in the industry.
They're talking about no price reductions for 1.5 years.
(And the reason they're saying that is because the first significant new production capacity isn't expected to be up until mid-2027 and isn't expected to be scaled up to full production until 2028.)
And they already moved that forward by something like six months, probably by spending more on stuff like construction, so I doubt that there's more slack to eliminate. Can't just speed it up a little more.
Earlier this month, research showed that memory prices are predicted to rise sharply between now and 2027, with no reductions expected until 2028. Now, Valve has shared its own view of the hardware market, and it's equally glum.
That's not really a position new to this month.
The Power of Siberia pipeline reached its designed capacity, allowing Gazprom to supply more natural gas to China … – 38.8 billion cubic meters. The compensation, however, is far from equivalent. Prices for gas sold to China are linked to a basket of petroleum products and are subject to a substantial discount, while the lack of alternative export routes leaves Moscow with little bargaining power.
The lack of alternative export routes leaves Moscow with little bargaining power in selling oil to China.
Yeah, from the various articles that have been coming up in the news on the long-term oil and gas deals that China has been cutting with Russia, I'm actually surprised that China is using said leverage as hard as it is. Whatever negotiator they have on it is extracting as much wealth from Russia as he can.
Negotiations between Russia and China over the proposed “Power of Siberia-2” natural gas pipeline have hit a complete deadlock following Beijing’s demands for steep price discounts, according to a report by The Wall Street Journal.
Sources familiar with the talks said the Russian negotiating team “hit a wall” after Beijing demanded that Moscow price the gas at its heavily subsidized domestic rate of about $50 per thousand cubic meters.
The pricing demand comes despite China already receiving substantial concessions. This year, Beijing pays $258.8 per thousand cubic meters—a 39% discount compared to the $420.2 average paid by Gazprom’s other international clients.
Internal Russian economic forecasts show China's price is slated to drop further to $223.9 next year. Still, Beijing is pushing for a rate eight times cheaper than what Russia's remaining global customers pay.
The natural resources may be inside Russian territory, but Russia's just going to be doing the work of extracting them and then handing most of the benefits off to China.
If Russia is forced to take said deals, China is going to be doing very well off it until Russia manages to climb out of the international relations hole that it's in. But the concern that I'd have from China's standpoint is that at those prices, Russia is going to do whatever it possibly can to figure out a way to cut the deal off as soon as it's able.
In effect, Russia's wealthiest state linked companies are being allowed to finance, equip, and direct their own armed formations to defend private industrial assets. This fundamentally shifts the balance of power between the Kremlin and Russia's oligarchs by giving major corporations armed personnel under their effective control.
I mean, it's been a good three years since the last time a wealthy, politically-connected Russian tried doing an armored push on Moscow.
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So you're telling me that I abstained from Taco Bell's Crunchwrap Supreme for nothing?