Who exactly are we talking about here? Are you saying I should be harassing the people in the marketing department at my company? Or are you saying we should have visibility campaigns about the companies involved in the Internet ad networks? Or someone else?

No; however, you essentially have a line between price and noise, and you need to check what they filter, how expensive the filters are, and how often they need to be replaced, as well as how much it costs to run them.

Depends on what the air purifier was filtering. Mine does PM10, PM2.5, VOC and NO2. That means it’s filtering out particles down to 2.5mm plus volatile organic compounds (smoke, aerosolized oils, water vapour with pathogens, etc) and nitrous oxide.

The filter is a multi stage filter; the PM2.5 stuff passes right through the PM10 filter.

Interestingly, if I want to clear a room of smoke, sawdust, drywall dust or similar, what works the best is running my shop vac with a HEPA filter installed until I can’t smell the dust/smoke (usually around 5 minutes) and then I turn my air filter on full blast and it clears up the air in around 20 minutes. If I just used the air filter, I’d probably clog it up and then just have to replace the comparatively expensive filter.

It’ll be interesting to see what the other 18 do with the US and Russia out of the room. Possibly some real and dependable agreements can be hammered out.

We already know that Mar-a-Lago was a source for some of the girls that ended up on Epstein’s island.

Thanks for the direct headline; most of the others are just saying “announces retirement” which implies she’s retiring sometime reasonably soon.

Although I guess 2027 is soon when you’ve been doing something for 37 years….

The times I’ve been caught in an airport brouhaha, you know what happened? They called out the National Guard.

Maybe that’s the end game here?

Other way around here… no taxation without representation. If they’ve shut everything down, they’re not representing their constituents, so there should be no tariffs/taxation until they come to an agreement.

Religion has to do with habits and practices. So someone can brush their teeth religiously.

Christianity is a religion, but it’s also a faith-based belief system that incorporates alternate planes of existence. Some people eschew the religion part but still have the belief system, and some people play inside the religion without actually believing in the spiritual side of things.

I like to explain Christianity as the belief in a multidimensional being who defines the dimensions we can observe and has done a bit of mucking around in a way that was measurable by us. Angelic appearances? Most would call them aliens, as they’d be extra terrestrial intelligences. Spiritual possession? A different dimension that has an effect on the ones we inhabit, but is currently beyond our capacity to fully understand.

Is it a blind spot? They did discover and shut down those Chinese “police stations” in Germany….

Next up: no more license plates for their cars, and all the windows can be tinted.

Why am I getting the correct headline but a totally different article at that link?

It goes right into:

GOPer Joins Dems in Calling Out Trump Over Lack of Boat Strike Info

I think the first will be contingent on the second?

Someone recently managed to get on a Microsoft Teams call with representatives from phone hacking company Cellebrite, and then leaked a screenshot of the company’s capabilities against many Google Pixel phones, according to a forum post about the leak and 404 Media’s review of the material.

I for one am perplexed; what is that company actually getting out of these affiliate signups? Even after people start paying, it’s costing them more than they’re making, and when they finally charge maintainable rates, everyone can just stop subscribing and lose nothing of value.

My regular walking speed is 8km/h… when I run distances it’s ~13km/h, and if I’m sprinting it can be over 20km/h.

They’re essentially saying the speed limit is set to swimming pool deck speeds.

I think the author has misunderstood what the phrase “it’s too bad” means when Trump says it.

“It’s too bad it isn’t me who owns that building” always meant he was going to do whatever it took to own the building, for example. It’s how he expresses his desire to have something at any cost.

Counterpoint to all of this:

Something I’ve noticed recently in the news is that ICE makes the headlines, and then when you dig down to the details, the real problem is often CBP or some other department that’s along for the ride. Difficult to tell, I’m sure, when everyone is masked and not wearing clear identification.

Just saying that abolishing ICE wouldn’t necessarily get rid of the problem, and I suspect that there’s still a chunk of ICE you never see because they’re actually doing the work they’re traditionally supposed to be doing.

The entire system needs to be fixed, not just abolishing one department that’s been co-opted as the poster boy for the abuse of the system.

People online actually exist and aren’t just a simulation.

Progressive talk radio on in the background at all times?