Not really.

The only reason there is one fewer name than expected is because of Bush, which had the father appear on the ballot four times and the son appear twice. The Bush family was a very old school political dynastic family.

The only outlier on the Democratic side is Hillary Clinton in 2016. She used her husband’s political career to help her, but they were a self made political family. You also have the case where Biden could have been on the 2016 ballot and there would be no change in the number of names.

There isn’t an inherent financial reason for contributing to Creative Commons work the way there is for Open Source.

Major companies will contribute some development resources to Open Source software because they will get a concrete benefit and the overall effort will be cheaper than going with a closed source option. There really isn’t the equivalent for Creative Commons media.

Metal and grunge still happened in a music video era.

I think a bigger thing that happened was the collapse of the CD. From that point, the new acts that the industry seemed to focus on were individuals instead of groups.

Because that kind of federal system doesn’t work well when you run a city.

Any sort of high pressure sales sucks.

Patrick (H) Willems is great movie criticism with plot.

I can’t remember which YouTuber called Real Life Lore the store brand Wendover, but it fits.

Probably as a stripped down bacteria.

The Nintendo 64 was really the last time Nintendo tried competing on hardware specs for the console market.

After that, you had a major electronics company subsidizing hardware to gain market share and a major software company subsidizing development and software graphics tools to be used also on their computer systems as the two different competitors.

It depends on the industry. In the kind of industry where someone is running an office department, they can negotiate for more time off and less responsibility in return for a lower salary.

And they are heavily regulated.

North is the right hand rule to galactic spin.

I talked to one person near retirement age who talked about climbing down the corporate ladder. The idea is to take jobs of progressively less responsibility and more vacation and use the time to transfer knowledge to junior staff.

Use the money to fund better and longer vacations.

No, it is based more on the weather.

Honestly, I still use the restroom.

I liked Hank Green’s stand-up about his experience with cancer.

Mine was relatively minor, but I felt like the times I started to vent my feelings, it was met with either stunned silence or quick assurances that everything would feel alright. It was like I really shouldn’t vent my feelings and be heard, just accept that everything will be alright.

The only “right wing” policy I see her implementing is the border control compromise bill if that gets passed.

I think continued support of Israel is up in the air due to the election being close and AIPAC making it an issue.

Looking at a lot of her new domestic policy goals, I expect a lot of the effort will go into either reducing cost of living for millennials or increasing salaries.

Various militaries will train soldiers in some form of close quarters combat. All of them will say the best this training will do is buy time for someone with a weapon to come in and finish the job.

1. You’ve now put up a paywall on Facebook for new users. Worse, a lot of new users are likely not going to have a banking account in their name, so there is nothing to verify except maybe a location of bank.
2. Banks do not verify identity for people online. The few companies that do verification are major tech companies, but then Meta may not want to force users to build up an account elsewhere before making an account on their website.
3. All email verification does is verify that a person has an email address. It does not verify that the email address is for a person.