No? The Surgeon General is the highest ranking medical officer. The HHS Secretary does not need to know medicine to do their job, though I imagine it helps for part of it.

Most schools aren’t talking about it or targeted.

Mate, it’s a cheese quesadilla. It’s two tortillas, cheese, and heat…

Joking aside, there are a few out there. A lot of people are surprisingly into figuring out copycatting popular fast food.

There are some instances where Reddit is still a great source of information just due to the sheer size of the community. But there’s a lot more shit to wade through after the exodus a couple years back. I haven’t signed back in for years.

While China is considered part of the global south, its economy is so massive and it is so influential globally it really shouldn’t be.

Edit: Also in China’s case, that was the UK, not the US.

It’s true, Sabra’s zero-day exploits must be stopped!

Ok but no one is arguing Windows is encrypted. Google is specifically stating, in a way that could get them sued for shitloads of money, that their messaging protocol is E2EE. They have explicitly described how it is E2EE. Google can be a bad company while still doing this thing within the bounds we all understand. For example, just because the chat can’t be backdoored doesn’t mean the device can’t be.

It’s actually kjnd of the opposite: America has the dominant culture going back generations. It’s just that culture is very materialistic, so people try to find something deeper. That’s my theory anyway. Besides, most of us are immigrants and I think a lot of Americans want some connection to their place of origin.

https://xkcd.com/703/

While it’s chemistry, there is a bit of an art to it, and you can be off by a bit and still have perfectly good bread.

DC has a local criminal code.

A man’s gotta do what a man’s gotta do.

We haven’t figured out how?

Every instance gets to decide on its own, there’s no set of rules governing the whole thing. That’s why I stated this is my opinion, not some hard and fast rule.

For example, I’m personally of the opinion that instances should be allowed to federate until they prove themselves to be bad actors, but in Meta’s case there’s a lot of existing evidence that shows they shouldn’t be allowed to federate in the first instance.

Monopolies for modern necessities (the internet and phone) don’t have to worry about customer retention.