CountVon

Likely coffee that was grown somewhere else, roasted in Canada and later sold to someone in the US.

This bill might have been well-meaning, but it's honestly not realistic to put solar panels on every home. Some homes just aren't well sited to get full benefit from solar panels, especially when you're far from the equator. I would love to have solar panels on my house, and my government has reimbursement programs available for solar panel installs so I went seeking quotes. Unfortunately I was told point blank by multiple installers that the panels wouldn't offset their own cost in my situation. Too much tree shade, not enough roof slope facing the equator. Disappointing, but I'd rather see those panels get installed on homes that can make the most of them.

Except the car's HVAC system passes air through a filter. How much of a difference that makes is going to depend on the type of filter and whether it's been changed sufficiently often, but it's definitely doing more than nothing.

The next tech bubble, IMO.

Gosh, it's like companies in a capitalist economy have absolutely no moral center whatsoever and will do whatever they can get away with to maximize profits!

The UK did claim Canada, along with most of North America, in the Royal Proclamation of 1763. Canada was granted progressively more autonomy over time but the UK still maintained ultimate sovereignty until the Canadian constitution was patriated. The UK effectively ceded its sovereignty over Canada when UK parliament passed the Canada Act 1982.

Denmark granted Greenland autonomy with the 2009 Act on Greenland Self-Government, but Denmark still maintains the authority to modify Greenland's constitutional arrangement. So, much like the UK still held sovereignty over Canada prior to 1982, Denmark still holds sovereignty over Greenland. Apparently there have been some efforts to draft a constitution for Greenland, but that has not been passed into law by Greenland's lawmakers nor has it been patriated by Denmark.

Father David Michael? Never trust someone with two first names.

Market capitalization is just simple math, multiplying a company's stock price by the number of shares that have been issued. Tesla has issued roughly 3.2 billion shares and is currently trading at around $550, which makes their current market cap about $1.75 trillion dollars.

I don’t understand how the value can be that high compared to all of the other companies, especially China.

On its face it seems utterly nonsensical that Tesla is worth as much as all other auto makers combined, when Tesla only accounts for something like 5% of total US car sales. There are two reasons I can think of why this is currently so:

• Tesla accounts for roughly half of all US electric vehicle sales, and electric vehicle sales are roughly 10% of all US vehicle sales. If electric vehicles largely replace ICE vehicles and if Tesla maintains that share of EV sales, then Tesla will be an extremely valuable company. Investors might be betting on a) electric vehicles and b) Tesla continuing to the win the lion's share of electric vehicle sales.
• Tesla investors are irrational. Personally, my money is on this one. I think long-term Tesla is going to get crushed by cheaper and better-built EVs, probably from China but also possibly from other existing car manufacturers. Sometimes I'm tempted to short Tesla's stock based on this belief, but to quote John Maynard Keynes: "Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent."

After thoroughly shuffling, the exact order of the deck is one of 52! (52 factorial, or 52 * 51 * 50 * ... * 2 * 1) possible combinations. That is such a large number that it's possible, even likely, that the exact ordering of your deck has never existed before and will never exist again.

are there games that try to portray life and folklore of people I may not know about?

Kingdom Come: Deliverance might fit this. It's set in 15th century Bohemia (modern day Czechia), and was designed with input from archaeologists and historians. That may present too much overlap with 15th century Bavaria, though. It's an immersive sim with at least some jankiness, though I believe many bugs have been squashed since release. It can also be a bit tough in the early going as your character starts out pretty weak by design. Your character gets better at skills as you use them and the game starts to shine more once you've established some basic competency.

Are there games that play with this kind of meta mystery (I don't know what word best describes it) where you have a glimpse that there's something bigger behind the scenes?

I'd recommend There Is No Game: Wrong Dimension. Chock full of 4th wall breaks and meta commentary on games, game design and game development, plus lots of humour and a ton of heart. There is a bit of a mystery component as well. I'd recommend avoiding spoilers if at all possible, I went in blind and I think it made for a much better overall experience.

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I'd wait for independent reviews. The first wave of Intel GPUs had a lot of issues, mostly related to drivers. From what I understand Intel has come a long way on the driver front in the past year, but we don't have a clear picture on their overall state with the new parts. Reviewers like GamersNexus will call out whether the current state of the drivers are good enough for a recommendation, or if Intel still has more ground to cover.