Amazon is a place where you have to deal with fake items and getting fraudulent returns shipped to you as new. Your reward for this is maybe a 5% discount.

It depends on the paper based on some quick searching, but I can pickup the paper from staples faster than Amazon will deliver it.

It depends on the product, but brick and mortar is superior to Amazon in some cases now. It’s mostly just things that are easy to ship that Amazon is cheap for.

Turkey is a NATO member, they might talk a good game, but they aren’t going to act against US interests. The blowback would be catastrophic for Erdogan and Turkey.

One side exists for the sole purpose of eliminating the other. Pretty sure war is inevitable in that scenario.

There’s a few factors. The news reports more events from further away, so there’s always crime to report on. Stats mostly focus on violent crime, someone breaking the window of every car on a street isn’t violent crime. Smaller property crimes only get reported if the police know about them, less people are contacting the police because they won’t respond anyway. Drug use leaves a bigger impression than the actual crime, it doesn’t take many people to litter an area with needles or other paraphernalia.

People also remember negative events more, you remember replacing your catalytic converter a lot more than all the days you didn’t have to replace it

It’s underdeveloped because a terrorist organization fought a war to control the telecommunications system so they could leverage it more effectively for more terrorism.

This is a big part of it. Dealing with China isn’t any better, but it probably won’t blow up on the leaders in their tenure so they might as well tag the bag.

You will stop most the fake threats though, which seems to be the intent.

Historic in it’s ability to harm the poors in the bay area.

You do realize Hezbollah even having possession of those rockets was in violation of UN resolutions. The fact they’ve been launching them for nearly a year now is also a violation. Israel’s actions here are far more justifiable than Gaza.

We don’t see exploding batteries more because most militaries are better about securing their supply chain.

Halo and Gears of War are both pretty good if sci Fi is ok.

A virus isn’t a common enemy, it’s closer to a force of nature. You can’t fight a virus anymore than you can fight a hurricane.

Seriously, just pull them over and shoot them for going for a gun. It’s honestly harder for a cop to get in trouble for shooting someone.

The NFL isn’t actually very good at coaching in general. It’s very much a copycat league that occasionally understands why things work after they’ve been effective.

You have to make the offense around your QB, you can’t really do that with a rookie as you don’t really know what they can do. It’s further complicated by teams drafting QBs that have no hope of fitting in with what a team currently does.

There’s probably a lot of coaches that would be amazing in the NFL that never get a shot because the league is so incestuous at the moment.

Skyrim was a defining game of a generation, the next one is going to be a let down no matter what. If they at least put the effort in that they have with the mainline elder scrolls and fallout games it has a chance to be.

Communication with terrorist organizations by government officers is frowned upon though.

In pagers explicitly for receiving messages from a Hezbollah controlled network. About the only thing more direct would be putting more explosives in the rockets, but that would cause significantly more collateral damage.

Focused on a single person who was in a car with a Hezbollah member when the pager exploded. Yes it’s unfortunate she died instead of her father, but it’s hardly proof of indiscriminate attacks.