Treating upper case and lower case letters the same is asking for trouble. Keep them separate things at all cost. Or don't allow characters other than ASCII characters in file names (which creates all sorts of additional problems).

I am always amazed at people who think they know how others will find a spouse. As far as I can tell from anecdotal evidence, it just happens. (And yes, I am married, and my children are grown up, so I have some anecdotal evidence to work with.) Dating advice to me seems on the same level as astrology or the divining rod.

Found the one who does not know how dialing works, and thinks he knows the magic bullet.

A phone number does not correspond to a station. It never has, and it never will. A phone number is a route, which allows the phone switches to forward the call to a destination, which can take the call. That destination is but a trunk. What happens behind the trunk is up to the one operating the end of the trunk. Routes don't have to be symmetric. Just because the Network Provided Number you get gives you the number of the trunk the call had entered the phone switches of your provider does not mean that you can call a station behind this trunk. Corporations which operate several trunks, often some for dialing out and others for calling in, have to use User Provided Numbers to give you a number you can actually call back. And if someone wants his desk phone to be forwarded to his cell phone, you have to use User Provided Numbers to send the original caller id to the cell phone and not the corporate trunk number, which in the case of forwarding would be the Network Provided Number of the trunk the company routes the calls from desk phones to.

There is a reason why the likes of Costco are virtually non-existant here. People simply don't buy in bulk.

Maybe one of the wrong ideas is that you have to buy in bulk and keep at least a two week supply of everything at home. No wonder U.S. fridges are so large. I also never understood why you have to buy a 12 or 20 can bundle of soda and are not allowed to take just one or two cans in the U.S..

I have five different supermarkets in walking distance (less than a mile), and I seldom buy more than I can carry in a single bag. The only things I have more than a week's supply at home are things like canned food, flour, sugar and noodles, which don't go bad for a longer period of time.

What works well for USPS might not be as optimal for Walmart.

On the other hand, being an archipelago, the whole of the Maldives is not walkable, as you would have to take the boat or a plane to get from island to island. And as I wrote, Male with less than 1 mile in diameter is already the largest island, and every other island in the Maldives is even smaller, meaning that you don't can walk far anyway and need a boat or a plane to get anywhere on the Maldives.

A burner phone would protect you only when you are not tracked yet. But the parliamentary group has a known schedule within Hungary, and looking which mobile phones register at which mobile phone tower in sync with the schedule is easy, and even having a portable device scanning the environment for unknown IMEIs can easily reveal the burner phones and then allow for targeted cracking attempts, when Hungarian officials are meeting the parliamentary group and you can narrow down the position of possible mobile phones to a few meters.

A Faraday bag with your phone would protect against tracking, because your phone will only be visible to the network when you are taking it out and making a phone call, which is much harder to track by monitoring the cell phone towers, and also shortens the time window for trying to sneakingly get into the phone.

The article just mentions that those tracks are uploaded. This does not mean that they are uploaded via fake accounts, nor that they are offered to any listeners. To the contrary, the article mentions that Deezer offers to filter out any AI generated songs from your recommendations. To me, this is nothing more than reporting the fact that it is easy to generate a track via AI and then upload it to a site, and that people are using it. Everything else is just projection from your site.

Florida joined the U.S. in 1845, but at the time, growing sugar cane in the North of Florida had already ceased, because the climate was not right. Production of sugar in the South of Florida really took off after 1900. So no, the sugar tariff was not introduced to protect any local sugar industry, because it was introduced in 1789, more than 100 years before any meaningful sugar production within the U.S..

Especially the sugar tariff is a prime example of revenue generation. It's one of the oldest tariffs in the U.S. and falls straight in the category "tariff anything which has to be imported anyway". When it was introduced, sugar was mainly made from sugar cane, which is a tropical plant and was harvested in the Caribbean and South America, but not in the U.S.. Only in the early 19th century, the sugar beet was slowly introduced as a second source for sugar. The method to extract sugar from the sugar beet was invented in 1747, but only in 1801, the first sugar beet fields were commercially grown in Prussia, and in the 1840ies, the sugar beet was introduced into the Americas. 1879, the first commercial production of sugar beets started in California, and by 1880, 50% of the world's sugar was made from sugar beets.

This means that for at least 100 years, nearly all sugar was imported into the U.S., generating a wealthy income from tariffs to the U.S. government, without any local sugar industry to be protected.

Don't confuse more or less desired side effects from taxes and tariffs with the main goal: revenue!