FWIW a recent YouGov poll[1] found that 20% of 18-29 year-olds agree with the statement that "the Holocaust is a myth," with an additional 30% neither agreeing or disagreeing. Compare this to 0%(!) of 65+ year-olds agreeing, and a mere 2% neither agreeing or disagreeing.
To put another way, the oldest generations are in 98% agreement that the Holocaust happened, compared to 50% of young adults.
My limited experience using friends' and family's Samsung phones is that they are the worst out of all of them. Absolutely nothing but bloated, buggy software that you can't disable.
I'm part of this statistic. I've been an Android user my entire adult life, but it really has been a constant downward spiral over these past several years. My previous three phones from LG, Motorola, and Xiaomi all had major software bugs that were never fixed, the biggest being just incredibly poor network connectivity (across multiple carriers, mind you) resulting in at least several calls just not connecting to me. I switched to an iPhone SE several months ago and have had zero issues whatsoever. I resent that my money went to a company like Apple, but there really is no alternative if you want a decent cell phone in 2023.
It's worth noting that freedom of transit and use of public ways (literally the original "right of way") is such an ancient and obvious part of common law that the Framers didn't deign it necessary to include it as an explicit right, instead relegating it with "the rest of them" in the Ninth Amendment.
Complete shot in the dark, but I bet culpability lies with FedEx's thousands of subcontractors. Their van lease agreements with FedEx obviously benefit them if they return them with fewer miles. Given that a great deal of contractors tiny family businesses, it doesn't surprise me that enough of them tried to eek out more profit for people to start to notice.
FWIW, the costs for transporting gold bullion are marginal. A fully-laden Boeing 747-400F cargo plane can carry 396,900 kg, or 12,760,000 troy ounces. At the current price of $1,936/ozt, that's over $24 billion in value transported for perhaps 0.1% overhead. These are perfectly reasonable sums to be expected in the realm of nation-state debt settlement.
Given other Russian claims regarding the effectiveness of their military equipment, it's impossible to take a claim like this seriously, even if it's true.
>Unlike the 90s and dotcom companies, there are few if any tiny AI stocks that offer huge returns.
The number of (legitimate) publicly-traded internet-related companies in the late 90's that were accessible to the average investor was also incredibly small. Legitimate small companies are rarely traded on exchanges in general, as they have no reason to solicit investment from the general public. It's the same phenomenon behind crowdfunding; if you have a legitimate product in development, you can simply convince a conventional lender to loan you the initial capital.
I've been using Yuzu with a couple of patches (that I think have now been merged) with Vulkan, which can be touchy with hardware, but runs fine on my machine other than minor visual glitches. The game runs nearly flawlessly and with apparently great compatibility with Ryujinx, but is dramatically slower (~20-25 fps compared to 50-60 fps with Yuzu).
I've been playing the leaked version of TotK at 4K 60 fps for several days, and with only extremely minor visual bugs (example: when switching abilities, the background turns black rather than out-of-focus). It's honestly less janky than many AAA PC games.
The reason large cars are popular in America is because Americans want to and can afford to buy them. This is due to a number of factors beyond this "loophole", including advertising, cultural norms, the fact that a third of Americans are now obese and can't fit in smaller cars, a safety arms race, and a number of other things.