Damn. I haven’t caught one of those new Intercity trains yet. These trains were the cause of many strikes before they even started operating. They should have been striking about the flip flop!

And why is there trackwork one or two weekends per month? Are the contractors maybe corruptly milking the government? And yet breakdowns seem to be more frequent than ever.

“All highways are called autobahns”

Does Germany not distinguish between highway and freeway?

In Australia a highway has traffic lights while a freeway does not.

Do rich people in Greece import sandstone?

In Sydney most trains…

(a) Are double decker

(b) Have seats which flip to face the opposite direction.

Australian pedestrian crossing lights cater for the blind and the deaf-and-blind. Billie Eilish’s brother/producer sampled the sound, when he visited, for her smash hit.

If you are talking of NL then we are also fascinated with how large the ships are in such a narrow canal.

Aussie Comedian Jim Jefferies in Boston dissing US gun obsession. He covers all the points in our thread.

Part 1

Part 2

EDIT: Not all points. The guy here making a good point about “defending” his immigrant wife isn’t covered by the comedian. It isn’t really defence, it is suicidal pre-emptive vengeance - still valid though.

The ICE raids were unimaginable at the time.

You have 16 upvotes there though.

No. A university study… I think.

So when I said “article” I meant the FTC letter OP linked to which, via footnote #2, in turn cites an article in New York Post which in turn cites the study.

A 2022 study by researchers at North Carolina State University found that Gmail flagged 59% more Republican fundraising emails as spam than Democratic ones during the leadup to the 2020 presidential election.

“We observed that the [spam filtering algorithms] of different email services indeed exhibit biases towards different political affiliations,” the researchers said at the time.

The consulting firm’s tests involved sending identical emails through Gmail, with the only difference being that one contained a WinRed donation link and the other contained an ActBlue link.

“The only difference between the two emails was the link,” the memo said. “ActBlue delivered. WinRed got flagged. That is not a coincidence.”

But I am confused: was a consultancy firm hired by the university? What kind of study contains a “memo”?

Even if it is indeed biased, surely Google is a business and can do as it pleases? Can Google/Alphabet get away with telling the FTC to eat a bag of dicks?

Article says similar spam from Dems got through.