Interested to understand why Lexington is bad. I’ve never seen it, but there was a recent CityNerd episode praising its urban design.

Do early voting, or request an absentee ballot. The latter can be hand delivered if you are paranoid about the mail

Symmetric gigabit is great for DDoS botnet operators.

The aggregate bandwidth capacity of these networks exceeds 100 Tbps — more than most national internet backbones can absorb. And symmetric gigabit fiber rollouts keep making the math worse: average upstream bandwidth per compromised endpoint increased 75% year-over-year in North America.

I got curious about “parataxites”, but was unable to find anything relevant by that name. I think he meant to write:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prototaxites

I play on web too, so I couldn’t say. I am on level 509, and my chief complaint is actually that the difficulty does not seem to scale up beyond level 100 or so. I wonder if they’ve adjusted things since you got stuck?

Bee Sort By Sam may scratch that merge game itch

https://games-by-sam.com/bee-sort-by-sam/

The same creator has a fun daily deduction game as well.

Dedicate your resources to optimizing populations of Pacific salmon, aka Chinooksmaxxing.