If I'm not mistaken, I've heard stories about it being prohibitively difficult to vote (long lines, inadequate staffing & # of locations, banning vote-by-car, a COVID response) in urban areas. Can't imagine a lot of those barriers exist in more rural areas.

I've used carrier video calling before, the option appears when I call my wife. We both have Verizon, though, and I've never checked if I can do that with other people

The individual skits, monologues, and musical sets are usually up on YouTube within 24hrs after it airs

Hell of a write up Stamets!

My wife and I constantly lament how we were born a few decades too late. For everything

If I had a nickel for every utility I worked with that handles billing of capital projects on a spreadsheet, I'd have 2... Which isn't a lot, but still odd that the backbone of their billing is excel

Yeah, I recall someone from the BBC saying something similar when it came to covering Brexit. It would take their producers days to find a credible, coherent voice that was pro-Brexit, while the anti-Brexit folks were basically lined up to voice their reasoning. That dichotomy was never revealed to listeners and caused some strife amongst the news team as it seemed disingenuous to present both sides as equal

We need a community for exactly this kind of content a la r/youdontsurf

They're mostly in rural parts of the states where private (read: investor owned) utilities determined the region wouldn't turn a large enough profit to expand there and the state's public utility commission didn't mandate their expansion

I don't know... The federal government has a whole page to help with appealing insurance claim denials and if ProPublica has taken an interest in the matter I won't put much faith in the insurance companies (I wouldn't anyways, but ya know)

Coming from West Coast VM and travelling on the east coast, it's a nightmare everywhere. But everything is so moist they don't face the same issues we do. At least that's what I tell myself

Your can add any major utility to the list too