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I'm unfortunately not terribly versed in carry insurance. You could consider just donating to such groups directly. FPC and SAF come to mind as two groups that actively make the world a better place for the average gun owner.

Legal fees can be pretty large. It is quite reasonable to want to hedge against potential large financial burdens.

The title that the 'US economy slows in the fourth quarter' is flatly incorrect. I checked the archive of the article and OP's title is what the article's title used to be. Reuter's apparently doesn't know the meaning of words until after they publish articles.

Fourth-quarter GDP increases at 2.3% rate

That is still growth, and a fair bit at that. The growth slowing means there is still positive growth. Saying the 'US economy slows' means there is negative growth, which is demonstrably not the case, as per the data in the article.

Edit: Added info about the historical title of the article and removed an incorrect statement on my part that OP mis-titled the post (Reuter's mis-titled it, not OP).

Yeah, this is basically the least offensive thing possible that ensures the lights stay on.

When I switched away from gmail, I found it to overall be pretty straightforward. Whenever I would log into a service, I update the email. Any service I didn't log into clearly doesn't matter enough to me. My gmail is now a spam account for old shit I don't care about.

Direct link to Executive Order

Yeah, seems to be the carrot and stick approach. Biden provided the carrot a few years ago (subsidies for new US plants) and Trump is providing the stick (tariffs for offshore imports).

The US makes chips. Notably Intel and TSMC have US fabs.

The economic damage continues. :)

Who gives a shit?

So we can prevent the next one. More stringent lab testing procedures are required in China. And, if not implemented, we can easily have a repeat event with a different pathogen.

Used Win 11 at work recently, the explorer context menu still requires you to go through submenus to get to things like 7Zip; things I use constantly and aren't in a sub-menu in Win 10. I'm not sure why Microsoft decided to 'improve' the context menu in the first place.

Edit: Apparently you can shift-right click to get to the functional context menu right off the bat.

I'm not sure if this is good or bad, but every time they add a feature, all I can think of is the unfinished Control Panel --> Settings conversion that started in Windows 8, back in 2012. Microsoft seems to have a pathological inability to finish projects before they mess with something new (to leave it undone as well).