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  • Domains have restrictions based on the rules of their registrar, that may be mandated by the government of the associated country.

    Some old examples are .gov, .mil, .edu. - I believe that only US Government entities can register with .gov - Not just federal entities but also state and local entities. For example. https://www.sf.gov/ is the San Franscisco City Government site. I’ve also seen things like https://abcab.ca.gov/ that actually use the hierarchy that was originally intended to exist in domain names. Similarly, .mil is for US military organizations.

    .edu must be an accredited institution located in the United States, for example https://harvard.edu/.

    If you’re in the United Kingdom, you can get a .uk domain, and there appear to be special subdomains with specific use, for example, colleges and universities are .ac.uk, although I don’t know the specific details

    .com, .net, .org, .info, .biz are all free-for-alls and no one cares if a commercial entity registers a .org or vice-versa.

    Trust any information you find on the internet as much as you trust the author. If you don’t know personally know the author, well, then, how much do you trust random strangers on the street handing you fliers?

    You can read more history on gTLDs at the Wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_top-level_domain



  • Doctors in the US never ever prescribe herbs or supplements. On rare occasions when you have a legitimate vitamin deficiency, verified by blood work, they will prescribe medical grade vitamin tablets, from a pharmacy that has actually tested the vitamin content of the product. Vitamin D deficiency is quite common, and while rare, scurvy (vitamin C deficiency) can happen if someone is malnourished.

    My doctor has told me on more that one occasion that herbal supplements are completely unregulated, many don’t contain even a bit of the claimed herb, and sometimes have legitimately harmful plants mixed in, as if someone just gathered a bunch of weeds, dried and ground them up.













  • Here’s the list of states and electoral college votes:

    https://www.archives.gov/electoral-college/allocation

    Just don’t think about the popular vote. It has no bearing on who wins the Presidency in the US.

    You can argue that it should but just accept that under the current rules it does not.

    As far as your question “If Kamala wins the popular vote, how much does she have to win by to flip the electoral college to her side?” the only answer is “it depends”

    It depends because as amazingly stupid as this sounds, one vote for a candidate counts either more or less depending on which state it came from.

    Example of California (most people) and Wyoming (least people)

        California:
            Electoral Votes: 55
            Population: 39,500,000
            Weight:  0.00000139
    
        Wyoming:
            Electoral Votes: 3
            Population: 580,000
            Weight:  0.00000517
    

    A vote in Wyoming (0.00000517) affects the outcome of the electoral college much more than a vote in California (0.00000139).

    Another way of looking at it is that one electoral college vote in California represents the will of a little over 718,000 residents, while in Wyoming it represents the will of a little over 193,000 people.

    Things get even trickier when you factor in the fact that some states split the EC votes based on popular vote or district, and other states are a winner-take-all (whichever candidate takes the state takes all the EC votes.)

    It’s a giant complex mess and it cannot be easily related to the popular vote.