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Yes, please, I would like to bet my entire net worth that Elon and/or SpaceX won't land a man on Mars within ten years from today. How can I do that, please ? I am ENTIRELY serious.

[I'm a US citizen.] Biden has called for Putin to be tried as a war criminal, I guess because of civilian casualties. But Bush and Obama were not charged for crimes committed by US troops or mercenaries in Afghanistan or Iraq. Is there a clear basis for charging a top leader for crimes committed by those at the bottom ?

A password manager can:

• make it very easy to generate good random passwords

• store them in an encrypted database with no extra steps needed

• report on duplicate or weak passwords

• remember scores or hundreds of passwords easily

• also store other important data such as a picture of your passport ID page

• have groups to organize passwords for your whole family

I agree, keep the data offline, not online. But back it up well.

There are databases of breached accounts; you can check to see if yours are in them: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ has been around for a while, Mozilla/Firefox is partnering with them now to do more.

Mostly they are useful if you re-use passwords across sites. If you find your account at X was breached, the operators of X probably have already forced you to change your password there. But if you used the same password at site Y, you should go to Y and change your password there ASAP.

I am unaware of any sites where you can check to see if your credit-card info has been exposed. I have heard that the credit-card companies use services that will tell them "hey, 10000 numbers from your customers suddenly have become available for sale, you must have had a breach".

If you want to see how much of your personal info is available online, you could try a site such as https://radaris.com/ or https://www.advancedbackgroundchecks.com/ or https://www.publicrecordsnow.com/ There are hundreds or thousands of such sites, and they exchange info with each other and sometimes disappear and re-appear under a different name.

Industrial hemp is the next new, big idea.

Growing hemp has been legal in other countries for decades, maybe a century or more. Has it led to all kinds of wonder-applications in those countries ? Why not ?