Contrary to the title of this thread, The Insurrection Act was not invoked. Therefore, I am going to lock this thread.

Anonymous wrote:Could some of the users originate from elsewhere in the world but with VPN, show up as American?

In theory but we have so few foreign users that it would be a minuscule number that meets this criteria.

Anonymous wrote:

jsteele wrote:Yes, I have pretty good statistics. Almost all users are in the U.S. with a handful from Canada and a few other places. Within the U.S, most are in the DC area, though we have large communities elsewhere, particularly New York City and Los Angeles.

As for numbers, they fluctuate a lot. Several months ago we were over a million unique users a month. However, Google switched to provided AI responses and it caused a massive drop in traffic. So we are less than half that now. However, it has always been the case that we had two types of users: the dedicated users who come frequently and users who come via a search engine and only look at a page or two and then disappear. The users we lot are mostly in the second group. We still have our dedicated users. The result is that have lost a ton of traffic, ad revenue basically stayed the same and our page views are only slightly less than before.

Is a user counted more than once if they use different machines and/or various networks to browse? Ex. user that uses laptop or iPad (wi-fi), phone (cellular 5G), and say a work computer (office wi-fi/vpn) during the work day would be consider three (or even more users depending on cookies and networks used)?

The stats are compiled by Google Analytics and I don't know how they come up with this metric. But it is pretty universally used across the Internet.

I am getting them.

That's certainly better than not liking me.

Anonymous wrote:My Obamacare rate is $1500 per month and I have the cheapest Obama care plan in my state. I get no subsidy as I gross over $49,000 a year in my state.

I don’t understand why tax paying US citizens can access the cheaper rates and cheaper healthcare.

I think the discounts should go to those employed and those that are working and trying.

Just FYI, the American Rescue Plan and Inflation Reduction Act eliminated the income limit. Instead, you can get a subsidy if the cost of the second lowest cost Silver plan is more than 8.5% of your adjusted gross income. So you probably have been eligible for a subsidy for the last few years.

Anonymous wrote:

jsteele wrote:Where you posting about Tim Walz?

Yes. In response to some one saying that TACO was childish I asked if Walz’s nickname was somehow more erudite.

Don't use his nickname. Since I know which address was used for those posts. I can unblock it.

Where you posting about Tim Walz?

That is not the correct IP address to report. That address is obviously not blocked because it is the address you used to post this thread.

Yes, I have pretty good statistics. Almost all users are in the U.S. with a handful from Canada and a few other places. Within the U.S, most are in the DC area, though we have large communities elsewhere, particularly New York City and Los Angeles.

As for numbers, they fluctuate a lot. Several months ago we were over a million unique users a month. However, Google switched to provided AI responses and it caused a massive drop in traffic. So we are less than half that now. However, it has always been the case that we had two types of users: the dedicated users who come frequently and users who come via a search engine and only look at a page or two and then disappear. The users we lot are mostly in the second group. We still have our dedicated users. The result is that have lost a ton of traffic, ad revenue basically stayed the same and our page views are only slightly less than before.