Battery backup on the router/phone side would fix this.

If you ACTUALLY broke down every single item that the government 'makes you do', you would have a laundry list of items. Social Security taxes for employees. Property taxes for your facilities. Health and safety regulations. Etc.

BUT, there is no correlation for those things they 'have to do' to the fee they put on the bill. They can make the price whatever they want and spend the money however they want.

...and I subtract that BS fee from the normal tip I leave. Presumably all of those fees claim to be for the benefit of the employee, so that is double-dipping in my eyes.

Taxes and fees are completely different things.

Fees that are collected for the benefit of the COMPANY should not be broken out as a separate fee if you HAVE to pay the fee for the advertised service.

Taxes are something that are collected for the benefit of the GOVERNMENT, and should absolutely be broken out separately so that constituents can see how much government taxes are adding to the cost of things.

And, no, something like 'FCC regulatory recovery fee' is not a tax. It should not be broken out separately after the fact, because that fee is going into the company bank account for the company to use in whatever way they see fit.

Obama had to negotiate with his own party as well. Don't just blame Republicans...

Exemptions to laws, because the laws as written are so bad. Seriously, that's what I'm talking about.

Both were such bad laws that they both we handing out exemptions... because they were so bad.

What number of exemptions to a law do we need before we all realize the law sucks? We must have gone over the limit by now. It reminds me when the new health care law passed under Obama and they started handing out different exemptions to everybody and their brother five seconds after the law passed.

I worked on the assembly line at the NUMMI car plant (now Tesla plant) one summer. I literally learned the job in one day, and spent about 50% of my time waiting for the next vehicle once I got fast at it.

It does seem shady, but killing him at this point makes little sense. He's been talking/testifying about this since about 2017, so I doubt there is any information left for him to give. And there are LOTS of other whistleblowers. Killing him (if there is even a whiff of this tied to Boeing) would do far more harm than good to them.

Unions don't want it on record of how little work a union member does on a car assembly line.

Was what 'a little too close to home'?

ION engines could make a huge improvement in speed vs.Voyager probes.

https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/SMART-1/The_magic_of_ion_engines

'cisgender'. You're adorable trying to impress your friends by showing them how enlightened you are...

I don't know where you saw 12k per family per year, but that is way off. According to the EPA: "Each American uses an average of 82 gallons of water a day at home." For a family of four, that would be well over 100k gal/year.