I am glad there are more options in a conflict than bombing someone.

I think that is the joke. Tether makes a big deal about how they are backed by real assets, but how well backed they are is a unknown.. so having 20 billion of their coin frozen means they can breath a sigh of relief that no one can try to cash that in.

It was also a really good solution to the 'how do you introduce people who are unfamiliar with a long running franchise?' New viewers learning as the characters do, its a great way of introducing a pretty overwhelming universe at this point.

Huh. Sounds pretty manbaby of you.. a sad man baby worried about if the other man babies will see them as adult enough.

Enforcing the law would defeat its purpose. It is much more effective not only for a chilling effect, but political leverage. Avoiding prosecution becomes a matter of keeping on the good side of the administration.

Yeah.. when they say 'small government', they are referring to 'minority rule'

You forget all the money to be made in providing a now mandatory service. Just look at last time and the rather lucrative market for 'age verification'. Its like running a credit card processor without all that pesky paying out,

Eh, the right has never been all that concerned with things like cause and effect or facts... they just have a whole bunch of feelings.

It took decades for the MD culture to take hold. It wasn't an instant 'new people running things' situation where the just fired the who hierarchy ad replaced them. It was a slow process of certain kinds of people rising through the ranks based on the new culture and priorities the post merger c-suite brought with them. It took time for the 'type of person Boeing would be put into leadership roles' to be replaced with 'type of person MD would put into leadership roles'

Eh, religious adhesion tends to scale inversely to affluence. It is one of the reasons the red states put so much energy into keeping people poor 'for their own good'.. the religious lobby is quite aware that it depends on poverty and desperation to keep its ranks full.

Ah, but the key there is that in the Bible they will learn the christian lesson that all those things are fine if you pick a lesser group to do them to. Porn on the other hand... people show consent! How un christian!!!!! How will little boys and girls grow up knowing their places in the world with such warped ideas?

Unfortunately, we are also locked in the mindset of 'technology will save us without us having to change our economy!'. So I guess it is engineering solution or nothing. Better hope there IS one.

From the NTSB's perspective, it matters for completeness. They want to interview the people who actually did the work because that is part of a through investigation.

China and Russia have American capitalism now too.

Turns out all that formality is expensive and slows down production. This is the same company that not that long ago (granted, BDS not BCA) got caught outright falsifying calibration records because, well, they just were not doing it.