I think you mean "not used often enough to warrant the price of SSD storage" not "too large for SSD storage."

If you think a multi-petabyte file is too big to fit on SSD storage: combining multiple physical storage devices into one virtual device has been a thing for a long time now.

I want something I can type on a standard keyboard in the character set used by the computer language (typically a subset of those found on an English keyboard).

That said, literal strings or similar situations should allow* arbitrary characters. Ditto comments.

* Homographs, characters that render other characters invisible, and anything else that can introduce confusion should be treated in a special way (say, color-coded, or use a font that makes homographs like 1, l, and I or 0 and O distinguishable) when displayed or printed, to prevent hiding malicious code. When you add in Unicode, which is likely happening if you are allowing emojis, the opportunities for "fool the human eye" mischief get much larger.

The fast food industry uses a "non-permanent underclass" for many of its low-end jobs: Youths old enough to legally work and young adults.

Summer camps and some city parks do the same thing: They recruit from the college- and high-school-age crowd, and they don't pay all that much.

I assume he meant it's beneath the dignity of free citizens to perform labor and be paid less than they think their time, energy, and discomfort is worth.

In other words, if there's a lettuce-picking job that pays me $200,000 for 2000 hours of work (that is, about a year at 40 hours/week with 2 weeks off), sign me up. But at minimum wage, or even the wage I'm getting from my current job, I'll pass.

If Americans refuse to work for "non-American wages," (officially, minimum wage, unofficially, probably far less) someone will invent a cheap-enough lettuce-picking robot and then those jobs will be gone.

Substitute just about any job where people aren't willing to do the work for the wages that make it cost-effective for "lettuce picking jobs."

That's true if you are taking classes that aren't way too easy for you. But stick a smart/gifted-and-talented high school student in a non-advanced class, and he'll get the maximum grade without much work as long as he doesn't totally blow it off from boredom.

Of course, in that scenario, the A isn't worth much.

To get an A that really means something, the class needs to be challenging enough that a normal, don't-strain-yourself level of work plus whatever brains and experience you have coming into the class will get you a B at best. If you are getting all As and aren't pushing yourself hard, you should be taking harder classes.

For much of the last third of the 1900s and the early part of this century, you did "need a degree" to be promoted past a certain level, even if it meant otherwise-qualified applicants wouldn't even be looked at.

There's less of that now: Wise companies have realized that "a degree or equivalent experience" is better for recruitment than "must have a degree."

In today's dollars, tuition from my public-university alma mater is about twice what it was when I graduated.

Why the the tuition increase? The state forgot that heavy public subsidies for undergraduate education are good for the economy.

There were far more than 17 pirates 25 years ago from next Friday.

I don't know about you, but I drink more sugary sports drinks in the summer than in winter.

On the other hand, I drink less hot chocolate.

Lots of politicians are experienced. It's a natural, almost "by definition" side-effect of being re-elected over and over again.

Sadly, for a politician, experience alone isn't very useful if you don't use it to make yourself

and as a result enjoy

... out of reach of copyright-takedown notices?

What makes you think they aren't doing that already?

In today's divided political climate this won't happen. At least not based on what's happened in America so far.

Now, if Trump's actions put America in a severe crisis (severe even by 2025 standards), there may be calls for a constitutional amendment to prevent such a crisis from happening again. But that's not likely to happen either: Even with a crisis, there will be enough Trump supporters to keep it from happening.

Don't mess with privately-held land or water or land or water that's already being used for something or is planned for future use: Start with government-owned land and water, international waters, and land not owned by any nation-state that's not already developed or planned for some other use.

That will relieve some of the naysayers.

Almost all of the major oceans are international waters. Antarctica is covered by treaties already.

Within nation-states, there are government-owned lands and waters that are already protected. There are also very remote areas that could come under formal protection.