I wouldn't know. I genuinely do not read Truth Social. I just don't. I also don't read Threads. It turns out I'm not a mind-numbed robot after all. But most everybody on /. can only deal with two alternatives. They don't have room for four or five.

Why would your think I would not vaccinate my children against measles? Are you so blinded by hate that you don't even bother to ask? Yes, you are.

Having suffered the mRNA vaccine I'm no longer blindly trusting Moderna for one.

And, while we're at it, you're proposing that your judgment be substituted for the parent's. You have objective proof that yours is more correct of course. But at least you believe it's objective proof. So you sleep at night just fine, and many a parent will sleep at night just fine, because they believe just like you believe. They just believe something different. And much of what you spelled as truth is just your religion and not mine.

"Alex Jones and Charlie Kirk..."

It's not that Alex Jones was 'cancelled', he was sued, lost, and had a $1.4 Billion judgement levied against him. With 'support' like that I would rather be left alone.

Charlie Kirk, as you know, was murdered not because of what he said, but because he was winning the argument, over and over. Those against his arguments, they do not take losing well. They react violently when all other alternatives fail.

"This kind of thing isn't something you hear of in other parts of the world"

You may not hear it often, but in the parts of the world in the midst of civil war and/or revolution you most certainly do. And the US is in the midst of a revolution, real. You haven't recognized this? Well, you are not at all alone. Your mistake does not disprove it.

Esther 3:2-6, vv8-11, 7:4, 8:11.

The point? Self-defense. A God-given right, recognized, not granted, in the US Constitution. And recognized for all.

Defense against one crazy person knocking on your door? Admittedly, being caught by surprise is difficult.

Defense against one crazy family member? No different.

And, recall, recently we have witnessed a double murder with a knife. It's not guns. It's the riddle of steel.

Thoughts and prayers for me are that all men (and women) come to know the one true God, and His love, and love one another.

" nobody's going to tell you how to raise your kids"

Well, at least you're honest. If you are not permitted to raise your own children i n the manner you wish, well, you've been denied a right and purpose granted and recognized from time immemorial.

Take it all away, eh? I expected nothing less from you. We will rest easy with people we do not know make all decisions for us. And their track record is spotless.

It is covered in blood. Not spots. Floods.

"women" are "trans"?

Wow, I had not worked that grand generalization. Thanks for that.

Now, stop that! Truth is an insult around here!

Most of these businesses can't afford to hire delivery. They use the aggregators to essentially hire drivers per order. Then again, delivery culture is ignoring the true economics.

Haven't you figured out that the delivery companies promote tipping to avoid paying the driver, part-time/independent//whatever, full value?

And haven't you also figured out that the drivers believe they are entitled, and above reproach, for demanding a tip sufficient to satisfy their demands...?

And haven't you seen a few examples of drivers who, having not received their deserved tip, destroy or keep the delivery. Amazing to me they think this is tolerable.

Actually, lemme tell ya a secret - if I get a discount, comp, freebie at a restaurant, even a loyalty reward., I tip on the actual value of the meal(s). It's fair.

And you have to go 30%.

The employer may, if they are ethical, forward the 20% portion to the employee. 20% was the tipping standard before tipping culture in America became fascist.

Then the employer will keep the 10% portion, if for no other reason, out of spite.

I've been seeing the 30% standard being injected into otherwise reasonable messaging. Nope. I do not tip for ordering and receiving while standing. if clerking demands a tip, am I tipping my clerk at the Skechers* store? No I am not.

* - This is a blatant offer to you to engage in ageism and identify me as a Boomer, 'old', or whatever else you intend as a pejorative. You're welcome, rsilvergun.

Actually, your indictment is properly aimed at 'one of our auditors' who hired this CIO (I refuse to assume their chosen gender) 'as their CEO'.

You've described this former CIO as a failure, and ignored that the auditors your employer trusted must not be a good judge of performance or character, or both.

ps - They were your employer, and owed you no more than compensation for services rendered and fair treatment. The 'much bigger entity' unfortunately would not have had the same priorities or organizational goals, and that may have left you out. I know the feeling. I hope you found a suitable alternative, but that's not a given either, I know.

It's been proven the that RF link latency is faster enough to justify the effort. Vp here is the issue, and fiber will never propagate as fast as free space radio.

You had it, it's all about the latency. The absolute bandwidth is not so important necessarily. The data bandwidth over a 25 MHz carrier isn't anything extraordinary compared to say ethernet, etc. But it's enough and it's the latency. Radio would be faster even than fiber optics even with minimal Network routing. But you can look it up. It's from 2023, and it was a big deal in the community back then. There's another messaging service that wants to run much higher up in UHF, and would it appear potentially to interfere with a variety of other services, including starlinks control Network.

There is currently no legal framework or justification for this. Any attempt by the markets themselves to do this would result in lawsuits and retreat.

While HFT is, to me, unethical, we're going to have to find an ethical means of reducing or eliminating it.

How about variable per transaction fees, starting at $.0001 per trade, then increasing with frequency of the trader's periodic transactions, so maybe at 10,000/hr the fee goes to $.001. At 1M/hr, $.01. After 10M/hr, $.1 per.

No doubt this is somehow unsustainable in the current regulatory framework. We'll have to see.

A further out there idea, eliminate direct data connections, put everyone through a gateway. Let them spend money bribing the gateway.

In 2023 there was a serious proposal put to the FCC to allocate some radio frequencies between 3 and 25MHz to permit financial data transmission. This was intended to serve the HFT business, and would provide an even faster and more reliable network for trade data. And it risked interfering with pre-existing amateur radio users. It has so far been rejected, though several license applications for broadcast stations in that spectrum included the intended uses of “broadcast ‘financial, economic news and data through distribution of programs generally prepared on the basis of requests by clients.’”. The FCC interpreted this as data transmission, and rejected those uses, as such data transmissions have other spectrum available, and such use would not be permitted under existing regulations for the spectrum requested. In other words, the HFT data merchants were told they cannot use these broadcast stations for that use.

The FCC doesn't care about the use of the data, or the data itself, only that it will likely interfere with other users (data transmissions tend to 'splatter' over frequencies outside those legally permitted, causing interference, and this has been a ploy to drive users out of their legally allocated bands, prompting demands that they take those over, having poisoned them, usually intentionally) and the FCC chooses to not approve such uses. And as in the parentheses, there is good reason based on past experience to believe such users would violate the terms of their licenses, causing significant harm to the other users .

There is real money involved. They will try other means also.