"Roblox is a shit hole of creeps and wannabe child rapists. My teen has been on it for years"

Awesome self own there

I'd be fine with bread and circuses, but they seem to have a hard time with the bread.

By the time Trump's finished with his Cultural Revolution, you can put him up there with Zedong.

Then we can go through our destalinization phase, where the ruling party tries to pretend they weren't full-throated supporters of Dear Leader, but still maintaining a boot on the populace's neck.

He put a diversity hire in charge of the FBI, from which we are seeing even more lying, cheating, and stealing than before. (Quite a feat.)

I'm not sure it's because he's Indian though, he's just following orders.

Interesting thing, slavery actually wasn't that bad. At least that's what they taught my nephew in school this week. Talking here strictly about American slavery - African slavery was an entirely different matter. We had to barge in there, bring them to our slavery, in order to make them into happy little negroes.

These days, we even pay them enough to live. Barely.

Some annoying thing unexpectedly "Going live" in my car is the last thing I want. I already have to tell Gemini many times a week to go away, and it doesn't seem to take the hint. More screens and opportunities for it to stalk me? And they want me to pay for those screens? And not a small amount either.

I've heard that it's mostly the over-50 crowd who are buying cars now. I've also noticed it's the same crowd who just love talking to their phones. Maybe it's not coincidental. They're the group who would be attracted to this sort of 1950s-era sci fi ("But I'm GEN X!") excuse me, Knight Rider sci-fi, and with them out of the way maybe there'll be some vehicles again for people who just need to commute.

The FBI Is currently in the process of removing anyone who won't commit the crimes they're being ordered to. So is the army.

It won't end well, even for the stooges.

I've never been to a Safeway, but every other store that has barriers, the barriers will fold away if you insistently push on them. Typically with something like "Push in case of emergency" written on it.

It would help if they didn't put the enter/exit doors on the wrong side. Never figured out why Wal-Mart is using UK traffic rules in the US.

Every other store with two doors put Enter on the right and Exit on the left. It's not the "standard door" if you're not following the standard.

And what would you expect that enforcement to look like?

With our soft-on-crime politicians, Safeway should consider getting out of the business of selling legitimate products, and just start scamming people. They've got enough money they'll be immune from prosecution, and if all else fails, they can just get a presidential pardon.

All the fire doors I've seen are opened like normal doors, they just sound an alarm afterwards.

Where are you seeing smoke-activated "escape doors"? Are you sure that wasn't a theme park or TV show?

That is essentially SNAP with all the "red tape" (due diligence) cut out. I'm guessing they won't allow that, because they'd like to maintain that diligence.

I'm in Texas and we also have incidents of shoplifting - thousands even - "rampaging youths", "casual wheelers", and all the rest of the scenarios you so vividly describe.

I expect you will tell me this is because they've also stopped enforcing the law in Texas, but for the benefit of our readers I'd like to clarify that they have not stopped enforcement. (Except for white collar crimes, which have cost me a lot more than shoplifters.)

Although it does seem weird the governor is sending the Texas National Guard to fight crime everywhere but Texas. Almost like the point isn't solving crime...

With two exceptions I can think of. Correct me if I'm wrong, but as I understand it:

1. For lightweight web hosting, a low-end VPS from a company like DigitalOcean is likely to be less expensive than upgrading a home office from home-class home Internet to business-class home Internet to unblock inbound ports 80 and 443.
2. SMTP is still an old boys' club, with major mailbox providers (such as Gmail and Outlook) blocking connections on port 25 from on-premise IP addresses as likely sources of spam.

The right decision would be for a news site and storefront to have platform-agnostic web sites, not applications you have to install.

For people who don't know how to create URL shortcuts and can't find anything that isn't on their home screen, you could offer an "app" that is a borderless browser window taking them to the corresponding site.

Not sure what the "Nintendo Music" and "Switch app" do exactly, but there's almost certainly a better way to listen to the Mario theme if that's what you're trying to do.