Why do we ask students to write? "Writing is nature's way of letting you know how sloppy your thinking is." -- Dick Guindon Writing forces clearer thinking.

"requested as required" -- It's one or the other.

"In a properly functioning world, I think this should be a project of governments" Combining "properly functioning" and "governments" has got to be a joke.

Citation needed.

I doubt that any of the adult websites have offices in either of those states. They should explain that they aren't pushing content to anyone, people in those states are the ones initiating the download. The law, if the states insist on making one, should only cover actions taken in the state. By that logic, parents should be held accountable for what their children do online.

A problem that can be solved by a blockchain!

Taxes are money taken by government via the threat of force. That makes them theft (or technically, extortion). You can try to make a case that stealing by government is necessary, but don't pretend it's not stealing.

Whatever value there was in being in Silicon Valley is no more. Apple should move it's headquarters to a state with no income tax and let California choke on its high tax rates.

Lower taxes, smaller bureaucracies, fewer unnecessary regulations, and freer markets would accomplish more without spending taxpayer money.

Who is boneheaded enough to search for insurance on Facebook?

If the news providers don't want Facebook to display their stories, the providers can put them behind paywalls or block Facebook's access directly. No government required.

. . . to the Bible.

The most straightforward way to balance the budget is to mandate that expenditures for the next year will not exceed the revenue taken in during the previous year. In 2022 federal revenues were $4.9 trillion. The last year in which expenditures were that low was . . . 2019 ($4.45 trillion). Does anyone honestly think that the federal government wasn't spending enough in 2019?

Too many programmers are incapable of recognizing that Lisp is the pinnacle of language design and no others are needed.

It would be interesting to see Google and Meta move all of their servers out of Canada. The latency from, say, Montreal to Lebanon NH wouldn't be so bad.