If U-M is doing the now-common waste of a first semester packed with "Freshman 101" bullshit, I would agree with you.

If students are taking real classes, then no, I'd call that the second most important semester (with only the very last one mattering more). Why? Because that's when half the incoming class realizes they are wildly unprepared for college and either pursues an exciting career in fast food, or for those only slightly overwhelmed, switches to a 2-year structured a lot more like an advanced version of highschool.

Not everyone should be going to college, that is the real problem here. There's nothing new under the sun, dumb kids exist and they become dumb adults.

Sounds like the VA needs better funding. Amazing how little the government cares for troops after they come back fubar. The entire VA staff can't be incompetent either. Most probably genuinely want to help people but are overwhelmed and underpaid. Plenty of money being thrown at departments of the government that don't help anyone.

You're right that wasn't an exhaustive list - I'm personally a counterexample to my own comment in that I'm a mere peon of a coder... Who is often tapped to assist with M&A, major vendor changes, and onboarding new customers (in the B2B sense). I do have privileged information that would be illegal to trade on.

But this is Slashdot, not Investopedia. The "tl;dr" is, if you have actionable insider information, you're not merely guessing, you damned well know it and almost certainly signed an NDA specifically covering what you can and can't do with that information.

If you wanted to call the entire assemblage a robot, maybe. Calling the motes robots is nonsense.

It should have been prevented economically before this instead of what actually happened

You just let us know you're racist for free thanks

What makes you think it ended?

I'm in favor of enforcement of laws which protect rights, but it's cheap and easy to get such devices, and there are valid reasons for them to exist — like knives.

You could cook with only shorter knives. It would be a lot more difficult (I also cook) but it would be possible.

Lots of left leaning and non MAGA people own guns. They just don't make gun ownership their entire personality.

I would imagine they decay into something else in like 10e-15 seconds.

I like your style. Then use the taxes on progressive legislation.

I always wondered what was up with that. They used to have that big long message along I-90 about assessing tolls.

One of two things must be true. He must have dirt on everyone or any opposition is scared of the MAGA cult. The only people who do speak out do so when their term is up or they're retiring.

I don't think most people who can afford a thousand dollars for a phone plan to keep their phone for longer than the 7 years Google will support their Pixel devices these days, nor do they want to buy a phone which has been out for very long. The poors will accept last year's iPhone, or an even older one, or the Shitty Edition bundled into their phone plan.

For a non-Pixel device you'd have a solid point, as most other Android phones have abysmally short support lifespans. Then again, many of those phones are so much cheaper you can buy one every three years...

It's partly end stage for a nearly dead country that causes us to have to talk about politics now.

But it's also partly because we didn't take politics seriously, and get involved enough in it. If we had discussed it a lot more sooner, maybe we wouldn't have to discuss it so much now.