The fact that most of the Left seems to end up giving such kids a bonus over the children of a low paid White worker reveals the problem absolutely. Add in the fact that Harvard discriminated against Asian kids because otherwise they'd be massively over represented, and the absurdity / scandal becomes obvious. There is a good case for giving kids who receive free school meals a few extra points on SATS, but that should probably be the absolute limit to what the system should allow.

Road A is blocked. Road B is the only alternative. So of course it will divert the cars onto road B. The degree of detailed understanding of the roads required to avoid this may be possible in the long term, but at the moment it's always going to happen.

Yes, it's fashionable to believe that what happened in Gaza was genocide. Given the state of Mosul recently and Berlin in 1945 when they were cleared of well prepared resisters, let alone what's happening in Sudan, it's a dubious claim. If the chatbot is offering an alternative perspective to people who've merely adopted the term without good reason, then it's spreading the truth...

Party Total Expenditure (in billions)

Democratic $6.7
Republican $7.6

Not 'a fraction'

Source: FEC
https://www.fec.gov/updates/st...

Why? What am I missing? Except as an export market - which is rapidly fading - I can't think of anything China needs from the US. But maybe I'm missing something.

It must be him. Honest. After all if Trump is assumed to be responsible for everything by some people who apply no thinking before speaking, then surely Mandani deserves similar treatment.

And no, to be clear, I'm not a fan of either of them...

When James T. Kirk solves an impossible problem by hacking a computer, he gets commended for it. When an AI does the same, it gets into trouble... ;)

A feature of my area is that the pedestrian crossing across the freeway I refer to above is between two areas of social housing (projects). About 3 miles away there is a similar, though somewhat less busy, freeway located near a school to which the relatively wealthy parents send their kids. THAT'S got a bridge...

Automatic Number Plate Recognition is, as you point out, a pernicious form of government overreach. But at least in the UK the two aren't related.

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I suggest a watch of 'The Grapes of Wrath' or some of the documentaries about the period; calling the present period 'depression' is absurd. Yes, housing is far too expensive. This is caused by three factors:

1) Nimbys refusing to allow new housing
2) High building costs
3) High land costs

Only the third is blameable on the quantitive easing post 2008.

If the product is an easily read, accurate website, that's a good outcome. Is writing website content a job we ought to worry about protecting? Next you'll suggest that writing user help screens that said nothing of value was worthwhile (yes I'm still resentful about that 35 years on).

Are you needing to make less and less interventions? If so, you may be redundant soon...

The fact that the bump in the road of the 2008 financial crisis didn't result in a 1930s style depression is because economics has found out how to prevent that outcome. Ignoring that fact is foolish.

Given the vast numbers killed on the roads in the West, especially in the USA, and the clear evidence that slower cars do less damage in accidents, there is a good case for installing them aggressively. Near where I live a freeway comes to a sudden pedestrian crossing as it enters the suburbs of my city - and enforcing slower speeds in the approach to that crossing is clearly worthwhile. By contrast there is sometimes a camera on the way OUT of the city, beyond the crossing - where there is no further stops - and that makes no sense.