I think we all know nothing good ever came from that place.

Yes and no. Someone on Slashdot a few months back had a great summary of this issue: He said something like

Donald Trump took the worst ideas from the far left and the far right, and combined them.

I love that take! For example, from the far left he took ideas like his anti-vaxx and anti-science views that led to nominating RFK Jr, plus his general fiscal irresponsibility. From the far right, he takes nationalism, racism, trickle-down economics, and yet another source of anti-science views on climate. He combines them with his own bad ideas like fluctuating tariffs and randomly antagonizing other countries.

I wish I had a link to the Slashdot comment that summarized this well.

Also, the parties switch every few decades, although most people don't even notice ("We were always at war with Eastasia!"). For example, prior to 9/11, the Democrats leaned anti-immigrant (because labor unions vote Democrat in the US) and Republicans leaned pro-immigrant (because businesses wanted both cheap labor and foreign Ph.Ds). 9/11 made immigration about religion and culture, so the pendulum swung the other way.

Ooh, here's another one! I recently learned that he promised college debt forgiveness to anyone who signs on to ICE. That particular abuse of power was Biden's idea, but Biden didn't tie student debt forgiveness to violence against immigrants. So Trump really amped that one up.

Just for the record: George Bush (R) negotiated and signed NAFTA in 1992 but he wasn't able to get the corresponding US bill passed before the end of his term, so Bill Clinton (D) signed the US law in 1993. Both presidents supported NAFTA.

Republicans end individual mandate.
Republicans let the subsidies expire.

"Why would the Democrats do this to the American people??"

One of my state's Republican senators is all-in on chemtrails and "Solar Radiation Modification" lunacy. It's curious how these are the same people who think humanity isn't capable of affecting the climate by burning fossil fuels and pumping tons of CO2 into the atmosphere.

Trump himself was a Democrat until about 5 minutes before he decides to run for the Republican nomination. His whole family were Democrats and donors too. His cabinet has Tulsi Gabbard and RFK Jr, both Democrats until Trump.

Trump has really turned the Republican party quite blue, both in terms of staff and economic policy.

Most Americans will condemn something, then vote for it again in the next election cycle. The Republican party did not shift away from Cheney, it went full bore into it.

So I'm to understand that what happens to students in college is "indoctrination" but a 4-month primer on the superiority of western civilization is not.

You are completely missing the point. This provides no benefit to anyone, and there are plenty of devices that simply cannot possibly do HTTPS. HTTP is a valid protocol, and just because something is not secure is not a reason to have corporations banning it.

I think the "p" means "peak" and refers to the the rated amount of the panels before you include the capacity factor, etc. That's why the 800 doesn't make sense but the 80 does. This term was new to me as well and I had to look it up.

For all practical purposes anyone can give medical advice and legal advice, it just isn't officially called "medical advice" or "legal advice" - it's called "Moby Disk's uneducated opinion." Like right now - I am arguing about a legal topic, and you can reply and say I am wrong, and it is totally legal so long as we don't represent ourselves as lawyers.

While this change is a good thing, I foresee a dark path ahead: One day we will wake-up to find that Chrome removed HTTP support. Suddenly technicians around the world won't be able to access all the little-known web services running on their own machines, or on LAN-based IoT devices, where security is not important and the chip doesn't have the CPU power to run AES. Google will back it out for a few months, then unexpectedly turn it on again and claim that HTTP is deprecated so everyone had an ample 2 months to redesign and redeploy millions of devices.

I have been burned by Google executing this pattern on other browser features like JavaScript, HTML, or certificates because they seem to think that browsers are only used for public web sites.

So they're giving pregnant monkeys Tylenol?

The reason for the rules seems like common sense to me. There is a certain distance needed to stop or change lanes when driving at highway distance. If the truck breaks down just over a hill, cars won't see it early enough unless the warning signals are put further back where they can be seen coming up the hill.

I seriously doubt that these rules were just shit someone made up. The NHTSA has so many studies regarding road regulations and guidance. They might be outdated for modern technology, and might be worse than newer alternatives - I don't doubt that hasn't been studied yet - but I would absolutely wager that there were studies done to justify the original numbers.

Furthermore, when congress delegated regulatory power to these agencies they included laws dictating how the rules needed to be determined, specifically so you can't have a bunch of political hacks changing them on a whim. Changes to the regulation need to be justified, and there needs to be comment period to gather any information and concerns that the agency itself might have overlooked, respond to the comments and incorporate any changes as appropriate. I don't want regulators to be able say "this is just some crap" and change rules every four years because they shoot from the hip. That means that changes take 1-3 years depending on how complicated and motivated the agency is, but it is worthwhile to end up with better regulations and avoid being constantly jerked around.

These are all equivalent statements. Make the operator responsible for their contribution, regardless of what tool is used. Good contributors will use tools that are effective. Ineffective tools will either improve, or be discarded. The standards do not change if the contributor used an IDE, or a static analysis tool, or an AI, or a fuzzer, or StackOverflow, or their best friend, or 1000 monkeys at 1000 keyboards.