They should let kids choose their own books to read. If I hadn't discovered the sci-fi aisle at the library on my own, Of Mice and Men in 12th grade would have been the last book I ever read. Kids should learn that reading is fun when they're not doing it for a grade.

I think the difference is, if anyone could have seen the horse limping, its okay. If you're the vet treating the sprained ankle behind closed doors, now it's material non-public information.

The responses here are entirely predictable, but it's a legitimate concern. If China can shut off my router, that's one thing. If they can turn off the power grid, that's a different situation. It would be foolish to assume they and other countries are not at least trying to have that capability. I think having an audit of foreign made grid equipment is a good thing.

My brother died of brain cancer on the side of his head that he held his phone. Maybe there's more to this.

While they're making it sound philanthropic, they're going to have to fill on a lot of werlands to build Starbase.2. They're required by federal law to either build and maintain an equal amount of new wetlands or purchase federal wetlands offset credits for an absurd amount of money.

Who cares? 21 km across is pretty big. At the scale that humans will ever realistically be able to build anything on the moon, we probably wouldn't even know the other country was there at all. No country is ever going to colonize the moon, or Mars. Or anywhere else. The most inhospitable place on Earth is better than everywhere else in the solar system, never mind the logistics.

I mean, the science is cool, but that's all it's ever going to be.

There was no republican primary in my state, so I didn't get a choice.

I'm friends with a couple who took their 6 year old daughter to go live in a country with malaria endemic for a year. Docs put the kid on ivermectin for the whole time. Zero side effects. I don't get what the big deal was with this during covid. Does it work for covid? No. Does it hurt anything? Also no. Why did anyone care?

Someone in my local hospital dying of covid wanted to take horse dewormer. Hospital wouldn't let them. It went to court, and the patient lost. Guess what? They still died.

I think covid caused mental illness, on every side of these arguments.

Northern VA is a liberal utopia and there are data centers everywhere.

Mint Mobile. Same phone, same cell towers, no contract, way cheaper. Probably cheaper even than your grandfathered plan.

Those who paid Ford after he left office did it so that Carter would know he would be taken care of by the same people when he left office. Like I said, they used to hide it.

All presidents end up quite wealthy after one or two terms. They all do this. Trump just does it at an entirely new level, and doesn't even try to hide it.

I could probably still walk someone through reinstalling the Windows 95 TCP/IP stack with my eyes closed.

The question comes down to, do they give the AI the tools to actually fix your problem?

I did multiple rounds of trying to get T-Mobile's Indian customer support to fix a problem, and by the end, I realized they didn't even have the ability to do what needed to be done. I had to file a report with the FCC, and then someone from T-Mobile US HQ called me and fixed the problem. I felt really sorry for the Indian call center as that must be really frustrating.

On the flip side, my kid's Roblox account got hacked, stolen, and sold. Their AI customer support bot got it recovered and fixed in minutes. It had the tools to fix the problem. I was really impressed.

I did dialup ISP technical support for a summer in college. Worst job I've ever had. AI can have it.