My school? Way to show that you skipped the first part, where I made it clear that I don't consider going to or leaving school in the dark a real problem

I lived far enough north that we went to school in the dark, left school in the dark, and so on in the winter. It doesn't matter really.

If you have to, just have kids report to school an hour later. That can be done if, for example, one is especially far east or west in the time zone and need to adjust a bit.
Nothing really says that school has to start at 8 am, for example. It could easily be 8:30 am, or even 9.

To me, this sounds like proposing more automated farming in the 1980s as a solution to world hunger. When, by that point, most world hunger was politics and transportation, not raw food production capability.
I mean, it couldn't hurt, but we need to fix the political barriers in building increased housing first.

The spare for my Tacoma has a sensor. My Corolla didn't even come with a spare, so no sensor.
Thus 4-5 sensors per car. I'm pretty sure motorcycles are still exempt.

You're missing the point, a continuous carrier with a phased array is good enough to hit something with a HARM missile. It's a target lock, not just tracking.
Tracking can be looser. Consider that part of the case against Abrego Garcia is that a license plate reader picked up the vehicle sometime a week earlier (news reports giving a specific number of days seem to have been redacted) in Houston, and that's part of the charges against him.
Think more "We know it was in the neighborhood" than GPS coordinates at any given second.
Just consider if all you have is sensors placed at traffic signals (so they have power). Even if they miss the vehicle occasionally, how much information could you gather on somebody with the only information being a hit at an intersection at a known time?
I'd argue that one could come very close to figuring out where they live, where they work, where they shop.

When I looked it up, the standard is every 30-60 seconds. Per sensor. Assuming more or less random timing, that would mean that, on average, you get a pulse every 15 seconds or so.

Even in a car, that is fast enough for good discrete tracking, even if it wouldn't be suitable for guiding in a radiation tracking missile.

Keep in mind that there are 4 to 5 sensors transmitting. Once one knows all the sensors for a car, the average time between detectable events shortens considerably.

I've read studies that claim that homework in general does not actually help students achieve more. Those who need extra practice and help the most are the least likely to have said help at home, making homework actually counterproductive.
So in this case, I propose the following:
1. Take a step back in networking students. Stop issuing computers, tablets, and such, at least internet connected ones.
2. Stop assigning homework.
3. I recently found out that daycare costs as much as school. In some cases more, some cases less. Most people work all year, so eliminate summer break and just have more shorter breaks. This allows the work previously done as homework to instead be done in the schools, and prevents the loss of progress our long summer break currently has - it takes weeks to just catch back up to where students were before it started.
While it won't help everybody, it might reverse the decline we're seeing right now.

I don't know, a bus or train all to myself seems more wasteful than the regular car.

It doesn't have to be perfect to still have an effect. Though yes, I'd argue that our current system is already good enough that for like 99% of the murders remaining, serious thought on the consequences did not occur. They thought they'd never be caught or even just didn't care in the heat of the moment.

Also, getting as specific as this crime isn't as necessary. If it deters somebody from murdering their fully adult spouse or even their drug dealer, good enough.

You’ve shifted my point into something I never argued.

Deterrence doesn’t require me personally to have almost committed murder. It’s a populationlevel effect observed across criminology: when the state reliably investigates and solves serious crimes, the expected cost of committing those crimes rises, and some fraction of wouldbe offenders change their behavior. That’s true even if neither you nor I were ever in that category.

You’re also treating “people who commit murder” as psychologically identical to “people who would never consider it,” which is exactly why personal anecdotes aren’t the right tool here. The question is whether solving murders—even old ones—reduces the incentive for planned, intentional killings. The evidence suggests it does.

So if you want to engage with what I actually said, the discussion is about deterrence, institutional legitimacy, and the social value of solving serious crimes—not whether I’ve ever personally been on the verge of stabbing someone.

I think that you're incorrect, that this WILL deter others, by giving the impression that we will catch them eventually if they commit murder.

There's also the idea that the criminal justice system in general pursuing crimes even if it takes a long time for the most serious ones, helps prevent people attempting vigilante justice.

I remember cases of them digging out old bacteria samples from things like old wells, a couple centuries old, not 13k, but still resistant to a raft of modern antibiotics, more than many modern strains.
The easiest explanation is that we got most of our antibiotics by examining molds and such, and it isn't like mold and bacteria haven't been fighting for millennia already. The bacteria probably just encountered something similar enough to the modern synthetic antibiotics and had to adapt.

Ouch, I can definitely see wanting to fix the color/colour thing for consistency. Reminds me of a game on steam with ONE broken achievement. Digging into it, the developer misspelled the achievement originally - then on the LAST update, fixed the spelling in the code, but not in the hook. one character edited in binary and the achievement popped.
But I'd think that an alias would work - allow people expecting color to spell it that way, but not break already developed apps that used the old colour.

Yes, homelessness is a bad thing. How is rent control supposed to eliminate it though? It tends to result in LESS housing available, which is the problem.
As for "handwave", you mistake me considering it mostly off-topic, and thus summarizing, not that I was "handwaving" it. Consider that I did mention that there are "other ways" to help keep rent prices and speculation under control. That makes your "current underregulated state" missing the target, because I already said that the current state sucks - and it isn't because of underregulation.

Since you insist, keeping in mind that this is still a summary - my slogan for solving housing problems, price and availability, would be "Build Build Build!"
If you build enough housing, then proper competition can take place, keeping rent prices down. With enough housing, it is available so that people aren't homeless. With enough housing, the speculators cannot drive the market, and a bubble is not created.

Keep in mind that I'm writing this off the cuff, a select listing of things places could do, in no particular order:
1. Cut down on the approval process. Some places have numerous committees that all need to be satisfied before construction can start or proceed. In some areas, construction can be halted by a single letter of complaint, until the committee involved meets and votes it as irrelevant or otherwise rejects it.
2. Cut down on non-safety requirements. Minimum size per unit, parking minimums, that sort of thing. Also get rid of zoning that limits housing density. In areas with housing shortages, denser is better.
3. Don't kill projects by requiring a percentage be "affordable". Building new housing tends to free up older housing to be "affordable". Rates I've seen vary between 30 and 60%, though it can take time, especially if the area is in a particularly extreme housing shortage.