It speaks volumes about who MAGA looks up to as their thought leaders, and it's perfectly on-brand that those people are as easy marks as their followers.

Let's start with Russia.

Sounds to me like a lawyer trying to get their name out there on a first-of-it's-kind suit.

Good luck trying to establish a shred of causation if it's public knowledge that the kid intentionally thwarted safeguards. And then you have to convince a jury or a judge that tricking the AI into talking about suicide is what led to the kid going through with it.

It sounds like hogwash, so it's got about a 50/50 chance of succeeding.

This isn't a technology problem, it's a law problem. The law is supposed to stop authorities from searching things outside of the scope of a warrant. The law is also supposed to impose penalties when authorities fail to operate within their legal bounds.

In short, "stopping them" is the entire point of the 4th Amendment.

I miss the page-widening posts.

... hire a few young people for these soon-to-be retirees to mentor and pass on some of this institutional knowledge?

This is about permitting, not funding.

"Shocked" isn't the word.

This is the "party of small government" at work, getting out of the way of business, correct?

Wasn't it the Trump administration that declined to defend this policy after the courts struck down the Biden-era rule? Because yes it was.

I mean other than the whole premise of the federal take-over, sure.

Reality: Crime is down in DC and the "emergency" was some dude who calls himself "Big Balls" got his ass kicked by a bunch of 15-year-old girls. If you want a more generous interpretation, the president simply doesn't want to see homeless people.

Did you omit the fact that the "heavier" police presence in DC is actually a federal takeover of the jurisdiction based on an entirely contrived "emergency" on purpose, or did you simply not know that?

Going through German as a refresher, what I find very wrong about the way they teach it is when it comes to nouns... you would never learn it as Hund, Katze, or Kind (dog, cat, child)... you would learn der Hund, die Katze, or das Kind (the dog, the cat, the child) because you need to learn whether it's masculine, feminine, or neuter, otherwise you'll pick the wrong definite or indefinite articles in different situations.

Beyond a local neighborhood-maintained book or some kind of advertisement from my county of residence in a "Best of X County" type thing, I haven't seen an actual newly updated phone directory in a couple of decades. I remember delivering them as part of a Boy Scouts fundraiser back in the day too. White pages, yellow pages, and "Let your fingers do the walking"... it wasn't difficult... but then again, we also used to go to that big wall of tiny drawers to search for a book, author, or subject. :)