Not usually how markets work. You'll have the "ground breakers" which is Space X in this instance. They do most of the heavy lifting (pardon the pun) to develop a new product or service. Once they show it can be done, the copy cats enter the market. Their development will be much less because now they know how to do it.

Obviously building rockets isn't cheap and won't get much competition but there's obviously a huge market for it.

Not saying BO will succeed long term, just pointing out that being the 1st to a market doesn't guarantee a monopoly in most cases.

People liked Musk when he was heading companies that were truly innovating. No one gave a shot about his politics.

People can't stand Musk now because he turned his focus to politics and became just another rich asshole believing the world exists to make him more money.

It seems being very wealthy and getting into politics normally ends poorly.

Just put techs on the front line - if they want to require their people to do the repairs.. better be able to do it while under fire in a war zone.

You are injecting your own prejudices into the data. Please stop.

I remember the candy cigarettes while growing up, aimed at introducing children to become future smokers. The candy itself was awful and you got one "puff" before all you had left was a rock hard piece of gum... but kids are easily impressionable. My parents could have told me to not buy it but they couldn't stop me from spending $.50 on the way home from school and buying from the local shop.

Social media is no different. They aim to get kids hooked and reliant on their services because it's much easier to sway a child than adult (I guess looking at our current administration, this can be debated). I can tell my son no social media but I can't hover over him 24/7.

The ban is obviously impossible to completely enforce but there can be measures put in place limiting the platform focus on attracting youth.

That article also says states like California and Florida did not report. The reason was a change in requirements made in 2021.

Even if the past few years have seen under reporting it doesn't explain decades of reduction.

Which state would allow this? Mississippi?

I attribute it more to a deal with the devil.

I started off at a traditional 4 year university, took out some loans and amassed roughly $15k in debt before I left that school after 2 years. I then got a part time job, finished my associates while still working and finished my undergrad degree at a 4 year university without taking on any additional debt. Took me a year to pay off student loans, may not have had any if I started at the CC.

High schools need to promote CC and vocational schools much more rigorously. They were basically treated like a cancer when I was in high school in the mid 90s.

Because they mostly support and donate to the GOP, duh!

If that's the concern, you may want to invest in insulation.

This is simply an attempt to force an organization to do the bidding of the administration. At any point they could have made up some arbitrary reason to demanded the grant money back.

In my experience, very few items prepared in restaurants can have quality of the delivered item on par with the quality of eating the food inside the establishment (pizza about the only exception I can think of).

As soon as you seal up a cooked meal for transport, the steam gets trapped and makes the food mushy or chewy. It's the same reason people don't often like eating leftovers, the experience not quite the same as a fresh cooked home meal.

That doesn't even take the extra cost into consideration. In a bind I may get a pizza delivered or a sandwich from Jimmy Johns but beyond that, not a chance.

On a large scale, the less electricity used to cool would be considered a net global benefit. Locally, probably not.

Nothing makes me feel older than watching some hockey games from the early 00's and seeing how awful the picture quality looks. Not even that long ago...