Lack of regulation is another issue completely. My POTS phone company had serious infrastructure required to handle emergencies. When I switched to cable for phone, they couldn't handle more than a day without power; if that... depending on the battery of your cable modem. Later, they appeared to have no battery; then with fiber the phone company's new modems had no battery at all and they were the phone company! Copper is being transitioned out and never restored; along with any serious reliability requirements. For me, a windy storm knocks out power for days while they go restore the lines. Internet performs better than power; but I can't tell beyond the 1 day my UPS can run, they do claim better uptime.

Responders get FCC regulated exclusive radio bandwidth. They can't be DoS with emergency traffic. It is an example solution that works. Consumers could get exclusive bandwidth for emergency use; CB radio has a channel for emergency use already, AM radio is available and used for emergencies but poorly regulated. We could plan things out like adults for a change; it's amazing we can think out 1st responders but not go beyond that other than half-measures from past generations. We have zero planning in modern times.

Decide:
1) Use new product/service to replace in-house labor because of the promise of gains from a more optimized alternative with a possible economy of scale that would be difficult or too time consuming to do. Pretend it's long term and predictably stable.

2) Augment existing labor with new product/service to amplify and increase productivity... lower prices, increase output, or at least keep up with the competition with the promise of survival or growth.

Those who pick #2 end up with more gains than those who pick #1. In history and also with current data on AI use. People are too fixated on #1 and many in leadership roles are not worth a fraction of their salaries; it's certainly not a meritocracy. Just luck of the ass kissing backstabbers...

That said, productivity gains do indirectly result in fewer jobs long term and in a saturated market those gains can't be utilized⦠The culture has also shifted in that employees get zero respect and layoffs have become a routine trick to boost stock prices. I would think monthly reporting would undermine the tactic while slower reporting would increase it's usefulness but lower the frequency of it (also increase fraud and shady tactics giving more time for more complex schemes.)

Copper might be an issue... but they repair downed lines way faster than they do fibre lines. My ISP literally runs new lines a few miles rather than splice an optical line. Still copper gets fixed right away...

Basic cell service should replace the whole thing. NO wires. Cell is cheaper to run and they make more money because they charge more for something that costs less to deliver. VoIP is not reliable. emergency speed capping or prioritization for disasters - because we don't need influencers screwing up victims and survivors.

If only we had a functional FCC etc... we should have an emergency band on every phone... we also should mandate AM radio crystal set standard... because AM radio always worked and can with zero energy! 1st responders get their own radio band...

Trump has said every side of every position while being RECORDED except a few times when it's his tell for being too rattled about the issue to take both sides. Sometimes he does it in the same sentence and other times it's some years apart. When it comes to being a pedophile, he never partially admits guilt (as he does with everything else;) which means he knows he is guilty and fears being caught; just like his porn star affair - he doesn't play the both sides blathering game with those matters.

If you think Jesus was a moderate you are too stupid to bother with. I'll turn my other cheek your way...my ass cheek.

People not lifting a finger over something easy that results in many preventable deaths is WORSE than purposely murdering people. You have reason and motive to kill "bad" protestors. To kill innocent random people simply because you don't want to change habits or pay pennies more... that is worse despite being more soft. think about it (other people not the parent.)

I find Iranian mullahs no more weird in their evil than the christian nutjobs; not that the difference matters at all.

YUP. You've got it.

Spreading out data center demands does not reduce them just spreads them out. Maybe they have some creative accounting that makes initial construction cheaper; long term is what matters, and these large data centers get lobbying power which they abuse.

It is not cheaper centralized management or placed closer to resources. Latency doesn't matter for most needs; we're talking speed of light so distances are not a real problem or cost. Even gaming, the other players also need to be local when coming up against latency limits...which for some people is just an excuse for poor reflexes.

Rank choice voting would help more than any other single change...

Problems are far worse and nobody can fix it-- Americans blame politicians but will consistently vote to screw themselves. Americans deserve what they blame others for which is why we are doomed.

Economics: non-productive jobs like education/medicine rise in cost as productivity benefits most jobs which also reduces labor demand in those and lowers pay; plus you've got outsourcing too - say you buy American but actually you don't. Housing also is not getting productive (and when it does, tons of those jobs are gone) and lowering housing costs devalues the "investment" of the largest voting block who will not allow enough policy changes. Green costs more upfront and that is too much; it has to be better and cheaper (not green; very few will lift a finger for ethics, they will do it for their own personal gain only.) Selfishness is way too popular and marketing exploits that from every angle for generations now; best you get is lip service, bumper sticker, "A Scause for Applause", or rounding a bill up as a "donation" (which is a tax break for the business, not the customer who pays for it,) or a twisted smugness for being an anti-do-gooder (couched in tribalism which even trumps Christianity.)

Biden on abortion: ridiculous liberals can always be counted on to harm themselves and are quite similar to fanatics on the other side. 1 side has a media machine that is good at pushing such buttons and reaching people while the other side has basically nothing and whatever they have is not an organized propaganda machine designed to be an echo chamber.

A GOP operative once said Americans have a 2 year memory. I thought that was too short but I think he was probably correct.

Americans want everything yesterday no matter how unreasonable and are too stupid to realize the man who made the disaster is not who you put back because the janitor didn't clean up the disaster quick enough... and having no shame at all, bitching about the same problems he created. I remember how much they tried to hit Obama with their mess in 2012 and they gained a lot of ground from that tired old tactic.
Apparently, even they don't think people are so stupid as to come clean on the pedophilia but they probably should have in 2025 because enough people would be over it, forget, or simply be sick of the whole topic within 2 years. I already know people who tune out on Epstein and just don't care about it anymore (former Trump supporters, who will vote for his 3rd term by that time.)

FYI, most the time Clinton was on the jet was with his staff because use of the jet was a donation and not "donation" because they actually had the staff flying around Africa with it doing actual stuff. Not saying something didn't ever happen but they've got nothing and most the flights are easily accounted for. The wife was dragged in under oath over nothing and yet they won't even bring in the high end model from the hooker agency to testify (guess who that is?) or Pam Bondi (who prostituted her ethics; which is a big reason people do not think well of lawyers...but she makes lawyers look good.)

As far as personal email servers; Colin Powell actually TOLD Hillary to use a personal email server like he did when she came into the job. I think I remember hearing him say as much. I remember the multiple news stories about the state dept getting hacked - their email servers were a joke. Unlike Powell, Hillary used the old whitehouse email server as her personal one which was considered secure when it was the whitehouse server (but new.) I assume they probably updated it and didn't just keep it exactly the same after Bush threw it away. Furthermore, I assume since they kept using the frequently hacked state dept email in addition to the personal email during Powell to Hillary, they were fully aware how bad it was and put actually important stuff to paper or phone. I would expect both of them to be smart enough to purposely leverage the fact certain countries were likely listening to their advantage! Powell was even trained on such tactics and likely told Hillary if she wasn't able to imagine that on her own.
Too much is made of the personal email thing and how they purposely violated policies. Remember, Powell was willing to do a hoax to start a war. As far as her missing emails... they didn't find anything despite massive effort and when they said 30k of emails I still laugh. I get more in my spam folder every year (which gets deleted and does provide a good excuse to cover things up... not that you would be wise to put something criminal into an email archive when all servers are being attacked by foreign governments constantly and political attacks with court orders-- you want to trust your IT guy to find 100% of your criminal emails and delete them? oh, and forensic recovery of HFS+ back then is pretty bad as really tiny files went directly into the FS database directly which was frequently overwritten; the auto defragger could randomly trash the unallocated space too. If I remember correctly, the email server used discrete file storage for emails... I had the same server she used and I did mac forensic work around that time period.) I'm not saying this is proof but it's not likely anything serious existed and the man who lead the investigation in the house admitted it was just pure political hoax (and justified it as typical non-criminal political fraud everybody does.)

Any US state could be a separate country. Most just would be shit holes without a few states subsidizing their existence; likely end up invaded by somebody else since they couldn't fund much self defense.

0) MANY parents view school as free daycare already. "raise my kids for me! but don't teach them anything i don't like!"
1) more school time doesn't automatically produce better results. BETTER time does.
2) educators are underpaid but NOT cheap. daycare is much cheaper.
3) study hall monitors are much cheaper... practice/study time can be enforced. A robot could do this.
4) most learning issues are emotional and political issues; you'd do more having some therapists rotating over the children during daycare time. Except the bad parents would freak out! The really anti therapy people have major stuff to hide! think about it. then think about the ones you know and look into it.
5) kids these days need zero-phone social time; this is important
6) Nixon began the war on education, the GOP continued it under Reagan.
7) No-Child-Left-Behind is designed to ruin public schools. that is the real purpose I actually had one of the people tell me this (sadly not recorded, not that it would matter if it did get out.)
8) LOOK at the better counties. many are better than the USA. learn from them. Ironically, apply the education science the USA paid for but never uses (the better countries do use it.) Oh, how about funding research again? (Dept. Education. yes, they did that. Created to help poor rural schools that suck so bad the inbred teachers couldn't read. If Trump grew up in rural Georgia, his 3rd wife would have been his daughter!)
9) remove Trump. He says openly, "Smart people hate me" and "I love the uneducated" and so on all for what should be obvious reasons.
10) fund schools by income taxes. property taxes are foolish. having poor neighborhoods screw over their children simply by where they are born creates more long term problems. If anything, those areas need more funding to balance out the bad neighboorhood. It takes a village... (except we can't say that because it's African and Hillary repeated it.)

They are far worse than assholes. Guardians Of Pedophiles. You can take your middle ground religion and shove it up your middle. Fool, you don't know what an overton window is. Furthermore, Jesus was an extremist along with the Devil so both of them are therefore bad.

The Iranians are not going to kill anybody here; that would be quite stupid (unless it's unpopular leadership) and they actually act quite sane for a theocratic society that Christian Nationalists would admire if it was the "correct" religion. The crazy is all in the USA right now.

They directly kill some protestors like people here only can wish for but we kill more yearly to maintain our unsafe driving regulations because we don't want to suffer lifting a finger even if it would save lives. I'm surprised we have roundabouts at all and bet we'd still not have them if it wasn't for fiscal conservatives promoting them (minus the European, socialist, and anti-corporate connections they pulled it off despite most people complaining about the annoyance.)

I'm a Democrat and I'm not afraid or stupid enough to run away from it. Actually, I'm not even loyal or a fan-- it's simple: the enemy of my enemy is my friend. I'll join for now.

The GOP is evil as fuck and I'll side with anybody, even Iran just to reset the GOP back to the corrupt 1980s GOP who look like Democrats compared to the fascists of today.

Wake up (but don't go woke.)

Because The White House would demand they vote against anything that limits corruption within the white house or they don't know about yet. Once somebody tells Orange Man it's bad, he will be for it. Then they will too; but the suckers will believe a silly senate rule is taking action.

I did almost no homework. not that it wasn't assigned in my day. some parents complained; they wanted their gen X kids busy when nobody was home before they returned home from work!

You still need homework and some habits formed from having to do that. People forget that the child does not require any parent at home to do their homework. If you don't let the GOP put your child into a child-labor job they will have the time.

NOTE- the schools should provide free daycare services after school. For many children, this would be safer and better than being at home! We naturally can't allow that because children are property of their parents and must also be punished for every flaw of their parents. We don't even provide free breakfast for poor children we claim to care about. My school did; however, when there was a snow day some of my friends DID NOT EAT! all day. 2 free meals per day is all they had. I don't know how they survived the summer or holiday breaks....but those were thin kids despite the cheap junk food.