And with the precise same amount of proof, I could point to the fact school districts around the country are full of woke-ideologue genderfluid trans teachers, teaching pronouns before math and reading, and having first graders pick their new gender every day.

They're teaching children "Remember, parents are not entitled to know their kidsâ(TM) identities. That knowledge must be earned." (quote from actual teacher training in Eau Claire, WI) https://defendinged.org/incide...

And the Left was perfectly fine with this.

"Our findings challenge the belief that school boards are unimportant"
Who is saying that?

They're frightfully important.

Like towns, there are all levels of varying dynamics - there are strong school admins with rubber-stamp school boards; there are overwhelmingly powerful school boards making critical decisions for tens of thousands of students, and unfortunately, usually beyond culpability for the policies they inflict.

But I don't think anyone has suggested they're unimportant.

Many people worldwide may not realize how locally schools are run in the US; they are funded by property taxes, administered, and paid for at that level. Certainly there are some state funds but largely, it's a local town thing. They are very LOCAL things, making these boards - who control the purse strings - vitally important. They are locally elected. There are no qualifications other than basically be an adult, live there, and don't be a felon/sex offender.
For Minneapolis (as an example) they run a $55mn budget. With....no qualifications, remember. (This year, they're spending $85m so... yeah, like the federal government in that respect.)

They are - in my limited experience - politically awful experiences, with many tryhards feeling this is their "first step" into what will certainly be Mr Smith's brilliant political career, so they come from the very start with guns blazing over the stupidest issues. OTOH you have the mayor's nephew who ran just to get the old man off his back and easily coasted to victory because he's the only name anyone recognized, who truly doesn't give a FUCK about anything but how soon this stupid meeting can be over.

Here's an example - Robbinsdale, MN an inner-ring suburb, district of about 10k students - read it and weep: https://www.americanexperiment... - sadly, this is absolutely typical in tone, if not specifics. The district was about 25% "performing at grade level" for math, and about 40% for reading last year, I believe.

To the point of the article, "A fundamental challenge to understanding the importance of boards is the absence of data on the policy goals of board membersâ"i.e., their ideologies" - I don't understand why their ideologies are particularly important. No moreso than, say, the teachers' ideologies. Look at the Robbinsdale mess I linked - there's ideologies all OVER the damn place - but their lack of results and the impact on the kids is what matters.

Honestly, I don't care what school board members ideology IS; I'd love to see a cap prohibiting anyone who expressed ANY open ideology banned from the role.

You will 100% have numerous posts insisting that, nevertheless, Musk is the bad guy.

They can no more allow shades of grey in their ideology than can the Catholic Church. For the same reasons.

Alternately:
"A NOAA spokesperson, however, was quick to cast blame on newscasters for âoecriticizingâ scientists and reporting the service change in a way that could incite public outrage â" later clarifying that a microwave instrument on another satellite will still provide crucial readings.
The DMSP is a single dataset in a robust suit of hurricane forecasting and modeling tools in the NWS portfolio, which also includes microwave sensing data via the recently launched WSF-M satellite, which was the planned replacement for the DPSM program,â Kim Doster told The Post Friday."

Understand: global warming alarmists have basically been the recipients of an ever-growing firehose of funding world wide since 2000.
ANY hint at anyone turning the geyser off will naturally spur the sharpest of criticism.

You can't carry power packs on a plane at all? I'm curious why people use them.

Note that "deep into my luggage" could be checked OR carry on luggage, Einstein.

Or be upset that your employer considers attendance, or presence, to be a measure of your availability, commitment, or attention...

An unbearable manager compels you to move on. You play manager bingo. You win. They get left behind.

unbearable /n-bâr-bl/
adjective
So unpleasant, distasteful, or painful as to be intolerable.
"unbearable heat."
So unpleasant or painful as to be unendurable.
Incapable of being put up with.

unendurable
adjective
Not to be endured; intolerable.
Incapable of being put up with.

adjective
Impossible to tolerate or endure; unbearable.
"intolerable agony."
Not tolerable; not capable of being borne or endured; not proper or right to be allowed; insufferable; insupportable; unbearable.
"intolerable pain; intolerable heat or cold; an intolerable burden."

Not susceptible to action or treatment.
"a unique feat, incapable of duplication."

Unbearable. The use of the adjective 'unbearable' to describe unpleasant or distasteful situations is not, itself, unbearable.

I enjoy the fact that apparently I'm so in the downvote-mafia's heads that they'll take the time to downvote everything I post, no matter how banal.

Lol, now how much of their time to waste with this newfound power....

Not going to make the obvious reference. Sometimes you have to let others swing at the easy ones.

So you got my point, at least that one.

Contention for Wi-Fi channels is already happening. Higher power might introduce more competitors, but it all still can work.

The worst thing people do is try ty manage their W-Fi channel assignment. You are not that smart. You aren't either, you were just lucky.

How unfortunate that your local Wi-Fi environment is so over populated that you cannot actually use yours.

let me know, somehow, and I'll sport you over some Starbucks points so you can drink powerful coffee while you rant on and on and on...

Oh, wait, like my neighborhood, this is actually NOT A PROBLEM. Putz. It just looks annoying to you. Consider rewiring your house for Ethernet, or, try Powerline, Moca, or implement RFC2549, and get off our lawns.

(You could beg a neighbor for their W-Fi password)

A point - for lower headlight mounting, the angle is never such that it illuminates drivers ahead of the vehicle... Angles or whatever, another Prius never has its headlights at or above my line of sight.

OTOH, Many pickup trucks, and apparently (based on direct observation), lifted or not, the headlights are already at or above the drivers' line of sight... They will indeed shine directly into my rearview mirror, causing me significant glare and posing a safety risk. This is whether the mirror is dimmed or not - they are too bright for that.

Further, as was repeated last night, oncoming pickup trucks lifted or not, pose the same threat, only directly into my eyes.

And some trucks do not apparently have headlights that are compliant, for they cause such overwhelming glare even further away, and more than 3 lanes to the left in oncoming lanes. Some trucks, and this is not uncommon here in Arizona, have the standard headlights, clear white foglights/daytime running lights, and high beams, all on at the same time. Glare x2, the DRL glare being significant despite being lower on the frame. Lifted enough the DRL are actually at or above regular low beam height.

Despite the geometry lesson, both the apparently noncompliant lamps and actual height above the road lead to this glare, and it's dangerous. And it will not be addressed, the NHTSA is nonresponsive to such complaints until there is a threshold of deaths reported.

Nope. China is too big to fail.

And we have not yet learned that lesson.

...but this could move the needle for me, if it actually could DO stuff to keep my inbox reasonable - kill the spam, file the receipts, save/highlight the confirmations, then delete them after I've been to the hotel, etc.