Of course, you picked the one thing the president IS literally, constitutional empowered to control.

Nice example, lol.

Slashdot is so close to becoming shittok or shitter.

I wouldn't have guessed that that slashdot commenters would have all sided with the banks.

Funny bedfellows you've got there.

The president obviously can't control the free market.*

People who sign up for 25% interest credit cards, fuck 'em, that's their own problem.
If those people declare bankruptcy and the cc companies lose out, fuck THEM, that was their risk they took issuing the card.

*then again, this applies to the previous president and "forgiveness of college loans" which everyone seemed to cheer?

....but I mean, this is like the waiters on the Hindenburg forming a union and then bitching about the landing at Lakehurst. "It's all bumpy because they're being mean to us!"

I've seen in EU the way unions and companies can work together collaboratively and ultimately positively. The US "hate each other" doesn't *have* to be the model.

But the collaborative model DOES require the union to recognize that ultimately the business *does* have to continue running or everyone loses.

"... something related to the prolonged exposure to weighlessness by astronauts living and working on the International Space Station. "

I'm saying she's pregnant.

Ah, I see.
Say x about the right, with no proof, +5 insightful
Say x about the left, even include a link, -1 Troll. /Unsurprising

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.

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.

...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.

If you don't want all that stupid shit....don't buy it?
If enough people don't buy it, they'll go away.

There are plain old simple batteries still available and they're relatively dirt cheap (which imo makes me a little nervous to throw that deep in my luggage and get on a plane, or to plug in to charge and then promptly leave the house for hours).

I mean I do understand the OP's mystery; I don't get why someone who wants that feature would buy a bloated piece of shit like they're describing, either.