As was I. However, my High School wasn't teaching much of anything I wanted to learn. And where what I wanted to learn intersected with what the school was teaching, I was either already far more advanced than the teachers, or my dad's Navy transfers landed me in a new school district that was stricter than the one I left. That meant that I never progressed, and squeaked by High School with a 1.0 (after a kind English teacher rounded up).

When I got into College, and a stable location, things were much better. I got caught up, and after a more extended than normal college curriculum, I graduated with a 3.2 overall and a 3.8 in my major (thanks for nothing, COBOL class).

I only took most of the classes I took in College because I had to take them. I couldn't have cared less for almost all the General Ed. classes, and I cored dumped them all after getting the credits.

That would be a first. I'll leave it as an exercise for the reader to figure out why.

These state-level, massive privacy-invading age verification laws (including the subject of this article) proliferated under Biden (that doesn't really matter, but you imply that it does). All of these stupid Federal laws were bipartisan rights violations, from top to bottom. Both parties are dead set on destroying America, so blaming one over the other is ignoring the real problem -- they both want absolute control over us all.

Wishmaster is the movie. And X-Files did a more family-friendly episode.

Yes, and many boffins died to bring us that information.

The income tax was initially promoted as a tax against the wealthy, then expanded in effect until it snared almost everyone. California will expand this tax in the same way.

You can stop your consideration at the 50% "one time" tax. That is a hard pass from me. Nothing good EVER comes from a one-time tax. They ALWAYS turn into a permanent tax. The rest of his proposal is totally irrelevant.

Yes there is, but it's very unpopular. It starts with dismantling the scourge of Feminism, which is the root cause of MANY of the dangers children face today, including social media. That's just the start, though.

I stopped buying and playing all Blizzard games at that point.

That seems pretty smart to me.

And Google knows this, yet gives it prominent placement in front of everything else. That is implicit endorsement of what it is saying, so it is the same as Google saying it. Holding Google responsible is indeed a good ruling.

That's a matter of what you are used to and know. I can navigate LibreOffice much more readily than in Microsoft Office, as LibreOffice has been my standard for a long time.

What on Earth gives you that idea? Did you read what I wrote?

Why is that a surprise? We all predicted it from the very beginning. It's like being surprised when Christmas arrives every year.

Yep. The Fed report is total nonsense. It's yet another opportunity for the business real estate owners to try sabotaging remote work. I remember when my boss converted us from fully remote during the pandemic (which worked wonderfully!) to a hybrid schedule after the pandemic. His justification was that our office space was going to be reclaimed for the executives if we're not using it. A few months after we went hybrid, the executives reclaimed our office space for themselves anyway. They moved us to a dungeon at that point.

When we brought up that being present in the office didn't save our office space, and that going back fully remote would benefit us all, we got shot down. The new excuse was that the customer-facing employees were angry that they didn't get to work remotely, and we needed to appease them so they didn't quit. When we brought up that they were completely unskilled labor, and we were highly skilled professionals, the boss just shrugged it off. He never liked the idea of remote work, but is at least somewhat afraid of a revolt. However, many of us are close enough to retirement that he's betting we're not willing to rebel. However, he's not completely certain of that, so we "get" to compromise.

But yeah, the Fed report is complete and utter bullshit.

We haven't even perfected the "do what I say" interface, and I don't think we'll have the "do what I mean" interface in our lifetimes.