In the "grand scheme of things" this scheme is straight-up corruption.
The value of the emolument is only relevant to the severity of the criminal sentence.

Suckers.

It's said a sucker is born every minute but that clearly underestimates the size of the sucker pool.

You cannot predict whether your children will be able or willing to do a particular job. You cannot predict their aptitudes, interests, or fitness. The best you can do is help them figure out what they can or cannot do and encourage and support them to maximize their outcomes.

Space Junk by DEVO

Who knew that replacing gravity as a means to contain a stable continuous nuclear fusion reaction would be such a challenge?
Heh....

That's simply wrong. The vast majority of Craigslist listings are free and have been since its beginning.
Craig Newmark is one of my heros. Full stop.

P.S.: The site ranks as the 40th most popular website in the United States. It's neither useless nor unpopular. I've bought, sold and given away a ton of stuff on Craigslist. People who avoid using it are just shooting themselves in the foot. I've tried renting out our apartments on several other commercial websites and Craigslist remains my preferred platform.

You might be right, but the article didn't declare a champion. It just declared the programmable skin could mimic an octopus's skin.

You can't even enter a Waymo without using a valid credit card from which a significant fee will be extracted as the cost of your indiscretions.

You neglected to mention that Ford's EV writedown is primarily due to very poor sales of their very expensive F150 Lightning electric truck line (bad choices here) and the costs of designing and manufacturing new plug-in hybrid designs previously lacking in their line-up (late to the party).

On the other hand...here is what Ford says of their 2025 electric vehicle sales:

From: https://www.fromtheroad.ford.c...

I imagine the story would have been much different had Ford only put more effort into designing and selling affordable EVs and reliable, competitive plug-in hybrid vehicles.

The US has subsidized nuclear power development from the beginning but I don't see conservative politicians bringing it up in their arguments. States in the US frequently provide subsidies and incentives to all sorts of businesses (new auto factories, semiconductor fabs, etc.).

The Mercatus Center at George Mason University has provided a handy chart entitled "Ranking Known State Subsidies to Private Businesses."
See: https://www.mercatus.org/resea...

Those cows have left the barn and they ain't coming back.

If you can still type they clearly don't understand how "throwing you under the bus" works.

Fuck yeah!

Then they aren't affected. Full stop.

This is true. So the courts shouldn't fuck up. Shouldn't need to say this as it is essentially a truism.

It's only as good as the enforcement mechanism.

Any number of things could destroy that...bad rulings, bad enforcement, graft, political interference, ignorant or malevolent public servants, ignorant or malevolent jurors just to name a few.

For the law to work properly everything that enables it has to work properly. It's a moderately fragile system that require constant, vigilant, informed oversight to ensure justice.