FTA: "Jack said he was driven to act by ranchers who were concerned that solar companies were outbidding them for land they had been leasing to graze cows."

Huh. Ok.

"After negotiating with solar developers, Jack eliminated the land use restrictions while preserving provisions to prohibit tax incentives for solar farms on private agricultural land and to create standards for decommissioning projects."

Ah, so to "fix" that they 1) limit what uses private land owners can charge for, and 2) make the land leases less valuable thus reducing the potential profits of the land owner.

I thought conservative Republicans were for freedom, private property rights, freedom to contract, free markets, and other things those cock suckers claim but no longer stand for.

Yet they won't have their kids engage in any metrics or testing for comparison. Even as recently as three years ago most home schooled students did not take the SAT or ACT (at that time approximately 3 percent of all students were home schooled versus less than 1 percent of ACT / SAT takers who claimed home schooled status). And the comparisons that we do have are flawed as the home school test takers are self selected versus the public school takers where ACT / SAT is more widespread and in many places compulsory even if the student isn't college bound.

There is also a compelling body of research emerging about how ineffective screens and remote learning is in a K-12 environment. Granted not all home school parents use just screens for instruction, but I would submit that many if not most do as those are the curriculums that seem to get the most advertising and exposure.

And the replacement will be ass. Big hairy nasty unuseable ass. Proprietary ass, that didn't work well out of the gate and will only get worse with time as GM "shifts strategic direction" and within four years abandons the system with no upgrade path.

It's why my current car is a 2016 Infinity. That seems to be a sweet spot for infotainment as it's before they started putting giant fucking tablets in the console. That also means the major functions still use physical buttons.

My next car is probably going to be a custom electric conversion. I'm thinking a mid 1980's red Porsche 911 Turbo.

Meanwhile Ubuntu 22.04 and 24.04 were just dogshit. After install I spent weeks tracking down various bugs and making basic stuff on my systems work. It felt like using Linux on the desktop circa 2001 again. To say nothing about the noticeable step down in virtualization performance from version 18 to 22.

This is why I left Ubuntu. Say what one wants about Redhat and RHEL. I don't agree with all their tactics in the past or their decisions on CentOS. But from a system usability standpoint they generally don't have these issues on initial release. That's probably because they dedicate the time and resources to actually test their software!

OpenAI going to content creators and demanding they opt out whomever they don't want to appear in videos is the most on-brand silicon valley Chutzpah move this year. Say what one wants about the U.S. intellectual property system, but that ask isn't anywhere any time reasonable.

Now if OpenAI were offering some sort of payment per use as a compulsory license subject to certain content guardrails, that might be a different story. But that wasn't the case either. Instead the "offer" was we're going to use your IP and actors' likenesses for free. You can request that we don't use certain ones but there's no guarantee.

As with just about everything these tech bros do, OpenAI wanted all the benefits with no obligation to pay anyone anywhere anytime. And that's just not going to work.

here comes the shocked Pikachu face when these companies can't find competent mid-level software people because industry wide they didn't bother training them.

Just another fine short-term profit driven boondoggle by PE and the tech industry.

Yes, living off dividends day to day can be done. I'm semi-retired at 47 and doing it now. However to make it happen there is an important piece of the puzzle that these folks miss: You have to have a lot of cheese saved first. As a very rough rule of thumb, you can get $1,000 in dividends a month from evern $100,000 invested. Now keep in mind a yield like that will most likely sap your portfolio of any fund growth because it's all going out the door as cash.

I don't know that most of the young people trying to follow these influencers has anywhere near 100k saved. And if they do they'd be dumb to put the whole nut in a dividend play and not diversify. The solution for these brokeass dividend wannabees then is to chase even bigger yields which over time will erode their principal.

The only tried and true solution is time in the market long term. I have around 2 mil saved and am getting 18 - 20k a month in dividends. It can be done but for me it took decades to get here.

And indeed, a lot of the "financial influencers" pushing this shit are advocating for extremely high yield (in some cases 20 percent or more) funds that erode their NAV rapidly.

Ticketbastard, a private company, set up certain guardrails and EULAs (i.e. private contracts) limiting purchases.

A company circumvents said guardrails and violates said private contracts and purchases tickets for scalping.

Ticketbastard should be suing to enforce. It is not the job of the FTC to enforce private contracts.

"amazingly favorable unit revenues"

They are openly celebrating their new found ability to fuck customers in the ass.

In theory, yes. In reality it won't work because all the airlines will be doing this soon too.

Open standards and self hosted camera DVRs for the win.

On my I-phone I'm at least two OS revisions behind due to that exact concern. The older shit works for me so for the moment I'm not upgrading.

Ah,I didn't know there was a bankruptcy involved too.

Didn't Verizon sell its FIOS division to Frontier just a few years ago? Now Verizon is buying it back?? What the hell?