County and city noise regulations could be mostly preempted by FAA regulations as these drones are regulated by the FAA.

It is conceivable that drone deliveries could occur 24/7 and could especially be a nuisance in high density housing areas.

More of us might need to complain to Congress in this case if the FAA does nothing to address it, but that could fall on deaf ears due to the lobbying by the drone delivery companies and the current makeup of the Federal Government.

So if you've got an Airbnb in the neighborhood, or a large block of apartments prepare for the onslaught of drone noise.

You just might need to invest in one of those white noise sources next to your bed as the noise pollution in the neighborhood increases.

or other Russian Allies.

We all know what Belarus did then don't we?

Russia could pull a Mossad-style extradition as well.

Calling B.S. on Trumps ban, however...

They could be made to destroy themselves or the equipment that they are powering. The malware could modify the switching waveforms to overvolt the power busses and cause fires elsewhere.

This was expected. Apologies to Joe Walsh.

The problem with this is that Customs and Border Patrol doesn't get search warrants, they operate under the "Border Search Exception"

No search warrants are required unless congress acts, or the Supreme Court changes its mind. See below for a the Fourth Circuit court case.

The border search exception lets U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers search travelers and property at national borders and international airports without a warrant, probable cause, or suspicion, based on the nation's right to protect its borders. Key aspects include routine property checks, device searches, and legal limits.

CBP agents frequently search phones and laptops under this doctrine. While some lower courts and civil rights groups argue that electronic searches require reasonable suspicion, border agencies maintain broad authority to conduct manual device reviews without a warrant.

From the EFF in July of 2026:

The Fourth Circuit issued a disappointing opinion in U.S. v. Belmonte Cardozo, a case in which EFF filed an amicus brief, alongside the national ACLU, its Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia affiliates, and the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL).

We argued that electronic device searches at the border should require a warrant based on probable cause, but at minimum, regardless of whether an officer searches by hand or with forensic software that plugs into a device and downloads its entire contents for search, the same Fourth Amendment standard should apply to all device searches at the border.

Unfortunately, the court rejected that argument and ruled that a lower standard applies to manual searches, allowing the government to conduct extraordinarily invasive electronic device searches without any suspicion of wrongdoing, simply because the border officer chooses to search by hand rather than with a forensic tool.

attempts to outlaw security features such as those in Graphene OS.

But that' probably won't get that far:

The U.S. government cannot easily or successfully outlaw the security features found in GrapheneOS due to insurmountable First and Fourth Amendment constitutional hurdles, alongside the practical realities of open-source software. (source EFF)

While lawmakers frequently attempt to target encryption and anti-forensic features under the guise of national security, any blanket ban would face immediate defeat in federal courts. However, the government is actively circumventing this limitation by prosecuting the individuals who use these features during active law enforcement investigations. (source EFF)

As for invalidating the destruction of evidence statute 18 U.S. Code 2232, that that probably won't happen:

Congress possesses broad, well-established constitutional authority to pass laws that protect the administration of justice and federal law enforcement operations. The Supreme Court highly favors the preservation of evidence and the enforcement of lawful government searches. https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/RL34303

So, the only solution is not to have any data which could be used to incriminate you on your phone when you cross the border.

There was no value to begin with for Youtube Premium.

The value of Youtube Premium will always be zero as long as uBlock origin, and Sponsorblock continue to be effective.

The only way for Alphabet to make Youtube worth something would be to lock everything behind a paywall, mandate the use of a specialized viewer app which does not allow for uBlock origin or Sponsorblock to be installed, shove and shove ads down the subscriber's throats.

The problem is, if they tried this, the risk of a new streaming platform popping up and Youtube's users migrating to it would be very high.

This development shows how utterly earning a living as been messed up in the past 30 years.

It used to be that someone of average intelligence, some dexterity, and a good work ethic could land a job which pays enough to cover the basic necessities.

This was back when businesses did most things in house and were highly vertically integrated.

Business now have several stages of outsourcers between their "raw material" input and their final product output. How can that really be as efficient as it is advertised to be?

Nowadays, everything is outsourced because it seems to be less expensive to do so on paper. But, the problem is, it isn't. All these outsourced businesses have overhead and have to make a profit on top of that overhead. When you compare that to bring the necessary tools and talent in house, at some point it is going to start making sense to start insourcing these tasks.

So what we have are outsourcers and small businesses trying to capitalize and smaller and smaller portions of the economic pie. We are getting close to a point where there will be a reckoning. At some point smarter business are going to start asking the value question with all the layers of outsourcing in their product.

nothing will be done about climate change, and the prison population will be used to fight these fires.

Inmate firefighters are incarcerated individuals who volunteer to clear brush, dig fire lines, and suppress wildfires through state conservation camp programs.

I would think that if the fire problem gets bad enough, they won't be volunteering, they will be made to do it.

Every potential code violation is logged by AI using drones and garbage trucks and acted upon......

So let's stick it to the cash-strapped families and retirees who by no fault of their own can't afford to keep up with the maintenance on their homes. After all, these are the people who won't complain as much as the person with the house at the top of the hill who can afford to pay someone to primp the landscaping.

Local governments in some places have very strict codes, while others don't care if you don't mow your lawn or have peeling paint on your exterior walls. It all depends on how the local government came to be. A local government usually writes the initial set of codes when it incorporates in an area. There is usually a group of individuals who have an idea about what types of codes to include as it affects their vision for the community.

Watch out for "Master Planned Communities" and corporations which incorporate an area of county land such as what Disney World did in Florida. If you want the least amount of control on your property buy a house in the unincorporated county that you live in.

Not a lawyer and this is not legal advice:

I researched this some more after my initial post. You are correct about plausible deniability. You want to access that data in the cloud and then clear all session keys and access tokens, along with browser history when you cross the border. The border search doesn't extend beyond your phone, and they actually put your phone in airplane mode when they do the search. They can however, inter your phone for however long they wish, and you up to 5 days before you can file a writ of habeus corpus.

There should be an option for a password which unlocks the phone in a separate sandbox which is benign.

Of course, if the government has a warrant, even this will get you into trouble.

Why would you use a Roku with its predispute arbitration clause, and ads shoved down your throat when you can use a thin client with Linux, Firefox, Ublock origin, and Sponsor block installed and never logged into Youtube using a login, just using it anonymously.

Oh, I suppose it is convenience then? Well you're paying for that convenience by being filed, indexed, numbered, and tracked.

What really sticks in my craw is how these big corporations want to control your interaction and experience right down to minutia level detail and you're given no option to control it for yourself unless you operate outside of it.

is by design and what the current regime wants.

We are being split into a 3 class society in the United States. That's right, no longer classless. More like the Roman "plebiscites" and the "patricians", coupled with the "citizens" and "probationers" in David Brin's sci-fi uplift universe

Patricians to plebs: "Rules are for thee and not for me.

Plebs to Probationers: No. you can't vote, and no, you can't reproduce, and we track everywhere you go and prohibit access to designated areas by a surgically implanted transponder. All people are genetically screened at birth. If they have "Bad Genes" they become a lifetime probationer and are made sterile: "Red Card". People are subject to a probationer test when they turn 16 also to screen them for undesired emotional traits and made a lifetime probie if they fail that test: "Red Card". Finally if they get convicted of a crime, they can become temporary or permanent probationers.

Of course, the US constitution would have to be torn up or4 just plain ignored.

orbiting a brown dwarfs.

There will be a small kerfuffle about this.

The main thing to consider:

Brown dwarfs aren't planets they are in between planets and stars. Since some of them can fuse deuterium on a small basis, that could be the dividing line or 13mJ.
Planets 13 Mj: Objects below roughly 13 Jupiter masses cannot fuse deuterium and are classified as planets or gas giants, regardless of how they formed.

My take on this is since the brown dwarf mentioned 13mJ that puts it right on the cutoff.

Interesting problem.