The premise is already flawed, by putting the restriction on the funds in the first place they are already violating the law as written or at least torturing it's language to death.

The NTIA is interpreting this law in an expansive way by categorizing net neutrality rules as impermissible rate regulation and by demanding statewide exemptions from state laws for ISPs that obtain grant money.

By the rules the Trump admin plays by any state should take the money, agree to comply and once the funds are in hand give em the old "lol jk" and do net neutrality anyway. Make them sue you instead. If the admin can violate every trade agreement unilaterally and against the law what good is their word anyway?

Besides, in about 45 days the makeup of the government could look very different.

Interesting, actually thank you for linking that. Next time just link it up front eh? Why wouldn't you if you want to make the argument

Also this is still correlative. Interesting and worth investigating but still correlative, even in the study the best performing states overall have strong unions like I mentioned. They lean on Mississippi a lot but the measures MS took to improve schools are all things most people, especially liberals would agree with and they actually invested in public schooling.

If unions want to stand in the way of those changes then we should ignore the unions more. See we find some common ground there.

It is in fact not obvious, what's your source on that?

Do states like MA, CT, VA and NJ not work with teacher's unions? Are you suggesting the states on the bottom end of the education performance like AZ, LA, AL, WV are the strong teacher union states? Is this correlative or causative?

I agree, I'm not sure how but I would go back to Nevada and offer them something to accept it or failing that there has to be a way to have them pound sand a bit. Sorry Nevada.

As a compromise I might also find and develop a second site as well so they're not taking *all* of it.

For 30 years the plan for the BICs was Yucca mountain and here we are with no backup option with that being dead now.

Something has to be done, doesn't have to be for 100k years that's a fallacious argument. A lead lined warehouse with consolidation and stability is better for another say 80 years versus the status quo because any of the ones you brought up aren't exactly realistic at the moment.

A smart admin would have both ends of the plan, short term (warehouse) and long term (reprocess).

This isn't even a terrible idea either, it's probably workable but there is a negative percent change this admin could get it done or even get out of the idea phase.

The southern half of the United States shares latitude with northern Africa, not Europe. We've been in heat for the past 5 months that apparently has killed 35k Europeans. For us that's a Tuesday.

Yes I am putting on a hoodie when it's 53F out. I won't be shamed about that. Just like I wouldn't ever shame you about installing AC, it's glorious.

And this is how you can make a conspiracy out of any group of facts if you are inclined.

High heat and dry conditions do increase wildfire risk.
Rural areas are more prone to wildfires as they have increased vegetation.
Rural areas tend to be more conservative.

Therefore it must be the state government playing villains and shutting off the power to conservative rural areas because they are evil. They have to be evil of course so conservatives can justify supporting the most unhinged actions by their politicians because they are fighting evil.

It couldn't possibly be that rural areas have higher wildfire risk, a fact published in a map!

https://files.cpuc.ca.gov/safe...

You do know also that nowhere in America is like totally red or blue right? Like even in Los Angeles which went 64% for Harris but that means 1.1 million people in LA voted for Trump. On the flipside something like Shasta county which went 67% for Trump there still 27,000 Harris voters but they're just collateral damage in the power wars of course. Gotta break a few eggs!

On that note any Blizzard employees who had to suffer under Bobby Kotick deserve a raise.

Plenty of people, especially around here bemoan that there are no more dumb TVs and well, there are! It's just like most things in life there are drawbacks but there is a choice.

But if my last sentence didn't make it clear I agree, I have a Hisense TV. Very nice but I'll never connect it to anything besides a receiver.

One option is to buy a commercial signage display which are still more like "dumb" displays. While almost all of them now include an onboard player and automation features as well few if any will include a mic and camera.

Even then on these lines they can't pull the same shenanigans as the consumer market, these things touch corporate networks, trying to sneak out data will get you on a do not purchase list.

Or just accept a lot of people like and use these features or are indifferent so you can't avoid it, every company will do it so just never connect your TV to your network.

Universal healthcare is socialism? You know you're the first person here to use that word here. 3 paragraphs attacking a phantom. Did you make a mess jerking yourself off so hard?

Then you say "healthcare systems only behaviour" without any consideration on how systems affect behavior. Even your own article concludes America has a number of disadvantages and yet again *we pay 2x the money*. Read the rest of the article.

No shit they pay less, *that's my point*. You can pay less if things cost less! You accuse me of not understanding and blaze over how these systems work. But hey you have an anecdote from a guy, that solves it!

I have to work so I can't explode this mess of bad faith nonsense any further but this response is a joke, sorry. You just brought out your jump to conclusions mat and went to town, called me a socialist and have zero idea how our own health system works much less any other. Good day sir.

Before Trump II this has never been true. People can talk about the numbers however they want but the BLS and The Fed has always published the facts they collect and how they collect them.

Frankly the fact Trump is giving air to this idea is very dangerous but to think any previous admins directly fuck with the numbers has no evidence.

Do they? Colloquial employment has been U3 my entire life and all the other measures have always been available to critique, no matter who is trying to spin it. Same with LFPR

https://www.bls.gov/charts/emp...

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/se...

I mean get the idea that today, 2026, we can't trust these things as clearly but this is really anomalous situation where the President has tried to fuck with the scorekeepers and it's pretty bad since no President has ever tried to do that before. I especially just don't appreciate people using Trump now as a justification for never trusting these numbers when my entire life we have had transparent accounting of statistics.

I don't have to cheer him for doing something anyone with the means to do the same thing.

I can hold the position for a lack of empathy when 1. He didn't do anything until it affected him personally and 2. He puts his money, time and Influence in the support of policies and people who have and would deny medical care to other people. Bill is acting selfish and uncaring even if that happened to lead to a good outcome here.

If Ackman comes out of this with a change of thought about how he's been acting the past 10 years I'll change my position.