Here's Seattle's bell schedule, for example:

https://www.seattleschools.org...

In every school district I'm familiar with, the junior high schools and high schools both start AND end one hour earlier than the elementary schools do. And the stated reason is specifically to cut down on transportation costs.

If people really cared about the kids above all, they wouldn't make the junior high and high school students go in so early - they'd raise taxes on themselves to buy more busses and pay for more drivers so that the schools all start and end at the same time.

Streelights aren't useful for my late-night summer barbeques, dammit!

(I just want the back-and-forth to end, I'm close enough to retirement that I don't really care all that much about this anymore)

... what the Labor Department calls the information industry, which includes employment of software developers and other tech workers. ... which [also[ includes media and entertainment.

The fact that, for this discussion, they decided to explicitly include "media and entertainment" makes it pretty obvious any increase in hiring is only in that group. We've all seen the copious amount of stories documenting this. Actual tech workers - especially new graduates - are having a hard time finding jobs. I also see and hear about this frequently in discussions with the students in our department.

If you really want to see the grift, you can see how rapidly TrumpCoin fell a short while after being announced... and has continued to fall over the past 17 months.

The other possibility is - this was one of those very rare occasions where he learned GOP senators were not going to fall in lockstep behind him.

Apparently, "Texas Man" is jealous of all the attention "Florida Man" has been getting...

That is inconvenient for the passengers. But the bigger concern here might be that people sometimes also die in cars that were driven into a flooded road.

Washington's State Patrol is fond of pointing out that the majority of flood deaths in our state are people who've driven into a flood - often after intentionally going around a "road closed" sign / barrier.

I wonder... given what they've done with landers, they might try to one-up the US by landing a manned mission on the far side of the moon.

The more the merrier, I say... at least in this context.

... through this huge pile of dollar bills.

No, I suspect it's got more to do with short-term profits and his overall compensation, given he probably wouldn't still be the CEO by the time any new factories were brought online.

Corporate boards typically only reward short-term thinking.

It can't, because I already switched over to Jellyfin a couple years ago! /rimshot

I'm honestly surprised that the CISA spokeswoman didn't include a non-sequitir like "we are re-building a world class workforce after the DEI-driven destruction caused by Biden's administration" nor a statement praising Donald Trump. Typically at least one of the two is included in any deflection offered by the current administraiton.