Forget government, any ISP that tried it would lose all their business customers the next day. Basic economics and game theory say that won't happen.

What you're saying is that the law was never needed and remains unneeded. Thus, it never should have existed. Why force companies to waste time and money to show they are complying with a law about something they never intended to do? The only beneficiary is whoever the State pays to review compliance. Everyone else is harmed when that compliance cost gets pushed down to consumers, who are also the ones paying the State's reviewers to verify that the thing-that-won't-happen still hasn't happened.

I wouldn't seek any advice from whoever it was that fed you that conspiracy theory, unless you were just being facetious.

Anyhow, you don't put laws into effect to maintain a status quo that nobody is interested in challenging. That's a stupid reason to waste time and create unnecessary red tape. And since the law was clearly unnecessary, it should be repealed. Otherwise, it just makes things more expensive while providing no benefit. Companies have to waste time and money showing that they aren't doing something they were never going to do in the first place.

No. Do you? And if so, what were the terms?

ATT ran fiber down the road past my subdivision 3-4 years ago, only ran it in a month or two ago, and just now started delivering fliers that say it's "coming soon".

Which is pretty fast for ATT.

Has California's net neutrality law changed anything? Does it do anything? I remember how we didn't have it at a national level, then we did have it, then we didn't have it again. So far as I could tell, nothing changed.

Well, you've found a sad fact of modern American politics. Former Rep. Gaetz said something insightful about it (which I'll paraphrase) - "When a Democrat is in the White House, the Republicans are the party of fiscal responsibility. When a Republican is in the White House, there is no fiscally responsible party."

And it sucks. I doubt Washington will take serious action until its almost too late, and that date looms ever nearer. For the last 50 years, I think there's been exactly one year where we were on track to end it without incurring any debt. That was 2001, and everything was going great until September.

Part of the problem is that everyone is afraid to cut spending or raise taxes, and at least one of those needs to happen.

Can I get some clarity ahead of time on whether or not you've already started drinking? Maybe preface your responses with the number of drinks you've had in the last hour? A number in parenthesis would work pretty well.

You know, just to save me some guesswork. This one sounds like maybe a 3, but I don't know your tolerance.

I don't know, have you tried asking it?

I asked Claude, and it said yes (with code examples) to all of those except Malbolge.
It took Sonnet 5 almost a minute to generate an explanation of a Malbolge "Hello World". I can see why it doesn't want to do that.

And what limit are you suggesting has been imposed here?

Tabulating the score...

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Bastard.

Wait, you think their lives are more stressful now? Even though the number of kids with dead siblings is lower than it has ever been in human history? Even though the number of them starving is lower than it has ever been in all human history? Even though they don't have to leave early to go work in the fields? When they were profoundly unlikely to have medical care, good food, light that wasn't a lantern or candle, a library anywhere, vaccines, antibiotics, time for anything but work, intact clothing, soap...?

You think global warming is scarier than nuclear annihilation? Or being killed by outlaws or Indians? Or cholera? Or your mother dying in childbirth?
What about when there was no clean air? When smokestacks weren't stacks, when the air was filled with lead, or reeked of manure and sewage?

Yeah, kids face all kinds of stressors today. There used to be many more and they were much worse.

All you've done is list things that have improved dramatically and blamed them for the failure of the schools. That cannot be correct.

Cool story, bro. It is 2026. Own your shit.

"All of this has happened before. All of this will happen again."
So say we all.