FTA: “The FCC received specific examples of how E-Rate helps local communities. “We estimate our annual Internet cost at approximately $3,120 and our annual E-Rate support at approximately $1,560,” Paul Lapka, the principal of Rock Valley Christian School in Iowa, told the US agency. "

Is this Christian school really operating on such a knife edge that the $1560/year ($130/month) puts them over the edge? Note it is a private school with around 240 students and an awesome 11:1 student/teacher ratio. My local school is more like 25:1. I get how they would rather get the money than not get it, but so would we all.

Multiplying this out nationwide somehow you get to over $2B in checks that probably fit into this same "nice to have" category.

That wasn't his line, it was Sean Connery's

My first thought was "I didn't know the Wicked Witch of the West was also a software pioneer"

Oh, stop it. This is renaming a lake, not murdering millions

ICE is not CBP. Two different agencies

So do the self driving cars. The computer is constantly evaluating input from many sensors simultaneously

I've tried the cheap ink cartridges in Epson printers in the past. Every time it clogged my print heads and I could not get them clean. Every "clean" cycle attempt just eats ink like crazy too. In the end I've had to buy a new printer.

The entire global increase was 135 Mt. The US portion of that was 78 Mt, or 57%.

How can America be responsible for 300% of the increase? Wouldn't 100% of increase be the absolute maximum?

Then you are in agreement with this bill. The state is preventing local governments from creating these schemes and controlling the market. The people are free to use their "knowledgeable self interest" to decide what's best for them.

Been wondering how much of an explosion and debris risk is posed by the SpaceX plan to refuel in space

How would Elon pay this 99.9% on the value of his assets over $250M? He doesn't have that in cash. He couldn't get it unless he sold his share of SpaceX to other people, but nobody else could or would buy it because you took 99.9% of their assets too. So maybe it goes into some massive mutual fund that has to have $1T in cash they are willing to buy the company with, but there are only a couple of those and if they tried to liquidate $1T in assets to get the cash the market would melt down.

The government buys goods and services from thousands of vendors. SpaceX is one of them. That's not socialism.

That article just says "Recent studies show modern EVs can reach lifespans of 15–20 years,". It doesn't have any statistics on actual longevity or define what lifespan even means. One of the sources says "When we expanded the study in 2025, the average capacity loss had returned to 2.3% per year across the 21 make-models. This means the average battery is projected to have 81.6% of its original capacity (state of health or SOH) after eight years."

So it depends on what you think "lifespan" means. My iPhone recommends battery replacement at 80% capacity. Based on the above your EV battery will cross that threshold in 9 years.

About what?
The limits of DOGE power?
What presidential candidates have promised to do about waste, fraud, and abuse?
That cuts were made?
That the poster is a nutcase?