Last time I needed to do anything involved (registering a bus as a motor home) with the DMV, I hired an expediter,
That's a little extreme, some are better than others. Last time I went to Los Gatos DMV, even though it was a bit farther away. Much more pleasant than Santa Clara DMV. Next time I'll probably go to Capitola DMV, even though it's rather far. I'll visit some nice restaurants while I'm there.
Trick question-- There is nothing "good" about social networking as it currently exists.
Moreover, the very same people here who are wanting to shut down child access, are the same folks who have been doing all manner of organized child exploitation through government systems abuse.
You seem to think that just because one thing is bad, the other must be good.
The reality that none of the things are actually good, seems to escape your grasp.
I am being pragmatic, and suggesting instead that No Force On This Earth will be successful in stopping the kids from their favorite haunts, and that the effort to try to shove that genie back into its bottle is pointless.
The only reason anyone who understands the problem would try, is if there is some other ancillary goal they have in mind, with the impossible boondoggle that looks good to rubes as a cover.
There's no way to make social media safe for children. The only way to make children moderately safer from this, is to completely outlaw the very concept of social media as a service. Even then, kids will form them on their own, and the very same things will be discussed in them. Don't think for a minute I dont understand that this happened with IRC in the days of yore, and still happens today on services like Discord.
The genie will never go back into that bottle, short of civilization regressing to an earlier state.
Studies show that human IQ has fallen considerably over the last decade. I'm afraid nature and/or the chemicals in the air that create dumber babies isn't on your side.
I also wonder if the Interwebs might be playing a significant part in the decline.
Maybe toss COVID lockups, "remote learning"?
Oh wait, it turns out IQs have been dropping for decades (plural, not singular):
Who is 'they'?
Carter was not 'forced to sell his peanut farm' he CHOOSE to put it in a blind trust, and it ran up $1M in debt, which forced Carter to sell the farm inn1981, which is AFTER he left office:
Source: https://www.usatoday.com/story...
Let's also remember "Billy Beer"...
No, "Conservatives" don't care about the Trump family side-hustle selling Trump-branded merchandise - it means nothing, and I firmly believe he just does these things not for money but to just watch his critics heads explode.
Based on the outsized reactions I see here, I think it's working.
Oddly, a surprisingly large number of European visitors for World Cup are falling in love with things we 'locals' take for granted...
I think your closeted inflatable unicorn thief may not have understood what makes America great - he was looking for something mystical, other are gobsmacked by Buc-ees and ice in soft drinks.
The UFC fights were paid for by UFC, no federal taxpayer dollars.
Trump is busy making our nations capitol beautiful for our 250th, and you think he should be sequestered in the WH working to bring down the price of eggs? Is that really what you think Presidents do?
The summary says that typically the gov't would spend three years crafting the regulation's replacement - if I am correct, Trump took office less than 18 months ago - the Biden administration should have done a solid 12 months of planning/preparing before Trump took office... What happened? What did the Biden admin do to start this process? (Hint: Nothing, because if they had the article would have said so!) And no, DOGE didn't cancel this, how do I know? Because, again, if it had the article would have said so!)
I wonder how many federal employees are employed full-time to monitor and report on the energy, water, and climate impact of federal government datacenters? I bet it's an obscenely huge number with each data center having - at a minimum - round-the-clock/seven-days-a-week monitoring of the datacenter, and that would require 5-7 employees per datacenter, plus regional and national levels of oversight and administration, etc.
Free Market? This regulation is *exclusively* concerned with FEDERAL datacenters, it has nothing to do with datacenters in the private sector. How do I know? I read the first f'ing sentence in the summary:
The Federal Data Center Enhancement Act (FDCEA) is set to expire in September without an apparent replacement, potentially ending requirements for federal agencies to report on data-center efficiency, resilience, energy and water use, and contractor sustainability.
The Federal Data Center Enhancement Act (FDCEA) - limited to just federal datacenters, not the new private sector datacenters popping up all around the country...
The summary conflates Federal Data Center reporting with private industry datacenter reporting - the legislation that is subset for the end of FY'26 (September) is only concerned with federal government datacenters.
. "Never in the history of data center policies has a policy expired without another one having been painstakingly worked on for three years behind the scenes,"
If the process of crafting the legislations replacement should have been worked on the past three years, doesn't that mean the process should have started under the previous (Biden/Harris) administration back in 2023?
The summary is misdirecting by trying to hold the current (Trump/Vance) administration for not picking up on a process that the previous administration also ignored/overlooked/forgot about.
If it's in the CPU I bought, how should it never have had that feature that's clearly in the CPU I bought?
This is the CPU equivalent of those car makers wanting a subscription to enable the heated seats. Maybe AMD will enable it for $5 a month or something.
They removed something you never should have had, that your processor never should have done, and that they never, ever told you your processor should've could do.
That's 'enshitification'? No. It's a correction.
HTC phones from OEM don't come with Unit 8200 APT implants so they're inferior?
Trump recently said that True MAGA is whatever Mark Levin is saying so I'm trying to steelman.
Or StealMan in this case?
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