Humidity is currently 91% in Yangsan.

Brain and brain, what is brain?! By 17 years old you're expected to have seen The Empire Strikes Back and have committed "R2-D2, you know better than to trust a strange computer" to your memory.

...requires age verification on traffic coming from known VPN addresses

A state enacting such a law should be required to publish their official list of The Known VPN Addresses.

People running websites should not be required to make up that data, or have to pay to subscribe to someone else who makes it up. If the gummint wants to force something that ridiculous on us, the gummint should make the taxpayers, not the webmasters or their users, pay for it.

Sometimes the best thing to do is make popcorn and enjoy the show...

City Council member of a non-listed Twin Cities suburb I know:

FBI is involved. Most water systems use one of two control/alert systems that are old and make them easy targets.

All they did was shut down components of the systems e.g., wells/sewer lift stations. Most cities were able to cycle manually to get back up and running. There was not messages warning or ransom of which I am aware.

They could have done a lot more damage if they wanted to, rather than just shutting things down.

I live in Plymouth; there was no city communications about this nor did I see any issues. So, I assume there were no physical disruptions to service.

I live in the country and several of my neighbors have copper POTS service, pretty much for the same reason.

It's been a while, but I've written some Fortran 77. I changed the value of 4 long ago. Sorry, everyone.

Sociopathic may be a better word. They are very unethical, and very greedy.

The people who benefit from that wealth in the USA contribute to political campaigns, and support like minded candidates like Donald Trump. The evisceration of the EPA and the SEC and of competent regulators who are not slavishly loyal to Trump himself has eliminated regulation which might slow this industry.

Doesn't matter which is which, since the "treatment" to rein in the disabling extremes of ADHD would still include limiting social media.

It's irreversible in that it's a pain in the ass, so they would prefer to not help.

It's reversible in that other forces (e.g. negative publicity) can be greater than the pain in the ass.

Well, yes. For many years, presidential candidates, both Democratic and Republican, referred to the United States as "the indispensible nation". And my reaction was always, "Doesn't that mean the US is a single point of failure for civilization?"

We are currently performing an experiment which addresses this question: can the US enjoy the benefits of soft power without the cost? That's the whole point of obeying *norms*. No individual force is going to punish you if you are treacherous, mercurial, foul-mouthed, disrespectful and generally unpredictable. Everyone will punish you.

I think an inevitable cost of this experiment will be that the world will decide that the US can't be a single point of failure for global democracy any longer. In many ways, that's something that will be good for us. But it's also going to cost us in painful ways. When the world decides to move away from the dollar as the international reserve currency, you will see both inflation and higher interest rates on everything from credit cards to mortgages, to business loans that will offset the export advantages. We will need *more* business investment to shift the economy to producing low value goods again, so the transition will be rocky.

her expecting me to read her mind and magically know how to please her in every way, (a very long list), was always a factor.

oh, so by dating you mean watched 80's comedians all day . got it.

No, it means there are communication problems, which is far more common and cliche than even 1980s comedians.

Not getting any sunlight until past 10.00 AM is so annoying,

Well not getting any sun past 4:30 in the afternoon is also so annoying.

Gosh, it's almost as though people in different geographic areas have different needs and desires. If I didn't know HOW IMPORTANT it is that we all be forced to do everything the same, I would suggest that timezones be regional, agreed upon by local governments. But of course that's heresy since not every local government would make the exact same choices.