I have a question for you. Did you work a food service or retail job while you were in college?

Actually...yes. Hell I was working in the food service industry when I was 16yrs old going forward....why do you ask?

I know it is en vogue to trash on trans youth in organized sports. But how many actual, concrete examples of "men dominating their daughters sports" can you actually produce? I know it is not zero, but is it even as many as 10 trans girls below Division I NCAA level that are affecting outcomes in competition? And even if it was more than 10, I don't see how that qualifies as "suffering under the tyranny

Even 1 is too many

I"m just glad there's no "push" for EV "motorcycles".....

I love my ICE bike.....and hopefully will till the end of my days.

Can't wait for summer heat to lift a bit and good Fall riding weather hits.....

We're already there. The average city commuter can easily just do a single fast charge once a week, and unlike a gas car, you can just find a charger that's near something else you'd be doing anyway, like at a grocery store, mall, or down town, and your total 'charging time,' defined as 'the amount of time you, personally, have to devote to the process once you roll up to the dispenser' is 'thirty seconds to plug the car in and tap your payment card' and 'thirty seconds to unplug the car and close the charging port.'

I'm curious, where do you live where all these public places like grocery stores, malls and "down town" have chargers out for public use?

Certainly no where I've lived or travel regularly.....

All is that is needed for mass adoption of electric cars in the USA, is to open the market to China, with no tariffs. If America is so great, let them in. I was born in Minnesota, and am an American, but I do not agree with these Tariffs, and Musk, and Trump. So... Open up the markets. Let the free markets decide what is best for consumers.

Sorry, but FUCK CHINA.

They are our enemy and giving them yet another foothold in our economy and infrastructure is just a BAD idea all around.

For me....the SOUND of the M is half the fun, it lets you know when you're typing, etc.

Silent is a deal killer for me on this one.

It's basically like how an electric motorcycle has exactly NO lure for me and most people that ride bikes....the sounds, smells, rumble and vibrations are half the fun of the experience.....I WANT to change gears manually, etc...makes you feel more connected.

To me, same with the keyboard....sounds and feel give me a large part of the experience.

Part of the problem is that there's no way to pay "journalists" as a whole. Because of electronic payment networks' fees per transaction, online newspapers have to sell a monthly subscription, not a single issue they way they would with cash in a vending machine. And a subscription to NYT includes zero articles from WaPo or WSJ. This means readers get sucked into the ideological bubble of the one publication that happens to be part of their subscription plan.

I concede that I have not viewed incest-themed video games, as sexually explicit works do not appeal to me. However, US law classifies a video game as an audiovisual work, little different from a motion picture. I'm aware of more than one film adaptation of Lolita, a novel by Vladimir Nabokov depicting sexual abuse of a minor. I'm not aware of any statute or regulation that disqualifies a work of authorship from having "artistic value" solely because it is interactive. Could you give me something to cite about categorical exclusion of interactive audiovisual works from having "serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value" per the Miller test?

The conviction was reversed and remanded. From Wikipedia's article "Miller v. California, section "Opinion of the Court":

The result of the ruling was that the Supreme Court overturned Miller's criminal conviction and remanded the case back to the California Superior Court for reconsideration of whether Miller had committed a misdemeanor.[5]

[5] Beverly G. Miller, Miller v. California: A Cold Shower for the First Amendment , 48 St. John's L. Rev. 568 (1974).

From the opinion of the Court, 413 U.S. 15 (1973):

The judgment of the Appellate Department of the Superior Court, Orange County, California, is vacated and the case remanded to that court for further proceedings not inconsistent with the First Amendment standards established by this opinion.

Could you give me something to cite about Miller's conviction having been upheld on remand?

I quoted the part of the Miller test on which authors and publishers would most likely rely in a defense. The Miller test is not like the fair use test in the copyright statute (17 USC 107), in which the judge is expected to weigh the factors against one another. A work has to meet all three parts of the Miller test to be obscene.

This is where we disagree on how the opinion of the Court ought to be interpreted.

Last I looked this week....the numbers look pretty good.

Market is up...consumers spending and other numbers is up and looking good...

I don't see all the doom and gloom ya'll keep throwing out there like chicken little....?

most likely resulting in a decades long crash of the US economy.

So many people predicting doom and gloom .....yet last numbers I've seen show the US economy doing very well, market up, consumer index looking good, etc....

Including the DNS transaction, the public IP address of the server, and the SNI field of ClientHello?

I've noticed that a lot of these US-based PCB fabs that offer manufacturing have a limited selection of board thicknesses, such as 1.6 mm and little else. That doesn't help if you're interfacing with another device that needs a 1.2 mm thick PCB, such as a Nintendo Entertainment System Control Deck.

To me, the future is kind of 'scary' in this way: we will all become consumers. There won't be any outstanding people, who have a trait that many people adore. There will be no Humphrey Bogart, nor a Michael Jackson. There will just be AI's cranking out material, and the top 0.1% of randomly generated "art" will be appreciated. Somehow, it "feels" de-humanizing

I dunno...I mean, AI can't perform a live concert....unless everyone gives up on going to see live performances ,...music from people won't die...

Until today, vacuum tubes are virtually extinct other than for restoration of old equipment.

Well, tubes DO still sound the best for audio related amplifiers and pre-amps.....for stereo and for guitar amps.....

Stereos that "glow" rule!!

I prefer subtitled movies

It's simpler for me...I just don't watch any foreign movies....if it isn't in English, I just move on....