bluGill

No he isn’t. He is putting a few brakes on in places but there are too many ecconomic tail winds and so green energy is being added despite his efforts. There are only a few places his position even has power, most green energy is a state permit only.

saddly nobody has found a better option. Iran has had particularly evil leaders for decades. (Why is interesting history itself - but not relavant to today)

Maybe. The average driver is spending just under $200 per month now on gas (14000 miles per year at 20mpg, gas $3/gallon - you can adjust numbers as you want, these are reasonable but some cars better fuel ecconomy) if you drive more than average it is possible to make payments on fuel savings in some cases.

or in my case the old car was going to be replaced anyway. Paymets were a given, so saving over $100 a month in fuel was a nice bonus. There are a lot of people who are buying something different anyway who care about their budget.

Iran’s government has done plenty to deserve those sanctions. War is wrong no matter which side does it, and Iran is very guilty.

Iran shut it down. They were cear about that-

It is easy to bypass that filtering. Even on locked down devices. Every site that the filter misses spreads like wildfire at school (until they block that one).

I fully agree with the rest. They are using parents’ cancerns to force bad ieeas.

Only if every parent is willing to be a “helicopter” parent who won’t let their kids out of their sight ever. If you want to give your kids some independence but you don’t want them to be able to run completely out of control you society to have guard rails so kids can do things out of your sight without getting into too big of trouble.

The whole point is to ‘protect’ people for things they shouldn’t do but are legal for others. Porn is the common example where many (but not all) object and want to keep thair kids away. which is why an id is needed - otherwise any kid will give a false age.

The only ID verification that works is when a legal entity that has liability for misuse verifies IDs. I want to live in a world where kids install linux on a pi and thus have root to set whatever settings they want. IF you need to verify ID for some reason, then you need to verify with something that the kids don’t control - that everyone else can trust (good luck)

The US manufactures more than ever. There are a lot less people in manufacturing than 70 years ago, but we make just as much. I know of one factory that went from 2000 employees in 1950 to 200 today - they make more product than in 1950 despite that. Automation has made a big change in the US.

Batteries are better, but not by that much, assuming you stick with the same technology - don’t compare alkaline to lithium or something. Efficiency of electronics is much better. The improvement in flashlights is about LEDs

Sometimes it will, but I’ve had a few times where it didn’t.

Really frsterating when I have an idea that seems good and ai says it is good - but in real world testing we discover it doesn’t work and can’t be made to work. I want someone to push back when I’m wrong - ‘yes men’ are not helpful

those contract workers will be eating at the local cafe for the duration of construction. 200 staffers seems high, but 70 sounds about right - data centers need a few people to replace old racks, clean the walkways (bathrooms…), maintain the HVAC systems (in a data center this is a full time job) and other tasks, and 70 is the number I hear. Though maybe this data center is bigger than the ones I’ve heard of.

China has been planing to reunite with Taiwan for decades, and they are clearly building a military capable of that. The US has committed to protecting Taiwan. That is the US has been planning war with china since not long after WWII. It hasn’t happened yet, it may never happen, but it is planned for and one of the more likely wars the US could get involved with.

If your country doesn’t have a plan to go to war with every other country in the world (separately) your military leaders are incompetent. Most counties far away are very low risk and so the plans don’t have to be well thought out, but you should have at least the start of a plan. The more likely war is the better you plans should be.

I was taught basic programming in school - by people who clearly had no clue. (it was clear to 11 year old me, and in hindsight I was far to kind in my evaluation of their knowledge) I was also taught on the then very modern apple IIgs - I wouldn’t be surprised if you have never heard of that, but all you need to know is nothing I was taught is relevant anyway - if you were taught on windows 7 a lot of what you learned has changed anyway.

Point is we need to teach people to teach themselves because things change.

I have all the parental controls I can enabled - but hotspot is one soften requested feature I can’t block. I can block chrome completely but I can’t unblock it for my kids online piano lesson because they are on youtube which means every video is unblocked despite only one channel of interest. Next thing I know they have been watching youtube shorts slop.

i also can’t control the school issued device which they have do some homework on. Often homework includes watch an educational video on youtube

I have never supported mandatory age verification on devices - it cannot work.

i want the same things people who are for is want - but I want a system that works in the real world. I don’t know what that system is. I know parents and schools are hurting because we don’t have a useful solution.

At what point do I change from a concerned parent protecting my kids to an over protective hellicopter parent?

the school devices are locked down. However your experience shows why the locks are not good. Too many useful searches could be bad. They are not going to assign a team of humans to review every search result. Either they whitelist things so restricted that you can’t research anything or they blacklist so little things not on the list spread faster than they can block. (Both is a real possibility)