South Korea needs to decide whose side they’ll be on if China invades Taiwan and attacks US Pacific forces. We have a feeling the current president will back China. They have to fear North Korea to be any political use.

The problem isn’t the phone policy. Digital technology reduces classroom learning. The problem is that the bureaucrats that run our schools cannot fathom a lower cost solution and are poor stewards of public money. That’s why they spend $18k per child per year in a low cost of living state and still pay teachers beggars salaries.

I get it, but one also has to preserve their own character so to avoid becoming what we detest in others. For me, telling the lie would not be compatible with who I wish to be.

The Saudis must (out of strategic necessity) always align with whoever is the greatest air power and ability to forward deploy. It won’t be China any time soon. Saudi Arabia is very vulnerable to air power that can forward deploy.

The current tax law favors the use of tips over charging higher prices and paying a better wage.

Restaurants that do not provide table service (such as fast casual chains) do not rely on tipped workers, but I am not sure those workers do any better than workers who live on tips.

You still have the option to cook the eggs and deliver a free meal to a homeless person in the street. How are your culinary skills? Alternatively, if you know a family that needs a little help, you can directly give eggs to them.

There’s a handy online calculator to determine eligibility potential. https://www.snapscreener.com/screener/kansas

Budgie might be easier for someone who isn’t a technical user.

In a lot of rural places ~40% voted for someone else.

Alabama does have a statute concerning lewd behavior that might apply to this circumstance, so the officer might have some grounds. However, if I were a judge, I wouldn’t want that in my court. I can see a prosecutor dismissing the case after holding her in jail the legal length of time before dropping charges.

I agree. But, maybe, at some point, they settle on Kurds having a country that’s got zero overlap with Turkish land and in a place not strategically important to Turkey.

Edit: And we may see Azerbaijan enter the war and gain Azeri territory at the same time and I think Turkey would be very favorable to that end. So maybe they take a plus and a minus to even things out?

Cubans are exempt from most of the deportation laws.

If people want to leave Cuba, the Cuban government ought to let them go. This should be a national policy.

What are they going to do with oil? Does Cuba have any working refineries? Ñico López is down due to a fire the other day. Hermanos Díaz refinery is entirely offline, retooling for capacity to refine heavier oil. It won’t be online again for months. The only other refinery I know is only does coking to produce non-fuel chemicals and lighter grade oil that’s fed back into Ñico López.

It depends how it is done. Instead of denials, it could be used to “approve without review” all the easy cases and then forward to a human all the rest. This would speed up approval for lots of situations and focus human effort on more difficult cases.

If you want to get technical, all the games are bad because they extract vast amount of resources from people who live in the host city and leave behind unusable infrastructure. Also, the corruption. So much corruption.

I’m going to bet the vast majority of cases involve an adult predator.

The video skips a very important step. It isn’t just human vs. AI. It is human vs. human+AI. If a human can do 10x the work with an AI assistant, we only need 1/10 the humans in that job for the same output. So then the question is, does the added productivity grow that market, retaining those jobs, create new market opportunities, shifting those jobs, or just produce a bunch of unemployed people?

Aside from direct vandalism or persuasion, is there something I can do to combat the Ring cameras on nearly every door in my neighborhood?