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US Government? She’s already in the UK, why would she leave a Pro League to go an Amatuer one?

And I never see any headlines of any ICE agents being prosecuted.

There’s been at least five this year.

These commenters just want to be outraged. If schools were suddenly confiscating phones and forcing students to unlock them they’d be on here rabble rousing about First Amendment rights, how Schools are run like prisons, and how students aren’t being respected.

You should know that the person you are going back and forth with has an exceptionally argumentative and unpleasant comment history.

Are we discussing cars or trucks? You use both terms but they are very different things. The article itself is discussing CARS and the very first picture is of a Honda Life.

In your original comment you said “average American car”. Which to me as an American is clearly a reference to a CAR. And by sales the three most popular CARS in America are the Nissan Sentra, the Toyota Corolla, and the Honda Civic. If you push it to Top 4 then the Tesla Model 3 enters the chat. None of those are called “trucks” anywhere in the world.

an f 350 (American large car) has between 400 to 500 hp

That is not a car. It is a Heavy Duty truck, one of the largest behomeths commonly (and I use that term loosely) sold in America. By sales volume the Full Ton and up trucks like the F350 are maybe 20% of total truck sales, the rest are 1/2 and 3/4 ton trucks.

If you want to bag on American trucks that’s fine but that isn’t what you brought up nor are they what my comment was about.

I wouldn’t purchase a Kei truck in America. It’s too small to be used for heavy loads or over distance and in the city a small van is superior in literally every way as it’s storage is both lockable and protected from the elements. That Honda Life in the first picture is better for nearly every use case than a Kei truck.

Loved those back in the day but they were not safe and a lot of people died in them. There’s no chance that car would pass today’s crash tests.

I had a serious fetish for Ford EXPs and Escorts in the late 80s / early 90s. Me and my buddies did lots of hop-up work and engine rebuilds. Set aside the nostalgia though and they were absolute piles of crap.

It won’t really cost much less. The difference between a 1.6l 100hp engine and a 1.6l 150hp engine is just a turbocharger and those are less than $1,000 for an auto maker. So the cost of the car could potentially drop from 28,000 to 27,000 which is peanuts. The cost of maintenance between those two vehicles would be almost non-existent.

Cars aren’t expensive because of horsepower. They are expensive because of labor cost and government regulation. The less you have of either of those the lower the production cost goes and the less expensive the vehicles get.

Since the late 70’s, the US auto industry has shown that it is unable to make small cars with low margins like other countries.

Oh they can they just don’t want to. GM, Ford, and Dodge have occasionally released small low margin vehicles but they either get discontinued or bloated and made more expensive, typically starting about 5 years in.

It ain’t just US Domestics either. How big is a 2025 Honda Accord vs a 1986 model?

If the Big 3 suffered consequences, they would be the Bug 2 or the Big 1 by now.

I’ve been arguing that same thing for over 20 years. Heck I was just doing it again over the weekend. There isn’t enough space in the US auto market for 3 Domestic Manufacturers anymore. They should have let Chrysler / Dodge die back in the '80s, the entire auto industry would be more healthy if they had.

She asked for help. The officer said no.

No they didn’t and if they did that information is not in this article. She went to the Guidance Councilor at 7AM then to the onsite Sheriff’s Deputy after. She texted her father and sister about 2PM. The SD couldn’t immediately find anything but it appears that they didn’t stop looking because 3 weeks later they were charging the boys.

So unless you have another source with a different timeline or more information your originally comment was inaccurate. Sort of like the ragebait headline and the ragebait summary.

They will not investigate it further than threatening the victims with persecution.

Read.The.Whole.Article.

The article states that the police investigated but found nothing.

You should have kept reading.

"Ultimately, the weeks-long investigation at the school in Thibodaux, about 45 miles (72 kilometers) southwest of New Orleans, uncovered AI-generated nude images of eight female middle school students and two adults, the district and sheriff’s office said in a joint statement.”

Your question was answered in the article but you clearly stopped at either the outrage bait headline or the outrage bait summary.

“Ultimately, the weeks-long investigation at the school in Thibodaux, about 45 miles (72 kilometers) southwest of New Orleans, uncovered AI-generated nude images of eight female middle school students and two adults, the district and sheriff’s office said in a joint statement.”

To the surprise of absolutely no one.

This is why many of the expensive Dock options from HP / Dell / Lenovo, etc come with a non-detachable USB-C cable. You can’t have the “wrong” cable because the one you need isn’t removable.

Nah, I don’t blame you. The list of crap that I had to allow under “required” to read the article was preposterous.

But why does the HDMI forum not want a open source 2.1-compliant implementation?

To my knowledge they’ve never officially said but you can be sure that it has to do with Content Protection and that means DRM. An Open Source HDMI 2.1+ driver would make pirating much simpler, probably trivial and they don’t want that.

It’s possible anyway of course but there are a couple of hardware hoops to jump through and that’s enough to keep most people from doing it.

Odd, I have three screens active on my Mint desktop right now. I’ll have to try this on my Mint laptop and see what happens.

A couple of them have been built and they’re just sitting there unpowered

Most of them in California because that State simply cannot get its shitty power grid sorted out. The damn thing barely works at the best of times due to a combination of corruption, greed, and Government interference.

As an example the utility company promised Digital Realty and Stack Infrastructure that they’d have the power ready for them by the time their DCs were built but…SURPRISE…they lied. The only fault for DR and SI here is trusting a California Utility to deliver on their promise.

Power availability is actually a primary consideration when choosing a location for a Data Center. Sometimes they’ll site a DC even if there isn’t enough power and then build out the power generation that they need.

An example are the two DCs that Microsoft is building in Cheyenne, Wyoming and the absolutely massive 1.2 Million panel solar farm being built to power them. https://cowboystatedaily.com/2024/05/11/massive-1-2-billion-1-2-million-panel-solar-farm-planned-for-south-cheyenne/

This is at least the second time that Microsoft has done this in Cheyenne. In 2016 they contracted for 237 MW of Wind Energy, which led to the Chokecherry and Sierra Madre wind farms being built / expanded. https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2016/11/14/latest-energy-deal-microsofts-cheyenne-datacenter-will-now-powered-entirely-wind-energy-keeping-us-course-build-greener-responsible-cloud/

No matter what you think of AI the folks that engineer these DCs aren’t stupid. They are well aware of their extreme power requirements.

My good person I’ve been tracking this whole REAL ID mess since before it was passed back in 2005. Please read my entire comment before replying and let me clarify a few things for you:

I’ll start by saying that a “REAL ID” isn’t a separate ID card. It’s a regular ID, typically a Drivers License or State ID, that was created in compliance with the REAL ID Act. If you want to know what the criteria are you can read them here. (PDF Warning)

It’s a cash grab because it would be much cheaper & easier to standardize state ID requirements and use the existing infrastructure…

Yes and this is one of the things that the REAL ID Act of 2005 did! It created a standardized set of ID requirements that leveraged the individual States existing infrastructure for creation. You are apparently unknowingly arguing for people to follow the regular process and get a REAL ID! The process described in this article is for individuals who either choose to or cannot go through the regular process. I have more information on this farther down.

…rather than issue an entirely new ID through an entirely new database controlled by the feds.

That is a exceptionally strained way to describe what is happening. If an individual doesn’t have a REAL compliant ID or a Passport then they can to go the TSA website and pay a $45 fee for a one time background check. If / when that background check is completed they are given a token that they can present to the TSA Agent at the gate and that token is only valid for 10 days. This is not another form of ID, it’s proof of a recent background check.

The states certainly view this as a revenue source…

Please explain how a state gets any additional revenue from this process. All of the money for this temporary background check is going to the Federal Government.

…and the feds view it as an “information” source.

While you aren’t wrong this is going to impact less than 5% of travelers so there’s not much information to be gathered and the feds already have most of it anyway.

It should be noted that, to my knowledge, all the “non-compliant” states (where you can’t use state ID in place of Real ID) are States that are controlled by Democrats…

Here is the “farther down” I referenced earlier. Let’s start with the fact that all 50 States were issuing compliant REAL IDs by September of 2020.

So there is no state where what you are saying is true and there hasn’t been for at least 5 years. Every State has the ability to issue identification that is compliant with the REAL ID standard it’s just that some States choose to continue issuing IDs that don’t. Even California which was recently in the news about this started issuing REAL IDs back in 2018, it’s just that many people either did not or could not get them.

Even today some States, such as California, will issue both compliant and non-compliant ID cards and which of them a person gets depends entirely on what they want or can qualify for. If an individual qualifies for a REAL compliant ID and wants it then they can get one. If they can’t qualify for or don’t want a REAL compliant ID then they can get a Standard ID.

…so there’s an additional layer of shenanigans that appears partisan.

That’s what you’ve been told but it isn’t true. You may be surprised to learn that some of the very last States to start issuing REAL compliant ID’s were Red States! Oklahoma for example didn’t start issuing them until two years after California! Not only that but many of the Red States that fought REAL ID, Oklahoma, Arizona, South Carolina and Idaho to name a few, also still issue “Standard” IDs just like California and other Blue States!

The truth is that the REAL ID Act was passed 20 years ago and enforcement dates were known about literally years in advance. This fight isn’t new nor is it Red vs Blue. I never liked the REAL ID Act but I like the recent hyper-partisan misinformation hysteria surrounding it even less.

This latest thing from the TSA is just a way for people who don’t have or can’t get a REAL compliant ID or US Passport to fly domestically. It’s not an information gathering conspiracy nor is it a revenue generator, it’s just another sad and stupid act in the Security Theater that is the TSA.

It would only make sense if it was a one time fee, and you got your ID as a result.

You can pay a one time fee and get your REAL ID any time you want by going to your local DMV.

We also know it’s not about security, or you couldn’t fly without one.

You’re not supposed to be flying without one (or a valid passport) now. All they’re doing with this policy is potentially making it possible if you’re willing to pay an extra fee and wait (potentially several hours) while they do a background check. Even then there’s no guarantee you’re going to be let on the flight.

We know it’s a cash grab because they’re counting on a “built-in” amount of flyers who won’t have or will refuse to get ID with privacy issues.

IMO it’s not a cash grab it’s an incentive to get with the program by getting the proper documentation.

The whole thing is stupid but I don’t believe it’s a cash grab.