Now, there's less need for foresight than for US state legislators to admitt that many currently active or already proposed voter ID laws suppress more valid voters than prevent fraud votes.
This is not an illegal unseating of our government's leadership. Our leadership is the one facilitating it.
The more appropriate parallel would be a massive data leak. Although so far we don't have any confirmed cases of protected data being leaked to anyone who was not given access. But it might just be a matter of time.
In summary, the UK Department for Culture, Media and Sport responded to the petition once it reached 10k signatures. Their response suggests they did not understand the original request. They said they would not pursue a remedy for the issue and pointed those affected by it to the UK Competition and Market Authority. If the petition reaches 100k signatures before July 15, 2025 it will be considered for debate in Parliament.
Here is the actual petition, along with the UK's full response:
I guess I'm not the demographic for this? I don't see why I'd ever go to the trouble of creating a fancy invite link with a picture and stuff instead of just messaging people directly with the details. "Hey Jim, we're celebrating my daughter's 3rd birthday next Saturday at our house. Let me know if you're able to join us!" Do I really need an app for that?
I guess the RSVP thing can be handy for when you're planning especially large events and need an estimate of the guest count. But those kinds of events are extremely few and far between in my life - and it feels tacky to use this for something as formal as a wedding.
Gotta find a way to blame every tragedy on the politicians we don't like, huh? Trump is out there blaming Biden's administration for hiring bad ATC under the banner of DEI. Meanwhile, his detractors blame him and Musk for letting go of some FAA administrator.
But of couse neither of those explanations are likely to hold water. The sad, mundane reality is these people probably lost their lives due to a miscommunication or misunderstanding between ATC and the helicopter pilots. And this political mudslinging will probably get in the way of us ever implementing process changes so it doesn't happen again.
No, the political mudslinging is not yet at the level where it will interfere with the methodological investigation of the circumstances, and making and implementing recommendations so that it does not happen again.
The political mudslinging will distract the general population from that process, but that's all right - they weren't involved in it anyway.
In my experience, the biggest issue with US public schools is incompitent administrations. Those administrations ultimately report to school boards, whose members are selected via public election.
But how many people can name even a single person on their local school board? How many can account for what that person's platforms are regarding the school? How many can account for anything that person has done while on the board? Where would you even go to find out what your local school board is doing? How many of your school board members have observed the day-to-day goings on of your local schools?
The system seems fundamentally broken to me. It's no wonder school administrations are so incompitent - especially in larger districts.
I doubt phones were resonsible for the initial drop from the pandemic, but I can easily accept that they play a huge role in our inability to return to pre-pandemic levels.
My wife is a teacher and phones are a constant problem but the administration refuses to do anything about them. It seems they recognize that some parents will freak out if they do not have access to their kids at all times and the admins are too spineless to take a stand against those few parents for the sake of everyone's education. It's absurd.
Several schools in my state (including one in the same school district as my wife) have been participating in an experimental phone ban for the last year and the results have been better than I could have expected. Grade levels and attendence are up by over 10%, fights are down significantly, and the overwhelming majority of parents are supportive. It's only a tiny few who object. But even with the numbers right in front of them, many admins are unwilling to adopt the bans in their schools. At this point it will probably take a mandate from the state government before they do the common sense thing.
dang's probably right that its a glitch- but I honestly believe Linux is Free as in Freedom, which is opposed by both parties but primarily the radical authoritarians in charge right now
Linux is free software, and software freedom is communist. It's also the brainchild of a Finn, and every red-blooded American knows that Europeans are all commies.
Real patriots use good ol' American operating systems, like Oracle Solaris™.
Far be it from me to defend GWB, but in fairness he didn't invade them because they were muslim. There were many (poor) reasons for the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars, but their primary religion was not among them. If it were, many other Middle Eastern countries would have also been invaded.
Words are not more important than actions. But words can inform us of the intentions behind the actions - which must be considered when casting judgement.
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