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There's still many high interest savings accounts that are at least 4%

I froze my credit with the 3 big credit agencies in the US years ago when someone attempted to open multiple Dell and other company accounts in my name. Easy enough to unfreeze for a temporary period of time when I need it.

ICE agents cosplaying as an army

Technically late 19th century with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_Commerce_Commission

I'm in the Austin area and lost power for 2 days. Some friends of mine lost power for almost a week.

Showing ID to vote wouldn't be controversial in the US if states made it easy to obtain a valid ID for the purpose. But states routinely use it as a backdoor mechanism to prevent people from voting.

Just this week Trump posted on his social media that Obama should be indicted for treason, aka, executed and not a blip from the supposed left-wing media

Not every side deserves to be covered for each story. This is the problem with major media today, they give equal opportunity to people that have no idea what they are talking about. It's like one side says 2+2=4, the other 2+2=5, and media gives them equal air time.

No I want to block both. I don't want to give devs the option of creating a function doSomething(String) that happens to accept MyType. If I need to call trim then I'll do

  StringUtils.trim(MyType.toString());

foo(UUID, UUID); foo(AccountId, UserId);

I'd much rather deal with the 2nd version than the first. It's self-documenting and prevents errors like calling "foo(userId, accountId)" letting the compiler test for those cases. It also helps with more complex data structures without needing to create another type.

  Map<UUID, List<UUID>>
  Map<AccountId, List<UserId>>

But then you are representing two distinct types as the same underlying type, String.

  MyType extends String;
  void foo(String s);
  foo(new MyType()); // is valid

Leading to the original problem. I don't want to represent MyType as a String because it's not.

I love my bolt, but I wish it allowed you to choose a less aggressive setting when using the steering wheel paddle. My old leaf had that option.

I disagree with term limits. I'd prefer to see the number of representatives vastly increased (no increase since 1929) and gerrymandering removed. I do agree they should not trade on the market.

I think you misunderstand the risk that non-CEO employees are exposed as cycomanic pointed out. CEOs that make this much money are more capable of defending themselves than a regular employee, not only from their wealth but from their network. It's rare that a CEO has to testify to Congress, or deal with FTC/FCC, etc. And dealing with BOD, hostile takeovers, or activist investors pales in comparison to what many people deal with day to day. A CEO is not going to go homeless from a hostile takeover.

Sorry but the risk:reward narrative is tiring. Many of these CEOs walk away with millions whether they succeed or fail, there's little to no risk for them. In fact, even they fail in cases they end finding another well paying executive position. Meanwhile, many of their employees are living paycheck to paycheck.

I bought an electric early last year and never considered Tesla because of Elon. I'm sure I'm not the only one.I disagree with "have to go out of their way", many companies now build electrics and it's easy to find them.

The bill that was recently passed has massive cuts to medicare and medicaid

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-disconnect-power-p... a great podcast on the blackout from 2021, it wasn't from renewables.

I find this hard to believe unless some major event was occurring while you were staying in Boulder and you purchased at the last minute.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocky_Mountain_locust is an interesting example of eradicating an organism. From massive swarms of locusts to none in under 30 years.

And they do all their manufacturing in Briggs, TX about 30 minutes north of their HQ.

"It provides a lot of jobs to people who are otherwise unemployable.", what a ridiculous and condescending statement. If that was true, the number of federal employees would be much higher but in fact the number has stayed relatively flat for over 50 years at 2.8 million federal employees. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CES9091000001

Where has he shone that other than saying something inane on twitter?

Read right from the source, https://static.project2025.org/2025_MandateForLeadership_FUL...

A good chunk is based on their complete climate change denial and their wish to privatize much of the US government.

Not sure what you mean by "un-avowed" Project 2025, a number of the authors are in prominent positions within the Trump administration.

Why? The number of federal employees has hovered around 2 million for decades even though the population has grown. Sounds pretty efficient to me

https://openjdk.org/jeps/453 is also in progress for structured concurrency

I'm merely pointing out your misrepresentation of the situation. It's not an article from the American Bar Association in support of your statement. It's a news article summarizing the findings of Barr. It has nothing to do with whether the bar is left or right leaning.

Interesting when you say the parent is misrepresenting when that American Bar article is just a summary of the Muller report by Barr and Rosenstein, who both have come under criticism for their review of the report.

I bought a one year old used Leaf back in 2016 and still use it. The range isn't great with only 50-60 miles, but it works well for my commute and getting around town. For longer trips, I use my wife's car. I've considered buying a newer EV with longer range, however, I don't need it, so I've stuck with the Leaf and will probably drive it for another few years.

Keep in mind, newer EVs have better temperature control with longer lasting batteries than the ones on my 2015 Leaf. And my car started with only 85 mile range. But I knew that when buying the car.

The only time the US was debt free was a few years during Andrew Jackson's presidency.

I'm still on my same iPhone for almost 4 years. Getting a new phone every two years doesn't scream quality to me.