Voter turn out was much lower than 2020 and 2016 just like this poll predicted.

Say what? Voter turnout in 2016 was 60%, in 2020 it was 67%, and in 2024 it was 65%.

If they show up I hand out the candy and I’ve been doing it that way for decades. No telling some kid or teens situation in life and there’s no need in making it harder on them.

It’s actually a shit article that doesn’t do anything to explain why this is happening, because once you know WHY you realize this is NBD and will be going away when 24H2 is actually released.

This article isn’t great but at the bottom it does explain what’s going on.

I wouldn’t. This isn’t a real problem but you’ll probably make one if you force delete things marked as necessary for Checkpoint Updates. This 8.5gig of “stuff” is only there because 24H2 is still in Beta and it has incorrectly marked some things from the 23H update as required for future updates.

WTF is up with this 24H2 update I keep hearing about?

The first thing you have to know is that it hasn’t been released yet! That’s right, every one of these articles screaming about 24H2 bugs is based on Preview, commonly called Beta, software.

This particular issue being caused because Microsoft is moving to “Checkpoint Updates” so that updates will install faster and be smaller in size.

Right now 24H2 is marking parts of 23H3 as necessary for future updates so they can’t be deleted. This will 100% be fixed before 24H4 goes RTM.

Basically this one is a non-issue. It’s being used as an outrage generator.

I didn’t know about Canada and after thinking about it for a minute the United States does something similar for the States with .gov. Many, if not all, States have their own subdomain such as wyo.gov, montana.gov, and nebraska.gov.

Honestly it’s always seemed wrong and somewhat confusing that non-country specific TLDs, such as .gov, are dedicated to the United States.

I’m assuming .io just stands for Indian Ocean in this case

British Indian Ocean Territory, it was just shortened to .io so it would fit into the naming scheme.

That’s a great question and the answer can be found in the wikipedia entry for the .uk domain.

In a nutshell the volunteer “Naming Committee” setup back in 1985 established a rule that entities needed to register into specific subdomains based on entity type such as .co, where the .co part stood for “Company”. They did this to make managing registrations easier and to provide an “at a glance” way to see what kind of website you were visiting (commercial, government, charity, etc). The “Naming Committee” was extremely strict about ensuring that domains were registered to a specific entity and in the correct subdomain.

By the mid-90s the volunteer “Naming Committee” was entirely overwhelmed by the sheer volume of domains being registered so that volunteer group was replaced by Nominet UK. Nominet didn’t open the .uk TLD to registration until 2014 and by then the subdomain thing (.co.uk) was so embedded into the United Kingdom’s internet structure that it had become tradition and NOT using was confusing to many people.

There’s more subdomains than just .co as well and both wikipedia articles I linked list them.

tl;dr .uk absolutely exists in the UK, it’s just used differently than almost anywhere else in the world.

would it surprise you if these are still the only two instances of parents being held accountable?

Yes it would. Adults, including parents, are increasingly being charged in other types of shootings such as when one child is playing with a firearm and accidentally shoots someone else. It’s not happening often enough yet but it’s growing in popularity. If you can remember long enough, I know I won’t, check back in a year and lets see what happened. :)

The psychology that causes school shootings…

The United States generally has a violent culture. If you removed every shooting of any type (school, mass, crime of passion, etc) from the crime statistics the US would still have a higher rate of violent crime than any other industrialized Western nation.

Aside from that it’s time to stop blaming Reagan for the mental health crisis in this country. Aside from the fact that our mental health system was a horror show when Reagan ended it the guy hasn’t been President for over three decades. That’s plenty of time for individual States and / or the Federal Government to have reversed course.

Plenty of countries with more guns per capita than the U.S. that don’t have school shootings.

There is no country with more firearms per capita than the United States.

Even if you go by household, to reduce the effect of people who have more than one firearm, the U.S. still ahead of any other nation.

To be clear we can and should do more to reduce gun violence in the United States and small things like prosecuting adults who are accessories to shootings are a good thing.

It’s slowly changing.

The father involved in this Georgia shooting was arrested. The parents involved in the 2021 Michigan shooting were arrested, charged and sentenced to 10-15 years.

I strongly disagree. I’m about as Pro 2nd Amendment as it gets but what happened in Georgia was entirely preventable. The father should not have provided a firearm to a minor and especially not to a minor with a history of making threats.

Parents need to start going to jail for that kind of behavior and gun owners overall need to start securing their firearms so that children cannot get to them.

It’s not that damn difficult to do.

Why? Probably because they recently published a map of all the cables and then made a comment to the effect of “Hey, look at all this important infrastructure that goes right through our area!”

They aren’t the best we’re able to come up with; regardless of your political camp there’s probably tens of thousands, if not millions, of better candidates in our population of 300,000,000. Biden and DJT aren’t even the “best candidates” inside their own parties!

All Biden and DJT represent is what the DNC and GOP want to have in the race and that’s all.

You mean comments like this one?

https://feddit.nl/comment/6215624

Yeah, it’s getting worse.

I prefer this version.

Because the Internet is for porn. Always has been, always will be.

The other poster didn’t say anything about the exchange rate, they said Purchasing Power. According to OECD (2024), Purchasing power parities (PPP) (indicator). doi: 10.1787/1290ee5a-en (Accessed on 09 January 2024) the PPP (Purchasing Power Parity) between USD and the Yuan was 3.989 for 2022. So a 25k vehicle in the PRC is basically a 100k vehicle in the USA. You can purchase some excellent EVs in the United States for $100,000.

In fact the article is guilty of doing exactly what you’re talking about! Doing a direct conversion from RMB into USD without adjusting for PPP, basically throwing out all CoL differences, is what leads to stupidity like this article.

Ahhh the X-37B, the fully automated Baby Shuttle capable of staying in space for years and changing its orbit when required. It’s a neat little fella.

Pffft