In Netherland, max speed is usually 30 kph (about 20mph) when there’s any chance of interacting with other traffic (bikes or pedestrians). The idea of walking along a busy road where cars go 45 mph is ridiculous. Separate the traffic streams and give them crosswalk with traffic lights, or slow down the cars.

Throwing kids’ lunch away should be illegal. What if s kid has special dietary requirements? But if a school does throw it away, they have an obligation to provide a free lunch that’s at least as good.

What!? But that haka was awesome! How can you not enjoy that?

There are other countries where kids bring their own lunch. We always make sandwiches and a snack for our kids to bring to school.

I do think school-provided lunches are a great idea and if done right, would guarantee every kid equal access to healthy nutrition. Unfortunately we don’t have that in NL, and clearly the powers that be don’t want it in the US either.

But punishing kids for lunch debt is nuts. That’s absolutely a symptom of the US wanting everybody to live in debt.

From what I know, those agents can be absolutely fantastic as long as they run under strict guidance of a senior developer who really knows how to use them. Fully autonomous agents sound like a terrible idea.

Ooh! I need to look that up.

I recently wanted to send a file from Linux to an old tablet over Bluetooth. Can’t be done apparently. I can send it to my phone, a windows laptop can send it to the tablet, but my Linux PC apparently can’t. Still baffled about it.

D is the correct answer, but do you trust a game show to know that?

The first is fine. The ending is great, some other parts are bad. Some are very questionable. On the whole, I enjoyed it.

The Tates sell their “be a man” coaching package

As if he’d know how.

SO used to be really good in the past, but these days when I’m looking for an answer to a problem, I only unanswered closed questions.

Congestion is literally made out of cars. Without cars, there would be no congestion.

Ah, is that the way to address that? I don’t run into incorrect error highlighting often, and it’s mostly great, but when it gets it wrong, it can be very stubborn about it.

Of course not. That big government warehouse with all the boxes. I’m sure “museum” is a nickname they use for it.

Same with Indiana Jones. Maybe he’s slightly less terrible about it than Lara Croft, but the fact that he cares only about that golden idol and not about the entire temple complex around it with apparently still active traps, makes him a terrible archaeologist.

They’re both very effective adventurers and tomb robbers, though. And at least Lara Croft doesn’t pretend to be any better than that.

Ticketed and towed.

Or is xAI paying for access to Telegram conversations to train Grok?

Over 60?! Can we please classify Friendica as over 50? I feel old enough as it is.

It’s worth remembering that there was a time when the highest US tax bracket was taxed at 90%, and that didn’t stop the US’s longest period of sustained economic growth.

Ridiculously high tax rates for ridiculously high incomes have been done before and are entirely feasible.

There are a few exceptions. JK Rowlings became a billionaire simply by writing some really popular books, and even stopped being a billionaire by giving much of her wealth away. As far as I can tell, she didn’t become an asshole until later.