As long as Google doesn’t sell Chrome to OpenAI.

Let’s pretend for a second that the TSA is not a circus meant to appease people that are not paying too much attention being performed by an organisation that’s effectively an employer of last resort.

The TSA will not even stop people from taking what they would need to make a Molotov cocktail with what they can buy in the airport shop. Their stated goal is not to reduce the risk of incidents to 0 is reducing it to reasonable level with the least disruption to the air travelers as possible - otherwise they would be trying to get people to fly naked and without luggage.

You are seriously misunderstanding TSA’s purpose.

And the issue with wireless communications in airplanes was never that it was a huge risk by itself, it was always that there’s a small chance that it could increase noise enough that some important communication might potentially be missed or misinterpreted. And there are lots of things that factor in the risk, like power, bands, and the amount of people not following the rules - it’s very different to have one person forgetting to shut off the cellular signal on the phone or to have 200 phones on full blast mode trying to reach the nearest antenna.

All airplanes I’ve been in the last decade explicitly allow Bluetooth - and it’s very easy for the staff to see the dozens of people wearing wireless head/earphones. For WiFi it’s usually tied to the existence of on-board Internet.

You half answered your question. Different band and very different levels of signal strength.

And there are airplanes that allow wifi, just not all of them yet.

Theoretically several european countries have mandatory vaccines, which can, theoretically, lead to parents getting fined (for example, in Germany parents can get fined 2500 euros if per child if they are not vaccinated for measles).

The real scandal here is that in most of the EU parents are allowed to endanger their kids and all the other children around them.

That’s still no reason for us to give them money. We can’t negotiate with the BRICS as BRICS because every cent we give to Russia is a cent that Russia will use to to buy things to fire at us.

They can’t win a war, but the way their regime is set they need to fight a war. And while they can’t win they can ruin many lives in losing.

You mean how they are helping middle east tyrants supercharge corruption in sports?

If you think what Trump says about Greenland is bad, you should hear what Russia keeps saying about the baltics and Poland.

Russia is not being particularly secretive in their plans for a war with the EU.

Well, for that their only solution is to use their Central America regime change guidebook closer to home, and hope everyone forgets the US’s propensity to elect imperialist assholes.

Well, the R in BRICS makes it even more toxic than the US.

Given they don’t actually need farms to produce wine, the federation might see Chateau Picard as personal (as opposed to private) property that supports Jean Luc’s little hobby and preservation of traditional knowledge.

China’s ability to mix and match the worst of communism and capitalism in a single dystopian package never ceases to amaze me.

If you are in Europe, you can try to do a GDPR request to nuke the old account.

But never at level of the US, which can run on absurd levels of debt without running out of funding. The Eurozone sovereign debt crisis of 2009 wouldn’t have happened if the EU had the same exorbitant privilege the US does.

If you have a self-consistent human rights framework all rights support and in some way encompass all other rights.

I love how the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union frames if, by starting with with “Human dignity is inviolable. It must be respected and protected” as the foundation that is so fundamental it’s just recognised and not “given”.

The US federal government pays by check?

Exactly. I don’t know American laws, but I would submit my resignation by registered letter (I assume there are still doormen to receive those), and if they kept paying me I would put the cash in a savings account in case they ever remember to read the mail and notice they were paying me after quitting.

This reminded me immediately of The Coffee Machine short story published last year. Reality manages to be stranger and weirder than fiction.

If they have red lines this needs to be it. If they allow the Republican Party to send people to a concentration camp without due process, especially when they claim they can’t get people back, the Supreme Court might as well fire themselves and lock the doors on the way out.