All of those are MORE expensive, at scale. If you can just hand 1500 kids a $200 Chromebook that fulfills ALL those functions, that’s $300k, vs 1500 e-ink readers at $40 a pop, 1500 digital typewriters @ $100 apiece, etc. Hell, that scientific calculator ALONE might be $200+ in some markets because Texas Instruments practically has the market cornered (to the point that I had to go to the administration of my school district to show them that the Casio I had was functionally identical).

So many donations and funds for schools are earmarked, you can only spend them in specific ways. If you spend them in ways that don’t align with the earmark, it’s incredibly easy for the donors or the state to claw them back. So that $40mil your local suburban school district spent on a new football stadium? That was likely earmarked SPECIFICALLY for football, they can’t really just swish the money to better textbooks, or whatever. Same with tech funding - you get $250k to upgrade your school district with Chromebooks or whatever, you MUST buy within what the funding packet tells you you can buy, and you can’t really do anything else with it.

That doesn’t even get into the cartelization of textbooks and school software. There’s so few real options that it’s incredibly easy for these companies to collude without really looking like it’s collusion.

A lot of PDs and federal forces get taught by the IDF, who are notorious for targeting genitalia and eyes.

Actually, marketing is a great way to make it LOOK like things are working. Your comment is exactly what a shareholder might hear in response to that same question.

He’s the one kid at your birthday party who’s upset they’re not getting attention too.

I can’t see them conducting it so close to a city, unless it’s meant to be a show of force or some bullshit.

Hell yeah we need the USS Admiral Kuznetsov.

Very few, I’d imagine. At best, this is propping up failing parts of their empire - a lot of mining companies have switched to something easier than coal because coal is getting harder to mine, and a lot of energy companies are diversifying because of the slowdown of effective mining. This seems to simply be “because I can”.

Like father, like son. Part of why Trump eats so shitty is the same fear.

I was about to say, I’m surprised she hasn’t just been black bagged and deported anyway. That’s the normal goon squad MO right now, because the law works a lot slower than a plane. Once you’re in a foreign prison or whatever, you’re officially a problem for the State Department.

They’ve stated elsewhere that even though they’re deploying “age inference” (whatever that is), verification is mandatory if you don’t want your account to be restricted to PG-13, basically.

These positions are also typically salaried so they can claim they don’t need to pay OT.

Especially considering it’s a court order. Literally saying “no I don’t think I will” to a federal judge is wild.

Also doesn’t help that they apparently gave a bunch of half-truths to every other artist on the card (like Shinedown), and potentially just added some names they thought they could dial last-minute (Ludacris).

This also seriously depends on the employer. One of the first things that gets slashed during benefit cuts is reitrement accounts, because they’re an easy target and you’re not “losing” the money.

Yeah, there’s no “he’s too valuable to die” in this. Two people can keep a secret if one of them is dead.

It was actually part of why Dragnet was made. The LAPD in the 30s was seen as a gang of corrupt thugs (because it WAS) and they decided to talk up Jack Webb to see about polishing up their reputation via copaganda.

Yup, it’s not “this meeting could have been an email”, it’s “this meeting could have been a gunfight”.

I feel like even if he does get impeached, he might simply…ignore it. Not for long, not with literally everyone else salivating at the thought of being king instead of him, but he could theoretically ignore it, the enforcement mechanisms to remove him forcibly from power (like the military or the DOJ) are pretty clearly compromised.

Now he’s also retooling Tesla facilities to build his Optimus humanoid robots.