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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…

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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 p…

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 abou…

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 StringUt…

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)" l…

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 origi…

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 …

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 …

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 bui…

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 muc…

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 privatiz…

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…