Democrats are not "prioritizing trans athletes". It is Republicans who talk about them all the time, incessently. You are example #1.

I am not aware of any instance where it has been tried. What has been tried in some cases is throwing a bone to the would-be parents. I am not aware of any society which has paid parents enough to afford good daycare, full health insurance for kids, and long term support like paying for kids' college. And for example daycare needs to be 7 am to 7 pm the full 7 days a week so parents could have a life while raising a kid. If all that is fully subsidized by the state then birth rates will go up. But the difference is steep. In the US the difference is between like a $500/years subsidy vs about $50K/year (and much more in practice, if you pay for health insurance and also once the associated inflation kicks in). I have never heard of any state dumping a decent yearly salary tax free at parents per child. But that's what it would take. Raising a child is a full time job and if the state is willing to pay for that then the parents would surely not mind producing the kid and being its guardians (making key decisions but crucially not putting in the key effort). The state also needs to pay for risks such a developmental disorders. Right now if a kid is not able to reach a high functioning state then the parents are on the hook. The state needs to remove that risk by assuring full payment for necessary care for the life of such a child. I could go on but I bet you could not name one state out there which offered even the above items (and that was just a short list for starters).

The estimates of the number of children who died due to cuts in USAID is in the tens of thousands. Still terrible, but you don't serve any constructive purpose by exaggerating by several orders of magnitude.

In 2001 supposedly it really was "human error". Some humans told Hal 9000 to lie to the astronauts and not reveal that an alien artifact had been found on the moon. And that was a mistake as they probably either knew or could test what would happen to Hal.

This is remarkably similar to things going wrong with AI now, actually.

No, he was convicted of illegally structuring of bank withdrawals to evade bank reporting requirements.

Had he said "I'm paying hush money to someone I sexually abused a few decades ago earlier", the whole financial part of it would have been legal.

Actually probably not the chip is larger, but the lens is larger. The aperture allows it to be less blurry in bright light.

The chip is larger so it collects more light and thus improves low-light photography, but this would make bright-light photography worse (by reducing depth of field). The aperture fixes this for bright light, thus allowing the better low-light performance.

The examples comparing prices are all comparing them to battery-backed systems that can continuously produce the rated power. The solar panels or wind turbines will be capable of far higher peak power that is used to charge the batteries. I have no idea whether any numbers being quoted here are accurate, but the posters are absolutely describing "base power" when quoting their prices.

There was a parking lot there before. And LA has plenty of other examples of similar architecture, some of it considered LA landmarks

Reading scores fell more sharply in students from better-off backgrounds

Sounds like at least we have achieved equality in stupidity!

I get plenty of spam SMS from blue organizations. This is actually one area where "both sides!!!!" argument applies.

From Wikipedia, judge for yourself. You are right it would have been nice to include this in the summary!

In 2025, Hansson published a blog post[30] expressing support for far-right British activist Tommy Robinson and the 2025 British anti-immigration protests, as well as mourning that London is "no lounger full of native Brits", defining "native Brit" to mean white. Hansson published another blog post[34] in July of 2026 comparing the Romani population of Copenhagen to Denmark's struggles with its wolf population growth, stating that "When wolves get out of control, you shoot them. When gypsies take over public spaces, you deport them." Anil Dash and Rebecca Bailey expressed criticism of Hansson's post, decrying its "dehumanizing rhetoric" against the Romani people.[35][36]

Sorry misread your post. You described the backup interface as "something you will need" but I somehow thought you were saying that these plug in panels include it.

A cheap method that I think would work is to add an outlet to the plug-in panel which will continue working during a blackout (as long as the batteries and solar panel can supply power). Is that possible without adding much circuitry?

According to the article Trump is pretty successful, however he endorses LOTS of candidates, especially ones that will almost certainly win anyway. Previous presidents apparently only endorsed about 1/10 as many, and I would think they would endorse candidates who are in a competitive race (since why waste time endorsing somebody who is going to win anyway?).

Though I have some hopes for whatever replaces Trump, I do feel it is quite possible a far-left group elected as a majority will see voting restrictions and single votes (rather than some kind of ranked) as being just as advantageous to their extremism as they were to Trump's extremism, and will not change a thing.