The problem with everyone having an opinion on something is that most people don't actually bother learning the details of the subject, because if they did they would know their opinion is shit and based on made up personal expectations and what some rando said on the internet - just like your opinion.

BEAD was a bi-partisan effort, it's not the "Biden broadband plan". It was built upon the BRIDGE (Building and Renewing Infrastructure for Development and Growth in Employment) act. The states that will get the most funding from BEAD happens to be red or purple and the state that get's the most is Texas with $3.38 billion. This administration fucked around with the rules who could get the money which lead to allocating $668 million to Starlink and $311 million to Amazon's Project Kuiper and about $21 billion (out of $42.5 billion) was said to be "non-deployment funds" - ie a likely scenario is that some people wanted to use that money for something else while calling it "savings". A bunch of states, including red states, made a big stink about those $21 billion and which forced NTIA to suddenly announce last week that there will now be a new round of funding for underserved areas. Texas even put a hold on the grant money because it felt that the program had been changed to benefit billionaires.

Do yourself a favor, go and actually read the BEAD act and look up what fuckery this administration did to it instead of sounding like someone defensively making shit up out of thin air to score some imaginary points from likeminded people.

Basic economy says that limited consumer choice of goods and/or services, creates a distorted market that leads to higher prices, products that doesn't actually fit what the consumer needs, lack of availability because it isn't "profitable enough", stagnation in product development and infrastructure investment.

How many actually have a choice in an ISP? And it also seems you missed or forgot that before the federal net neutrality law that came into effect in 2015 some ISP's actually introduced zero-rating while intentionally maintaining low caps which meant a price hike for consumers who went outside their ISP's preferred services, and that through the secondary effects I mentioned above.

Have people actually forgot what a total and utter shit show it was to get a decent internet connection without almost being bled to death financially before 2016? It has gotten better, but not by much unless you live in very specific areas. Another reminder of that shit show in case people have forgotten, in 2013/2014 Comcast and Verizon intentionally slowed down Netflix streams until Netflix coughed up a bunch of money to get "preferred peering", ie those ISP's wanted more money even though people had already paid for their internet connection but they couldn't jack up consumer prices any higher.

So if someone can't have a monopoly on local TV broadcasts they are being censored?

No, the FCC had to balance public interest vs corporate and political interests because it's more beneficial to give the public more choice and different views.

Where's the competition if all the local broadcasters are owned by the same company?

Oh, so every American has internet? Funny that, about ~25 million Americans lack access to reliable internet access.

If addressed, there will not be any competition at all because most of the local broadcasters will be bought up by one company. Sinclair Broadcast Group tried this in 2018 by hiding their purchasing of Tribune Media through shell companies which resulted in them being sued and fined 48 million in 2020.

If FCC repeals the 39% national cap Sinclair will quickly dominate local broadcast and considering what has happened to every other local broadcaster they bought, those broadcasters will be gutted and start to air mostly news-slop that is produced centrally.

I guess it has escaped your notice that a consolidation of media is happening which means that a handful of billionaires are becoming the sole owners of a majority of all media which in turn means they get to decide what everyone can see, not you or the public. Anyone with a smidgen of critical thinking knows that is bad, like dystopian bad.

I do wonder what happened to the basic fact that if your field of vision is obstructed it increases the risk of you hitting something you didn't see regardless if you are driving a car, truck or lawn-mover and there exists a bunch of studies (correlative and others) for this.

Anyone thinking you need a double blind study to prove this fact should just cover the lower 1/3 of a pair of sunglasses with black tape and then take a walk.

So let me get this right, a company that refuses to work with the government because of said company's ethical concerns of militarized AI is so dangerous that they are forbidden to do business outside the US compared to companies that are willing to militarize their AI and are still allowed to keep doing business abroad?

Don't you think that reasoning is ass-backward?

Do you want to know the real reason? Anthropic didn't kiss Trump's ass. That's it, because this administration gets vindictive if you don't toe the line.

So ask yourself, why are just one company singled out and not all?

It shouldn't matter if it's a big tech company or some poor schmuck running a small company out of their garage, an injustice is still an injustice and if we aren't willing to speak up about it we will sooner or later ourselves be subjected to one.

And? Isn't that what allies are supposed to do, help each other? Which was the whole argument being made, ie US started wars and convinced NATO allies to join in or support them even though NATO is a defensive pact.

Are you implying that WW2 was an US war? Where do you get your history from?

A loot box is a known commodity with unknown content. Also, it was a joke because the concept of loot boxes is seen as gambling in many jurisdictions which is why EA tried to call them surprise mechanics to avoid gambling laws.

The whole thing with wagering on intangible commodities is the same type of evasion but with a lot more money, and with the right people involved laws will be adjusted to make sure it isn't gambling.

Do loot boxes with surprise mechanics also count as intangible commodities? Asking for a friend.

Anyway, it was quite easy to see where these cases where headed when you factor in this: President Donald Trump's eldest son is an adviser for both Kalshi and Polymarket and an investor in the latter. Trump's social media platform Truth Social is also launching its own cryptocurrency-based prediction market called Truth Predict.

Do someone need to explain the difference between laws, regulations and what is considered civil and criminal offenses so you can get up to speed how federal agencies have operated for 200+ years? It's amazing what isn't taught in schools anymore, like basic civics and how federal agencies actually work. Civil cases don't have juries because the norm is that there are no monetary damages awarded, just remedies that the defendant has to implement so they are in compliance with laws and regulations.

If you get what you want, you'll have to accept that you can have a chemical factory as a neighbor that spews out toxic fumes because, you know, regulations can't be readily enforced. Or as with Intuit, that companies straight up lie to people and proceeding to rip them off any way they can.

You asked "Why is that right" without actually understanding how things work, I'll instead ask "Why are we allowing companies to lie and evade federal regulations?"

So why did congress invest that power in them, something they have been doing it for a very long time now?

Are you also aware that breaking federal regulations usually fall under federal civil law, right? In federal civil cases juries are rare and only when there are monetary damages on the table. An administrative judge telling companies to "follow the regulations and don't fuck over the public" doesn't seem to involve monetary damages what so ever from what I can see, which is why the 5th circuit shoehorned in SEC v. Jarkesy as a precedent which did include monetary damages as a way to give Intuit free reign to keep lying while neutering the FTC even more.

Anyone cheering for this outcome is saying "Yes please, I'm bending over!", unless you are rich and couldn't care less about the public good.

This is just another outcome that makes federal agencies more powerless to do what they were created to do. Funny how the established precedent in Atlas Roofing Co. v. OSHRC that has held for over 40 years that congress can delegate enforcement to agencies without the need for a jury became burdensome lately when it started interfering with the bottom-line for duplicitous companies.

No, it isn't. All generation has ramp-up times, battery is instant, and that saves a lot of money in ancillary costs. Waiting for a gas-plant to spin up to handle a load-spike costs money plus wear and tear, and it may well be that when it is finally producing power it isn't needed anymore. Stable energy production saves a lot of money, and even more so when there's grid energy storage like batteries available, and such storage usually pay for themselves in less than 10 years if correctly sized.