No, uh?

I understand it very well. It's s critical part of internet infrastructure, and if you think some bad actors abusing it changes that you are sorely mistaken.

This is just not true. You clearly don't understand the scale at which Cloudflare operates.

Even if they could detect everything in real time, just shutting down service to a paying customer without any kind of check or validation would open them to their own legal problems. And even if they had no legal problems, they would still be shutting down innocent people. We see this with YouTube *all the time*.

That's called being a common carrier. Why do you demand more from internet infrastructure companies than from say, USPS? The responsibility of taking bad actors to court and then to jail doesn't fall on Vercel or Cloudflare. That's what the fucking police and judicial system are for.

Really, somehow on-prem IP addresses can't be blocked? Just wait until some employee watches a football match from the office.

You have no idea what you're talking about. Meta doesn't make money (or expect to make money) from the hardware, which is sold at cost or even subsidized, and they very much prefer that you can fix it and continue to use it instead of throwing it out when it breaks.

We're not going to get from phones to holodecks in one step.
If you want to miss all the intermediate steps and find yourself in a place with have you no idea about how to use anything, go ahead.

You don't have on-time service in the US, WTF are you talking about?
At least in San Francisco, for a lot of things "first time patients" need to have months to get an appointment.
Don't how it is for live and death things, but for things "I'd like to have checked just in case even though it doesn't feel I'm going to die from this", US healthcare is a total disaster.

If they don't have a job there they aren't their companies in any context

There is now. The period on h1b or other visa. If people came directly with a green card we wouldn't have that.

What path to citizenship do you suggest, if any, for foreign workers that come to the US?
They're workers but also people; they need to plan for the rest of their lives. The current rules, while bad, are reasonably clear. You can more or less expect to become an American, if you want to, in around 10 years from the very beginning until you get your passport. Much more if Indian, which is a different topic.

What do you mean by "their" companies?
H1B processing is expensive, by the way, and you have to pay prevailing wages.

I hear the GOP and their voters are quite pro unions.

While the system is currently broken, "straight to green card" is a recipe for fraud as well.
I'd make some changes (including extending the grace period from 2 to 6 month, and putting a cap on how long you can wait to get a green card). But nothing wrong with "know your immigrants".
Really, someone that doesn't integrate well and that has residency rights is a problem in any country. Plenty of examples in Europe. The US, being so huge, can tolerate bigger numbers, but the same strategy would lead to the same results eventually.

You're wrong. I live in San Francisco.

There's some. At least 5 in the Embarcadero that I know of.
Also Metreon, Westfield Mall, Ferry Building, the Pier.

Considering the size of the city, that's just geometrically impossible.

What are you talking about, if you are a customer you can pee in lots of places.

Don't quit your day job. You're not ready for anything that remotely resembles guessing or reading other people :-)

There's plenty more, but you wouldn't know.