This is like arguing against the catalytic converter mandate by pointing out that people can still buy an old Packard and restore it.

How will normies ever learn that Israel killed Kennedy and the greatest ongoing humanitarian crisis is the genocide of Boers unless Gemini mentions it while summarizing your universal remote manual?

You aren't being entirely fair. For example, the current Secretary of the Army served honorably in the Army where led a cavalry platoon and was deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Then he went to Yale Law School before working in private equity. Anyway, here's a video of him saying we currently have an astronaut on the moon.

Detractors on the left will say he's a delusional moron, because there haven't been any any astronauts on moon for 50 years. But Trump supporters will quickly and accurately point out that we do actually have astronauts in space, which is where the moon is. No doubt up-and-comers like Secretary Driscoll and whoever replaces Ms. Bean will have risen through the ranks of Trump's Meritocracy (TM) and will have just as firm a grasp of obvious facts as the Secretary of the Army and Secretary of Defense (who was also in the armed services and has on-air television experience).

I like BlueSky and think it's getting better. Does McMegan consider that the presidential election was driving a lot of the conversation back then?

I ask because her analysis almost always comes off as the laziest way to connect her phobias and enthusiasms with current events. BlueSky has it's faults, but McCardle's lack of traction there can't fairly be attributed to them.

None, until child labor is legal in all 50 states as the Founders intended.

A million years ago I got their print catalogs, which were like 60 pages made up of the last two pages of old comic books. The emphasis was on "surplus." They had fresnel lenses for big screen TVs, strong magnets, unbranded auto solenoids, and factory-second microscopes and inflatable rafts. I suspect their impending demise can be traced to more efficient markets for random crap and more efficient manufacturing processes and supply chains. But if they manage to sell four of these Panzer tank sights, they'll be in the black again.

Don't waste time airing your paranoia on Slashdot, that's just what They want you to do!

This administration hates competition.

The Fugitive Slave Act also commandeered free state law enforcement. States' Rights was never more than a fig leaf for people who liked strange fruit.

Your employer can tell when you're too stressed to work! They can also tell when you could keep going, but just don't wanna, because you think your laptop is also your replacement!

It's like the old saying: "You can beat the rap, but you can't beat the ride;" Harvard's pool of applicants is now smaller and of somewhat lower quality than it would have been, because of the additional uncertainty. And the term "additional uncertainty" now includes a risk of being deported to Sudan for writing an OpEd in the school paper, so you can imagine how this shapes the applicant pool for less prestigious schools.

Also, FWIW, an adjudicated rapist, obvious con-man, and florid dementia patient got a plurality of the popular vote, so how good can the American education system pretend to be?

Red States are more likely to prosecute women for getting an abortion.

No, Apple's EVP has no risk of being put in jail by contesting the court order.

Yes, they did. It's not open for debate, in view of the judge's order:
"The order, filed in the US District Court for the Northern District of California, demands that an Apple official 'personally responsible for ensuring compliance' appear in court on May 27 'if the parties do not file a joint notice that this issue is resolvedâ¦'"

Personally requiring an executive to appear is a big ol' red flag there, buddy.

Not exclusively robots, but enough. The first chart in this American Enterprise Institute page tells the tale: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.aei.org%2Fcarpe-diem... You can't strawman away 45 years of increasing manufacturing output accompanied by declining manufacturing employment, nor can you Great Pumpkin the jobs back to 1980 levels.

I think I agree that this is being done in good faith (to the court) pending appeal.

Good faith? It's being done in fear of some Apple EVP being tossed in holding and million dollar fines for contempt being imposed until Apple stopped stalling (16 months after losing its appeal of the injunction to the Supreme Court, and 20 days after the Court imposed sanctions, further restrictions, and made clear that its patience was at an end).

There was no good faith. There is fear of the hammer dropping even harder.