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.

Babies don't have enough self awareness to feel that another (very different) mode of living invalidates their own natural (but essentially arbitrary) preferences.

To the extent your sense of worth is derived from being the kind of person who likes the things you like, encountering people who are happy or successful without conforming to those preferences is invalidating.

Saying you would change something invites questions like"what?" and "how?" If you're an lying ignoramus with credulous followers, you can answer those questions however you like.

But if you want to be honest, you're in a bind.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.brookings.edu%2Farti...

What would Harris have done differently to get better results? It was a fair, but loaded, question. I think the answer would have been too complicated for the average voter, and being an honest answer from a black woman, would not have persuaded many people of the land who voted for Trump.

The right doesn't much care about the million birds killed by windmills every year.

No, they just hate wind turbine generators in general.

But they are aware of the environment damage caused by mining the materials to build it, and to dispose of worn out panels, which isn't admitted to by the left.

Coal ash and nuclear waste. Next.

Like the ones that have started more deadly wildfires in California than all other causes combined?

Nope. Those are medium voltage distribution lines. Those 150k kV+ high tension lines on gigantic steel towers are transmission lines.

The only wind power generators farmers love are the small scale ones that maybe power a pump to water their cattle. The big, industrial ones installed by a power company look great until the contract runs out, and they find that the company that paid them for the land to put it on put the responsibility (and expense, which can run more than the farmer was paid in the first place) to tear it down, remove it, and restore the land for farming, after it gets abandoned at the end of its life.

Interesting fictional story, bro. You're wrong, but that's never stopped you.

Try talking to some actual farmers, and you'll find they're not as supportive as you want them to be. Which is why you don't talk to them.

So we're living in opposite world now. Where's your "talking to some actual farmers" evidence, bro?

Not without the subsidies, which are expected to be nearly half a trillion dollars in the next ten years.

Yes, without subsidies.

Nuclear is the only possible future to maintain a civilized standard of living. Most of the left have admitted that in recent years.

Back to opposite world again. Completely false, and no, "most of the left" have not fulfilled this weird fantasy of yours.

Better a hypocrite than a drooling idiot gobbling down whatever propaganda his betters spoon feed him.

But you're literally both. All propaganda, no data.

One might more rightly ascribe the power pinch to the mindless opposition to building infrastructure one finds in some places. And also the suing nuclear plants out of existence, tearing down hydroelectric dams because fish, and general opposition to modernity that very much exists on the environmentalist left.

But they'd be wrong. The right wing has plenty of mindless opposition to building infrastructure. Suing wind and solar farms out of existence, opposing high voltage transmission lines, crying about how farmland is being used when the farmers love wind power generators and, for those who've tried it, agrisolar, but what the hell do they know about running their own land when their neighbors just don't like the looks of things.

Don't blame this stuff on the environmentalist left. Solar and wind are cheaper than anything that you're complaining about now, but you'll whine about how people won't let you build more nuclear boondoggles despite nobody but the insiders being willing to pay the rates for those nuclear boondoggles.

Fucking hypocrite.