While you might be generally correct, some of the legislation passed during Biden's term is genuinely better than what even Europe could come up with.

I hope fax stays relevant, even if it's less used.

I hope this doesn't spread to the US as although it'll stop Temu and Shein, it'll also probably make niche goods and hobbyist parts more expensive. I really don't want to pay the Amazon tax if I can find the same thing on Aliexpress, and a duty would just shorten that gap.

It wouldn't be limited to community releases, though. Other companies could poach the source code for themselves, and I doubt that's something easy to regulate.

The US has had "secret voting" laws for a while, and although it's not illegal to say you voted for X, it is illegal for anyone to pressure you into voting a certain way.

It also screws over the many churches or other religious organizations that genuinely do good for their communities

Can't speak for previously, but recently, a good chunk of Democrats' failures have been because of a select few members holding out, no?

As an oligarch, I can't wait for Project 2025

The AI does nothing with the percentages because it is an LLM, not an AI designed for math. All an LLM does is take a small number of words and turn them into a different set of words. It does not use your small set of words to run any formulas on your behalf.

There's a reason why Trump 2016, though it caused a lot of damage, wasn't nearly as bad as it was thought to be.

Trump was probably the laziest president in US history. He had no clue what to do at the start of the presidency, and many of his requests were met with resistance by employees in the executive branch because they were stupid or illegal. This is because the executive branch has a small chunk of president-appointed positions relative to the merit-based chunk.

Many of his successes came about later in his term, as he got plenty of help from well-funded right-wing organizations to find people to appoint to various positions, including the 3 Supreme Court justices who helped remove federal abortion protections.

If you look forward to now, the same right-wing organizations have prepared a document (Project 2025) serving as instructions for Trump's first 180 days. It calls for reclassifying every merit-based position in the executive branch into political ones, replacing the people who serve in those positions with Trump loyalists, then dismantling organizations like the FBI, EPA (environmental regulation), NOAA (meteorological organization; helps detect hurricanes), DOJ (sues entities for reasons like antitrust), and more. The only entities that could intervene in this case are the Supreme Court, which is very comfortably on Trump's side, and Congress, which is very unlikely to be controlled by Democrats in a way that will matter.

Tl;dr, Trump didn't know what to do during the first term. For his second term, he was handed a step-by-step tutorial on how to dismantle the FBI and everything else in the executive branch.

For some justices, I agree. However, as a general principle, I think of the vast majority of "bad people" as incompetent rather than malicious unless there's proof of guilt. I don't know enough about all 9 justices to comfortably say they're evil or corrupt.

It's simply an institution meant to interpret laws and their legality. All of that goes out the window when the people in said institution are politically charged, corrupt, or make bad arguments.

I'm genuinely glad we live in a country that recognizes the horrors of its past. Even with all of the "whitewashing" that occurs in textbooks in parts of the country, like "states' rights" in the Civil War and praising Columbus, there's still an overwhelming consensus that minorities were wronged for our entire history.

The merger is still something that I'm 50/50 on because it made T-Mobile's service so much more reliable, and iirc Sprint was genuinely struggling.

It still sucks that Boost isn't going anywhere

Clothing gets you negative comments. iMessage gets people to exclude you from group chats or even text messaging completely. It's become far more socially acceptable to isolate someone because of what they don't own.

Even if this were the same level of bullying, the amount of resources that Apple needs to fix this is negligible compared to clothing companies or whathaveyou. You can't update a shirt. You can easily update the color of a bubble or implement an industry standard. Apple refuses to even try to fix this issue, and in my eyes, they're 100% complicit in enabling bullying.

I don't know why you're getting downvoted. The problem isn't the fact that the indicator exists. A lot of it is because it's an ugly green bubble, and Apple refuses to change it because bullying kids is great marketing for Apple.

India is a huge market for WhatsApp

Is it not proprietary due to carriers being extremely fussy?

To add onto what other commenters said:

1. It isn't legally mandated, only customary
2. If it was mandatory, such a mandate would probably be illegal
3. Plenty of teachers and school officials (but not most) will be pissed/will punish you if you don't do the pledge.

I think projects like this are good, but I really don't want governments to create their own version of XYZ for the sake of creating clones of XYZ. I'm scared that all this will do is fragment an almost-universal collection of open-source projects into regional variants for no real reason.