Reverse. It’s only a fee if you can afford it. If you can’t afford it, it’s free.

This is taking away the last reason any of my coworkers fly it for business. They have lots of direct, but they’re all in the middle of the day and don’t go to any smaller airports, requiring lots of extra driving if you need to visit a facility outside major metros.

For all their flaws, I love that I can take an American flight and land directly in a small town by 9am, do my business, hop in Lyft/Ubers, then fly back and not even spend the night. SWA coworkers spend less time in the air and at airports, but often have to spend 2 nights and spend hours in a rental car driving themselves the extra 2 hours each way to the town.

A viable protest of decent size in my city that I can join. Even a few hundred people would be enough. Organized enough that I hear about it a week out and can shift my plans to be there.

If every student needed the same amount of support, that would be correct. But that is not the case.

Public school districts are required by law to provide whatever is needed for a student’s education. That even includes some students beyond the age of 18.

That includes everything from academically gifted students to English language learners to special needs students who require full time, 1x1 caregivers. I’ve personally worked as a substitute teacher in some of those special needs classes.

All of those specially educators and the facilities needed all cost more than an average general education kindergarten teacher.

When parents of kids who are average of slightly above average and don’t have a lot of special needs (read: often the more affluent families) pull their kids out, the ratio of kids with more meds changes.

Again, that extra support is required by laws passed by this same Tennessee legislature.

And you also ignored the issue of voluntary parent fundraising they is the lifeblood of many schools. That’s a massive gap that is made worse when affluent families pull their kids out.

Educational funding in most of the USA works a bit like insurance and/or a healthy social system. Everyone pays in based on their means - creates a pool of resources - then kids get assistance/education based on needs.

The trick here is that a lot of the kids with the most need are from families with the least means. So if the ratio of kids who need extra help/resources goes up because rich families all pull their kids out, then the schools won’t have enough funding to cover the needs of the kids that are left.

That’s exacerbated by the fact that schools in most of the USA (and definitely TN: I live in Nashville) are woefully underfunded, and rely in fundraisers and parent support groups to fill the gap in funding so teachers can have even basic supplies. Again, if most of the affluent families leave, there will be fewer parents of means there to help fill the gap.

It’s another example of rich families wanting to be able to opt out of helping poor ones.

But 1) I sincerely don’t think he sees it that way and 2) it doesn’t weaken Putin’s position. I don’t honestly believe Trump is a direct asset, but I 100% believe Putin has people closer enough to pull strings and plant ideas with a man who is very clearly open to any suggestions if they are pitched with a populist and/or 1%er bent.

I live in Nashville (and my sister lives in Germany). You should be fine. It’s a great place to visit.

Any place in the world has the small chance of a drunken idiot making a fool of themselves by revealing themselves to be racist. We’re no different. But you’re not going to be harassed by police officers or anything like that (unless you’re doing something worthy of their attention anyway).

The only places where I’d be the slightest bit concerned would be in the small town rural areas between Nashville and the national park. Even then you should be fine, but the odds of running into a racist idiot will go up from like 1% to 3%. And even if you do, it’s not like you’ll be in danger. They’ll just do their best to make you uncomfortable by saying something nasty. They won’t refuse you service or anything crazy like that.

Honestly, even in those areas you’re likely to be looked at suspiciously because of your foreign accent more than the color of your skin.

You might know this and I’m missing the sarcasm, but Musk can’t be president (or VP). He’s not a native born citizen. President is one of the few places where being a naturalized citizen isn’t enough.

I mean, he is 78 years old, apparently never exercises, and eats McDonald’s on a regular basis…

Being kind and giving extra resources to those with disabilities, and to some degree even those of lower status. In theory, pure evolution should operate selfishly (more for me less for you) most of the time and even a more complex evolutionary pressure that seeks the benefit of the species vs the individual. There’s no benefit to caring for and giving resources to those who can’t or objectively (again, to from a pure genetics perspective l shouldn’t be allowed to breed. But morally, as a society, we care extra for them, not less. Anyone who wants to be rid of or take from those unfortunates are (rightly) considered sociopaths.

That side is definitely the most interesting, but the reverse side of the Problem of Evil is interesting too: if there is no god/God, then why do we call things evil. How can we apply some objective morality if everything is random and subjective?

There are good and interesting arguments related to evolution creating a sense of common morality, like an instinct, to drive behavior that is beneficial to the continuation of the species and a bloodline. But some of what we consider moral is uniquely against a ‘survival of the fittest’ framework.

Like I said, at the very least it is interesting

Meta gave the donation, not Zuck personally? Somehow that seems extra sleezy. Not only a payoff, but using someone else’s money to do it.

No doubt it’s a bit different. But it was still splitting and both did have established western boundaries.

Tennessee split from North Carolina. Georgia split off Mississippi and Alabama

There’s a chance that Musk has bought himself enough influence to turn conservatives on climate change. I don’t know if I expect it, exactly, but there’s a chance at a scenario where there is at least some progress there.

Granted Musk will mostly use it to enrich himself, but if he at least stops then from repealing green subsidies and the like, that’s movement in the right direction.

Rhapsody back in the day beat that. You could use All Music Guide info to build amazing custom playlists. Custom options like “Music featuring electric guitar with no vocals made between 1950-1957 with a tempo between 90-120” and it would shoot out a whole playlist

Pretty much just kerosene. So not the best, but not horrible. It just uses LOX and RP-1 (highly refined kerosene) for fuel.

It’s pretty easy to strip most of it off. It’s definitely an adjustment, but I got used to it (the remaining things I couldn’t change) pretty quickly

I held on to mine for so long, but after they stopped getting updates, I bailed since the S22 wasn’t massively larger.

It’s 5.75" tall, so no. It’s as big as I want to go. I’d love something a bit smaller to be sure