People want 'dumbphones'. Will companies make them?
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I'm pretty sure the dutch government has laws making such an invasion illegal.
So what part, precisely, of marco's answer was fabricating evidence?
He answered the question without a pre-determined conclusion. He answered with a conditional statement. That is how you answer the question without a pre-determined conclusion.
"If it's unfair, we are going to do the same thing Democrats do," Rubio said. "We're going to use lawyers to go to court and point out the fact that states are not following their own election laws."
That is the most reasonable way to answer that question. If an election is unfair, you should take reasonable actions to mitigate things, and accept the result otherwise, which is what he said. If anyone is trying to create a narrative its NBC for choosing to ask the question.
Did you forget the 2016 election when democrats accused the trump campaign of colluding with russia despite zero evidence? Accusing the opposition of undermining an election in every possible venue where there's no risk of perjury is not a uniquely republican strategy.
Elections should be robust in the face of criticism. If the process cannot even stand up to disingenuous scrutiny, there are far bigger problems.
Democracy relies on elections actually being fair. Questioning the process is the only way to make things fair, and the process being robust in the face of questions demonstrates it.
This idea that elections are unquestionabe is genuinely dangerous.
It is not treason to question the results of an election. It is not sedition to contest an election. If there is evidence that an election not handled correctly in a way that is sufficient to change the outcome, those with a stake in the outcome should not accept it.
This idea that it is a high crime to question an election is genuinely dangerous. And it is especially bad coming from democrats, because tactics like voter suppression disproportionately benefit republicans.
No one should accept an unrepresentative election.
Many people say many things. Uninformed takes from randos on the internet shouldn't be taken seriously and responded to by government officials, regardless of nationality.
If the crash were caused by a mechanical problem, the embargo didn't cause it. It would be much more the fault of the iranian maintance agency who let the helicopter fly despite its issues. If critical parts are unavailable, the safe choice is to ground the helicopter.
We can't be sure until more is known, but this seems much more likely to be controlled flight into terrain. It was foggy in the mountains. Crashes like this do happen even in the US.
Sounds like an LLEO only has to be mediocre at its job to outperform 60% of humans.
Which is why CEOs and all other executive staff should be the first to be replaced by AI. The tech isn't good enough to replace human creativity, but it can certainly replace the leeches already.
Plane was not on fire. Passengers were in no immediate danger. Its safer to keep flying and prepare than make a hasty landing for no reason.
Bird ingestion, or other foreign object damage can cause engine surges. Youtube video shows a 757 surging immediately after a bird strike. Looks very similar to the footage of this incident.
The 757's engine continues to surge during the climbout. The footage linked by this article only shows the takeoff roll.
Minor incidents happen all the time in aviation. They have pretty high standards for what is considered an incident. There will always be incidents that can regularly be reported on.
Boeing has some major safety issues. That is a real concern. However, national news is over reporting minor incidents with boeing planes, while being sure to mention boeing in the headline, because they know people will click on any article with boeing in the title. Scared people click on scary headlines.
Incidents with other aircraft are reported locally, and they just say "airplane" in the title.
Long distance 747 flighs usually take off above the maximum landng weight. They need to get rid of the fuel before landing, but the 400 has the ability to dump fuel.
The engine wasn't on fire. The engine had a surge on takeoff. They would have shut the engine off as it might have been damaged, but the plane was not on fire. They would have landed much sooner if it was.
Many articles describe engine surges with language that, while not technically a lie, is written to make readers conclude that the airplane is actually on fire.
This is another article that claimed a jet engine burst into flames, when all that happened was an engine surge. The engine didn't catch fire, the engine did the jet version of a backfire, and only once during the takeoff roll.
That's just what a bot would say.
My apologies as a large language model I can neither confirm nor deny whether I am a bot.
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Housing costs may have gotten out of control, but there’s another expense that now poses an even greater burden to many American families: child care.
Jessica Norwood, a working mother of two in North Carolina and host of the financial-literacy show “The Sugar Daddy Podcast,” said daycare costs when her two children were ages 3 and 4 added up to nearly $3,000 per month — almost twice her monthly mortgage payment of $1,580.
“We were spending easily 55% of our pretax household income on our mortgage and child care,” said Norwood, who grew up in Germany. Her family looked into getting a nanny or an au pair, but found disadvantages to both.
“It’s no wonder so many people (i.e. women) leave work to stay home with their children,” Norwood told MarketWatch in an email. “It’s all excruciatingly expensive.”
Norwood said her friends who work outside of the home and have young children all face this dilemma. “It’s a frequent topic of conversation in our group because there is no escaping it and, in most cases, there are no other viable options.”
The average cost of child care for two children is now greater than the average rent in all 50 states, and greater than the average mortgage payment in 45 states, according to a new report by the nonprofit Child Care Aware of America.
Child care is considered affordable if it costs no more than 7% of a household’s income, according to the Department of Health and Human Services. Yet the typical cost of care for one child, which was $11,582 on average in 2023, is 10% of income in married households and 32% of income for single parents, according to CCAoA. The actual expenditure is often higher, as the average American family has two children and most single-parent households also have more than one child, Census Bureau data show.
The financial challenges facing families have impacted some people’s decision to have children. In a 2021 Pew survey, finances were the third-most common reason people said they didn’t plan to have children, after not wanting children and medical reasons.
“The reality is that for most families, everywhere, child care is very expensive, and it is a very large part of families’ monthly and yearly budgets. That is true in every region,” said Anne Hedgepeth, chief of policy and practice at CCAoA. “There may be different extremes, but child-care prices outpace almost everything else.”
In the largest metro area, New York, the typical monthly cost of child care for two children is $2,634 while the typical monthly housing cost is $2,451, according to the Economic Policy Institute’s Family Budget Calculator, which estimates the typical costs for a modest standard of living around the country.
But the problem is not unique to large, pricey coastal cities. In a smaller metropolitan area like Scranton, Pa., child care for two typically costs $1,541 per month while housing costs $1,008 monthly, according to the EPI’s calculator.
Even in Danville, Ill. — one of the lowest-cost housing markets in the country, according to Realtor.com — the typical monthly cost of child care is $999, outstripping the monthly housing cost of $878, per the calculator. (Realtor.com is operated by News Corp subsidiary Move Inc.; MarketWatch publisher Dow Jones is also a subsidiary of News Corp.)
The American child-care system today is not only unaffordable for many families who need care, it also does not provide livable wages for many of those who work in the field. Workers in child-care centers earn an average of $30,360 per year, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
“If parents can’t contribute more, and educators are making so little in the child-care and early-learning system, I think that really tells us that our investments are going to need to come from elsewhere, from places like our federal government,” Hedgepeth said.
A Biden administration rule announced earlier this year reduced costs for families that receive child-care subsidies, limiting the amount they pay to 7% of their household income. It is estimated to impact 100,000 children.
“President Biden and I believe that every family in our nation should be able to access affordable child care,” Vice President Kamala Harris said in a statement.
CCAoA’s policy recommendation is for lawmakers in Congress and in state governments to expand funding for the system, so that states can “provide more families with subsidies, lower the price of child care, support and retain the child-care workforce, and increase access and supply.”
How has the cost of child care and housing affected you and your financial decisions? MarketWatch would like to hear from readers about their experiences. You can reach us at readerstories@marketwatch.com. A reporter may be in touch to learn more.
this action was performed manualy. I am NOT a bot.
If you delete normally, only the index of the files are removed, so the data can be recovered by a recovery program reading the "empty" space on the disk and looking for readable data.
If you do a single pass erase, the bits will overwritten one time. About half the bits will be unchanged, but that makes little difference. Any recovery software trying to read it will read the newly written bits instead of the old ones and will not be able to recover anything.
However, forensic investigation can probably recover data after a single pass erase. The shred command defaults to 3 passes, but you can do many more if you need to be even more sure.
Unless you have data that someone would spend large sums on forensics to recover, 1 to 3 passes is probably enough.
You can delete files by overwriting the data. On Linux its shred -zu [file]. Its slow but good to do if you are deleting sensitive data.
Its good its not the standard delete function.
I used a nokia dumbphone and it was awful. Not awful due do a lack of features, but awful due to how poorly those features are implemented. Kaios is teal garbage.
But the form factor was lovely, and physical buttons are so much more precise and comfortable to use than a touch screen.
The phone that I really want is a small smartphone with physical buttons for typing and navigation. As far as I am aware that is something that is not made these days.