Many jurisdictions do have hardship licenses that allow people too young for a standard license to drive when circumstances require it.

People lose their faculties at vastly different times. There should be mandatory re-examinations for older drivers with increasing frequency, not a hard maximum.

I do think Trump’s weird immunity to consequences (if this was fiction, I’d call it plot armor) is a factor in this. Everybody in authority had to know it was pointless security theater from the beginning, but being seen as reducing protection from terrorism in any way politically dangerous.

Airports in Europe do not make most passengers remove shoes, but nobody has blown up a plane there with a shoe bomb. It’s probably not a serious threat.

I like cooking with fire. Temperature changes (especially reduction of heat) are much faster than resistive electric, and when cooking on an unfamiliar stove, it’s easy to tell what’s going on; I don’t have to guess what “6” means on a dial because I can look at the fire and see.

Both the awareness that gas stoves are a significant source of pollution (mostly nitrogen oxides) and availability of induction are fairly recent and not universally distributed. I’d accept the pollution for a better cooking experience than resistive electric, but induction is pretty compelling all things considered.

A decade ago, I thought phone numbers would soon die out. Instead, the most popular messaging apps use them as identifiers and adoption of those in North America is poor.

If by “these applications”, you mean Lemmy and Lemmy-likes such as Piefed, I think “forum” or “message board” is a good classification. Some people might consider that a subcategory of social media, but I think many would argue they’re separate categories.

The cynical answer is she thought the would be spared because she’s white.

The straight answer is that Trump told people the country was being overrun by criminals and gang members whom he would deport. People who bought that story thought those who didn’t fit that description would be safe.

It depends on how annoying a noise it will make if allowed to finish. I find it odd that the option to disable the beep on completion isn’t common. There’s rarely any urgency to remove what I just heated.

That’s the best way to control a microwave.

I remain fond of the analog knob myself.

I’m content if my shoe cost is under $10/month. You’re just over a tenth that. It would be hard to get the number lower and still have reasonable comfort and protection from the shoes.

That would be interesting to find out.

Well there’s my surprising fact of the day.

Looks like it’s just one officer, but it seems like they could do outreach and intelligence sharing without someone permanently stationed there.

Even if that assumption were correct, the mayor of NYC cannot meaningfully aid or hinder Israel’s actions. A politician’s position on an issue far outside the scope of the office they’re seeking doesn’t usually influence my vote.

But Cuomo tried very hard to turn it into a referendum on Mamdani’s views on Israel and Palestine—and the media establishment took the bait.

It’s weird this is an issue in a mayoral campaign in the USA. The role has no foreign policy authority whatsoever, and Palestine/Israel is 5700 miles from NYC.

tHeRe ArE nO gAs ChAmBeRs! (yet)

Oh but there are.

Unsolicited photography tip: your phone camera’s sensor is 4:3. Setting the aspect ratio to anything else crops the image and can make fitting subjects that aren’t tall and skinny in the frame difficult.

This is true even if the phone calls a different aspect ratio “full”.

It had been the norm for phones, then Android came along and a much more PC-like level of capability became the norm for phones. SafetyNet didn’t show up until five years later and it didn’t get significant negative press.

It’s weird this didn’t get more pushback on mobile. Even the mainstream press was critical when Microsoft proposed it for PCs.

What happened to old Internet Forums?

Some of them still exist; some of them shut down. It’s not just a matter of Reddit siphoning off all the users (though that’s a factor), but that administering and moderating forums is a lot of work without a lot of reward. In addition to the baseline effort being significant, a changing landscape including reduced organic search traffic, more spam, and increased legal liability in some jurisdictions has reduced the number of people who want to attempt it.

banned for not adhering to Left Wing orthodoxy

Reddit has many problems, but in my experience this is not one of them. Of course you’re very likely to be banned if you bring politics into a community that isn’t about politics.