The answer is there, keep wondering 🙂

(adult users of TikTok? This sounds so weird and foreign to me; I must be too old)

https://backlinko.com/tiktok-users

TikTok has 1.25 billion monthly active users, nearly half of Americans are on TikTok. The majority of people on TikTok are adults.

Are you saying I just made 5 new best friends??

So what if he is?

The Zoom RTO was just hilarious.

Comparing Japan to a prison colony makes it look a little more reasonable.

My favorite part is imagining a speak-to-text app writing “gunfire sounds”

It’s a big school, I bet he was. But not THAT William Taft.

Where’s the lie? I just can’t trust you “gibbons can fly” people.

Well you’re really just inheriting a subscription to the house, you have to keep paying the annual fees or the state takes it away from you.

I kinda like the new google. It’s strong and wrong and doesn’t afraid of anything.

My last Linux dual-boot install was trying to apply Conversion Therapy to me and corrupted my windows boot records. Finally got it resolved, but what a nuisance.

Ah, the age old “right” vs “effective” argument.

From atop your mountain of Playstations, will you finally stop putting puppies in blenders?!

When the ideas run dry for infinite growth, everything old is new again.

Love it when the logical excuse is the Sunk Cost Fallacy.

Though I think there’s some truth - companies still pay employees for their WFH rigs / utilities (or they should be, anyway), so it’s not exactly free for them to have WFH (just a lot cheaper, if there’s a choice).

The logical excuse I buy into is that commercial real estate is valued on it’s income and if business aren’t renewing leases because they don’t need office space, then commercial real estate values tank. That and thinly veiled layoffs.

To wit: RepRap

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There’s also still the Lifeline program, which is a much smaller discount, but can still help.

Thanks for the context in this specific case in response to my last paragraph.

So you’re saying it could have been done 6 months ago but is only now being done in the 4th year of Biden’s term?

This is the “fourth year surge,” where 1st term presidents rush to get a lot of positive policy change so they look like they’re doing a good job. They tend to pass more legislation and use fewer executive orders during this time.

Some of the policy that previous presidents are best known for were passed during this surge time, including Social Security, the Fair Labor Standards Act, Civil Rights Act, Federal Highway Aid Act, Equal Pay act, etc.

Here, asking “why” is asking “what is their incentive”.

There may be some merit to saying that a president is an entire branch of government and cycling out staff in key positions to get them in political alignment can take a lot of time. Biden’s admin has had to re-staff many departments after Trump.