Buelldozer

I didn’t know about Canada and after thinking about it for a minute the United States does something similar for the States with .gov. Many, if not all, States have their own subdomain such as wyo.gov, montana.gov, and nebraska.gov.

Honestly it’s always seemed wrong and somewhat confusing that non-country specific TLDs, such as .gov, are dedicated to the United States.

I’m assuming .io just stands for Indian Ocean in this case

British Indian Ocean Territory, it was just shortened to .io so it would fit into the naming scheme.

That’s a great question and the answer can be found in the wikipedia entry for the .uk domain.

In a nutshell the volunteer “Naming Committee” setup back in 1985 established a rule that entities needed to register into specific subdomains based on entity type such as .co, where the .co part stood for “Company”. They did this to make managing registrations easier and to provide an “at a glance” way to see what kind of website you were visiting (commercial, government, charity, etc). The “Naming Committee” was extremely strict about ensuring that domains were registered to a specific entity and in the correct subdomain.

By the mid-90s the volunteer “Naming Committee” was entirely overwhelmed by the sheer volume of domains being registered so that volunteer group was replaced by Nominet UK. Nominet didn’t open the .uk TLD to registration until 2014 and by then the subdomain thing (.co.uk) was so embedded into the United Kingdom’s internet structure that it had become tradition and NOT using was confusing to many people.

There’s more subdomains than just .co as well and both wikipedia articles I linked list them.

tl;dr .uk absolutely exists in the UK, it’s just used differently than almost anywhere else in the world.

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Dammit! Why did I mistype that?

Obviously it should be RHPS. Sigh.

If you ever decide you want to see it please for the love of Tim Curry don’t watch it on TV.

The only way to experience the RHPS is at a theater, movie or stage, with a floor show. Without the floor show you will not get what makes RHPS an adored Cult Classic. Seriously, the floor show is what makes (or breaks) the experience.

If you walk into the show and you’re not surrounded by people in costumes spouting weird lines, or if you don’t see them in the aisles within the first 90 seconds of the show starting then you may as well get up and leave.

Edit: Fixed my typo’s as pointed out by @shiny_idea@aussie.zone

would it surprise you if these are still the only two instances of parents being held accountable?

Yes it would. Adults, including parents, are increasingly being charged in other types of shootings such as when one child is playing with a firearm and accidentally shoots someone else. It’s not happening often enough yet but it’s growing in popularity. If you can remember long enough, I know I won’t, check back in a year and lets see what happened. :)

The psychology that causes school shootings…

The United States generally has a violent culture. If you removed every shooting of any type (school, mass, crime of passion, etc) from the crime statistics the US would still have a higher rate of violent crime than any other industrialized Western nation.

Aside from that it’s time to stop blaming Reagan for the mental health crisis in this country. Aside from the fact that our mental health system was a horror show when Reagan ended it the guy hasn’t been President for over three decades. That’s plenty of time for individual States and / or the Federal Government to have reversed course.

Plenty of countries with more guns per capita than the U.S. that don’t have school shootings.

There is no country with more firearms per capita than the United States.

Even if you go by household, to reduce the effect of people who have more than one firearm, the U.S. still ahead of any other nation.

To be clear we can and should do more to reduce gun violence in the United States and small things like prosecuting adults who are accessories to shootings are a good thing.

It’s slowly changing.

The father involved in this Georgia shooting was arrested. The parents involved in the 2021 Michigan shooting were arrested, charged and sentenced to 10-15 years.

I strongly disagree. I’m about as Pro 2nd Amendment as it gets but what happened in Georgia was entirely preventable. The father should not have provided a firearm to a minor and especially not to a minor with a history of making threats.

Parents need to start going to jail for that kind of behavior and gun owners overall need to start securing their firearms so that children cannot get to them.

It’s not that damn difficult to do.

unless there’s some unique chemical process at play here.

CO2(aq) + H2O(l) ⇌ H+(aq) + HCO3–(aq)

That reaction is taught to High Schoolers and is hardly unique. It’s also quite literally the #2 thing explained in the link that @silence7@slrpnk.net gave you.

Are you a science denier?

What in the actual fuck is wrong with these people?

I’m so tired of the “e” word. Most of the people tossing it around, like the commenter up above, apparently don’t even know what it actually means.

Here’s a tip: It doesn’t refer to something that got more expensive and / or moved services around in existing tiers like MS did with GamePass. You can read Cory’s Book or check out the wikipedia page for the actual definition. Go read one of them and then Stop abusing the fucking term!

“Enshittification” isn’t simply raising prices and moving features between service tiers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification

Yeah, it was pretty obvious that this was going to happen sooner or later. It doesn’t meet the definition of “enshitification” though. The platform, Xbox Live, isn’t losing functionality it’s just getting more expensive. There’s also no obvious shift to favor business customers.

It’s a pretty standard price hike with a small side helping service tiers changing features.

I’m not HAPPY about it of course.

This echoes generic fear mongering of regulation from the conservative side.

No it acknowledges that changes that can be made from one administration to the next.

What are some bad things the EPA has done in your mind?

This took nearly 30 years.

Saying the government shouldn’t have the power to regulate emissions that are destroying the biosphere is absurd.

I haven’t said that nor would I but $GovernmentAgency isn’t a synonym for “The Government”. What’s being discussed are the limits of an Agency attached to the Executive Branch relative to the power of the Legislative Branch.

What does “but will it always” do good things even mean?

This, this right here is what it means.

The Trump Administration Rolled Back More Than 100 Environmental Rules.

That’s what can happen when an Agency of the Executive “does things” on its own authority.

If the EPA ever start doing truly asinine things, then we elect leaders to change the laws dictating their mandate.

How’s that been working out for the last 20 years?

No, the basis is that the EPA has exceeded its regulatory authority by coming very close to ending ICE vehicles with its new rule. While I agree with what the EPA is doing with it’s new tailpipe emissions rule I also wonder at the advisability of letting politically appointed technocrats make such sweeping changes.

It will be a good thing THIS time but will it always?

The progress isn’t reported on nearly enough and it leaves people feeling cynical and hopeless.

It isn’t just burning coal either as US Production of coal is also down nearly 60 percent from its peak.

I’m still not sure we can get them ALL turned off by 2035 but we are on a clear long term trend-line of coal reduction.

Can’t wait to see the articles in 10 years about how major countries are phasing out coal in the next 10-20 years.

The US still has work to do but have you SEEN the decline in coal use here over the past 15 years? Right now I think the US is back to using the same amount of coal that it did in 1965! As a percentage of energy use it’s at the level it was in 1949!

Coal use in the United States absolutely fallen off a cliff since 2008.

And it seems to have gone up from 2020 to 2022

Russian Natural Gas is gone and they closed their Nuclear Power Stations so back to coal they went!

Sure but in the article he says that he hadn’t even heard of it until some friends mentioned it “last month”, which would have been March of 2024. Taking a few weeks to feel it out is one thing but to have not even know it existed until last month is wild.