It doesnt look like returning the devices has to be immediate or convenient. Heres my proposed plan:

Ban devices entirely. Any item discovered gets confiscated, labeled, and placed in a bin in the office (achieving the “secure” location requirement of the bill.) Students are permitted to label their item. Items are available for pickup weekly at the end of a district-wide midday “value of education” parental education session.

Labelmaker: ~$200/school

Labels: $0.01/item

2 hrs labor weekly: 38×2×$50=$3800/district/year

Value of inconveniencing parents enough to care: priceless.

Didn’t want to state a blanket “can” - these types of laws vary in a lot of places.

Bluetooth audio, as well

Check your local laws, but you can probably buy and carry a white cane so long as you aren’t trying to scam the legal benefits of it.

It’s huge for this. Aiming and trying to frame the camera for a phone app sucks. Pointing your head is a lot more natural.

The "medical device " solutions are bulky, exceedingly expensive, and lack creature comforts like Bluetooth audio from your phone.

That’s not really a practical answer for a lot of crimes, unless you also presuppose that a large portion of women covering it up are also successfully pinning them on men or preventing them from being discovered at all.

For example in the US, even if you add all unknown murders to women, they’re still totaling less than half attributed to men.

While I agree with the sentiment, I think the disparity is so vast you can’t practically explain it without a substantial underlying difference in the crimes committed.

I think it’s probably fair to say that there was a lot of evolutionary pressure that selected for aggression in males and against it for females. Trying to ignore any biological differences is neglectful.

There are at least some countries where the charge of rape specifically requires the aggressor to penetrate with a penis. (Yes I know some men and women have atypical numbers of penises for their gender, dont @ me)

Funny that they think it and never do anything to implement it.

More like dont let mediocre be the enemy of terrible.

For 4473 address: you typically only need some proof of government-recognized address. Lots of stores will accept a fishing or hunting license, which can themselves be acquired without proof of address.

The “clerical mistakes” around NICS are an absolute nightmare from what i hear… the government digs their heels in hard once you’re in the database. The law does allow you to recover your legal costs, but ONLY if you get a judgement in your favor. Usually they drop the case immediately before judgements, and you’re on the hook for your $10k+ costs.

It’s definitely possible to establish reasonable thresholds - you could draw parallels to abuse/neglect laws. There are things that many people may find grotesque and objectionable that aren’t considered abuse/neglect. There are definitely historical and modern examples of those laws being applied unfairly, particularly to the disadvantaged. Boundaries may flex across regions or cultures, But it’s fair to say society as a whole supports abuse/neglect laws, and that they’re generally beneficial for children.

I’d rather see better detection and genetic therapies, myself. Inform the parents and let them come to their own conclusion about whether or not to have children.

A perfectly reasonable take, but even that falls in-scope of eugenics.

My brother in christ, the conversation is explicitly about eugenics, I don’t need to see shit!

You know what? I think letting racists ruin eugenics gives them one extra “fuck you” to the human race.

If I use a revolver to play Russian roulette with a baby, they’d bury me under the prison. Why is it fine for parents with documented genetic conditions to do the same?

This happens sometimes in markets where production outstrips demand, but production is inflexible to slow down. Notable examples in the US are electricity prices that will sometimes spike negative during peak renewable generation, or crude oil right at the start of COVID lock downs.

Yeah, your 15- year-old device is slow, but let’s see how slow it is with windows 11 installed

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You can buy the Same Thing in the US right now for $15k https://zeromotorcycles.com/model/zero-s

TIL USA is outside of the world.