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The principal really needs to read the law. This school is so fucked.

https://codes.findlaw.com/az/title-15-education/az-rev-st-sect-15-120-02/

The law in question only prohibits biological males from participating in female sports. It does not prohibit females from joining boys teams. Compare and contrast sections "B" and "C":

B. Athletic teams or sports designated for “females”, “women” or “girls” may not be open to students of the male sex.

C. This section does not restrict the eligibility of any student to participate in any interscholastic or intramural athletic team or sport designated as being for “males”, “men” or “boys” or designated as “coed” or “mixed”.

I also thought this was pretty interesting:

E. Any student who is deprived of an athletic opportunity or suffers any direct or indirect harm as a result of a school knowingly violating this section has a private cause of action for injunctive relief, damages and any other relief available under law against the school.

DST is hardly specific to Europe.

"far enough north" for this effect is above 59° latitude, and doesn't include places like Iceland that don't observe DST. The population density above 59° is a rounding error above zero.

The only place to reach it in the southern hemisphere is Antarctica itself and a few islands.

Their votes and opinions certainly count, but the rest of the world should not be forced to use a bad time system just to appease the very few who live that high. Especially when they have other alternatives available to resolve their problem.

The overwhelming majority of people who experience this effect of DST are on the west end of their current time zones at a much lower latitude.

You live in the western end of your time zone, and at a pretty high latitude. That's the only way to get sunset after 10pm. Your summer sunrise must be about 3am. And you must only see about 5 hours of daylight during winter.

If you are experiencing sunset 2 hours before midnight, the eastern end of your time zone is experiencing sunrise two hours after midnight. Nobody wants sunrise at 2am.

I would say that you should not be in your time zone. Your region should be in the next time zone to the west. Their DST schedule is your standard time schedule.

Alternatively, there is nothing stopping the eastern end of your time zone from joining the next zone to the east, so that their year-round clocks make more sense for them.

Any viable plan to lock the clocks is going to have to include provisions for our regions to select the time zone we want to use.

Government is also the entity that will be prosecuting/persecuting you when they don't like what you have to say.

Not with that attitude.

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender.

"I'm not stalking you. You're too ugly for anyone to stalk. Quit stalking me!"

Yeah? Well, so's your face!

ISPs like to offer, say $65 for service (without committing to a specific speed... Their 100/100 service is "up to 100Mbps" and not a guarantee.)

They then want to charge a modem rental fee - another $5/mo. They want to charge a wifi access point rental fee - another $5/mo. They want to charge various regulatory fees, universal access fees, taxes, etc. They want their advertisements to say "$65/mo", but they want to collect more like $90/mo.

You can buy your own modem and save that $5/mo (but they often push back against that, claiming your modem isn't compatible, or that other customers have complained about inferior service with that modem). You can use your own wifi AP and save that $5/mo (but again, they discourage it...) You can't get away from the regulatory fees.

If thr only thing electronics are 100% efficient

Heat pumps are much more than 100% electrically efficient. They are around 300% electrically efficient.

Watt for watt, a heat pump sinks a lot more heat into your house than either a resistive heating element or a raspberry pi.

if you’re actually using the waste heat from a PC does that mean its basically 100% energy efficient?

Yes, but there is a big caveat: Heat pumps are much greater than 100% electrically efficient.

No, that doesn't violate thermodynamics. We don't count any of the thermal energy input into the "source" side of the heat pump, but it ends up on the "sink" side anyway. We are only comparing electrical input to thermal output, and the thermal output is much greater than the electrical input: Heat pumps are much more electrically efficient at heating your home than any form of resistive heating, including the waste heat from your PC.

A mining rig might be able to exceed the economic efficiency of a heatpump, but we would need much more data to attempt that calculation.

That's only true if we're comparing GPU mining to resistive heating. Both are equally efficient at converting electrical energy to heat: 100%.

The numbers don't look nearly as good when we compare GPU mining to a heat pump. Heat pumps utilize an additional, uncounted source of free energy (outdoor heat). Since we aren't counting that additional energy, the electrical efficiency of the heat pump is much greater than 100%.