Federal funding to the States would end leaving the States to foot the bill. Since most schools are funded from property taxes, those taxes would have to rise to meet the additional burden not covered by the federal government. This would disproportionately affect red states since the top fifteen states reliant on government funding for education are all red states.

Much of what schools do is already handled by states.

So the story is plausible then?

I’m not actually worried about my drives. In fact that was kind of the point. I was kidding around because this excuse that the hard drive overheated sounds a little like a car running out of blinker fluid.

Ok, but do you know anyone this has happened to? I don’t and I have some pretty old drives I still use. I tend to just buy more. Also most drives these days are solid state aren’t they? This just feels like a low probability event to me. Overheating RAM or the CPU or GPU, sure, but hard drive?

So you’ve had this happen?

I didn’t know hard drive overheating was a thing. Should I be worried that my 5 year old hard drive is about to overheat. I mean is this actually a floppy disk or something?

I did.