I'd be happy to pay a couple bucks to watch one game. I won't pay $20 or more for a single game. I won't pay $50-100 to buy cable/streaming package for a month to watch one game. There's so much crap on all the bundled channels that I refuse to pay for an ongoing subscription. I don't need more ways to waste my time.

Ten years ago I talked to my son's high school math teacher and she said the Common Core curriculum was dumbing down students' math. She said colleges were complaining that they now have to require students to do remedial math upon entering college because Common Core is so bad. I had looked at my son's math over that year and figured Common Core math covers lots of material so shallow that it's quickly forgotten and no one gets mastery over any of it.

Lowering grades in the SF schools means colleges will have to pay attention and adjust their acceptance criteria from schools like this.

My sister worked in a doctor's office for a while and in walks in a top-10 of all time NBA player who went to a top-notch academic university and was the top player in the NCAA for several years. He had trouble filling out the standard form when you show up for a doctor appointment. She had to help him. She was surprised how illiterate he was.

Lowering school standards for athletes does a disservice to them. Lowering them for everyone in SF hurts everyone that goes to school there.

If this InventWood is truly stiffer than untreated wood, then how would it hold up in earthquakes? Completely wood homes like cabins at ski resorts do well in earthquakes because they flex. Concrete and stone structures do poorly. In 1980 Mt. St. Helens erupted and shortly afterward Mammoth Lakes, California (an active volcanic area, even though Mammoth Mountain is not) had three earthquakes of 6.0 or greater in two days. No structural damage except for one of the ski lodges that was concrete.

Yes and no. Larger drives means longer access times. Smaller drives in a cluster with the same overall storage capacity will always perform faster.

VAT should be shown for products sold in Europe and anywhere else there is a Value Added Tax. At least in the US we know the sales tax we pay.

No one is shutting down free speech from the government. They *are* telling several schools if they allow terrorist-supporting protestors to terrorize Jewish or any other students and take over buildings then they are not getting any money. Free speech does not include damage to property, injuring others, terrorizing others, mob rule, or taking someone's property or life. If you're okay with that non-free speech stuff, then you do not belong in this country or belong in jail.

Deporting for thought crimes? What? Please cite sources. The UK has thought crimes. The US doesn't.

"[T]olerance and understanding"? Apparently you've never been to a Democrat rally or a Republican rally. Do so wearing a T-shirt of the opposite party and you'll quickly understand the truth. There's plenty of youtube videos demonstrating this.

BTW, I've only been to one party's rallies a few times. My experience confirms the videos--that the Democrats do not tolerate dissent and are only in favor of free speech when they agree with it.

M$ is only beaten by Chinese copyright/trademark violators when choosing names for products that lead to confusion.

Examples:
1. DOT NET has nothing to do with .net domains, as if someone in marketing at M$ at the time didn't know what the Internet was.
2. typescript is the name of a pretty much defunct screen logging program from many years ago.
3. C# was a little-known compiler in the 1990s. No one seems to remember it.
4. SQL Server as pronounced 'sequel server' is the name of a company that made servers around 1990 that had nothing to do with M$.
and now
5. M$ Windows Recall is not a product recall (as most of the world would like), but a screen capture log that is essentially a video of everything you've ever done on that machine. Can be used to put people in jail. Can be used to steal as well. It is BFF with keyloggers.

I know a large company that had a disastrous company-wide meeting and afterward an AI-generated email came out with a summary of the meeting. It was self-contradictory and had some charts about how successful the meeting was. It was like no one bothered to check the email before it went out.

My experience with AI coding is also bad. It's deceptively clever and wrong. Back in the 1980s people were talking about auto-generated programs that ended up being tossed in the dumpster. AI isn't holding your hand. You're holding AI's hand.

EV charging speed is limited by the capacity of the down line and is always shared with other charging stations at the location. ICE refueling is limited only by the speed of the pump and the capacity of the storage tank. That's a huge difference. Typically the more EV chargers you have at a location the slower your EV will charge *if* all the charging stations are active. This difference is because you don't have a local source (a big electric storage device on site or a huge substation right there) at each EV charging station...and you're not going to.

This poorly implemented idea was already done by M$ as Windows 8 and the Windows Phone. I hear the phone was okay, but W8 was a confusing mess. It doesn't really matter to me. Apple's "intuitive" interfaces are not so intuitive unless you grew up on them and I won't be buying any of their stuff. I admired Apple's interfaces until I had to use them.

This article contains lots of unjustified extrapolations and hand-waving, much of like the discredited Ehrlich's "The Population Bomb" in 1968. You may safely ignore.

Another point is that naturally occurring fluoride is not the problem in most cases. Added fluoride is not pharmaceutical grade and is the byproduct of fertilizer manufacturing and contains other chemicals that are toxic.

I paid for legal incorporation documentation from a local lawyer many years ago and when I read it, there was a large part that clearly was unrelated leftovers from a cut/paste. I called the lawyer on it and he just said to cross it out!

Sounds like the AI-enabled lawyers have the same problem--sloppy work.

Replacing IRS phone centers with AI bots makes perfect sense. The IRS claims no responsibility for any answers they give you over the phone. Yep, look it up.