Slashdot ceased to be one long ago.

"Having worked in public school education"

Lol. Means shit all for caring about better education.

"as it helps teachers and their healthcare/pension benefits"

Yes, you dipshit, it must be crazy of me to think that paying teachers well leads to better teachers.

Why would teachers want longer school days? School day lengths are fine. Longer school years? Is school a job? The length of the school year is for kids. There's a reason why schools have breaks, its for students. Additional money for after school activities? I mean, at this point I conclude you're a moron (actually I knew you were already moron) - that's a major ask of every teacher strike I've ever seen. (I dunno, maybe you've been surrounded by fellow idiots? Maybe this is what drives your pessimistic view on the profession .. )

Dollars to donuts, your "Having worked in public education" claim is as IT or computer something something, which doesn't make you an expert on public education. More of a useful idiot, every time I read your words.

Or just schools, period.

"Data Centers don't seem to bring jobs."

Seems is not a great word in an argument one wishes to make.

That's a gross exaggeration.

Smoking kills ~480,000 yearly in the US alone. That's more than the ~420,000 killed by WWII.

Booze kills ~ 178,000. That's more per year than the Korean and Viet Nam wars combined. It's more than the TOTAL combat losses in all post-WWII US wars.

The masses were always stupid. Social media merely shows the rest of us what they're really like.

That would be a boon for tech literacy.

Forbid more. It builds curiosity.

Crash repair is completely disregarded by modern automotive designers because they don't want damaged vehicles returned to service. Mechanic of many decades here. All paint deteriorates so the more complex the coating the more difficult to correct for age.

That means more full paint jobs required which easily puts many vehicles "beyond economic repair".

Automakers know Americans given the choice between blowing a burning bobcat and and consumer protection would be covered in scratches and shit.

imagine thinking that

Many owners don't scrap replaced routers but sell them instead for next to nothing. Many of those are supported by OpenWrt, FreshTomato, OPNsense etc. Even if you replace an EOL router you can flash your previous hardware as a ready spare or do other useful tasks with it

For example I was satisfied by my old Netgear R6700v3 but bought a new GL-MT6000 out of curiosity, then flashed the Netgear with FreshTomato have a ready spare on the wall next to it. The only hassle was the buggy stock Netgear firmware demanded multiple login attempts which FreshTomato solved nicely.

You can go DIY with a wide variety of hardware including formerly expensive EOL network appliances, industrial PCs, used or new tiny form factor desktops and thin clients.

Rolling your own router/appliance has been easy since the single-floppy Linux router era at the turn of the century. Those enabled tasks like sharing my dialup connection using an old P75 with a Linux-compatible "hardware" modem before "Winmodems" were supported.

“Which is all to say that another piece of flagrant nonsense has ascended to the highest levels of U.S. politics and media. To call it a conspiracy theory would be far too kind, because no comprehensive theory has been floated to explain the pattern of events. But then, even the phrase pattern of events is imprecise, because there is no pattern here at all. Given all the people who could have been roped into this narrative but weren’t, any hope of finding meaning falls away. Barring any dramatic new disclosures, the mystery of the missing scientists has the dubious honor of being a sham in every way at once.”

Excerpt From
“The ‘Missing-Scientist’ Story Is Unbelievably Dumb”
Daniel Engber
The Atlantic
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Fortunately, and overwhelmingly provably, the physical and legal world doesn't work in the way you wish it did.

Protip: as soon as you're talking about "never" or "always" or "happened before" or "still happens" .. basically anything in terms of any absolutes, you're not operating in the real world.

People survived car crashes before seatbelts were mandated. People still die in car crashes even when using seatbelts. You'd be a moron to argue seatbelts are useless or car manufactures should not be legally required to put them in cars.

The things that influence law and society is the actual data (how it changes over time) and nuance, and that's what the law deals in. Things you seem quite resistant to engage in.

Multiple people can share responsibility, as their actions combine together. A person who drives somebody to a bank for the known purpose of robbing the bank is determined to share *some* responsibility for the robbery of the bank. Just because they're not the person who took the money out of the bank vault does not mean the law does not consider them partly responsible.

I know I know, life is so much easier if you just try and make everything stupidly simple.