Teachers were never not Democrats. It's been a Democrat institution from the start, due to the close Marxist affinity and the predominance of women in the field.

So many logical fallacies in there, buddy.

If you want these things, then you will pay for a good public education.

This presumes that "good public education" is being funded with tax money. It is, conclusively, not. It has in fact been getting significantly worse - which is why people are opting out of it.

Do you want educated neighbors?

No formal education is, in most cases, better than bad formal education. I'd rather my neighbors not be stupid but think they know something, which is what the last 50 years has produced.

Who you can hire for your business? Who will have enough income to purchase your product? Who will be employed and can adapt their skills to a rapidly changing environment?

There's no evidence that education can elevate someone over their inborn genetic potential. You've either got the building blocks for intelligence or you don't. See also the last several centuries of 3rd world "enrichment" that's been carried out by one means or another - education, charity, etc. - of places like India and Africa. I'm sure you can look up average IQs if it's of interest.

Who will be employed and can adapt their skills to a rapidly changing environment?

I can hire a home schooled person, then? Because this criteria definitely doesn't fit your average public schooled individual.

Who will know how to make healthy choices for themselves and for their neighbors (you)?

Yes, the Food Pyramid, D.A.R.E., and "Sex Ed" had a fantastic impact on society's wellness trajectory - I'm sure we can all agree on that, right? (This is sarcasm.)

Who will carefully consider and thinking critically about public issues and use that knowledge when they vote?

OK, now I know you were being facetious. There's no way you're talking about state schooled kids here.

This is the wrong approach. Perhaps it'd have been accepted earlier, but they've shot themselves in the foot due to their inaction over the grooming pedophilia groups that were operating with impunity - and seemingly, protection! - on their platform. It was brought to their attention repeatedly, publicly, and they did all the wrong things and did not address the issue.

Fuck them.

The NVidia cloud isn't new. It's been around for 3-4 years now at this point and seems pretty mature. It also works far better than Stadia ever dreamed.

I was able to play through multiple games I'd purchased specifically for the purposes of playing them on Nvidia Now, because I didn't have a gaming computer but wanted to complete the titles (Cyberpunk 2077 and Mechwarrior 5). The 'free' tier was irritating with wait times, but was playable. The higher tiers were far better and other than a rare ISP-related stutter (at 80ms or so, no less), and it ran great.

This means it's definitely playable at the 30-40ms that a person would get on Starlink (which I later got, and tested, and it worked even better). $10/mo for a couple months seemed like a pretty fair price for something that enables gaming. It wasn't a great experience on hotel wireless, but that's barely ever usable for much more than email. Keep in mind, I'm not a 'gaming snob' focused on FPS or graphics so much as the gameplay and experience, so I'm sure there's some aspect there that I overlooked, but $30-50 for a winter of gaming beats $500+ for the computer to do so. I just used a Macbook Air.

And it doesn't work the way you think it does. It's basically like, from what I can tell, RDP specialized for gaming. You can play it from anything that can support basic framerates and uses remote rendering. The game dispatches and loads onto a 'thin' Windows client of some sort, and it integrates with GoG, Steam, and a number of other gaming services.

You can add how they've recently reclassified transgenerism (ne gender dysphoria) to the reasons why people have lost trust in the mainstream medical/psychological profession, as well.

Psychology has always been prone to un-scientific activities, but it's become increasingly bad with the wanton politicization of diagnostic standards, on top of the un-scientific approach employed in making most individual diagnosis.

Fantastic - exactly what I have always not wanted! Fingerprints on my screen!

WWW now stands for Woke White Women, apparently.

They've done this with every meaningful cultural and corporate heritage item in our world. It's disgusting.

You don't honor the heritage of a people by removing all symbolic representations of that culture from public life. The Spartans and Centurions were millennia ago but still have strong, important cultural imagery for today: the same is true of the Apache. The apache were known for being mobile and adaptable, which arguably is something very true of the Apache foundation.

Removing these imageries results in a symbolically empty, culturally irreverent pastiche. Who was it that said, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”?

This is no different than the wanton destruction of ancient sculptures and art by ignorant tribesmen because it offends their sensibilities.

Right, that has nothing at all to do with this exception.

shakycam was an abomination, a hallmark of a lack of artistic skill, in cinematographically filmmaking. I hate The Gladiator for introducing it, it's made a decade+ of films almost unwatchable for anything remotely artistic.

It's amazing how many of you are responding out of emotional vitriol without even understanding import tariffs work in this case. The article rage baited you all.

This isn't going to put prices through the roof on anything but temu and similar direct-ship sites. Even most amazon-associated warehousers will be unimpacted: they were already shipping in such volumes the 'free' shipping was almost meaningless. It was an exception for - mostly - small trinkets. Raising the amount to $800 didn't matter much - items that really cost $500 were just having a declared value of much less (likely closer to the foreign purchase price).

You'll still be able to buy cheap trinkets and electronics. Amazon has competitively extinguished all but about 20% of online commerce outside their site.

More importantly... this will also impact all the illicit pharma people have figured out they could buy from eg. India at a drastically lower price than is available domestically. That's the bigger problem, as there's no other viable alternative for many people.

Though wasn't there something else crazy going on about pharma prices being globally leveled under threat of Trump? I know there was some sort of insane cutback in... Medicaid? Or Medicare? Hard to keep track of it all.

/. used to have a Monty Python rabbit icon. Wonder why that wasn't used.

You mean they're not yellow?

That's the color teeth are supposed to be.

I'm not sure if this is true, but I saw a stat recently: no civilization - and we are a global civilization at this point - has ever recovered culturally once their population replacement rate has dropped beneath 1.8.

That's sobering, regardless. We've got many developed populations rapidly approaching low 1.x ratios, while continuing to import (predominantly, young, male, illiterate) immigrants from what could best be described as "the developing world".

That's not a situation that works out well for anyone, in the end.

This has happened many times over the decades. Osmosis (mostly!) results in the better changes trickling back into mainstream linux distributions.

My least/most favorite example of this is Stormix Linux.

It was based on Debian, back in 1999. It was geared towards a simplified desktop experience and introduced a lot of new things, at the time: graphical installer that detected hardware (and had a broad set of hardware support not found elsewhere); GUI apt manager; and a number of other really clean add ons that made the desktop more usable. It was head and shoulders above all other options at the time.

When Stormix the company failed, and the distro died, the resulting community/developer effort became the Progeny Debian distribution for a short while, and a Progeny package repository. I used that for years.

Arguably, if it wasn't for Stormix, Ubuntu wouldn't have become what it is today, as those efforts were later channeled into Ubuntu.

As with most things in life, it's 2 steps forward and one step back...