It takes one hell of a toll to try to do verbal exams 1:1 on students to evaluate them. In person exams in a monitored room are not so easy either... not that we have a huge problem now with undetectable ear plugs or smart glasses or anal beads or remote controls... but that tech progresses and demand will increase with more in person testing. A radio shielded test room would work well until local run AI fits in your underwear. Then you have an increasing number of IEPs so you can't even do a quiz without extra BS because more and more haven't adapted to testing.

Sure, I do not do well with testing but I managed to adapt and survive; it's not fair that I couldn't thrive in that environment but that is life. We're raising generations of artificially disabled adults because incompetent parents are over compensating by making demands on everybody but themselves.

Also keep in mind, evaluations take away TIME from learning. Sure it could be part of learning but it is not.

Frankly, I allow the cheating unofficially. If the society can't produce a minimum level of honesty (and it is made abundantly clear what is dishonest,) a corrupt population is going to be represented by a corrupt leadership and the incompetence comes with all that. The USA's decline has been preceded by increased corruption of the public and those of us in education must have been noticing a trend. I know I have for decades. The score is all that matters; understanding does not - for the majority - much more so for the parents (who only care about the child getting a job in the distant future. "Fake it until you make it" seems like mantra to Gen X parents.)

The attitude of firing officials who publish bad results; demanding the messengers deliver good results, is not far from the parents/students blaming the educator for poor results. As Mencken said:
"As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron."

we have old billionaires and politicians in charge of everything today. They don't care about profits above extending their lives; far too selfish! They will pursue anything that grabs their attention.

There is a big effort to discourage, limit, or ban birth control. Usually religion based because that is how they boost their numbers; not conversion. They are not so confident they can honestly grow their numbers so they resort to conditioning and indoctrination. I like to point out to people: if they are really able to think for themselves, then why are they in their parents religion?

Luckily, our fascist government will work hard for "the corporations" (mega rich who own/run them, who still fear death) to discover why there is something to young blood and make some kind of drug... they've probably not found it already because they are fixated on the blood of youths (maybe some Epstein like appeal?) when it's actually something else creating the benefits which only slightly shows up from young blood transfusionsâ¦

Stupid men will automate the wrong things then put decision making in at some point. Doesn't matter if the AI recommends to push the button and an idiot listens to it or if it directly pushes the button because you wired it up directly. It's the same level of stupid.

FYI: we already have automatic end of the world programmed into the system by policy long before computers. The president likely dies in every scenario too; but while attempting to rush to safety there is only MINUTES to decide the response before policy kicks in and only minutes to recall the nukes before they are permanently locked from recall signals. Furthermore, say you nuke North Korea or Iran, you have to make sure those rockets never even get close to Russia because their policy responds to threats and not you promising your rocket won't turn towards them at the last minute so they will fire theirs just in case and they have minutes to decide to cancel too. Plus then you have the issue of launching just some so an abort doesn't leave them with nothing left... if do it badly, they will have no window and no option but to lock in and then they may as well do it all. plans likely already worked out and automated with just a few military staff ultimately deciding. It's worse than the movie "War Games" which people should see... you certainly do not put the machine on the button! 1 bug etc...

AI kill switches are like encryption back doors. It's always "for law enforcement" etc but not really; with evil politicians it will be abused; you don't need to imagine this either - it's going on right now for the world to see...

You shouldn't put too much under the control of 1 person. One doesn't need an AI to have somebody go too far with what they have power over. We all can have a mistake in a script `rm -rd` the wrong directory...don't run as root for a reason.

You are not going to change hearts and minds with that kind of talk. Only if you and their peers surround them and do an intervention would this attitude work. Like a dog, you have to begin with a positive tone like "good dog" while saying hard truths mixed in with complements... since they are not much smarter than a dog; possibly more anti-social. Sad thing is you end up having to be their understanding therapist to get them out of their cult - reason and/or negative emotions only have a chance from a "safe space" or an extremely forceful one (bordering on illegal) both with tons of repetition. Since they are functionally brainwashed the only counter is similar stuff the other way. Just get them triggered out of their safe space and they get more entrenched each time unless you can knock them off balance long enough and only make lasting progress if they are prevented from recovering.

We are at the point where we probably just need everybody to stop wimping out and beat all these people down to the point they have to go back into hiding like they had to with being racists until Trump made that almost acceptable again. Forcing them into hiding didn't solve the problem but they did shrink while underground - and they weren't in much power which is most important.

Doesn't matter if DNA matched Trump to a child born to a 14 year old girl. As a powerful Republican, he is immune from it getting reported credibly; let alone consequences. That is if he doesn't stall the whole DNA thing in court for 3 years like he did with his actual Rape case where he refused a DNA test and ultimately they gave up but still got him convicted of lying about the assault (which means he did it but they didn't want to go 100% on the rape itself.)

Reasonably, he was guilty because nobody would resist DNA that hard unless they were paranoid about it getting leaked out and connecting him to other legal problems. I have wished somebody got samples off him or his kids and made some connections already; outside what can be done in court but then we'd at least have proof and a list of people...who'd likely be unsafe for life... I'd like to know why he is so afraid of DNA tests.

Worse the Idiocracy. The retards of that movie were HONEST and looking for real solutions. People now are corrupt and dishonest even if they are smarter. You show them water is what plants crave with video proof and they will scream, "fake news!" and kill you with a giant dildo because the narrative of their tribe matters more than starvation. I'm not exaggerating either, we literally had people in the hospital dying saying their COVID was a hoax!

I argue WW3 happened already. To save time, I don't bother often.
The cold war was a global war with many proxy wars with a death toll of just the hot wars higher than WW1. If you count the cold policy games and exploitation of the war I'd expect the death toll estimates to get near WW2; although, this is not a fair comparison because if you expand WW2 in similar ways it's numbers get much higher.

WW2 didn't get fought like WW1, technology shift. WW3 had nuclear technology and so they fought unlike other wars; also they shifted to an empire of political influence by any means short of nuclear. So today we have it being restarted in an idiotic way by old men; one using subversive spying and conventional war and the other by idiotic hubris: economic and militarily... oddly with both working together to compete for territory to restore past empire. With a successful conclusion leading to confrontation again - hopefully just another cold war; not that it is likely either will succeed before they die.

You must be Gen X. No, the 90s were in decline! You just didn't know better. This is when middle aged boomers were being laid off and having trouble finding better jobs; when we got some weak laws on age discrimination (only 40+ year olds...boomers.) Not that it did much, because corporate take over already happened in the 80s which also is when just about every middle class family had BOTH parents working to maintain what people in the 50s-70s had. Like smoking, women working was sold as freedom and they fell for it again (cigarettes began as freedom stix then because they were for girls and more profitable; cowboys had to sucker men into using a woman's product. I'm frankly surprised male makeup hasn't taken off already.)

This is why we must have AI and robot guards! Seriously, these guys are big on a techno-apocalypse and many others are into prepping and keeping their wealthy lifestyle at the same time. There was a whole book on it - they hired experts to help plan which ruined their ideas simply because of the problem of servants turning on them. This is their end game; a solution appears to be around the corner now.

You nailed it! but the problem again is selfish human psychology... They don't like the truth and would prefer to make reality just another narrative they can dismiss so pointing things out doesn't work either, especially in an engineered society of "adult" children.

Some of the majority is aware and WANT the system to regulate them because they can't always control their own impulses and in the moment being pissed big government is limiting them they realize a while later it was a good thing. They'd not go so far as to vote to lift the restrictions they sometimes dislike; the problem is the majority can't even grasp this.

EVs are a TINY part of the larger problem (such as heating/cooling which has just as much resistance but produces so much more harm. or beef...or McMansions...leading into a housing crisis everybody contributed into creating.) We can't be experts on everything but we do HAVE experts for everything and we should have been listening to them and making RESTRICTIONS on the ignorant, which is all of us... because again, we can't be experts on everything.

We are all the fools in the classic sci-fi where we ignore the warnings and now the crisis is unfolding but unlike fiction, we won't have a meat-head hero kick ass with the help of some nerd's conveniently provided gadgets to blast away the problem (or a USB stick... it's so silly it may as well be a computer sword you jam into the computer to solve everything, after of course, you stab the villain with it... maybe save attention span and make it a robotic villain and get a 2 for 1? More time for the WWE action formula for the 40-50 year olds and their stunt doubles...)

SUVs are for cowards (or otherwise, "small" men.) But really, they are not legal already: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3F...

This is another stupid patent; but even if they were not bad actors, the fine needs to be big enough to be a real deterrent. Apple is HUGE. I'd not be surprised if they don't get it reduced in court in a few years and obviously everybody tries because it costs nothing to send a law firm after a few billion $$$ in savings at the reduction. or save all of it, if they bribe the right judge in Texas.

I figured out how Dontardo fucked up the magnets getting wet problem. Turns out, he is a moron with a short attention span:

We need to conquer Greenland for their magnets because China has us by the balls because they have a functional monopoly on rare earth magnets. Note: China is wise enough to realize a stupid man can only handle very little information so they focused on magnets. If he did solve the magnet problem, they'd pick another weak point. So he wants to take away their "trump" card (pun intentional) by going after Greenland. He's still fixated on how to deal with China's magnetic power over his "negotiation" tactic (I don't think few has more than a few tactics... 3D chess? he doesn't have enough moves to play checkers.)

The magnet monopoly is not due to minerals, it's the PROCESSING that China has a monopoly on so clearly somebody was trying to explain to him that part of the refining process is removing "water" from the minerals which makes it very expensive to process. He simplified this information in his tiny brain as magnets don't work when they get wet. Greenland has cheap energy to bring down the cost of processing and they are remote with few people so we can pollute the place into a hellscape. Problem solved... or so he thought. The military BS was just excuse because he knows his main powers are "defense" related and tied to "emergencies" that he gets the power to declare and he can scratch his SCROTUS if he gets an itch.