Your argument is completely disingenuous. It actually weakens your argument, because if you had a good reason, you wouldn't be speaking obvious bullshit.

Every single person here knows that a car is generally used for normal, everyday stuff. Going to groceries, etc. If you see a car on a road, the chances are one in a million it's being currently used to commit a crime.

Likewise, every single person tech-literate enough to be on Slashdot knows this is used to store pirated media files, not your collections of homemade EDM or circa 1922 field recording.

Why BS? Why rely on an argument that everybody here knows isn't really true? Why not just call a spade a spade?

I have one chefs knife that is sharp like a razor. I have a stainless steel bowl I make a sanitation solution in (one or two cap fulls of bleach) and throw in a clean small towel or two. The super sharp knife makes sure onions and the like don't squirt unneeded juice, and I can wipe off the blade between food types.

Kosher was created because people didn't know what germs are, and just knew that if you ate certain foods you were more likely to get sick, but didn't know why. And they didn't know that the problem with wood handles on knives was that bits of stuff could get stuck between the steel and wood allowing contamination. So the rabbis just made up a rule and put it in the book that said, unless it is blessed by a rabbi, you can't eat that food or use that type of cooking tool. And then the rabbis would only bless food that was less likely to make you sick. Now we know about germs and raise animals in ways they won't be contaminated (e.g. trichinosis in pigs is almost unheard of now, and we know about things like 'red tide' and other stuff that contaminate shellfish and crustaceans). So Kosher doesn't mean shit anymore. Only people who think there is a god that watches what you eat believes that nonsense now.

Yeah, but Chromebooks are always 1:1 so students can do computers at home if they're sick/have homework/etc. Can't lock the network.

But then everything becomes test based. What about writing a long essay for english? A research paper for history class? A project for science class? A program for Computer Science?

Lockdown had negative effects on learning, but red states did not pull ahead of blue states (primarily because red states are poor and being rich matters more than schooling).

And it wasn't a two year blue state school lockdown. Schools closed in March 2020. Red States generally re-opened in September 2020 (next school year). Blue states re-opened in maybe March 2021 - second half of the next school year. I can't believe there was a single school district that didn't re-open until March 2022.

It's also difficult to say if it was specifically the school closures that hurt kids. Democrat kids are much more likely to live in cities or high-population suburbs, amongst a million other differences between red and blue states. Maybe the pandemic hits harder when you have to stay in your apartment complex vs. when you live outdoors more anyway.

The way teachers are dealing with this is by going entirely to in-class assignments done on paper and pencil. I'm Gen X and I didn't even turn in pen/paper big assignments, totally ridiculous. Nothing done at home or around a computer is to be trusted. And there is NOTHING to learn from teaching 3rd graders to be effective at using ChatGPT to do answers for them.

Giving the students the ability to cheat on their school computers seems backwards to me, but I guess when you can't trust anything that was possibly completed within range of a cell phone or computer, it doesn't really make any difference.

I'm also a big nerd. I believe in ChatGPT for certain uses. I've even tried to motivate my students to use it as a personal tutor. There is ZERO interest from students in doing this. Like, I specifically taught this in my class, and I believe 0 of my 150 students have gone on to use this on their own. I dunnow, maybe in the future it will change. B

Oculus sold 20 million Quest 2s. Obviously a lot are gathering dust, but the interest is there.

The technology is so fucking amazing. If you've used an Oculus, yes, you want one. You just want a better one. The technology just isn't there yet (for most people). Too heavy, graphics too primitive.

This product was marketed as a developer-only sort of deal, and the people buying it should have taken that marketing seriously.

This technology was pretty fucking impressive in 2002. I feel like in some alternate reality, people stop giving phone numbers and give each other skype addresses and that's what we 'd still all be doing. Way back in the day when I traveled a lot internationally for business, I had a phone line that forwarded to my skype account, and then I'd have my skype forward to my international phone # for like 2 cents a minute. Cool stuff.

Now that students are just giving AI generated answers, we might as well just give them ai generated lessons.

But what if how the world really works differs from the intention of the policy?

Foxconn renames two factories in Zhengzhou to "Vietnam" and "India". Chinese government confirms by assigning territorial sovereignty of the loading docks to the respective countries.

I've played with it a little and it's amazing. I submitted a photo when I was charging my car with no real words or signs. It clocked a Colorado license plate, a Wyoming plate, identified the charging station, then identified the red brick and blue awnings typical of a mid 2000s front range Walmart. It guessed I was one town over, but it's an honest mistake and I don't think I could have told the difference

Deepseek still hasn't learned to keep it to ASCII.

Because of the difference in the fault types, the biggest earthquake California can have, is the lowest range when the Washington/Oregon/British Columbia earthquake happens.