>"If your argument is not able to stand by its own, without your name, your reputation or people checking your post history, it is no good argument."

One can have a reasonable argument, but also be completely unreasonable, socially. I agree that AC postings *can* have value. Yours is a perfect example. You are clear, respectful, and add to the conversation. The problem is that it often is just a bunch of nastiness or trolling. And because so many abuse it, people will filter it all out, or make negative assumptions about the poster's information or intent.

I am probably an outlier. Whether I post somewhere will full ID, with a pseudonym, or completely anonymously, I always write exactly the same way. With the same tone, respect, and diligence. I don't resort to personal attacks or inflammatory tone, I try to put myself in other's shoes and see multiple perspectives, and try to assume the poster I am responding to is acting in food faith (unless he or she proves otherwise in that posting). It seems this is far from "normal", though, which is a shame.

The questionable definition of “disabled” today, reflects considerable coddling that likely isn’t justified for many given the hockey-stick shaped statistical chart tracking that. That is already a handicap for them in adulthood. Perhaps we not coddle them further and assume “slow and easy” is a speed their boss won’t use to replace them. Quickly.

Reality comes fast and hard the minute you step off that graduation stage. Are we helping or hurting with more college tolerance? What should have been left behind in high school? Anything at all? America moves at the speed of greed.

Timed tests have been around for a very long time. If they were that crippling, why would it have not have shown itself in society, long ago? And in the test results?

"Privileged"! "Rich"!

The number of people who are powered by sheer envy is just depressing. Envy isn't a good thing, folks.

>"If you don't want to put your name to what you say then you're not worth giving a shit about. The AC thing has run it's course. There's no point in having it anymore. All it does is allow fuckwits to unleash their most fuckwitttest version of themselves."

I don't even think it needs to be your "name". (Note, you don't use your name.... I actually do, but that was my choice). At least requiring a login so there is some "handle" to show previous activity and positions is useful. And there is still a reputation to protect, even if it is not a person's actual name/identity. So I agree with you on the "AC" stuff on Slashdot. It is abused as a way to just attack positions or people without any reference.

I say this but am FIERCELY against platforms requiring verified "ID" in order to post. Even if they allow a public-facing alias. For me, that is a bright red line. And we are already crossing that line very quickly in this backwards methodology of "saving the children" when the real problem are having access to unrestricted devices, not the platforms, themselves.

If the kids are looking for the real surprise, it’s at the bottom of the box.

When “disabled” college students graduate and find out what “word” got added to the default rejection filter at LinkedIn.

Then they’ll find out the value of honesty and integrity.

Not competing? Citizens campaigning to run entire countries had to compete against what society turned a blind eye to. And lost.

America ended up with a DEI administration comprised of a man suffering from dementia (an actual disability) that was normalized and dismissed while labeling critics liars, and a wholly incompetent VP suffering from sobriety and word salad mouth that was normalized with random cackles, while labeling critics sexist.

Yeah. I’d say Average Joe is gonna be competing in the United States of Coddled.

Downmod the truth all you want. Doesn’t change it.

Undoubtably an incredible amount of, we’ll call it “consideration and accommodation” to be kind, has been going on all throughout early and latter educational years to allow this problem to grow to stress resources at the university level.

It would appear a LOT more now have some sort of qualifying disability to enable a benefit on timed tests and education in general. A disabled statistical increase not unlike the LGBTQ+ hockey stick chart that suggests all of Gen Beta will be gay, bi, or trans. Somehow.

If we suspect the new campus arrivals are perhaps not exactly disabled and are gaming the system, gently remind that grown-ass adult college freshman that in a Recession, the fastest way employers might filter out potential hires in the future without having to absorb this newfound university stress in their business, is to add one word to the rejection filter. I’m betting we’ll have a drastic reduction in the statistics. And those who are actually disabled can be properly recognized and provided for again.

Society already watered down “racist” to mean nothing, and make actual racism damn near invisible among the noise and bullshit. Do not punish “disabled” like that, because spoiled liars.

>professors "struggle to accommodate the many students with an official disability designation,"

Do they also get to bring their "emotional support animals" to the test?

>"At Brown and Harvard, more than 20 percent of undergraduates are registered as disabled. At Amherst, that figure is 34 percent."

Why does that not surprise me.

Never saw the movie; I'll have to see it!

I just remember having my mind blown by the novel :)

As opposed to what? A ‘funny’ language?

Is Ruby still an optimum language or valid choice, is the correct way to frame that question.

The fucking compiler is only worried about how ‘serious’ you are when you feed it a joke of a coding session after assuming those two bong hits would give your mind Redbull “wings” at 2AM.

Stop with the emotional association already. Coddling shit like this will get you sued by AI for ‘emotional distress’ when you ask the wrong question.

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>"But I would say that insurance should pay if the scan turns up anything requiring medical attention - early detection saves money."

I would say it is very unlikely any insurance will retroactively pay for a non-medically-indicated (non-physician-ordered and with justification) scan. Even if it picks up something that is a valid concern. However, they should cover further investigation/treatment of something discovered. Including further scans to clarify and follow-up scans.

It would be insane to not get a copy of any imaging. You can't rely on some health system storing your stuff for more than X years and it will get silently deleted. And if you need an old image for a baseline comparison, you will be out of luck. Plus, if you wait until later, you might forget to get it, or not remember where you had it taken, or the company might have gone belly-up or sold and systems changed.

>"I've always wondered if there might be a benefit to a full body scan along these lines not for its own sake, but for what it could tell me later in life when something actually is wrong. Does having a "before" image help to weed out things"

I came to point out this exact case. There is probably a good reason to have a body scan sometime in mid-life as a "baseline" so you have something to compare back to. I believe this will probably become routine at some point. Maybe at age 45 or something. But for now, a full-body MRI it is very slow and expensive. A CT scan would be much faster and cheaper, but not as good.

Of course, when comparing back, it might still not be ideal because the resolution might have been too low, or would have needed some special contrast, or different exposure, or needed to be a PET, or something else.

Uh, too easy?

I’m picturing the lowly employee forced to drive into an office to physically retrieve a dead-tree hours-old fax off ‘ol Faxy McFaxface, who was unfortunately struck and killed by a street sweeper upon exiting the ass end of an outdated office policy that had the balls to send an untimely death notice via email.

You know, email. That newfangled dial-up era tech that now alerts you immediately upon receiving. From the comfort of your own shitter. At 5AM. And not a street sweeper in sight.

Too easy my ass.