Remember during Obama, when solar was super important and China was churning out the world's cheapest solar panels, which we needed desperately as fast as China could make them? Not just for us, but to benefit the whole world. Obama put a tariff on them. Why? Because he put American interests first.

Why aren't you cheering? These racist lying hillbilly transphobic sacks is shit voted for this. They're so stupid they all piled onto the Trump Train like so many chimpanzees piling onto the fruit cart. It's the best kind of justice: poetic justice. Remember that Professor Gaad Saad told us that the greatest antisemitic threat to the Jewish race in AmeriKKKa isn't anyone at Harvard, it's Roscoe from Arkansas. Outstanding to see these xenophobic immigrant hating white supremacists get served. "Dey took our jerbs! ' lololol

It's cheaper.

They don't need to secure the paper test materials anymore to prevent someone from leaking a copy of the test and invalidating a whole season's worth of test results.

No more scan-trons to process for scoring, so they don't need purchase, scan, and then dispose of the answer sheets.

They can enable things like adaptive tests, which theoretically results in a more representative scoring (assuming you didn't flub your first couple of questions badly). This also has the side benefit of making the questions being used per participant possibly different, which makes organized cheating more difficult (it is harder to send a group of ringers in to take the test and then regurgitate the questions and answer choices after the test to reconstruct the entire test). It also means they can probably keep using the same question pools for longer.

Basically, the College Board can make more money per session while running more students through testing sessions... which means more money.

They're not the only ones.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.pbs.org%2Fwgbh%2Fpages...

There are also smaller testers that exist, like PSI:

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.psiexams.com%2F

Basically, it all boils down to money.

When I was applying to college I took both the SAT and the ACT (just in case). Although I didn't take any IB courses, I knew people who did. I just took AP classes... up until I figured out that I could take the test without wasting my time taking the actual class. Another thing I didn't figure out until much later was I could have taken more community college classes (either concurrently during the school year, or in the summer) and used that to get more transferable college credit when I went to a 4 year school.

From what I can tell, although the ACT now has a digital option, they still offer paper tests:

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.act.org%2Fcontent%2Fac...

Competition is good. If the College Board keeps dropping the ball, there are alternatives.

From what I can tell, the jury is still out on possible causes for the outage. However, for people pointing out the issues involved in decreasing inertial stability, it is possible to convert older gas and coal fired plant generators into synchronous condensers to maintain inertial stability.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fspectrum.ieee.org%2Fzomb...

"Repurposing old power-plant generators is part of a larger comeback story for a technology that seemed doomed with the advent of solid-state controllers in the 1970s. Thyristor-based static VAR compensators (SVCs) quickly conquered the market for dynamic voltage support because they produced VARs more cheaply and efficiently than synchronous condensers.

Their predecessors started making a comeback a decade ago, however, thanks to faster control systems and a growing recognition that spinning machines offered some crucial advantages over electronics. Those pros stem from a spinning rotorâ(TM)s mechanical and electromagnetic inertia, which make the machines more tolerant of grid disturbances.

Severe voltage drops, for example, hobble SVCs, whose reactive power output drops at double the rate of line voltage. In contrast, a synchronous condenserâ(TM)s spinning rotor keeps on pumping out reactive power. It will also generate real power if needed, moderating the drop in AC frequency that would result, say, from shutting down a power plant."

"Speed was a critical factor in the California Independent System Operatorâ(TM)s decision to order a condenser conversion, though in a gas-fired plant instead of a coal plant, following the shuttering in 2012 of the San Onofre nuclear power plant. Without the 2,200-MW plant, located between Los Angeles and San Diego, voltage control weakened all across Southern California. âoeThe potential for rolling blackouts in the L.A. basin was seen as a very high risk,â says Chris Davidson, an electrical solutions business-Âdevelopment director for Siemens, which did the conversion."

You don't believe in the Constitution, liar. No black people wrote it, so it has been null and void since the day it was written by dead white European males. That's what you told us. But now you're waving it around like a Russian diplomat waving around his passport at the scene of a fatal DWI.

This is exactly what we voted for: a President who stands up for AmeriKKKan(your spelling) interests and grabs powerful multinational corporations by the throat and shakes them until these anti patriotic psychopaths take actions that favor US, the American people. Remember when you used to shit on us getting ripped off on insulin and other prescription drugs and ridicule us for not doing something about it? WE DID! prices are coming down and your couldn't be more outraged. You're not fooling anyone with this performance.

So, we got a big success! Hooray! Nope. This happens every single time. They scream and shout that we need to change( they'll be keeping their private jets, naturally.) And after their knee is on our necks, All they ever do is move the goalposts and pretend there is a new crisis. They keep us in a permanent state of worry and alarm which is harmful to our health. This isn't an accident. it's evil incarnate.

Speaking of magnet schools:

If you have the right set of high school students and the will, then you can least train them to be EMTs:

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fjfkhs.lausd.org%2Fapps%2Fp...

"The Kennedy Gifted Medical Magnet offers a Patient Care/Emergency Medical Technician career pathway that prepares students for emergency medical services (EMS) occupations.

The pathway consists of two courses, Health Science and Emergency Medicine and Emergency Medical Technician, that emphasize both technical skills (ex. first aid and CPR for children, airway management, bleeding control techniques) and vocational skills (ex. situational awareness, medical terminology, legal and ethical issues).

Graduates who successfully complete this pathway will meet the training requirements for Emergency Medical Technician-1 (EMT-1), and they can pursue certification once they turn 18."

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbanninghs.lausd.org%2Fap...

"The Firefighter/EMS Magnet develops students and prepares them academically for college and careers as first responders. This program is the place to get prepared for applying to and completing the Los Angeles Fire Departmentâ(TM)s program. All students take A-G required courses and experience rigorous physical training taught by the Los Angeles Fire Department. They receive in-class support from LAFD and go on field trips to observe various Firefighter career pathways. They receive 15+ college units including Fire Technology classes from LA Harbor College and Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) Exam preparation."

"Fascist" is a hard left tell. How do people who don't know what a woman is convince themselves that they know the truth and are right to rule us?

You can't buy graphic elements for the X Window system, so I'm confused what you're talking about.

Dude! Fucking racist as fuck! Since when did Donald Trump join Slashdot? And nodded up too! Watch the alt-right mod me to oblivion for calling them out.

After all this, and STILL you cannot find a single word of respect nor gratitude. Only a shrill string of abuse. Only abuse. It's no wonder why we're getting a divorce from you and NATO. This is an abusive relationship. Oh, and the military alliance worked. We won. We beat the Soviet Union 30 years ago. We don't want to "project power across the region." This is AmeriKKKan bullying. Which Europeans have long demanded an end to. They cheered when their boy Zelensky finally insulted us and told us off to our faces. The free money train is over. It's never coming back. Get used to the new world you demanded. You're getting what you want, good and hard. I hope you choke on it.

Retraction Watch is an excellent site to follow, put it in your RSS feed - yes, RSS still exists. They natively support sharing by Bluesky.

A recent article: Elsevier has removed a journal from its Scopus database after Retraction Watch inquired about its review process for the journal, whose editorial board lists fake names and digital fingerprint shows other red flags.

Another:
Clarivate will no longer include citations to and from retracted papers when calculating journal impact factors, the company announced today. The change comes after some have wondered over the years whether citations to retracted papers should count toward a journal's impact factor, a controversial yet closely watched metric that measures how often others cite papers from that journal. For many institutions, impact factors have become a proxy for the importance of their faculty's research.

It's a fantastic website that needs more shares, and views, and support from the scientific community.

You'll take our free money for NATO though.

Without so much as a single word of gratitude or respect.

But when we start to question your commitment to NATO and opposing Russia, here it comes. America isn't doing enough. Again.

So, so quickly you people turn your coats and become bootlickers. "OBEY!" Just like the art of Shepard Fairey told you to. After constantly accusing others of the same. Well, at least we know why that is now: psychological projection. Accusing The Other of what The Self is guilty of is a time-proven method of self-treatment of mental illness such as cognitive dissonance.

I'd see a professional, though. Projection is no cure, it just treats symptoms.

Why aren't you on the side that's defying the government? Ask yourself that. Then consider who the fascist is here.