Comment Re:If Social is bad - outlaw it. Or regulate it. (Score 0) 108
"We need a Modern Home Economics class." Brilliant, actually just brilliant. But, first you have to teach alienated students ..... what's a HOME !
Comment Re:This US expert explains the situation ... (Score 0) 38
WOT! The Onion ... like the Guardian ... is not an objective news service. Both are propaganda outlets. Both pimp the DEI/Stalinist line and both deserve to be neekapped ... metaphorically ...
BTW// You wouldn't like it much for this to be the 2nd coldest year in recorded history. Colder than the micro-ice-age in the 19-th Century. You want NYC harbor frozen? Human pollution of various orders has saved us from that.
BTW// You wouldn't like it much for this to be the 2nd coldest year in recorded history. Colder than the micro-ice-age in the 19-th Century. You want NYC harbor frozen? Human pollution of various orders has saved us from that.
Comment Re:It Was Never About the Content (Score 1) 139
What's with ELITE ?! That Harvard prof who hates students might be one-of-three people in the world who deeply understand their subject Books ... any books or the average PhD know about 10% of the hard-stuff, though they are mathematical athletes. I believe Socrates 1st proved this ... and hemlock was his reward. So don't go around in public, saying I need this one transvestite/fascist/Rando-Marxist dark-faced white-livered Columbia drug runner to teach me what's next with quasi-deSitter spaces. You will end up chewing almond pits ...
Comment Re:Education is knowledge (Score 1) 139
You have the university experience very wrong. It IS about knowledge and is NOT about finding yourself. One serious intermediate STEM course will send you out the gate ( yes G-A-T-E ) a different person. Unless you are Einstein or Feynman your brain no longer functions as a natural man(woman) , but directs itself at the combinatorial North-star where irrelevant nuances are stratified. You hope for nothing; you just do the path integral. And after 4-years, you're fit to earn a living .....
Comment Re:Education isn't a buffet (Score 1) 139
Directly suppressing the greedy is more trouble than it's worth, and carries nasty unintended consequences. Structuring social/financial/personal rewards to maximize benefit to the "commons" is both safer and more practical. For example, tax credits , custom sewage treatment and worker training could be provided to a tool-and-die machine shop, while a river-boat casino gets NO H1-B employees and is subject to weekly fire & food service inspections by agents with a bad attitude.
Comment Re: breathtaking (Score 1) 80
Nice point. Presumptuous vocabulary is a dead give-away for chat-bots. Chomsky and Buckley might have used such phrasing, but nobody else.
Comment Re:it's too much innuendo (Score 0) 39
You make a valid point. Science ( physical behavior ) does NOT depend on trust; it depends on 'rejecting the null hypothesis'. "I will not die if I walk off this cliff." RESPONSE:: Catch you next-time-'round. No matter of "trust" is involved. The "good-will" of the paper-writer makes no difference. Lawyers and politicians of-course hate that they cannot apply affirmative-action/social-justice concepts to the chemical world. (Look at the scientific abortion that is "gender" ) . What is relevant is the dose-response curve for the pesticide in question. A judge could require confirming experimental results, but of-course that action reduces the judges perceived power.
Comment Re:Reduction (Score 1) 65
Bet classical Egypt had a ( Nile-based ) postal service ... Tigress/Euphrates cultures certainly did. In the USA New Deal government-jobs were a model of efficiency for their time. Sadly government services have NOT become more efficient/responsive/effective. Still, something to be said for easily communicating with another human W/O using electricity. Extra points for hand-writing with real ink on real parchment. Do I trust FedEX? Hahahaha...
Comment Re:Probably just posturing (Score 1) 61
Sorry Charlie ... of-course analog is "better". You cannot warm your hands while listening to CSNY or Blind-Faith on a solid state amplifier .... unlike the orange-tube glow of McIntosh amp & pre-amp whispering thru 12" Advent speakers. Very like some people cannot tell chicken-coupe raised from free-range .
Comment Re:This is what envy looks like (Score 1) 237
"...a society that allows people to get incredibly rich or incredibly powerful is pretty much broken." Are you insane or just Marxist green with envy ? Every successful culture in human history has rewarded the extremely productive individual with extreme wealth. Inherited wealth is a "friction", but not intolerable. Individual financial reward is as true for the post-mod GPU-designer as it was for 18-th Century French loom-builders and iron-age Hittite silk-road merchants. Parasitic DEI "party" states like Stalins Russia and Maos China quickly collapsed -- Russia into a mafia/cartel hell-hole and China into a facsimile of 19-th Century England. So why didn't USA elect Ross Perot as president? Beat sh*t out'a me. My ex-gal-pal said his ears were too big.
Comment Re:Stop coddling these children (Score 1) 237
My problems are ALWAYS your problems ! We are referencing a very entitled generation. The rich are entitled to grift, the poor are entitled to steal, the feb entitled to teach and the down-trodden entitled to invade. It's a perverse multiplexing of Leon Trotsky, Ann Rand & John Watson.
Comment Re:Old News? (Score 1) 145
Just checked the Ukraine wind-map. Winds generally toward the north-west. Thus Russian damage to the Chernobyl cladding threatens Western Europe with radiation fallout. Teach those Euros to support the Ukraine against Russian aggression. Mebby the French need to scatter 5-tons of their dirty reactor-waste over Moscow and see how Ivan fares. Oh wait ... better start with one of Russias Black Sea resorts filled with "party" members and mafia. No reason to casually mess-up some of the best museums in the world.
Comment Re:Hello non-ram upgrades (Score 1) 45
Didn't know the limitation; U-24.04/Librewolf seem to give me many choices. But, I am happy being able to see anything{ zoomzoomzoom...) , let alone worry about type-face.
Comment Re:AI continues to make things worse and worse (Score 1) 45
Super-intelligent AI also finds human servants desirable ... and the multi-billionaires (currently ) fill that slot. Billionaires understand the concept of "top warlord" even if limp-wristed modern peons do not. If that top warlord is an *AI complex so-be-it.
And there's the odd/unlikely case that W/O human awareness reality ceases to exist ... several serious physicists have speculated along those lines. In this strange ( but, possible ) case, my guess is that a hyper-intelligent machine would try continuing to exist and keep a supply of human servants.
And there's the odd/unlikely case that W/O human awareness reality ceases to exist
Comment Re:AI continues to make things worse and worse (Score 1) 45
Partner you are speculating maximum dystopia. Yet it's true. Human population does NOT have to be billions, but could be 50-75 million and still produce servants for an AI-master race. Sound incredible, but sadly you are more likely to be correct. Even sadder, like most who care, I'm past the age to die stopping it with the melted barrel of my Mauser-98 gracing my cold dead paw.
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