Educational standards have been declining for a long time. It hasn't just recently gotten bad because of Corona. Both math and English instruction have declined to the point that people like you are making excuses for remedial instruction in college.

The sabotage is intentional even if those doing it don't think they are engaging in sabotage. This is painfully obvious if you interact with the K12 education system.

Parents these days have to more to repair the damage done by professionals.

The kinds of foods that trash your LDL predate the FDA and the United States.

Sometimes experimentation is the only thing standing between you and certain death. None of us would be surviving cancer if not for patients being experimented on.

Beyond terminal illnesses, the regulatory burdens should be very high and not lowered because something shiny and new comes along.

Large houses in hot climates don't have enough roof space to accommodate the number of panels you would need to displace grid power. Using obsolete panels that generated less power when they were new is only going to make the problem worse.

Leaning into unreliable power sources when demand is increasing is just going to make any supply issues worse.

Someone posted what they pay for electricity in California and what their buy back rate is and their rates are insane.

FWIW, they did say the push notification promoting a Nazi was an error that got debugged. https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Farstechnica.com%2Ftech-p...

There is a school of thought which holds that past a certain scale, effective moderation becomes impossible. I've done moderation work and it took tons of judgement.

I know what that would do to my morale.

The story "Q. U. R." had an inventor simplify robots which were going insane from having humanoid features they had no use for. 1943.

If you don't understand the math behind unsecured debt, you shouldn't call yourself a nerd.

The key bit of financial ignorance here is not understanding that credit cards are unsecured loans.

Other forms of credit have lower interest rates because the risk of default is mitigated by the ability to seize and sell an asset used to guarantee.

Being unable to pay your bills on time (or at all) increases how much you pay for all forms of credit.

Been there and done that. The spouse was once saddled with an EV as a rental because all the regular cars were already taken.

The experience was so horrible that there is zero chance of us ever getting an EV.

You can probably find the space to hang a 85" TV even if you have an apartment the size of a shoe box.

DEI is just Jim Crow turned around so that the perpetrator switches place with the victim.