When you’re transitioning between pre-teen and teenager, and the hormones are hitting hard, kids often have a hard time processing unrequited affection

Certain irony in that, given Matthew Sorum’s involvement successfully lobbying Beijing for animal rights reforms.

I studied things without technology. I take notes on pen and paper

It’s weird that we don’t consider the mass production of cheap paper and quality pens/pencils a technology.

analog classrooms work better than this chromebook hellhole

I’m not going to become an Evangelical for Ctrl+F because I don’t think it’s worth the fight.

But I will say an analog classroom with 8 students taught by a professional teacher five days a week is vastly superior to an analog classroom with 40 students taught by a TA three days a week.

Do with that what you will.

Teachers are a cost-center

Technology is a profit-center

What are you, some kind of socialist? Your system will never work. We’ll all run out of money!

• Correlation

• Causation

Hey, Computer, what’s been happening to

• Average Class size
• Average teacher years of experience
• Average annual hours in school

Had it been?

• Up
• Down
• Down

But sure, also, they’ve replaced a stack of 5 lb textbooks nobody reads with a tablet computer nobody uses.

The final frontier

Isn’t it incredible that “AI” is sold as a product that is ‘PhD level smart’ (lol), but if it doesn’t do the straightforward thing you asked of it then it’s your fault.

Have you ever tried to get a PhD to do anything?

Not wrong

I personally wish Crockett and Talarico weren’t running against each other, so that they could focus on Cornyn/Paxton/Hunt instead

The GOP is having its own night of the long knives. I wouldn’t lose too much sleep.

But yes, the local repubs are calling it an existential threat to Christ-fearin’ ‘muricans, and how if they get in power there will be Sharia law and cats and dogs living together, etc

It’s a powerful message. Just ask NYC Mayor Andrew Cuomo

https://bsky.app/profile/papootx.bsky.social/post/3mfb7gojue222

Reality has a well known liberal bias. And as the saying goes, a leftist is just a liberal who has been mugged by the police.

There’s a website tool hosted on neocities that’s attempting to become a geocities revival.

The video is functionally an ad for the community and the associated Web building tools.

Another walled garden, right in line with Web 2.0, but with a 90s pastiche done up in HTML5. Reminds me a bit of the Vaporwave style that flared up in the mid-10s. Cute, but not groundbreaking.

Certainly ironic, given the context.

But how else are you going to reach the normies?

Crazy how a free market capitalist model for electricity isn’t targeting these enormous inflexible energy consumers for exorbitant rates.

Have we forgotten how to turn a profit in this country? Gouge! Gouge! Gouge! They’ve got a few billion worth of hardware in the ground and money to burn. You’ve got nothing to lose.

Conservative Media: “Trump is arresting all the criminals. Here are some of the (AI generated) criminals Trump has recently arrested. Aren’t you glad these people are no longer in the United States?”

Conservative Voters: “Wow, great job, I love this news”

Actual ICE official: incoherent screaming at your husband

Subset of Conservative Voters Experiencing This Personally: “This is not what the TV told me would happen”

Now I guess we get to find out if the subset is big enough to shift the elections, despite CBS getting added to the pile of reactionary propaganda.

Transgender individuals are at higher risk for suicide relative to nontransgender people

With the steadily intensifying pogrom against the LGBTQ community, particularly in academic settings, this cohort is deliberately being pushed to the brink by state officials intent on cleansing them from the population at large.

You all need to fight for universal health care

We’ve been fighting for over a century. It’s a horrifying monster that’s only grown bigger and stronger over time.

Closest anyone has come to slaying the beast is Luigi Mangione and look what happened to him.

Very fortunate

NICUs are capital and professional labor intensive. I got to meet the team of doctors and nurses who kept my son alive and thriving for the three months between birth and due date. Idk what the magic number to care for him should have been, but I don’t think six figures is an unfair estimate in any socio-economic system.

The question after that is “Who paid for it?” And, in my case, it was Medicaid, which was a huge relief. These poor bastards clearly didn’t have the option.

My son was born at 24 weeks. Modern NICUs are an absolute marvel. They took this tiny little guy at the cusp of viability to a healthy, happy, normal baby boy over the next three months.

The pricetag for this treatment was half a million dollars. But, fortunately, we were eligible for Medicaid. A sum that would have bankrupted us was neatly covered by the state.

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