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IMO, some people think that being educated means achieving mountains of rote memorization, and little else. Some of those people also become teachers.

This may also be why there's a big row every time someone changes what algorithms are taught in basic maths (in the US, anyway).

I think it's more like, if you knew your initials were a dog-whistle, you would probably keep that on the d/l or change your name. Instead, putting it on display is like saying that fact is not a deal-breaker for you or your business.

They’re selling billionaires a bridge to nowhere; and it’s working.

Look, I'm not saying it's a good thing. In fact, it would be an insanely wasteful use of resources, labor, energy, etc.

That said, folks are all about "eat the rich" and this may very well be the closest thing to that.

PhD level intelligence

Which PhD's, exactly?

Yes, that matters quite a lot, actually.

Fack.

I want off Mr. Bones' Wild Ride already.

Parents of children affected by the ban shared a spectrum of views on the policy. One parent told the Guardian their 15-year-old daughter was “very distressed” because “all her 14 to 15-year-old friends have been age verified as 18 by Snapchat”. Since she had been identified as under 16, they feared “her friends will keep using Snapchat to talk and organise social events and she will be left out”.

Okay, that's really bad. On the one hand, this is like "they don't even card me at the bar", which is opening up a whole can of worms. Either they're passing for older, or they're faking it. As for the kids left behind, it's also "you look too much like a kid to hang" or they simply get left out for not breaking the rules. All this kind of shit used to happen before, only now it's technologically accelerated.

And here I was naively thinking this was going to make everyone stampede back to SMS instead.

Oh, fuck that.

However long that took to get shut down, it wasn't fast enough.

Thanks for the explanation.

I'm almost certain Musk has 120mil in loose change, hiding in his couch.

Okay, I'll ask since I can't be the only one: the fuck is a jubilee?

While true, there's a little more nuance to it than this.

Unchecked capitalism has one key tennant: exploit everything.

This doesn't stop with equating work to worth. It's more like "create an environment where people have no recourse but to surrender their time." Compensation is merely a necessity brought on by so many potential employers competing in the labor market this creates. Beyond that, your every other resource and basic need is also under target for exploitation; both the need of a thing and for merely having it.

NGL, I was hesitating on building a MAME cabinet, but having one with the art and build of a legendary fake game? Sounds perfect.