It’s both.

Pro tip for those that have the itch: You can buy edible cookie dough made from sterilized components

Sometimes till deficiencies come out of employee paycheck

Yikes

It’s shocking how cheap some of these reps are

Maybe don’t train dogs to rape prisoners? Just a suggestion

I hate the framing of “we’re not allowed to terrorize people”. You are allowed by statute to enforce the law basically everywhere in the USA - sanctuary cities just don’t volunteer to help you do it because their job is enforcing their laws and protecting their communities, and helping you assholes makes that harder

The bans are about control though, not birth rate. Scientists should check Smug Satisfaction levels in those states

Good to hear. I was disappointed that they were originally listed as playing

Put another way, there’s over a trillion in capex on the table. What trillion dollar value could it provide to just break even?

Eliminating tons of jobs. But liability laws are holding a lot of implementation back - which is a big reason AI companies are getting so politically involved

It shouldn’t be, but I bet being a billionaire and being able to do whatever you want leads to them thinking “hey, I can do this taboo thing”. Like the Most Dangerous Game stuff

You mean, my taxes are paying people in India for this shit

Max circuses, minimum bread

Seriously, it feels like people think Dems should be building an oubliette right now. The process of rooting out and punishing corruption/incompetence starts with investigations (if you don’t have absolute power) - so they’d better be damn ready to hit the ground running

Hell, I try not to even visit places where too many tourists visit

Extreme nationalism is generally bad for tourism and tourism is generally good for economies. Sad to see Japan slip this way, of course, but they’re not alone.

Man, I don’t know. A lot of the extra expenditure is probably going to special needs services and new educational tech/programs. Between the two, in more skeptical of the latter. Walk into any kindergarten around here and you’ll see big screen TVs in front and an iPad for each kid. I’m sure the bigger expense is licensing the “Alpha-friends” show or whatever and I’d love to see that go.

I also think COVID was hugely disruptive - not only to the kid’s learning but also to parent expectation that their kids try in school - Oregon has terrible parental support of kid attendance and learning. Parents need to blame their kids for failing more

As for solutions, I think we need to scrap No Child Left Behind. Leave kids behind in their last grade until they pass - I think MS did that, some say to inflate the scores. Loading teachers with students that don’t have a foundation makes it worse for everyone. Tying standardized test scores to funding also turns a metric into a target and worsens thing.

I don’t know man. It sucks and I’m just an idiot on the 'verse, but after seeing the ‘whole language’ approach fail so hard, I’m also skeptical of experts

Glad to hear it - charges seemed ridiculous based on the video I saw

I won’t be able to read it until later - anything surprising in there?

I don’t actually think it’ll go to anyone who needs it - probably mostly another trump family grift. The thought experiment goes that he doesn’t actually pay any stochastic terrorists, he just convinces a whole lot of them that they’ll be taken care of if they pop off and cause enough chaos for the election to be cancelled. Used that way, 1.8B can go much further than it would for an organized / funded militia

Ice doesn’t have enough people to meaningfully oppress the whole nation