That’s not the result of ‘no child left behind.’

No child left behind is responsible for schools teaching the standardized tests instead of teaching the subject.

The ‘pass everyone no matter what’ is a more recent issue. I graduated in 08 and the only people who got passed no matter what were athletes.

My mom (a teacher) started complaining about having to pass failing students in the early to mid 2010s, and a lot of that was the administration not wanting to deal with angry parents.

It already is. DDR4 doubled in price.

Not so Fun Fact: only 18% of veterans get the full benefits they’re entitled to.

But your senses are electrical impulses, which would be digital.

The people who have an issue with Sony’s business practices are already not buying their products, like me for instance.

They’ve already decided that they don’t want you as a customer. It’s like telling your boss, “You can’t fire me; I quit.”

Regulatory policy to force a company to make a product?

Yup. My grade school bully left me alone after I saw red when he was hitting me with a tree limb and it took 3 other kids to drag me off him.

But when I elbowed him in the stomach in the cafeteria because he was choking me with my necklace from behind, I got in trouble for not getting a teacher. While I was being choked. In full view of the staff.

Zero tolerance policies are bullshit.

How can you? They’ve done the numbers and have decided they can exist without customers who have to have physical discs. Physical media only makes up 25% of sales to begin with.

When everything is broken they really don’t appreciate you producing the denied purchase request that explained that this exact scenario would happen without it.

Happened once to me when our bank of UPS batteries, of which every single one had failed, surprisingly didn’t keep our servers running.

Then C-suite ordered us to run the servers off of generator power, bypassing the UPS, and we got a bunch of magic smoke.

Luckily we documented everything.

A career in IT in a nutshell

That’s problematic

There’s a difference between “people still buy them” and “people still buy them enough to recoup the investment in producing them.”

Music studios have much larger budgets than indie game studios.

I don’t disagree. My music preference was shaped by my cousin marrying a Mormon and giving me several CD spindles of rock music he wasn’t allowed to listen to anymore.

Although that was more of an expansion of my repertoire because I was already into nu metal as a kid.

It’s the weather for me. White crew socks for pants, and black ankle socks for shorts.

The biggest issue is heat dissapation. A satellite that relays a signal requires orders of magnitude less compute power than an AI datacenter.

Huh? NM is well within the growing zone for tomatos. You can even grow them in 5gal hardware store buckets.

I was about to say. Everyone I’ve ever known who grew tomatoes always had significantly more than they could personally use.

My mom fills an upright freezer with salsa and tomato sauce from like 5 plants each year.

It can be a bad thing if you rely solely on it.

But it’s really not any different than finding new music on the radio.

That’s not how those numbers work. The form of nicotine used in disposables (nicotine salts) is not very bioavailable, and can’t be directly compared to the nicotine content of a cigarette.

It especially can’t be compared to the old vapes that maxed out at 18mg/ml, because they used freebase nicotine which is more bioavailable.

The coil used and the ratio of base ingredients also has a lot to do with it. A mesh coil with max VG can give the appearance of more vapor than a liquid with higher PG, even if the nic content is the same.

To our knowledge, there are no relevant study in humans on carcinogenic effects from pure nicotine including products, such as NRT and e-cigarettes

And

At present, it is not possible to draw a conclusion whether nicotine itself may act as a complete carcinogen