Every year teachers all over the US rehearse with their classes what they must do if someone decides to shoot up the school. The whole country has to bend around to accommodate the profits of arms dealers and “freedom feelings” a small number of people ascribe to having no effective tracking and licensing of deadly weapons. When checking, none of them are in “sight lines” of the windows or doors? I have never felt less free.
I'm showing fifth graders how to sew a book which we will fill with codes and encryption puzzles. They can all count in binary and came in very excited to learn since they heard about it from the older students last year.I get paid for this.
Normal people don't know who Charlie Kirk is. My mom, dad, husband, neighbor are very confused why it's such a big deal. Which is good to remember. He's never done anything notable. Didn't run for office, didn't break a big story, didn't write an important book. So, for a lot of people this is all very confusing.
@jhavok @futurebird Sounds like ablative paint. It's commonly used on the bottoms of boats and slowly, slowly washes away over time, taking marine growth with it.
Thinking about how the human staff of any organization is an extension of their presence in the world. Consider 100 employees, reasonably happy with their job. That's 100 people who will notice things that might hurt the company, organically promote it's reach, come up with new ideas for future projects. When some of the staff like their jobs less because you treat them poorly that shrinks. When you contract the work out? it shrinks more. When you replace them with AI it becomes a pinpoint.
One of the victims mentioned that one of the ways Maxwell would control them was by threatening to tell their parents what they were doing. And being a kid this child thought "I don't want to get in trouble" and kept the secret. That's what we are dealing with.
Writing up the report in my new job as head of labor statistics in the USA, then adding 1 to the job loss number just before I turn it in because I know how it's gonna go for me.
@futurebird It's all about regulation. Because companies solely care about money and nothing else, they need to be forced to do the right thing. Recently the CBC show Marketplace looked at how auto makers in the UK put in proper anti theft security features that aren't present in the same models in Canada, due to a lack of any standard to do so in Canada. https://www.cbc.ca/news/marketplace/marketplace-car-theft-1.7361827
The most frequent shoppers on Temu are over 59 years old. That wasn't what I expected. Based mostly on their marketing, which often seems to involve younger female influencers I would have thought they were selling to young people, but this isn't the case. The people they are making money from are old. Much like those "dial 1800 commercials" for civil war chess sets from decades ago.
Consider the alternate history where fungi never evolved the ability to digest lignin, the tough woody material found in many plants. The period of time where plants could produce lignin, but fungi couldn't break it down resulted in the massive coal deposits found in the earth. Some bacteria can break down lignin, but they require wet conditions to do this. This is what happens in the gut of termites. So, of course, we can imagine an alternate history where termites rule the earth.
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