Step 1: mandate large portions of school work be done on computers
Step 2: sell subscriptions to schools instead of textbooks
Step 3: remove internet access for poor children
Step 4: kick poor kids out of school for bad grades
Step 5: put the kids in jail for truancy
Step 6: free child slaves
If you’re a ghoul it’s a pretty straightforward and easy plan for free slaves
Your mom has been posting a lot more on Instagram recently
Imagine being the woman who drags herself in there, still mostly asleep, orders her coffee, gets it free?, drinks it, goes outside and sees this
That’d be pretty fucking gross
I think the US infrastructure leads to a confirmation bias. There probably aren’t that many people who are actually “bad” drivers out there. The majority of people aren’t getting tickets, damaging their car, or hurting people most of the time when they drive. Our culture being so car centric however means that the actually bad drivers don’t have a choice but to be on the road. Bad driving also calls a lot of attention to itself because it’s dangerous. So when you drive you frequently see bad driving when realistically most people are just fine drivers, leading to you thinking more people are bad, and thus you must be better
That and American exceptionalism probably
I never said useless. Mustard Gas is really useful, State Sponsored propaganda is useful. Usefulness does not equate to goodness as much as capitalist will try to convince you otherwise
“It’s just the corner of the fireworks store that’s on fire, I don’t see what you’re concerned about”
AI power growth is projected to grow exponentially for a service a lot of people view as morally reprehensible and actively harmful
Spencer Weart identified the dangers of global warming in the 50s, we ignored the warnings and now people and entire species are dying. Excuse us for trying to prevent accelerating the problem
At 283 it takes 25 seconds to go 2 miles. So I think it’s pretty safe to assume it took around a minute since it does take time to get to that speed but I assume it gets over 100 in under 10 seconds considering that’s not super difficult for a sports car to achieve
Because if you don’t want to play that “boring racing game” there wasn’t a reason to buy a switch 2. Almost every launch title was an upgrade of a switch 1 title, or was available on something else. Mario Kart World was the unique game until Bananza came out
Hey quick question: how do you know who I voted for?
AI Data centers noticeably fuck with the grid. As a result they are facing internal and external pressure to generate more of their own power. Microsoft is opening a nuclear power plant. I would not be shocked to learn through solar, wind, and coal they provide the majority of their own power
I disagree, that looks like a record player. You can see the plastic cover and what looks like part of the plate on top. There’s also a VCR and I doubt there were many instances of PS3s and VCRs being plugged into the same CRT. I don’t doubt it happened, but this is giving more late 90s/early 2000s than mid/late 2000s
The reason why I assume a certain number of lemmy users can name every element of the periodic table
You know, in a sane country this would be a reasonable headline. Tax dodging is often done legally if dishonestly. By hiring someone who is particularly adept at navigating those loopholes that person could effectively shut them down without opening new ones. It takes a thief to catch a thief and so on. Unfortunately this isn’t a sane country so I have to assume he’s just going to make the loopholes just straight up holes to make things even worse
Just started with YAMS using Plex 2 months ago:
Movies: 241 TV Shows: 30
About 3.5 TB on an 8 TB drive
I bring my water bottle to theaters and nobody gives a flying fuck. 98% of the time it is water but every now and then I do bring an alcoholic beverage and nobody ever bothers checking to make sure it’s only water
No, it’s basically the same thing as Carl Sagan’s cosmic calendar
What a terrible website. I couldn’t even read it without it loading ads and moving my screen everywhere
I usually look for a recent episode with someone I like or a topic I think is interesting
Given the general social aptitude of this site I’d say The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Look, people showing cleavage are aware it’s going to draw attention. In the same way women know if they put words on their tits you’re going to read them. There’s a difference between noticing something and staring right at it