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https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/15/technology/school-fight-videos-student-phones.html

We need to face it, the US public is too under educated to self-govern itself in a technological era. We either have to start educating people to an acceptable level of civic/economy competence, or prove Xi correct and let ourselves collapse. The problem is there is no short term solution at this point.

It's taken 2500 yrs, but Socrates' complaints about democracy are finally turning out to be true.

You do know that the majority of young people in the US have a television in their bedroom or a video enabled phone and that the majority of American parents have zero knowledge of how to implement any kind of audit or control on their home IT service. I sincerely doubt anyone has any kind of good handle on what American young people are watching. If it's on the mid tier cable/streaming packages, young people are seeing it.

So they didn't think he would make the team, which is a shame because he probably would have done less damage in the last pitching spot on the roster than Maeda will do in that spot before they finally have to release him. I think any sports team management that could truly get itself past the sunk cost fallacy would probably be good for another 5% on their winning percentage on that basis alone.

You haven't seen the jr/sr high tic-tok fight video craze?

the question is not what is directed at children, it's what do they actually see.

You notice how quiet China has been. They're smart enough to understand the one about not getting in the way of your adversary while they're shooting themselves in the feet.

exactly right. He clearly doesn't have a rational framework to how he thinks about interest rates and inflation, and he pretty clearly doesn't understand how the industrial investment economy works (Hint - it ain't like real estate).

to me, horror movies are a "two kinds of people" kind of thing. If they are someone's else's thing, I get that I don't get it. 🙈🙉

He has long believed the US has let get itself get the short end of the stick in trade negotiations so he thinks he's somehow helping the US worker/economy. But I just don't see these arbitrary, scattershot, capricious actions as being the kind of thing that's going to encourage any American businesses to start re-shoring. If Trump had a long term plan with investment supports, tax policy, and legally locked in tariffs over a term that a business could use as the basis to go borrow money to invest that would be one thing, but these kinds of actions are here today and could as easily be gone tomorrow based Donnie's daily choler. Hard to imagine any sane org making investment decisions based on this.

that's about $8.00/bbl. If you get 30 gallons of product out of a barrel of crude (typical - and that includes jet and diesel), that's $0.26/gal at the pump. But since a good bit of Canadian product - in particular the Tar Sands product - is normally sold at a discount to 'better' crudes I don't know if 10% would drive much market switching.

great summary. You can't over emphasize that they just have better players being better deployed. Edvinsson and Johansson are just better hockey players now than Petry, Holl or Gustafsson, and splitting Edvinsson and Seider gives a them a D man with more of a 200 foot game on the ice for 45+ min a night. And with McLellan letting them play a 200 ft game, that's a big difference. I'm loving watching Edvinsson. He just erases puck carriers on a rush - it's something the Wings have been missing so much for so long. the other honorable mention is that Raymond is turning into a star. He was doing well under Lalonde but his creativity has taken another step up under McLellan.

The Paredes back to Detroit idea is interesting.

of course even if he exempts oil from the tariffs, the Canadians may put a retaliatory export tax on it so the midwest has at least two scenarios to get screwed.

Jung is 24 now, he needs to be close to well done at this point!

Yeah - that has just moved from animation to live action - How many kids do you suppose have seen a John Wick before they are out of grade school?

5 will get you 10 he exempts oil.

the price of unaffordable housing will get significantly more unaffordable with any increase in the price of Canadian dimensional lumber.

A theological debate older than the selection of what went into the NT. You have Paul 'saved by faith' who got a lot coverage by Athanasius (who is believed to have suggested the current 'canon'), but James "Faith without works is useless" only got one short letter. 🤷‍♂️ For me the problem with Purgatory theology is that it comes too close to justifying torturing people on earth "for their own good."

What irks me is that since Harris arrived every move seemed to fit into a consistent plan to create a team where the players fit together well enough that the team was greater than the sum of its parts, even if some like Maeda didn't work. There will always be misses. But nothing this season feels that way. They needed a front of rotation guy, they got a likely back ender, they didn't need a 2b who is anchored to one position, they brought one in. In fact, if Mike Ilitch were alive I'd say that was likely an owner's move like Prince was - but so far we don't have any indication Chris makes that kind of interventions. Then they bring in a 35 yr old reliever as their 'swing and miss' guy - gives me visions of Joe Nathan.

On the bright side, if they are out of it, maybe they can flip Torres for something at the deadline.

and so far that is, and I'm pretty confident will remain, a terrible signing. So that's one demerit for Harris on FAs so far to go with the other successes.

It cracks me up when some supposedly devout jerk will claim an exact 100% contradiction of Jesus' teaching as 'advice' to 'Christians.' If you actually claim to be a believer and even have a vague idea where to find the NT in a Bible, you should be at least a little bit nervous about your own state of grace after doing this kind of crap. You can't even parody it, it's so ridiculous.

I guess "AI" remains the same acronym whether it's 'intelligence' or 'ignorance' 🤔