Wait, so some plumber who bought a house back in the 80s is “ripping us off”?

Depends on how you are defining “millionaire”. If you are going by "sum of all assets is greater than $1,000,000), then 99% of the people who you say are part of the problem, are simply people who own a detached house in the right location (context for this is that the average price for a detached house in the city of Toronto is just under $1,000,000 USD).

And honestly, this isn’t just limited to Amazon’s warehouses. All companies that end up with huge warehouse and distribution centers have always been striving to automate as much of the process as possible. Amazon just has the capital to push the tech with in house resources, instead of having to contract it out.

The problem I had is that taking one assortment of numbers that had no meaning, doing a bunch of operations on them (never actually finishing the operations though, because the last steps were “obvious”) leading to a different arrangement of numbers that also meant nothing, was not a good method of teaching. The pass/fail rate of that course relative to all the others reflected that. Every other teacher/professor I had before or since would include context when introducing an entirely new concept.

You are seeing symptoms and assuming they are the cause. Porn doesn’t cause behaviour issues; the inattentive parenting that allowed the access does. These kids with behaviour issues existed long before internet porn became widespread.

I had a linear algebra professor who did that all the time. Never did figure out what an eigenvector is not why I would want 14 ways of finding one. Brilliant man, terrible teacher.

There’s no “protecting” them from porn. That ship sailed 30 years ago. Parents are going to have to do some parenting. If the kid has shit parents, porn is not even going to be on the top 10 issues we should be worrying about.

The chances of me living long enough to actually be effected by it are so slim that I’m completely unconcerned about it.

The last stars will burn out in 120 trillion years

We think. We still haven’t solved things like the dark matter/energy problem. The answer to that alone could drastically change what we estimate will happen in the distant future.

There is for now. Microsoft is working on closing the various loopholes.

I think a substantial part of the problem is the employee turnover rates in the industry. It seems to be just accepted that everyone is going to jump to another company every couple years (usually due to companies not giving adequate raises). This leads to a situation where, consciously or subconsciously, noone really gives a shit about the product. Everyone does their job (and only their job, not a hint of anything extra), but they’re not going to take on major long term projects, because they’re already one foot out the door, looking for the next job. Shitty middle management of course drastically exacerbates the issue.

I think that’s why there’s a lot of open source software that’s better than the corporate stuff. Half the time it’s just one person working on it, but they actually give a shit.

I really don’t see how you can have no non voluntary hierarchies, and have a functional society at the same time. It may work for a time in small communities (say <1000 individuals), but at large, there’s no way.

Also, as easy as it is to paint entire groups with the same paintbrush, reality is, annoyingly, far more complicated than that. “ACAB” is a nice rallying cry to push for change, but the truth is, there are a non-zero number of good ones, and even bastards have their limits. If I’m being optimistic, I’m hoping that this is a start of the cops actually siding with the people for once.

Ok, now I’m just morbidly curious. Why would the Israeli government give two shits about Charlie Kirk?

Says who? Is the whole point of movies not for you to have fun?

Lol, you think this is going to end with just calmly standing in a crowd?

Much better to be self aware of it and account for it, than to get yourself and others killed due to your false bravado.

If you read the rest of the article, she addresses that. She doesn’t believe that she is personally brave enough to physically confront what is coming, so for her, the choice is get out now while she can and be vocal.