Me: good game.
Chatbot: I did your mom, newb.

The only Star Trek on Netflix is a couple movies made in the last few years. Any remaining good content will be stripped away soon.

I've taught English/Literature to high schoolers for nearly 30 years. The push for STEM in the curriculum is killing Humanities. Art budgets: Slashed. English Textbook budget: Slashed. My school hasn't ordered new Textbooks for english classes in 23 years. We are to teach Informational Analysis, Media Awareness, We hand out pdfs of texts that we can find online. THe schools will subscribe to Kahn Academy for ACT/SAT prep because tests are important in order to prove the children learn. But the real learning, the real growth in who a child is as a person cannot be tested and proven. Johnny will feed a stray dog, help his elderly neighbor shovel the walk, or volunteer at a park district to teach 6 year olds how to play basketball. All of these traits are GOOD traits, but none of these can be tested and there is no way to show Growth of Learning of these traits. The school want to do well on the state tests. Parents want the students to succeed. The only measure of success in school are the Data driven tests. There is no humanity in education any more. As an example, When I try to teach any Shakespeare, or To Kill a Mockingbird, or Brave New World (BNW was a shit show last year), I am supposed to teach HOW Shakespeare made his work emotional, not that it is emotional and not how to connect to it. Emotional connections are not quantifiable on state tests. Only the ability to read for information and glean what is needed in order to make the future employers happy....

I was just getting ready to rant , but instead, I'm going to sit back and watch society fall apart. I've announced my retirement for the end of this school year. I'm too wore out from trying to fix things at the local level, and I am not rich enough, nor am I in bed with the right publishers in order to be heard at the state level.

What ever happened to just deleting the System32 folder?

Lets see, 7.7 Billion people on this planet.
63% of the population has internet access.
That's 4.8 Billion men, women, and children, old and young that have internet access.
With 137.2 Billion visits in 2020, that means Each person from 0 - 110 years old visited 29 times.
Sounds legit for a covid year.

It'll be like Google promising to do no evil.

Netflix has served its purpose. It showed the world that streaming movies was viable. The movie studios realized that Netflix was making bank off their stuff and started their own private streaming services... Now that everyone is streaming their own content, it's either go back to paying subscriptions for your media flavor at hundreds of dollars a month (If you want them all) OR go back to the pirate bay.

Only allow new students from families who make 250,000+ while raising their tuition and still say that everyone under 100,000 was admitted free. It's a win win.

Yup, I've used random carpooling as both a passenger and a driver. I am generally trustful, but I do ask to see the ID and txt it to a friend, "just in case," but I've never had an issue. I was also a frequent couch surfer user and provider. I've only had positive experiences with trusting strangers.

The blurriness is due to your display. Time to upgrade. Might I suggest a 98" monitor.

There is always something going on during high travel times, snowstorms, etc... What is a "Normal Amount" of flight cancellations?

few days ago a slashdot article caught my eye. Unsurprisingly, the editors didn't proofread the submission. So, the slashdot article caught my eye, and unsurprisingly, the editors didn't proofread the submission.

This morning I noticed I'd received a text from a woman with whom I had a fling I had in the spring. We eventually parted ways and that was that. I never expected to hear from her again... Well, this morning I saw a text from her. I figured she was either drunk or wanting to reopen a friendship for the holidays. I wonder what she thought when she saw my reply. Actually, I'm sure she blocked me.

I wonder how many people got a text "from the grave."

I'm with you. This movie is a family Favorite along with The Princess Bride. We quote it all the time.