That dim glow when you turn off fluorescent lamps is just what phosphor does for a while after you hit it with UV - it's not proof of continued electrical usage.

You don't have to put the dimmers back in - you just can't build a new house without them. It was a decent idea when incandescent bulbs were all you could buy since it prevented the power-on spike that kills those. Now it's a law that should go away, but it's maybe $100 expense on a house costing $200,000+, so no-one cares.

Absolutely! I can read a page of reasonable text in about a minute, and my spare time consists of 120 minutes per week. everything over that limit gets a "no." Why is congress trying to pass 6000 pages a week when no-one there has read more than 10?

My experience with your mom last night would indicate otherwise.

Your first paragraph and your third paragraphs are completely contradictory. Is the problem that teachers unions protect bad teachers, or is the problem that teachers are so underpaid that if your fire a bad teacher, there will be literally no-one to take their place? Hint: you got it right the second time. I quit teaching because the pay, hours & facilities in IT are so much better. In IT.

I taught for 3 years. Unfortunately the low pay and long hours and lack of facilities sucked, so I left. I find IT is much better by all relevant metrics.

School districts in California are so broke they are literally moving the kids into the least badly neglected buildings and letting the other half rot to the ground, while paying the teachers less than before to try to reach 40 students in one room all day.

You spend less on schools now than in the last half a century: less per child per year than you would sending them to 2 months of university classes.

You get what you pay for.

Actually, we have, but we all decided that it would be best not to let you in on it.

Anti-intellectuals are being honest about their beliefs, even if they are misguided. Pseudo-intellectuals are generally anti-intellectuals who are lying to you.

False. I hate all the conclusions that science has provided about our universe. Options:
1. Reject all of science as a conspiracy against my beliefs.
2. Co-opt science with pseudoscientific jargon and handwaving to prove my beliefs are true.

Same mindset, different asshole.

No, you'll need to explain how consumers moving their data to The Cloud will mean an decrease of hard disc sales, since that was your previous claim. The Cloud is remote servers storing data on spinning disks. So consumers storing data at home as well as data in The Cloud means more hard drives in use, not less.