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Comment Re: We're in the group (Score 1) 144

Just wait until you find out where Elon Musk's trans daughter went to school. Hint: It wasn't public schools.

Also, if there's been any societal shift towards LGBTQ+ acceptance among today's youth (it's been a long, long time since I was in school), here's another fact that's going to rattle your cage - it's not being pushed by the teachers, but by peers. You might not remember what it was like to be young, but those of us who haven't lost too many of those memories to senescence can tell you that teachers have never been the cool trend setters that kids desire to emulate. Think about it - if teachers really were so effective influencers of youth behavior, smoking/vaping, teenage pregnancy, drug use, bullying, etc. wouldn't exist. Hell, we had to pass laws banning phones in classes because teachers couldn't even successfully get kids to put their phones away.

Now, what could've given youth the idea that social acceptance of LGBTQ+ individuals is a normal thing? Probably social media, accessed through those devices that damn near every parent has provided their kids.

Comment They haven't solved any of the social problems (Score 0) 10

That caused the Fukushima disaster.

They still have a weak regulatory environment for businesses. Remember folks the public blamed the engineers for the disaster not the CEOs who wouldn't listen to the engineers when they were told that the next big tsunami would cause a disaster and that they need it off site generators and to reinforce the storm wall.

The engineers knew that the Fukushima reactor was going to melt down. It wasn't if, it was when.

And I will say it again, the public blamed the engineers. Not the CEOs who ignored the engineers.

That culture has not changed in the slightest. The technical problems with nuclear have been solved but the social problems have not.

And before anyone chimes in it's true that nuclear has a lower death count but try telling that to anyone in the city who lost all of their property when they had to evacuate Fukushima for 10 years. And remember the CEOs responsible all got away with it. Not a single one of them did a single day in jail

Comment Windows 11 is the most user hostile software (Score 1) 37

I have ever seen in my life.

Like llms and AI in general it's not for you. It's designed to benefit Microsoft and specifically a handful of the billionaire shareholders at the expense of literally everyone else that ever comes in contact with it.

I have set up before but I really wish Linux would just pick a distro and a package manager to make the standard.

It's too much for users and managerial types to wrap their heads around. As stupid as it sounds you can't just move icons around and not cause major support headaches. It's why Apple traditionally goes out of its way to keep icons and even windows exactly where the user left them.

Comment Re:problem is (Score 1) 48

If a company goes under them yeah another company can come along and buy their assets sure but a dying company isn't really competing or innovating is it? Companies go under all the time, the success rate in America is like 30% of all businesses and less for some areas.

Aquisitions have just been plainly anti consumer and anti worker in their outcomes; folks get laid off, prices go up, products get worse or just shelved entirely so the parent just catch and kills.

  Let companies grow and compete if two companies want to cooperate they can but no more buying up your competition.

Comment Re:To what degree is the statement wrong? (Score 1) 290

That statement is fine

That statement is not "fine". That statement follows a logical structure that may be correct, but there's nothing "fine" about a department responsible for preventing the spread of disease promotes an ideology by explicitly making a change that fuels vaccine hesitancy among the public.

There's a lot more to statements, such as human interpretation than simply logic would ... wait ... have you been screened for autism?

Comment Re:In my experience (Score 1) 56

Allowing them to be "agents" and do things on your behalf is problematic because they can get things wrong and then make things worse when they try to fix it.

This shows you have no idea what agents are. Agents act on your behalf *under you instruction*. No they aren't self-managing or judgement making. They are task completing. Ultimately an AI agent is akin to AI how a Macro is akin to an Excel formula. You create agents to do specific things with specific criteria. And they many orders of magnitude more useful than generic LLMs.

Comment Re:This seems evil - accepting tuition from them (Score 1) 237

You are accepting students and taking their money even though they won't pass.

Except that seems to be the opposite of what is being said in TFA which is that colleges are putting effort into bringing students up to spec so they *can* pass. Have you considered enrolling in a college? Maybe they'll make you take a basic English comprehension class to help you along.

Comment Wait so your example is from 24 years ago? (Score 2) 48

Also if you know anything about the history of that case Microsoft was on track to be split up until George Bush Jr got elected and then rather than splitting them up between the office and windows divisions they got... I'm not even going to call it a slap on the wrist. They got rewarded!

In exchange for zero prosecution for their anti-competitive tactics Microsoft had to give tens of millions of dollars worth of software to public schools.

Microsoft had been trying and failing for years to force public schools to switch to Windows and they had been resisting it because Windows is in nightmare to administer. That was a huge boon to Microsoft and it let them push Apple once and for all out of the education market.

So the example you gave is a perfect example of the Republican party not enforcing antitrust law in the slightest. Good job at least you tried.

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