They're still making DVD drives. They're just mostly USB now. Ripping is pushbutton easy these days. No messing around with getting a copy of DeCSS and such.

That is a cynically opportunistic, anti-scientific article with a clickbait title, with many scathing critiques within the scientific community.
https://www.newsweek.com/2014/...

If you're confused about this, get onto scholar.google.com and do some serious reading from the world of real research, instead of what sold some guy's book.

What Dr. Saul wrote flies in the face of decades in research. ADHD is visible in multiple variations on fast MRIs - executive frontal lobes of the brain doze, while other parts of the brain run perhaps to overdrive. This is the mind of a professor who's expert in some field but never did their laundry. Those who are accurately diagnosed with it respond differently, even the opposite of what you'd expect of neurotypical people, because the brains are structured different. ADHD students calm down when given stimulants precisely because their executive function wakes up.

What the original post here is dealing with is another problem: privileged students getting dubious diagnoses and weaponizing them. That is nothing new, not for any disability, and it's offensive and predatory on the support systems actual people need. Nobody argues that bonespurs aren't real, or that rich jerks don't use their money to get a fake diagnosis to cut corners in life the not-wealthy can't.

Because the last I checked chemistry majors like that had a rough time in the job market. If you could find a job the pay was good but the problem was they're just weren't enough of them.

It is just as likely that you're seeing more of this because people who would normally be forced to drop out because they lack basic accommodations are getting those accommodations and are able to finish the program now.

We are long since past the point where life needs to be a constant battle to see who gets to have food and shelter. But we keep that system going.

Just put it in context: Today Russia struck the Pechenihy Reservoir dam in Kharkiv.
Russia launched the war because they thought it would be a quick and easy win, a step towards reestablishing a Russian empire and sphere of influence, because Putin thinks in 19th century terms. Russia is continuing the war, not because it's good for Russia. I'd argue that winning and then having to rebuild and pacify Ukraine would be a catastrophe. Russia is continuing the war because *losing* the war would be catastrophic for the *regime*. It's not that they want to win a smoldering ruin, it's that winning a smoldering ruin is more favorable to them and losing an intact country.

On the spectrum without telling me you don't know anyone on the spectrum.

It's like Jesus fucking Christ people don't even understand what masking is. People with disabilities go out of their way to hide their disabilities because we do not treat people with disabilities well.

I have a functioning autistic buddy who I didn't really know was autistic for years. Severe ADHD.

My mother was also a high-functioning alcoholic. That and the cigarettes eventually killed her. Severe mental illness treated with booze and smokes.

This is why the right wing is attacking empathy. That plus higher education and critical thinking are the enemies of the ruling elites. While you're raging about people who have substantial disabilities but can just barely hold down a job they're busy raising your grocery prices and getting ready to make your job go away with robots and AI.

They need your rage and attention focused somewhere else and you are happy to oblige them.

We've got nepo babies everywhere and billionaires screwing us over but we are all deeply deeply deeply furious about disabled people getting a little bit of extra time on a test.

I mentioned this elsewhere but the author of this article writes anti-education articles for a living. You can look her up and you will find at least a half dozen of them and counting.

It is amazing how easy it is to manipulate Americans into screwing themselves over. You were going to spend all your rage on this and completely ignore the actual elites fucking you in the ass and raising your grocery prices.

I mean it works for them either way. If they manage to make something useful out of it they get something useful out of it but otherwise they destroy a competitor and can jack up prices. It's a win-win.

We have basically eliminated competition from capitalism. It's funny because we are all acting surprised when capitalism breaks down in the absence of the fundamental system for regulating it.

But hey, at least one the girl hands you your coffee at the one coffee shop available in a 20 mi radius she can say Merry Christmas now right?

The problem I have with those Mobile payment apps is that they circumvent Banks and banking protections so that if anything goes wrong you are shit out of luck. But banks don't like making it easy to transfer money because they like to use it to force you to keep all your accounts with them. So a wire transfer is slow and difficult.

The article is written by one Rose Horowitch

A quick Google search turns up several of her other "articles"

Every single one of them is a poorly written and poorly researched opinion piece similar to this one talking about some moral panic regarding the collapse of the American education system with a special emphasis on how bad colleges.

This is more anti-higher education propaganda because Rich assholes do not want your kid or your grandkid getting a good education and thinking for themselves.

Little surprise to see it in the Atlantic, but honestly after what I saw in the last 2 years with regards to American Media not all that surprised. The Atlantic is owned by Steve jobs's ex-wife so we're not exactly talking salt of the earth ownership here...

As usual, follow the money

He's the president of the United States and he is using a detailed plan, project 2025, to completely remake our entire government and society. So no there really isn't going to be anything that doesn't somehow involve trump. He is fully exercising 50 years worth of accumulated Presidential power through rampant abuse.

I can't help it if you're not paying attention or that you don't understand how our government is breaking down.

No this is taking the data that we have and fitting it to the most likely outcome. We have a lot of data because Trump is constantly in the public.

So yes there are other possibilities but this is the one that fits the data. You might not like it because well, you love Trump and you're hoping he gets a third term, and you probably not going to admit that because nobody who likes Trump admits it outside of safe spaces, but this is where the data points to

So the stuff on his hands is definitely from a IV. The only question is what is he getting as an IV on a consistent basis.

And then we have the MRIs. You don't just do MRIs. There is no such thing as a preventative MRI that doesn't involve a known issue.

Alzheimer's is the only thing that fits the data we have. Yeah it is possible it's something else but if we just talking about probability and likelihood especially given Trump's behavior where he keeps falling asleep during cabinet meetings, a side effect of Alzheimer's medication, again it fits the data.

The only difficult part is Trump rambles like a lunatic with Alzheimer's and has his whole life so it's difficult to tell if he's lost his marbles because he never had them in the first place. With Reagan we all knew because they had to take him out of the public eye because he couldn't speak in public anymore with Trump they just let him speak anyway because he's always sounded like that

And I mean that from the bottom of my heart. I knew disabled kids in college and they got absolutely no special dispensation.

In particular a kid of a friend with some pretty significant health problems repeatedly ended up in the hospital due to those problems and just had to deal with it. And my type 1 diabetic friend is extremely smart but didn't have a prayer in hell in college.

This is rage bait of the worst kind. But the old farts around here will eat it up like candy

Have you ever actually tried using Numpy in C?