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Comment It's about priorities (Score 2) 91

The same people pushing cursive are also pushing privatization and the elimination of higher education for everyone except a handful of the elite.

So right now if you're finding somebody on the left our main concern is to teach critical thinking skills that will create the next generation of voters that don't fall for the usual bullshit. You know what I'm talking about. The southern strategy, woke dei moral panics whatever the hell. The basic tricks that the ruling elite use to kowtow a population.

If we can't pull that off we would at least like to teach the actual history of chattel slavery in America, who Christopher Columbus really was and maybe throwing some stuff about the labor movement. It would also be nice if we could have an economics course in high school that wasn't just capitalist propaganda. I mean when I took mine years and years ago it was literally slotted between health and driver's ed that's how unimportant it was as a learning opportunity. It was literally just nine weeks or so of me being told how great capitalism was and how supply and demand made my life better.

I'm not saying we go full socialist but I would like to teach children about a proper and functional capitalist system, especially things like the need for regulation and antitrust law.

Now if you want to massively increase the funding for public schools that we can have all of the above and your finer points of education sure let's do it. But I have a sneaking suspicion you're not up for that

Comment It's called Capitalism (Score 0) 25

"I think I'm deeply uncomfortable with these decisions being made by a few companies, by a few people," Amodei told Anderson Cooper in a "60 Minutes" episode that aired Sunday. "Like who elected you and Sam Altman?" asked Anderson. "No one. Honestly, no one," Amodei replied.

When you get control of the money, you get control of the means of production. That's literally what capitalism is for.

Comment Re:Chinese Manned Space Agency (Score 0) 25

It's just how they organize it. You wouldn't say NASA is a military organization because its funding is authorized by congress that also authorizes military spending, or because the president is also the Commander in Chief.

No, I'd say NASA is a military organization because it exists first and foremost to support our military. Anyone who believes differently has proven their vulnerability to gaslighting. Our spaceflight projects all have direct military applications.

Submission + - Physicists reveal a new quantum state where electrons run wild (sciencedaily.com)

alternative_right writes: Electrons can freeze into strange geometric crystals and then melt back into liquid-like motion under the right quantum conditions. Researchers identified how to tune these transitions and even discovered a bizarre “pinball” state where some electrons stay locked in place while others dart around freely. Their simulations help explain how these phases form and how they might be harnessed for advanced quantum technologies.

Comment Re:MBA school must consist of memorizing BS... (Score 1) 55

Microsoft keeps claiming they're changing and then I keep seeing new ads for functionality I don't want to use pop up to distract me while I'm trying to work, and yes this is a locked down work environment where an effort has been made to turn all of that shit off. But you fire up Teams after some trivial update and it wants to tell you how you could use AI in it, no I am literally never going to do that on purpose. If Microsoft has changed it's only that they're adding more gaslighting.

Submission + - The Trump administration is dismantling efforts to fight the next pandemic (science.org)

sciencehabit writes: In September, three dozen leaders from institutions funding work to help protect the world from the next disaster like COVID-19—or worse—gathered in Ottawa, Canada, to coordinate their efforts. Countries on four continents were represented, as well as the World Health Organization (WHO) and the roundtable’s co-organizer, the nonprofit Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI). But one major player turned down the invitation: the United States.

Its absence represents a rapid, historic retreat. Not so long ago, the U.S. had resolved to learn from the trauma and tragedy of the COVID-19 pandemic’s early months, when humanity had no effective vaccine or treatment to throw at the disease and thousands were dying every day. The country embarked on an urgent search for countermeasures, not just for COVID-19, but for a wide range of potential pandemic threats. It set out to spend billions searching for broad-spectrum antiviral drugs and vaccines that could work against known viruses and others yet to emerge.

Yet in the past 10 months, President Donald Trump’s secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has abruptly dismantled those efforts—along with parallel initiatives to spot emerging viral threats. Cuts to specific programs are difficult to track. But it’s clear that more than $1 billion in drug and vaccine development investments have been scuttled and more than $1 billion in anticipated funding is in limbo. “What they’re doing is incredibly damaging to our level of preparedness in the U.S.,” says virologist Cristina Cassetti, who helped oversee what for years has been the world’s largest portfolio of pandemic preparedness R&D at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) until she quit in April. “The U.S. is leaving a huge gap.”

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