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Comment Re:Renewable fuels? (Score 1) 29

Some car manufacturers want to wring more out of their investments in hybrid drivetrains. They are also hoping to delay long enough to catch up to the Chinese on battery tech.

Toyota is a great example. Their solid state battery tech is always a few years away from revolutionising the industry. They tried and abandoned hydrogen.

Comment Too simplistic (Score 1) 201

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.

Comment Tell me you don't know anyone (Score 1) 201

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.

Comment It genuinely amazes me (Score 1) 201

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.

Comment Why not both? (Score 1) 48

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?

Comment Re:Don't be that boomer (Score 1) 128

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.

Comment Time for a critical thinking lesson (Score 4, Insightful) 201

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

Comment Re:I'm seeing a lot of MRI related content (Score 1) 72

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.

Comment Re:I'm seeing a lot of MRI related content (Score 1) 72

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

Comment Re: I'm seeing a lot of MRI related content (Score 1) 72

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

Comment Bull fucking shit (Score 1, Insightful) 201

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

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