Those contractors also sold arms to the other side as well. America was late getting to both World Wars, mostly because they wanted to burn the candle at both ends and sell to each side. While they were more aligned with the English based powers, they were willing to do business with the Germans.

Sometimes after the research is done, we get an non-intuitive result.
Now we can use these results to make policy and rules better for the students, or we can just double down on our own view and stick our heads in the sand, and just push what we think will help despite the data.

That said while as an old guy, who went to school before everyone had cell phones. Heck in my under grad, I was one of the few students with a cell phone that just made calls (it did text too, but I had no one else to text to, plus it was expensive)

When I was in grad school I was old and mature enough not to use my phone during class.

So I would think having a smartphone in school with kids who are already easily distracted would cause more problems. But with the data results, I think I answered why I was was, kids during school age are easily distracted by anything. Doodling in your note book, checking out the pretty girl in front of you, joking around with your friends without trying to get caught... I think it is the case during school and being school age you are extremely distracted by everything anyways, having a phone in school wouldn't be much different, you would just be replacing say one of your activities to distract yourself with the phone. Perhaps less doodles in the notebook, (as I wouldn't imagine, that my phone would distract me from a pretty girl who I had a crush on).

But the results about social media, which is a big after school activity I feel would be the bigger factor. As I stated I am now an Old Guy, and I have to make sure I don't get too involved in social media myself, as you can go down a Toxic hole of misinformation and annoyingly stupid people and comments, that repeat over and over again... For a kid being exposed to that earlier in life, it would like being stuck in school drama even out of school, where you can normally relax from it and actually feel like a human for a bit.

The S24 does have an extended life span. I upgraded my S20 to the S24 mostly because it went EOL and I didn't want my work to cut me off if it wasn't secure enough.
But the S20 worked fine without any issues. The S24 is fine too. The AI features mostly the search by image and translate is handy, but still I mostly just want to browse the web quickly.

Companies are out to make money, while companies are run by people, they are not people. As the employees for the companies only have a shared agenda of making money. Thus moral issues are often ignored.

If we humans don't have jobs. We don't make money, we don't buy stuff. The companies that are all AI Driven don't have customers, so they cannot operate for free.

Now do humans basically get (more) token jobs, where we are kept busy? Or will we just basically live in a post capitalist utopia where everything we need and want is provided to us,

But 2027 is much too close for such social changes, especially with such a strong regressive attitude towards changes we are facing today. With the little people who have little power in this world being blamed for all of our problems. Saying everyone will be able to live with whatever they want without working for it, will not be tolerated for quite a while. Probably not within my life span.

While over decade ago, Social Media was supposed to be a free speech platform. Which helped spark a lot of movements and changes from sharing different viewpoints and showing global similarities. Then they needed to become more profitable (which is understandable in that early Social Media was bleeding money).
However to gain profit, they have the algorithm configured, to get us in social bubbles, and reward topics that get the most response and movement (to provide a higher ad rate). However this also demotes communication that may be a little bit longer, and possibly better researched, and nuanced. As new post on an Old Topic will not get much views, while a reactionary early post will get much more viewing.

While not outwardly restricting free speech, it is subverting the point of free speech as a way to explain ideas and opinion openly as an attempt to gain a better understanding, and insight.

I expect Musk might have Bipolar issues, and narcissism.

He basically switched from being a mostly left libertarian to a far right. I doubt he is/was any of these personas. However when Starting Electric Cars business, and Space X bringing America back into space. The Leftist folks mostly admired him, and was willing to put up with his eccentricities.
Then 2020 Covid hit, The while the Leftist government was focused on trying to minimize disaster with some strict rules, that hit Tesla, and made it hard for him to run his business, as well with politicians mostly begging him to help with the response. Then he being the richest person in the world then, was also a target of Wealthy who wasn't giving their fair share. Where the Right seeing his frustration began to court him and stroke his ego.

I don't think he really cares what is good for the environment or not, He jumped onto EV because he knew there is a market for those who would want them, and if he made something better than a compliance vehicle that others would be interested in as well. The problem Musk has is Tesla is too profitable to him, for him to leave and start a more Right friendly company.

What institution is actually trustful?
The Government?
Political Parties?
Corporations?
Hospitals?
Insurance Companies?
Not-for-Profit Orgs?
Charities?

Any institution is a good place to perform fraud in. Especially if you can perform good works overall, but skim off the top.

The problem is the human condition is we believe people and sources that we trust, and we discredit sources that we distrust.

Even with the smartest people, they are going to have a belief bias based on information they trust. To change a persons mind they will often need need that trusted source to explain why it is wrong, or for events that would loose your trust into that source.

For many people a pastor or other religious person of some clout is in a position of being a trustworthy fellow. And they would be able to push a message that people would believe (even from some rather intelligent people) that is overall just nonsense, and even contradictory to the tenants of the religion.

"Ah-ha!" says an Atheist, "because I don't trust religious folks then I am immune to such nonsense, my beliefs are based by empirical facts."
Well no, they are just as irrational as the religious person, but they are just trusting different sources. Say a political group (who may have some good ideas, but also tied in with crazy ones), marketing from companies, misinformation/FUD, or from your favorite news source, who makes those other guys seem like insane idiots.

There is a lot of so called "science" reporting, which is loosely around a scientific study, but often just a hypothesis at best, that a group of people are getting paid to study, however being from a trusted science source you may trust the message it is trying to convey. Even if it ultimately wrong.

For the most part I have been seeing an Exodus from Java. Oracles license fees made it more risky to go the Java route. I am surprised Oracle is trying to improve features. That doesn't sound like Oracle.

NACS doesn't solve the problems while it is smaller and easier to use, the problems is the 3rd party charging companies, not doing what they need to keep the infrastructure up and running. Tesla has the advantage that their car profits goes into the supercharger network.

Technically an EV has less of parts to go wrong.
Now this report has the exception of Tesla Models, which are actually on the top of reliability. The issues are mostly due to these companies mainly legacy auto, trying to change the processes around for EV production. More software, focus on weight... A lot of these issues are the type of problems Tesla had a few years ago.

These are comic books character, some of them for decades, with the race gender and ethnicity remained intact. In a lot of ways the movies had town down the political messages a lot. The real issue isn't about being woke, but the fact they made female characters that we don't want to masterbate to.
I think the real problem with the Marvel Universe is it has been diverging from our reality for a while now. Iron Man seemed out of current events, Avengers then created a post NYC attack split from our history, then Endgame Post blip, is creating more divergence from our recognized reality. After retiring most of the Phase One characters, we will see some natural disinterest in the movies, and being 2 decades of movies, with said divergent reality it is difficult to bring in new viewers.

China has over 4x the population of the US. They are about the same size in geography, Have access to resources and a temperate envrionment. Chinese relegation as a 3rd world country had historically been due to their own failures to invest, grow and adapt to the modern world, and were blinded by their past success as world power that they had failed to grow and realize that the barbarians are out pacing them.

The United States is slipping into that type of thinking, we are not trying to compete with China, we are just trying to convince everyone that USA #1. China isn't playing any more unfairly than the U.S. has, but the U.S. has given up putting effort into competing with the new conditions.

It is easy to be ethical when you have nothing to loose.
We see this in politics where a political party might demolish or even kick out a member for misdeeds, but only when they are nearly certain their replacement will be a member of the same party. Otherwise they will fight tooth and nail, and excuse all the bad behaviors to keep the scumbag in.
We see this in business, where they will follow ethical and responsible business practices, just as long as it is convenient to them. Proud to show off their 0 emission fleet and solar panels, just as long as they are more affordable, or they are continued to get positive press from it. However if a factor changes, they will drop it and ignore any of the benefits to the community, and just do what ever brings in the most money.
Religions will encourage a set of values and a way of life, that is general considered good and healthy, until it leads to some people especially people with notable ranks in the religion, to be disadvantaged by following these rules.
Individuals are open to diversity and multicultural activities, until we perceive others getting something that you though that you deserved too.

As I have gotten older, I have learned to avoid Hero worship, and have gotten skeptical towards any person or group who is being treated as a Hero. I will applaud them for the good that they did, however I will not use that as a reason to admonish them for the bad they can do as well. I no longer have the will power to adjust my ethics to excuse bad behavior by anyone. Sure I can be convinced to change my mind, but it isn't because someone who did some good in the past just believes in it. Also I need to realize that I myself am not immune to having my personal set of ethics corrupted because things may go to my disadvantage. And I find it a struggle to make sure I am not falling down the rabbit hole.