Educational standards have been declining for a long time. It hasn't just recently gotten bad because of Corona. Both math and English instruction have declined to the point that people like you are making excuses for remedial instruction in college.

The sabotage is intentional even if those doing it don't think they are engaging in sabotage. This is painfully obvious if you interact with the K12 education system.

Parents these days have to more to repair the damage done by professionals.

You're just starting to acknowledge the possibility?

I am absolutely serious. I have never, in 45 years of my life, seen anyone write in cursive past 3rd grade.

How is math performance "political shit"? I'd say if we were to get rid of political shit, we should start by removing accounts like yours.

It would be great to say you're wrong, but you're not. Worse yet, the younger generation's answer to this is to blame it on you. Republicans have done this, very deliberately. And destruction of education is part of it.

Would ... that impart the dreaded "processed-ness"? A lab vs. a factory?

Oh no! By dismissing one example, you've devastated my ... oh wait, no you haven't.

What about the artificial vanilla flavor? Is Grandma the queen of processed-ness?

Is there some percentage of kitchens that something has to be found in, to be free of the "processed-ness" taint? Do they all have to be home kitchens? I mean, since we're being so scientific about all this ...

You ... do know that kitchens around the world have things like artificial vanilla flavor (and yes, even Karo corn syrup) in them, right?

... grams of proceed-ness per serving are the limit?

You know, since we're being scientific ...

All it does is make it so that the ability to get a ticket shifts from having more money to he who gets there first, which isn't really a huge tradeoff.

The reality is that if the tickets are selling out that fast and they're being resold for significantly more than the original price, then they were underpriced to begin with.

Maybe a Chinese takeover of the UK before full Islamicisation wouldn't be so bad?

... Wenlian is a bit of a cold fish (badum ching!).

The main question is if the plant is still safe. It hasn't been used in years. Is it still in good maintenance? Was the design meant to be idled for years? What are the risks of restarting that particular design of reactor after all those years? Is the land there safe for workers of the plant after reactor 2's accident all those years ago? And what plans are in place to prevent what happened at reactor 2 from happening at reactor 1?

I actually don't know the answer to any of those questions. But I hope experts are actively asking those.

I don't think the US actually enforces anything approaching the spirit of robust anti-trust law now. The goalposts have been moved back so many times, they're on another field now.

"you are posting on Slashdot..."
so does SuperKendall.

"..buy some long ..."
with what money?

"you'd make enough to keep the mortgage current"
what mortgage?

"... after there return of the principle"
Sure, /. posters by definition has multiyear financial plans.

Let them eat cake.