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Comment Maybe I'm in the minority (Score 1) 13

by Tony Isaac (#65811377) Attached to: SEC Dismisses Case Against SolarWinds, Top Security Officer

But I think the case was heavy-handed in the first place.

There is no evidence I've read, that suggests Solar Winds was *negligent*. Was their security breached? Yes. Does that automatically make them negligent? No.

If a foreign government goes after your security defenses, using the money and manpower a national government can spend, they *will* break in.

Comment Re:School is so much more than acquiring knowledge (Score 1) 191

by Tony Isaac (#65811363) Attached to: Homeschooling Hits Record Numbers

You seem to think that home schoolers are isolated. They are not, at least not typically. They operate in groups of multiple families who collaborate to provide sports activities and civic engagement. Home schooling does not mean living on a remote family compound and disconnecting from the world.

Comment Re: We're in the group (Score 1) 191

by Tony Isaac (#65811351) Attached to: Homeschooling Hits Record Numbers

I think you have some misconceptions about how home schooling operates.

Most home schoolers are part of a home school group, where parents bring their kids together to socialize, participate in sports, and so that parents who are especially good at one subject or another, can teach all the kids in that subject.

Home schooling is *not* isolated schooling.

Comment Re:Temporary? (Score 1) 20

Those AI search summaries you mention, that nobody will pay for...that's the loss leader. The real money is in specialized AI. Microsoft is embedding AI into its products, especially Office and Visual Studio, for extra cost, and people are handing over their wallets for it, at a rate of $13B per year at this point. https://www.geekwire.com/2025/... SalesForce is also making over $5 billion a year on their "AI and Data Cloud" whatever that includes. https://investor.salesforce.co...

You're right, nobody will charge for the search summaries. That's basically the AI version of an ice cream shop handing out free samples.

Comment Re:Stop blaming processing...it's the ingredients! (Score 1) 83

by Tony Isaac (#65811307) Attached to: Ultra-Processed Food is Global Health Threat, Researchers Warn

You apparently didn't read my list.

Who *doesn't* have homogenized, pasteurized milk in their refrigerator? Who *doesn't* have pasta in their pantry? Who *doesn't* have some kind of juice in their refrigerator?

Also, those of us who cook, additionally have processed ingredients in our pantries like corn syrup, flour, refined sugar, just to name a few.

It's the non-food ingredients, not the processing.

Comment Re:Temporary? (Score 1) 20

Think again. Microsoft is raking in *billions* from Copilot. https://www.geekwire.com/2025/... Other companies are raking in profits from AI, even if they themselves don't have AI products. https://themesetfs.com/insight...

As with any gold rush, it's the tool makers that rake in the profits.

Comment Re: Franhises are bad for employees (Score -1) 21

by JBeretta (#65811119) Attached to: Verizon Cutting More Than 13,000 Jobs As It Restructures

How come suicides go up under capitalism and fertility goes down? Is it because no one wants kids to experience living in a world governed by the likes of you?

Are you really that stupid? That question has been asked & answered many times by people who are actually competent. Hate to break it to you, asshole, but it's for the exact opposite reason you're trying to imply.

Is there any political history you socialist fuckwits are familiar with?

Comment Re: We're in the group (Score 0) 191

by Wheres the kaboom (#65810843) Attached to: Homeschooling Hits Record Numbers

> Republicans have abandoned public education, which has driven teachers to the Democrats.

That’s a misleading framing. Teachers themselves have abandoned neutrality. Democrats monopolize education, and the democrat party is now arguably a wing of the teachers unions.

> Even Republican teachers do not trust Republican politicians to invest in public education.

Teachers now make FAR more than the median in every state, plus have benefits that FAR exceed the private sector, and overall investment has only ever gone UP faster than inflation. NYC now spends 40k per student per year. The education system is awash in cash. Yet the schools, PARTICULARLY highly Democrat controlled inner city schools, have been declining in quality for decades - more on why later.

> Only 1 in 10 teachers say they trust Republicans to ensure "adequate funding for schools, adequate pay and benefits for teachers,

Only 1 in 20 identify as republicans, and please define “adequate” funding given my previous points. It’s never enough, eh? Plus, ironically, study after study shows reveals little correlation between funding and student outcome. So note your redirection? Perhaps that’s because funding isn’t the issue, and there is a direct correlation between declining results and Democrat policies:
- mainstreaming (wildly different levels of students in the same class)
- eliminating advanced classes
- restorative justice
- hiring according to identity instead of merit
- deprioritizing standardized testing
- whole word learning instead of phonics
- social promotion instead of making struggling kids retake a grade level
- “equitably” lowering admissions requirements to teacher colleges (now lowered so much they’re at 42nd percentile on the SATs - literally less cognitively capable on average than their future K-12 students)

The results? Very blue California now leans into these policies more than most states and has “coincidentally” steadily declined in the NAEP rankings, but, despite spending half as much per student, “fascist” Florida is near the top, and, particularly among classically underserved demographics, “racist” Mississippi and Louisiana are doing quite well, plus rising.

> If you look at opinion polls, on most issues (abortion, gay marriage, tax policy, etc.) the majority of the U.S. population is liberal.

The abortion, gay marriage, and tax policy areas have significant crossover between conservative and progressive circles. But notice the issues you carefully didn’t mention?

Per Gallup the MAJORITY of Black Americans OPPOSED defunding the police, SUPPORT VoterID, SUPPORT controlled borders, and SUPPORT school choice - along with the majority of the nation. White liberals hold the OPPOSITE position to Black Americans (and to the majority of the population) on each of these issues.

Teachers now make FAR more than the median in every state,

Source? And "the median", what group or groups are included to calculate this median?

State by state figures are available via FRED, BLS, etc, but, for brevity, let’s just concentrate on national:

The census puts the national overall median at 60k for all occupations and the secondary school teacher median at 65k.
https://www2.census.gov/progra...

The BLS puts the overall teacher median at 62k - lower than the census number because it presumably includes preschool and elementary, but still higher than the national median (see the 50% number - not the average number).
https://www.bls.gov/oes/2023/m...

This same pattern holds when digging down to the state level.

Note that these numbers do NOT include benefits - which are quite generous in comparison to the average private sector job.

Comment Re: We're in the group (Score 1) 191

by Wheres the kaboom (#65810757) Attached to: Homeschooling Hits Record Numbers

I SPECIFICALLY said median public school teachers in each state makes more than the median worker, and that’s BEFORE even accounting for their generous benefits. You didn’t disprove that. Congratulations for knowing the difference between median and average, but you lose points for randomly switching to a wealth discussion and for sidestepping the main point.

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