> I can tell that you have no idea what you're talking about because the vast majority of public K-12 school funding is through local taxes, not federal funding.

About 13% of public schools are funded federally. You say "the vast majority" as if to handwave 13% of their funding as unsubstantial. Most importantly, this funding goes to schools that do not have the local tax revenue to fully support them.

> The federal government has almost no control over it so they can't cut funding

The federal Dept. of Education plays a key role in ensuring equitable access to education. You know how they exert control over local schools? By creating and enforcing (or NOT enforcing) policies, because their job is ultimately to implement and enforce laws created by Congress that apply to public education.

> There are also many states that have charter schools that perform better for less money than the public schools, so it's not a money problem.

Charter schools have an abysmal reputation; approximately 1 in 4 charter schools end up out of business within 5 years, leaving their students in the lurch and those who paid for it with empty wallets.

It's just a scam to funnel public money into private hands and push indoctrination. Look at all the enshittification that's happened and is currently happening in the name of chasing profits - we cannot afford that in education, financially or culturally.
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RIP to all the hobby machines running 32-bit Windows for old games. Download your archival copies now.

I'm more on the fence - I think AMD has a far superior CPU these days, but I still vastly prefer nVidia graphics hardware, even though I try and go back to AMD every few years. There always seems to be something just hideously broken with new features on the AMD side. Keep in mind I don't use DirectX, I use Vulkan and used to use OpenGL because I need to cross-compile. Sure it gets fixed when I file a bug report, but I shouldn't be their product tester, lol. I think AMD tests exclusively on Windows, then uses mac QA for macs, then lets Linux users be guinea pigs for the Linux driver.

> HOW ABOUT we use a lifting body like an airship instead? ...says the person completely ignorant of the history of airships. There's a reason they aren't used for anything.

It's not immediately clear that a larger airplane would need a larger airport. The size of the runway needed really depends on the minimum speed needed to take off and stay aloft, and how quickly it can reach that speed from a standstill. A huge plane with large, efficient wings and powerful engines that can take off in 5000 feet of runway with a 100+ ton load can still use just about any existing airport.

Meanwhile you can't even get an airship out of its hangar if it's a bit windy, and it's not like a construction site for wind turbines would have any strong wind, right?
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Not only has it been done before, we now have drone technology that make it even easier to synchronize multiple aircraft.

A dozen extra large drones, some slings, and a chase helicopter with the operator. Seems very doable.
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The trend of posting videos of taking naps, running errands, attending ball games, and other things on company time may have been in jest, but people in higher position at companies took these as truth (or at least saw the potential truth in them).

Even if you can get all your work done, and then some, and then still be able to run your errands, these companies want you locked in the company mind-state all day long. They may claim they care about your work-life-balance, as long as your life doesn't affect the solid 8-9 hours they want you in the office.

So thanks to all the TikTok videos, reels, and shorts depicting all the goofing off. I hope the likes, subscribes, and Internet Points were worth it.

Who said to doesn't count as renewable?

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Remind me again when the Govt censored you? Were you at Harvard by any chance?

America actually jumped the gun and killed its new nuclear development in 1994, for all the wrong reasons (well, ok, proliferation was a valid concern, but everything else was wrong). The IFR was pretty much no chance of meltdown, almost no waste, nearly all fuel used, on-demand power.... yeah.

Developing new nuclear technology would've been a better choice than kneejerk exiting the business, but Siemens chose to exit nuclear, probably because the government wanted to exit it, so it died there. Exiting nuclear was a horrible plan, Germany restarted multiple lignite coal plants, which are the worst polluting coal there is. Guess what spews more nuclear radiation into the environment, nuclear or lignite coal... yeah, the latter. The smoke is full of heavy metals, including radioactive ones.

They made some bets on realtime ray tracing maybe a little bit too soon. RTRT is indeed CPU bound, to some extent. It depends on the entire scene to be in memory. Pseudo ray tracing does not require that, so they approximate rays and draw not really ray traced objects. Sorry RTX, you're fake ray tracing, but it still looks good. Real time Radiosity... drools.

Sugar is addictive too.

Oh really? I can quit any time I want, I just choose not to!

> Did you actually read the NHTSA paper?

Not all 692 pages of course, but I read enough of it to know that if this is your comeback, you didn't even LOOK at it.

You throw shade at a paper you clearly disagree with for no reason you're able to articulate, comparing the authors to kindergartners and clowns, and you can't even be assed to read more than a headline for yourself. Fuckin' weak. Actual kindergartners have better reading skills.
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> Assume? is this not a research paper, how about ... you know ... do research?

That's a hilarious thing to say immediately before doing 30 seconds of Google searching. Did you happen to notice that number in parenthesis in that portion you quoted? Do you suppose it was a hyperlink for a reason? That's called a 'citation' - it's when you are referencing some other publication or data source, and you want to be clear about where you got your information.

"30 NHTSA. Final Rulemaking for Model Years 2024â"2026 LightDuty Vehicle Corporate Average Fuel Economy Standards 2022; https://www.nhtsa.gov/sites/nh.... (accessed August 20, 2024).There is no corresponding record for this reference."

We can then load up that PDF, and find that section 4.3 "Estimating Total Vehicle Miles Traveled" lays out in detail the methodology for determining vehicle mileage and its effects on vehicle efficiency. And if you're somehow not satisfied with that, the cited paper also has its own citations to look into.

THAT is how you do research, oshkrozz, not just asking Google. I bet you stopped reading at the AI summary too lul.
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Because the lifetime earning potential, even after paying for that devalued degree, is still much higher than can be achieved without a college degree

While this is true, it's also true that if one subtracts the cost of education from lifetime earnings and amortizes that over the time spent getting an education, unpaid overtime, keeping current in one's career field, etc... the average hourly pay is worse than that of a truck driver.

Yes, you will make more, but you'll give more of your life to your employer and enjoy less of your life.