... does sound kinda useful?

Who said it's a con? I'm fine with building nuclear. And with coming up with sequestering. Let's go.

I'm just against emoting, preening, and political exploitation.

"Underinvestment" Sure, that's it.

China's spending per student, per year:
primary: about $2000
secondary: about $3000
tertiary: about $7000

OECD $14000 avg

US:
Primary/Secondary about $18000
Tertiary: $34000

Maybe it's not the spending that's the problem? Maybe it's the shit-value we're getting for the $ we spend?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/p...

1976-2018:
students: +78%
full time teachers: +92%
full time admin: +164%
full time other professionals: +452%

And meanwhile, yes, OBVIOUSLY Trump's 10 months in office is clearly the driver of USA's dismal educational performance for the past 50 years.

It's certainly not "educational professionals" doing things like applying double-standard racism to persistent disciplinary problems. Just punish black kids less for the same stuff = statistics even out! Solved! https://www.apmreports.org/sto...

There is some evidence that secondary education in China is mostly wasted. Grades and degrees are often used as status symbols but the actual work is often unrelated to their education content. (That's a problem everywhere, but more so in China.)

Some lie more than others. Fox had to pay a $787m settlement for lying about voting machines. Internal emails made public showed they knew they were lying to gain ratings.

(Rupert Murdoch has a win-at-all-costs mentality. He'd pit his own children against each other to "spur their competitive juices" but it just created unnecessary family tension. All 3 children admit their father is a jerk that way.)

Some say to "block all home internet-connected devices from children" but that's easier said than done. My kid had MacGyver-like ability to find internet gizmos. I suspect they hacked into neighbor's wi-fi, as we changed house passwords twice. (Or bartered with a sibling or stayed with friend).

Critical thinking skills should be included with the 3 R's: Reading, (w)Righting, (a)Rithmetic, and Reasoning.

The number of logic fallacies that pundits and trolls use is staggering. Typical examples:

1) A handful of (alleged) members of Group X did bad thing Y, therefore the entirety of Group X is bad. Proportions matter.

2) Guilty until proven innocent.

3) Buzzwords that have no clear meaning: "Weaponizing X", "Grooming kids toward X", "Real Americans", "Elites", "Deep State", etc.

4) If subject matter experts are wrong, then their detractors are right: it's often possible for both to be wrong. (Why one would expect amateurs to usually be better is puzzling.)

5) Slippery slope. The extreme of any viewpoint is usually undesirable, but in a democracy we have to accept compromise and probably should expect it.

Yes, that overwhelming 10 months in control?

Don't get me wrong, Republicans are certainly part of the problem but the tendentiousness and Internet-level stupidity of your comment is high even for you.

... humans part of the environment?

Other animals change their environment too, you know.

Virtually all websites are cookie cutter now.

There are benefits from that, of course - you know where the menu will be, the search box (if any), etc. But at least there was some creativity when we had mystery meat navigation.

Life is full of tradeoffs I guess ...

Every technology that bosses think is useful, they pursue and *implement* by integrating it into their business process. So Ford implemented assembly lines for the Model T. Companies implemented virtual machines in data centers. Google implemented Kubernetes-like software across its internal operations (?)

Why is implementing AI technology your headache? Especially if the only interface you have is a prompt? Implementation is your boss's job.

I think certain development tools have integrated AI well. The business world, in general, has not.

That way you can just front-load all the enshittification and get it over with!

Okay, I was overly broad. AI is good at suggesting leads: things to check further.

Waymo should keep video & data of the travels into problem spots so human reviewers can verify the problem.

...a dead-end to the central database? Or at least create an alert for somebody to investigate. If records show multiple turn-arounds at a road then cars should automatically be forbidden from going there until better researched.