How wholly ignorant. The entire roll back of affirmative action practices in colleges by the Supreme Court was based on Asian students needing higher standards to getting into college. Unless you are one of those people who view Asians as white when it is convenient (and non-white when it suits you).

That "up to" is doing some heavy lifting, as people argue about the Fausto-Sterling's estimate of 1.7%. Intersex is more like 0.018%.

Huh? The US still has one of the higher spend both as a percentage of the GDP and money per student. Trust me, it isn't the money flowing into the schooling system, it's where that money actually goes (usually to testing groups and administration). That's why Biden's student debt resolves would never work long term: it would just enable the next generation to continue to be shafted as schooling prices rise.

China's individual families pay a lot more for education as well, ~17% of their yearly income compared to Japan, etc at around 1%. Money is only part of the issue, and culture / family is a big one.

MSNBC is basically the same. Rachel Maddow had to pay 30 million to a single doctor for lying about ICE giving woman hysterectomies, and the only way she got around lying about OAN is because the judged agreed with Maddow that she is "Not a Real Journalist" and that her audience wouldn't be dumb enough to mistake her for one. Ironically a defense the Tucker Carlson tried to use.

"Whataboutism" is never going to go away, since it has a foundation of fairness and unmet expectations. Even Chimp's feel this. That's why it is always better to argue from the perspective of the other person: you might be able to find a way around the fairness concept through their own expectations of behavior.

Learn to make solar panels? Doesn't have the same ring.

Reality has a bias.

Yes? That's the whole point of the judicial system to determine that. Ethan presents why he is suing them, the defendants present why that isn't the case, and the judge decides.

When looking at the pillars of fair use, Denims and the Redditors pretty much failed the "purpose" and "effect" via their own words, acting as a market substitute for Ethan's original video when it was going live. Neither side can really argue on the "nature" aspect since it was mostly factual takes of Hasan with enough editing by Ethan so that's a wash. Which leaves "amount and substantiality" which is pretty well documented in Ethan's documentation on the matter. On that I tend to agree with Ethan, but again that is for a judge to decide.

If you look at the lawsuit the behavior and why he is suing is about as narrow as you can get, since Ethan isn't stupid enough to file a broad lawsuit.

His "critics" basically streamed his entire video without any transformational content, so he sued them. That's about as cut and dry as you can get

You need to look into the knock on effects a little more... it is fairly well known that students that fall behind and are artificially pushed up a grade level will eventually hit a wall and drop out at higher rates (and more disasterously) than those who are held back earlier in schooling or get help outside. NCLB facilitated pushing students up given the pressures of administation to show good numbers.

You only think nobody was complaining because you didn't look. The downward adjustment for all measurements under Biden were noted by people at the time since they were used to send an obviously rosy picture of the events.

That's why the firing of Erika McEntarfer shouldn't have been made into a political issue: she had a track record throughout Biden's term of vastly overinflating the jobs number. Who knew what else has been inflated...

This is totally ignorant, and if not then the core of the left wing is the belief that the individual is nothing more than their innate characteristics as well.

One can honestly sum up left and right through a lens of monopolistic power: a left wing viewpoint is that monopolies are unnatural and a right wing viewpoint is that monopolies are natural... note that natural / unnatural isn't good or bad. Take race for example: a right winger will believe that black people are doing worse because of certain factors (that might not be innate, such as culture) internally: lack of focus on education and single parent households based on culture for example. A left winger will believe that black people are doing worse because of certain factors (which may be innate) externally: lack of opportunity and systemic racism for example. What has happened recently, thanks to people like you, is that the left and right have gotten so polarized that they talk past each other in this regard.

The "gay" and "trans" thing works both ways... no, not giving underage kids puberty blockers that can fuck up bone growth and the ability to have children based on the positive affirmation model (which is going away in many of the "more liberal" European countries) isn't genocide.

Uncriticized liberalism leads to progressivism, which seeks accelerationism as much as any far-right ideology.

Short term, AI will be overvalued by managers and will bring a lot of in house work back as things mess up. See the initial push for outsourcing... we got paid a lot to clean up other peoples code until the standards of business got worked out.

Long term there will be a floor / ceiling issue. The floor for writing basic code will be lowered, and the ceiling for reviewing the code will be higher. Vibe coding doesn't exactly give you experience in memory management that you might need to make sure there aren't memory leaks in the code.