I think the answer to grade inflation/grade pressure and first semester culture shock is to grade not just on mastery of the material but also the percentile in case everyone has a bad semester. With that in place, make the tests harder so even the best students know where their knowledge gaps are, because a perfect score won't tell you that.

I geoblock many European countries on my websites.

As could Reddit, Google, Apple, Facebook and so on. But they prefer the occasional fines to pulling out of Europe. That's their choice and I think we should respect it.

I'm just a dumb 'Murrican, but maybe Europeans aren't going to stop until they have total government control of every single aspect of their people

Not people, companies. The EU does not have an equivalent to the U.S. Citizens United ruling that declares that companies are people.

Do you think they should?

Moreover, the more you post on Reddit, the chance of getting banned in one or more subs approaches 100%, and the only way around it, at least outside of the EU, is to create a new account.

Or rather knowing that he could cheat if he chose to.

The conventional method of booking a coveted timeslot is to refresh like crazy at the right time, or use a scalper bot. If there's anything virtuous to be said about the AI's solution, it's that it places a much lighter load on the server!

Like somebody breaking into your house when you forgot to lock the door.

It's more like asking the doorman if you may enter and the doorman responds "200 OK" and lets you in.

What should we do about our socialized infrastructure?

Ideally, you want that money circulating in the local economy as long as possible. For example, by paying a bus driver to get you from A to B instead of driving an imported car fueled with imported gasoline.

Or I can spend 20 minutes digging through forum posts and spam websites, trying to find the answers that might be eight links down or not there at all.

...because they've configured the web server to let Google index everything but it's a paywall for humans.

Or the flag keeps their models from training on their own output and helps to avoid model collapse.

Use the waste heat from the data center to heat homes in the winter.

Wait... you mean there were actually people trying to use as many tokens as possible?

Yes.

Because it's easier than thinking for yourself. Ignorance is bliss!

Yes, find the ACH account number on Wiildcat's web site, copy and paste it so you don't make a mistake copying the number, send a small amount, then call the number posted at the same web site to verify receipt before sending the balance.

But there's still a gap in that process wide enough for a scammer to fit through!

I don't know of anyone who says people should be forced to live in cities. But people being able to live close to where they work reduces traffic, and that's a good thing, right?

And making it safe enough for children to walk to the store alone to buy candy or popsicles gives them independence and breaks them out of a sort of suburban house arrest that I didn't have to live through as a child and so why should they?

That said, I wouldn't want to live facing a noisy street but rather tucked behind a building to act as an acoustic shield. And preferably more than 300 meters from any major road.