It should be obvious why private/charter schools do better with less funding, they can be selective about who is enrolled.

When I was in high school in the 90s, the top football teams in the state were all patriarchal schools because they could actively recruit and give out scholarships. While these schools may not be very expensive, they are far more expensive than the $50-$100 in fees a family would pay for this child to be in a public school.

When private/charter schools cherry pick from the best applicants, it simply leaves the public schools with the leftovers.

Here in GA there is a proposed data center in the site of a logging operation and they have asked for a much power a the local utilities can provide. But I'm pretty sure charging my EV overnight at home once a week is the problem.

I'm more active when there's more sun in the evening.

At this point it's basically dark at 8pm and I'm on the western portion of the time zone. It would make me sad to lose all daylight after dinner for 6 months of the year.
I'm all for eliminating the time change, I'd simply prefer to have the extra hour of sun later in the day when I'd get a chance to enjoy it.

Or interstates often have 70mph limits unless close to a larger city where traffic picks up. The 2 lane highways normally top out at 55mph. Most places the police don't care if you're going around 7mph over the limit at those speeds.

My home town had one downtown where entrants had right of way. When I learned to drive, that was the only experience I had. It had been that way for decades. Luckily a few years later they changed it to reflect the more common pattern.

I think you have to also place blame on the politicians who refuse to find common ground on assisted suicide.

We're allowed to euthanize our pets when they suffer but it's murder if we make that choice about grandma.

All GOP members that had morals were forced out during the last couple election cycles. I may not have agreed with many of their stances but I could at least respect not selling out.

Not true. Anyone with ad blocked has to figure out exactly what disabled teachers is required to stream from any site, legit or not.

As broadcasting has become more segmented for sports, i watch less. I enjoy watching football and hockey on TV but I'm not going to pay for 4 different streaming services to catch games. Luckily my work paid phone plan includes MAX which helps out some.

Isn't this just a bunch of rejected crypto bros? What's the chance there even is a 2nd generation?

Yes - quite aware. And as someone who has taken a reasonable amount of flights over the past few years, I've never seen someone openly listening to music or taking a phone call while the plane was in the air.

Just calling out BS when I see it. "We Canadians would NEVER be impolite but we'll definitely pretend we're better than everyone else"

I'm surprised the plot for the next game in the franchise has already been leaked considering the 2nd one was a recent release.

Yikes - the arrogance is hard to avoid.

So it doesn't happen in Canada but immediately you say that you witnessed it once. *eye roll*

I've been on dozens of flights in the US over the past couple years, not once did I encounter a person playing music without the use of headphones. Once the flight lands, some will start making calls at that point but I've seen that happen in Japan and in Germany during international travel. I'm sure if I flew into Canada there would be Canadians getting on their phones after landing.

30 years ago the technology was ramping up much quicker than today meaning the next gen consoles from the competition was looked and played far superior.

Then you take into account the inflation adjusted cost for those new units, of course they had much more "room" to drop the price.. components probably got much cheaper and production efficiency gained. I use to manage component procurement for mass production, we'd expect our suppliers to get better cost efficiency each year after production began due to process improvement and asset depreciation. Now I'm just talking 1-2% cost reduction each year but electronics in the 80s were probably seeing 10x the improvement year of year.

I don't normally poo-poo on other folks statistical analysis but the writer doesn't sound like someone who grew up during the console wars eras. There will always be early adopters but the technology improvements aren't advancing as quickly anymore and there's less pressure to upgrade.

A coworker went to Japan for the first time recently. He came back and told a story about vending machines that dispense beer.

He asked one of his colleagues in Japan "What stops teenagers from getting beer from the machine?"

In a very matter of fact tone, the response was "Because they are not old enough."

Even after trying to clarify the question, the response was the same. It was almost absurd to think a teenager would break the drinking law.

If there was one place in the world where this may work, it would be Japan.