Simple minds think that understanding something implies support, and the fact that you think smart people don't get taken in by cults shows that you know as much about cults as you do about AI.

OK, but which people do you hold accountable here? Almost certainly the wrong ones.

Or talking Catholics out of supporting child molestation

The only people who don't balance the budget are Republicans, the only people you don't hold accountable are Republicans, here's your map clown

The government doesn't even want to inspect lettuce, stupid maggot.

I made your point by showing that you're a clueless idiot? Why would you be trying to make a point of telling everyone you are a clueless idiot ... twice now, no less?

You would think the red states whose bills we pay could feed those people instead of driving them out and having them come here, but if you did, you would be pathetically wrong.

We cannot feed the whole fucking country unless we get to stop sending Uncle Sam our hard earned money so he can give it to Israel and blow up fishermen with it

Google maps is basically half ads and you can't make them just fuck off, they keep popping up. I'm looking up mileage, I don't need restaurant recommendations.

There is context there you are willfully ignoring, but since ignorance is the basis of racism that's not surprising

Yes, refusing to vote for Harris because of Israel was just voting for faster genocide with no hope whatsoever, so people who did that are stupid.

But I also understand losing hope.

Harris couldn't even bring herself to condemn genocide even though she clearly knows that's what it is, she ALMOST did but her campaign made it very clear that she did not.

So no, Harris is still crap. And yes, I voted for her, because I'm not a fucking moron and I know how first past the post works. But I didn't do it because I wanted to. I just didn't want to vote for the worst person imaginable.

Its generally all been published -- "real published" not "self published". And a lot of it has won various notable Canadian awards. These are not he highest bars by far but it does generally reliably filter out the stuff that's actually "poorly written". Again, I think you are being too hard on it and letting cyncism color your subjective review. Sure it may not hit the new york times bestseller list (for many reasons) but its not nearly as bad as you make out.

You've had some bananas teachers in a school/district captured by bananas administration it seems. My kids have not experienced that kind of crazy. Not every teacher was great, we definitely encountered some "B Ark" people; but overall it was pretty positive and, as I've made plain, I've come away supporting a lot of the concepts of the curriculum, even if the execution needs improvement.

I will say that letting the kids pick their own books is a shitshow. They largely pick the modern equivalent of 'penny dreadfuls' (the literary equivalent of pablum) and worse they'll pick the same books every year, because that's even less work for them. Sure they should be encouraged to read a couple books of whatever they want and write about it, but forcing them through a curriculum of curated books is worth it. I'd never have read many of the local works nor international classics i was forced through in school if I'd been given a choice. I remember what i was choosing to read at the time - I might have enjoyed it more, but largely, it was NOT "better" quality.

I'm planning on another Moto phone. Too bad about the prices of everything or I would have bought a newer one already. This is a Moto G Power 2021 and it's only now becoming somewhat inadequate. (And only because devs waste RAM...)

Parents have been failing harder as the rate of progress accelerates. A lot of them didn't actually want kids, they were just brainwashed into having them, and it shows. Most of them, it seems like.

They would get data on resale as the IDs show up in different accounts