That's the dumbest thing I've read today.

It has a Day of the Tentacle vibe to it.

https://kingdomsofthedump.com/

I had a solar powered calculator in 1980 or so.

Kennedy somehow in charge of a country's health direction is the last thing I would have imagined. But here we are. Bizzaro world.

If you think avoiding vaccines for you and your children is in your best interest then stay the hell away from the rest of us. You'll soon have plaque colonies that will welcome you with open sores.

Chromebooks suck. Just another attempt at trying to get more sales and user's sweet, sweet private data to monetize.

I always viewed the problem with math instruction as having no correlation to the real world. Word problems, i.e. "one train leaves the station heading west, another east, at different speeds, yadda yadda" is mind-numbingly boring. One of my courses was basic game programming. When I would whip out Pythagoras to show students how it could be used for collision detection and distance ranging their eyes lit up. All of the sudden math became relatable. Of course most of the time I had to take a few extra days to reteach these kids the Pythagorean Theorem and SOHCAHTOA because they quickly forgot it as they saw no use for it in the real world.

This is why many are leaving the teaching profession. These "studies" conducted by the PHDs when implemented and then ultimately fail are never, ever their fault. It had to be the teachers that somehow weren't up to the challenge of understanding and delivering the information correctly. Since the year 2000 teaching has increasingly become more convoluted and confusing because of political and PHD meddling. No Child Left Behind was the catalyst for this clusterfuck we now have today. The other problem is most administrators never wanted to be teachers in the first place. They quickly get their Master's degrees and certifications to leave the classroom as quickly as possible. I witnessed this first hand a few times. Then these sub-par former teachers are now somehow supposed to instruct and evaluate actual good teachers in methods of teaching. It's infuriating. To correct this a teacher being considered for an administrator role needs to have a minimum of 15 years in the classroom in my opinion. This would filter out the mustangs and poor performing teachers just looking for the quickest path to administration. Common sense is at an all time low.

In all my years teaching I never encountered a "dumb child". Instead what I encountered were parents that should not have had children in the first place. A child's home environment has everything to do with their ability to succeed and prosper.

And who was it that initiated this "education experiment"? Was it the teachers themselves. No. It was the PHDs and administration of course. You know, those who know more than the teachers teaching the subject. I left teaching after 18 years because in that time I went from having the ability to create the curriculum that actually taught the students skills, to being told which objectives must be taught to pass the state mandated tests to ensure the sweet, sweet funding the administration so desperately wanted. Toward the end it was memorize, memorize, memorize ... now take this test. Ok great, forget all that. Now memorize, memorize, memorize for this next test. Good, that's out of the way. People learn very little through rote memorization that is to be regurgitated and then forgotten in favor of the next state test.

The land of facades.

"did not conduct a legal review to determine if the purchase of Americans' travel data requires a warrant." - Whoever made this statement needs to be fired now. Of course you need a warrant to access any citizen's data, of any type. This over-reaching bullshit needs to stop.

That's one of the reasons ad blockers were created, to block the bullshit.

It's too bad the Internet was never designed with a reset button.