The sad thing is there are now far more resources for learning than ever before. I used to have to go to the library and look through microfilm.

Now we have Wikipedia, which is better than any encyclopedia. If you want to know how to reroof a house, there are hundreds of videos available about that.

A more important problem is that often the teachers don't find the material interesting.

If the teacher actually enjoys the book 1984, they can teach their students to enjoy it. That kind of teacher is a good teacher.

Your boos mean nothing!!

Stanford grads aren't idiots, though. They have at least a minimal level of intelligence.

You're talking about what AI might be in the future, not what it is now.

It is extremely important to make that distinction.

More than one study suggests we're past the tipping point for Kessler syndrome: https://www.bbc.com/news/world...

Nah I just typed the wrong word and meant Starlink.

In some LEO altitudes, objects can take 50,000 years on average to clear out due to orbital decay. At the Earthlink altitude it takes 10-20 years on average for an object to de-orbit.

Because the number of objects increase dramatically every time there is an explosion/collision, we have likely already hit Kesler syndrome. That is, even if we don't launch anything else, the amount of space junk will just keep increasing. (You would know that if you'd bothered to read the Wikipedia article).

Scientists used to think that space junk would clear because of the atmosphere, but that hasn't been thought true for thirty years or more. There is probably no way to avoid Kessler syndrome now.

Oh come on, green is a very beautiful color. It's probably Biden's fault.

Someone needs to let Trump know that the best way to clean algae from a fountain is to add laundry detergent. Lots of it.

That's a little extreme, some are better than others. Last time I went to Los Gatos DMV, even though it was a bit farther away. Much more pleasant than Santa Clara DMV. Next time I'll probably go to Capitola DMV, even though it's rather far. I'll visit some nice restaurants while I'm there.

Ships have been floating through the Straight of Hormuz for a month or so now, and Iran hasn't been able to do anything about it. They tried.

https://www.politico.com/news/...

The memory leaks that never get fixed. They've gotten a *little* better lately, but FF still sucks down memory from time to like like a process gone rogue. The about:processes page generally don't tell you which tab, but only confirm you do have a problem.

FF just stops working on some pages from time to time while the pages work in Chrome.

Lately there have been more *extras* that have been thrown in, stuff that really doesn't belong in a browser and I have to go hunting to turn them off (e.g. I didn't ask for that weather pop-up and I'd swear I turned it off before but maybe that was on the work computer). Most of the time there is a setting but sometimes you have to go into about:config to really stop them. Their "DNS on HTTPS" broke a few sites at work which was mystifying until I found it and turned it off, because it prevented finding local servers. None of these things is large individually (not even Pocket because it was easy enough to ignore), but it's a large number of annoyances ... as in "death by a thousand cuts".

There are a number of defaults that are annoying, made more annoying because there used to be a setting to control them and make them better (like controlling upgrades) ... but those settings were removed. So now if you're lucky you have to do things to a userContent.css file to "fix them"; or if unlucky then there is no fix. And then FF keeps changing the names or something for no obvious reason because those settings break, and... (it never ends).

Found a icon up top the other day, to quickly bring up extensions, as if the option in the Tools menubar pulldown wasn't good enough. Since I almost never bring up extensions after I do the initial customization I tried to remove it and ... you can't. Why not?

The thing about FF is that it's generally better than Chrome in that you generally have at least some choice ... cue the topic of this article which is a big negative and "kills the user" in 1 blow. OTOH, FF likes to "kill the user" with a thousand little cuts. So with FF at least you survive a little longer, disliking it the whole time.

Surely it's Ahmad Vahidi, head of the IRGC.

I like your concept that the negotiations are aimed at driving wedges between the factions in Iran. Certainly, agreeing to a deal this week requires the IRGC to show their hand at least.

If the Iranians understand what Trump is up to, they are more astute than I am.

I have no fuckin' clue what Trump is up to until he does it.

It's really hard to know what is going on inside Iran right now. Last year, good data was hard to come by (like reasonable polling data). This year it's even harder.

AFAICT the president of Iran has always been more of a figurehead. Do you think that has changed?

Yes.

You have a low IQ, you can't read, and you somehow think that it matters if an attack against America happened on American soil or not.

You may have a high IQ, but you don't have much ability to put together a coherent thought, thus again proving IQ tests are partially useful.

Yes, they have. You didn't read the link I gave you, so I assume you have a low IQ.