Says you. I plan on living forever and so far I have been highly successful.

Okay not highly successful but technically I'm not Dead yet. Technically.

They already are. China is ramping up ram production. You won't be able to buy any of it because the big three will make sure that there are 10,000% tariffs on Chinese ram or that it's just plain blocked entirely. Some of it will probably make its way into apples computers albeit through illegal supply chain shenanigans. None of it will be designed to protect national security or the consumer it'll be about maintaining the big three triopoly.

And we will somehow keep voting for the same imbeciles who do this to us every year either because they're really good at pushing our buttons or because we somehow fall for the overwhelming amount of propaganda.

I don't necessarily blame somebody for falling for the propaganda you can't just decide to be smarter. Hell I wish I could just turn up my IQ points at times but I can't. Some people can't see past propaganda anymore than I can understand particle physics.

But the people who indulge in moral panics like transpanic or satanic panic or the freak outs over comics or if you want to go really far back penny dreadfuls. Those people can fuck right off.

So I understand that you can only read at about a fourth grade level because well, you're a bot trained on Americans talking on the internet and all.

But Jesus Christ could we please improve the quality of the bots around here? They are starting to get embarrassing. I frankly expect better technical skills from the sort of person who runs a bot on a dying web forum.

And nobody batted an eye.

Even if you make the argument that one of the eight fired a gun that might have hit a cop you've still got to contend with the other seven who were just at a protest and are now rotting in prison until the day they die unless a Democrat president happens to pardon them, either that or they can come up with a couple million dollars each to buy a pardon from Trump.

I guess what I'm getting at here is you already gave up your civil rights. Or if you didn't then your neighbor did for you.

It is possible you will get them back in two or three years. But is it stands right now you have absolutely no civil rights in this country. At any moment the current administration and the courts they packed with corrupt judges could decide you're a terrorist and you're off to Federal pound me in the ass prison for the rest of your life contingent on the Democrats winning an election and having the political Capital available to pardon you.

So it's not even news that some guy who tried to exercise a basic civil right is going to jail now. If he gets off it will be because he lucked into the unique combination of a judge that wasn't corrupt and a jury who can read above a fourth grade level. And those aren't odds I would want to take.

A very tiny amount of homework can be beneficial. We don't give a very tiny amount of homework. When my kid was in high school which admittedly was going on a decade ago now I think, I mean they just hit grad school for fuck sake also Christ I'm old, my kid had sometimes 6 to 8 hours of homework on a fucking school night.

From what I heard the local chamber of commerce AKA a bunch of asshole rich businessmen who never worked a day in their fucking lives, lobbied the school board to drastically increase the amount of homework. Enough parents complained that they dropped it to around 4 to 6 hours per night. It wasn't uncommon for me to get up to go pee at night and find my kids still studying.

Anyway to get back on track we know homework isn't effective or useful at educating kids. We all have Google you can find the studies I mean I hope you can. Maybe try chat GTP.

But what homework is really good for is when you have a shitload of kids and you have more kids who are perfectly capable of doing useful work for society then you have opportunities you want to bother giving those kids because we don't have kids do useful work for society we have kids do useful work for ultra wealthy psychopathic asshole billionaires.

Basically it's a way to sort people into how useful they're going to be for billionaires. You dump a bunch of work on them and you see which ones break. The ones that don't break get to move on with their lives and maybe have shelter and healthcare and that they're really lucky when they're too old to work anymore we let them die in peace.

It's like the sorting hat from Harry Potter but somehow still even more fucked up and dystopian when you think about it

That is not what they found. What they found is that if you spend 60 minutes doing the homework with AI, you learn approximately as much as someone who spends 60 minutes doing it without AI. If you spend 20 minutes doing it with AI, you learn as much as someone who spends 20 minutes doing it without AI. Etc. The only real difference is that the AI people get way better homework scores, and as a result, tend to stop spending as much time, and thus tend to learn less.

That's what this preprint study found.

100% this. Even a short 5-minute quiz with just a couple questions at the start of each day will do the trick. But you simply can't rely on homework scores to be a proxy of learning or time spent studying anymore. Brief daily quizzes on the previous day's material will force them to.

Also, It's not like students have the excuse of, "I couldn't study, I didn't have anyone to explain X to me" anymore. The very AI that they might otherwise use to cheat on their homework can also explain to them the things they missed in last year's algebra class that are blocking them from learning this year's calculus, or whatnot. Congrats - you now have an infinitely patient personal tutor who will spend hours dumbing things down for you until you get it. Now you have no excuse - learn the material. It becomes all about actually putting the time in.

Yeah. There's been widespread misrepresentation of this (preprint!) in the media. What they actually found: test scores correspond to how much time you spend doing homework, regardless of whether you use AI or not. Which should not be a surprising result! Of course, the AI people, esp. those who had been using AI for more than a few months, stopped spending much time on their homework, and then their test scores fell to match the non-AI users who didn't spend much time in their homework either.

The TL/DR is, in today's age, you cannot use test scores as a proxy of how much time a user is studying or knows the material.

There are of course some caveats, beyond the fact that it's just a preprint - notably that there's nothing to separate why the user started using AI to do their homework, so there's potential confounders in there. For example, if a student is in a poor family, maybe they had to get a job to help pay the bills. But working a job itself can lower test scores - for example, having to work late the night before an exam. So there are some confounder problems with the study. That said, I'm sure the general conclusion is correct: time spent doing the thing = amount of learning the thing (relatively independent of what tools you're using in the process).

Who just spent the last 50 years blowing off democracy for nonsense moral panics and their particular interpretation of some dumb book somehow think that when the screws start to tighten on them that all of that machinery of democracy that they have cheerfully allowed to be dismantled is going to save them.

People like me have been warning people like that for years that eventually the psychopath doing this will get around to them. How George Carlin warned them.

And here we are and all I've got to say is I told you so.

Verifone, Ingenico or another payment terminal provider because I highly doubt Walmart has NFC enabled terminals already and they just have to turn them on. New terminals for every US store, RFQs were flying earlier this year I bet.

True, 3rd time this century would be more accurate.

I look forward to the Dems being blamed for "not doing enough" while they have to always play the role of adults in the room because the other side just wants to fling shit everywhere like apes.

Unless they're going to completely overhaul their POS it's going to be a clusterfuck every time somebody tries to pay with that crap. It already doesn't work at places with much much newer stuff and much better stuff but along the ancient crap Walmart uses. Some of them don't even have tap and pay for Christ's sake.

And somehow I doubt the cheapskates running Walmart are going to pay to overhaul their entire system. So they're going to use a bunch of really old hardware that is really flaky. And I get to sit in line waiting for somebody to give up and pull their real fucking credit card out of their wallet

Hell yeah beat that strawman. You're a real tough guy! Watch out!

I mean so did I but welcome to democracy, we take the good and the bad as a whole, America as a nation chose this. Not once but twice (and those people think 3 times!). We have to acknowledge what we've done and clean up our own mess, which will be left to the Democrats yet again, for the 3rd time in my life.

Wah wah wah, stop whining. All you do is winge.