If universes were capable of colliding, then the term "parallel" would definitely be misleading (and inaccurate:-) )

I don't know if it's true in this case, but I think some of these 'training your replacement' scenarios involve a severance package that's contingent on your good behavior...

How can a judge with any level of foresight take a fundamentally subjective human experience, look at another human being and objectively say "Nope, you're not doing it right "??? I wonder if this judge is a religious individual themselves...

Two words: Holey Water :-)

The specs on this arent far from the intel compute stick - i've had two of them, and there are positive/negative aspects to them, but i can't picture why i'd want one of these weakly-performing mini pc's as opposed to my current weakly-performing compute stick thats the size as a chromecast

I almost hate myself for saying this, but i think i agree with you - i think that in addition to "fixing" the system, we also need to be more error tolerant; people (kids, teachers) need the freedom to excel in the areas where their interest overlaps the learnimg opportunities available to them without being treated like ignorant losers for failing to perform on some standardized test that evaluates them against a skillset that someone else has identified as the area in which our country is falling behind.

Brilliant. I'm sure it could be torn apart by a pessimist, but a group of intelligent optimists could totally pull it off, and it covers so many of the loose ends left dangling by the action of sudden legalization.