The bias "debate" is a false one. It's real purpose is just more gaslighting in an attempt to discredit all forms of journalism.

Everyone has a bias. It's human nature. The real question is whether or not the reporting is factual. There's always going to be a spin, and if you can't at least tolerate it, then your opinion is not mature enough to be considered.

"Oh, The world has no place for me? Well, I have no need for it then." - The serfs.

Only takes one match for the kid that the village rejected to burn it down to feel it's warmth. That match can take many forms, and not all of them require attacking the owner class directly.

On the Enterprise..... /s

Seriously, Reading Rainbow was good series for kids.

If the parents have no power despite being the ones to choose the politicians who write the legislation that the teachers must abide by, then what do you call the teachers' position?

The real issue is the perceived helplessness of the parents. They could choose to vote in favor of politicians that would allow the schools more leeway in disciplining students, increasing the budgets to address the lack of teachers and tutors, decreasing the number of students per classroom, or allowing students to fail a grade and get held back when they are too far behind their peers to teach all of them at once effectively. The problem is the parents won't, because that would require admitting that they have agency and potentially raise their taxes. Nope it's far easier for parents to claim helplessness and make it someone else's problem to solve: Their kids'.

The parents full stop. By virtue of being the oldest form of media, there's more than enough books in existence that the publishers could stop publishing today, and there would still be something out there for a kid to find interesting. Regardless of tastes.

The parents just don't spend the time or effort required to encourage their children to read. Now you can debate why that is, but the fault ultimately lies with the parents.

That's a lot of text to say that ads are just digital (mind) rape. Which is fitting, given that a lot of the assholes running them seem to actively reject being told "no."

TL;DR: It's not just refusing to play, you need to lock them up.

There was a video that some youtuber did that suggested that Discord was angling toward being a "safe" third party chat service for other (gaming) companies to use.

I.e. Discord handles user (age) verification (though their third party verifier), and all of the other legalities, while providing an easy to use integration API for game developers to just plug in to their games. The idea being that the game developers don't have to deal with GDPR / Online Safety Act style legislation themselves, and Discord becomes a community that's hard to avoid by others. (Due to the networking effect.)

There is money in being that entity.

The real question is what is the world prepared to do about it in response?

The call for a UN Security Counsel Meeting (of which the US - the aggressor / defendant - has veto power over any decision made) in New York (a US city where diplomats have already been banned from attending by the US. - again, the aggressor / defendant ) seems to be a rather poor one.

To be fair to the UN, there have been calls to relocate the UN building elsewhere, perhaps that will come about sooner rather than later as a result of this incident. But more should be done if the world is to be taken seriously. Otherwise, the heads of state for Greenland might want to prepare for an unexpected live fire drill on their capital.....

More like the airlines will lose money that way. There's only so much that a pilot can handle at once. There are very strict procedures that have to be carried out before, during, and after each and every flight. Most of them are safety related, if not just part of the plane's required operations. Meanwhile the airlines run such tight schedules and minimal staffing to the point that they've fought against sleep requirements for pilots in the past, and are actively trying to cut the number of pilots in the cockpit from 2 to 1 for profiteering reasons. (It used to be 2 pilots and a fight engineer, but that engineer position was cut long ago in most airlines with the introduction of digital avionics.)

It it wasn't for GPS they'd have even more work to do. Dealing with the failure, switching over to alternates (even if it's visual nav only), communicating what's going on and keeping everyone (other pilots / ATC / etc.) on the same page, dealing with external pressures from corporate, etc. For pilots, having GPS fail on a routine basis is an unwelcome problem.

That depends on what you means by "cheap game consoles" and "cheap internet".

The internet prices really shouldn't be going up as that provides a direct impediment to the other subscription services that everyone and their dog wants to force everyone else into. More money for ISPs means less money for subscriptions, because you need the internet connection to have the subscription work in the first place.

Modern game consoles are a lost cause at this point. They haven't fulfilled their original purpose of "plug it in and play instantly, no fuss" in over a decade. (Day 1 updates, microtransactions, DLC all over the place, installation of the the game to internal storage / SD cards, etc.) The games themselves don't need a special purpose platform anymore (the consoles) because most dev studios use generic game engines like Unity or Unreal that have the hardware complexities already figured out and dealt with for them. Add in that the cost of these things keeps going up compared to PCs both in terms of initial purchase price and the price of new titles, (Steam sales are a thing), and the consoles have no real* reason to be purchased any more.

One possible avenue for revival of game consoles are the older ones that can have new titles released for them without the original manufacturer's approval. I.e. Game Boy, N64, Genesis, NES, etc. and to a lesser extent the Dreamcast. (Due to aging unique optical media lasers that lack a proper modern replacement.) These can have new titles made for them using OSS devkits, then distributing those new titles online. (Either for free or paid and shipped.) Most of them are out of patent protection and have new reproduction hardware made by third parties for sale too. This can't happen with newer systems due to their use of modern encryption, but for the older ones, it can be a method for smaller studios to make some fun games for widely available and well understood hardware at a fraction of the cost of modern AAA development. Even better, if those publishers can work out distribution deals with some of these old second hand shops, they'll also be able to get some extra exposure. To say nothing of just selling on Steam and bundling a preconfigured emulator with the game.

So there's still options out there for cheap games, and cheap internet is practically a requirement for the economy at this point. (Cue ISPs reading this post, jacking up rates due to lock in, and the lawsuits and backroom (prioritization) deals to follow.) The attention problem should remain for quite a while yet base on that criteria.

*: Nintendo consoles are an outlier only because of their first party exclusives that Nintendo refuses to release anywhere else. A fact not true of other competitors, and one that Nintendo only gets away with because of those competitors having their own hardware offerings. Take that away, and Nintendo is going to have it's core demographic (the wallets of parents / grandparents) revolt due to the extra complexity and physical mess involved vs just buying something on Steam like everyone else in the industry expects.

Nope. The argument isn't about inflation, it's about feeling superior to those beneath you. Those with money and power are not going to give it up without a fight, because at the end of the day they need someone to look down upon in order to feel good about themselves. The more desperate others are, the better they feel. If everyone had their basic needs met, looking down on them becomes a lot harder. In some cases it's impossible. (Because the other person's happiness far out weighs their own by comparison.)

Hence why you get articles like these from time to time. They're complete BS spewed by those who need to constantly create false justifications for their looking down upon others, often enabled by their own horrendous acts. (A.k.a. "What evil did you commit to get all of this?")

Unfortunately, "anachronism" and complete apathy is the response you get when you train people to only care about how new something is. See also the destruction of various works around the world through out human history.

The issue isn't atrophy, it's "gimme the answer, NOW!" that these kids have been trained to expect since birth. If the answer isn't instant, they won't be satisfied and will either look for a faster "easier" answer, or loose interest.

In cases where losing interest isn't an option, such as a test, they'll either leave it blank, or fill it in with random garbage. (If you don't know the answer use "b" or "c".) Again, the point for them isn't to get the correct answer, the point is to give an answer that they can instantly regurgitate and then move on with their lives.

Even worse, knowing the correct answer, or being able to derive it on their own, is itself seen as "a useless skill" because they have their phones and the internet. (And now ChatGPT, the "teacher" that never makes them think or have to work out the answer on their own.) Despite having the phones taken away from them, and now being directly confronted with the inability to do something as simple as "read a clock on the wall", they view it only as a minor setback that will correct itself after 3:00 PM, (whenever that is), and therefore they still don't need to learn or try.

Their inability will be the death of them. If not because of the lack of a phone, then because anything that ChatGPT can regurgitate is such low hanging fruit that other countries will run circles around their economy before they ever get a prototype built. Of course that's assuming that ChatGPT will be able to get the raw data needed to regurgitate an answer, because as their country becomes less and less relevant on the international stage, their LLMs will have less and less international data processing agreements to siphon from. Leading to a chicken and the egg problem, that they'll turn to ChatGPT to try and find a solution for....

TL;DR: Instant answers are bad mmkay?

There's nothing to relearn. These idiots are just grabbing at power, which they'll conveniently reign back in right before the other guy takes office.

FYI: This is the reason you have real leftists calling for who ever wins in 2028, (assuming we even have elections then that aren't rigged), to do the same with no remorse. I.e. Let the Republicans have to "clean up" after 4 or 8 years of a far left agenda being implemented without any of their usual impedance allowed, like they are doing now to Democrats.

Of course, this happening is only going to further the political divide, but it's not like anyone cares until the shooting starts so....(Which it will. Republicans then won't show the same restraint as Democrats are now.)

In India, maybe. Of course that's going the way of the dodo too thanks to ChatGPT. There's no Americans being hired for that position.