Interestingly enough if you count out loud your lips won't touch in the middle until you get to a million.

Billion continues that deviation from the lower numbers.

Yep while putting on a show of "doing something".

I don't agree. In fact you could fix a lot of what's wrong without even spending more money to do it than it would have cost to do right in the first place. Modifications to slaughterhouses like having the cows go through a curved passage so they can't see what's happening to others in front of them for example. Obviously you can't fix feedlots without eliminating them, so some things are basically unsolvable, except that we don't actually need feedlots and could eliminate them.

Therefore I'd say the sad fact is that we don't even give a fuck about reducing the cruelty.

You're frequently insulting, apparently without realizing it, which implies that you're a lot dumber than you think you are. Learn not to be insulting all the time if that's not your goal, or continue to be looked down on for people you sound like you're looking down on when you talk to them.

Nobody is less familiar with history than Slashdotters, who think they're smarter than everybody.

This is why average people hate techbros.

False. Learn to read.

What he stated as fact was "nobody is just going to shrug and abandon the lifestyle we have all enjoyed the last 50 years" but that is completely fucking irrelevant and places the blame on the masses whose fault it isn't. They will use what they are forced to use, as always. The people who are deciding what they will have available to them are the culprits, as always.

I take it back. You don't need to learn to read. You need to learn to think.

Are they the exception? Given what we know about shelters, there's no shortage of cruelty. The difference is that instead of enjoying it, we pretend it doesn't happen. On one hand that's better because it's not a celebration, and on the other hand it's pathetic weakling bullshit with people too cowardly to face the results of their own actions. And that's before we even get into how CAFOs didn't even exist before the 1940s or so... Everyone who eats meat (myself included) is funding whole new levels of institutionalized animal cruelty.

It's NOT an advance to PRETEND that you're not cruel.

Tell us more about how you're smarter than the experts who actually did what you say they didn't do

They are truly awe inspiring achievements. It's too bad that if history is any indication, and IBM history in particular, they will be used to murder people efficiently

You cannot solve this problem with advances in technology simply existing. They have to be implemented. We've had solutions which don't require the masses of people to change lifestyle for decades. We don't implement them so that a tiny number of people don't have to change their lifestyles. You're blaming the victims, a favorite slashdot pastime which accomplishes exactly dick.

I have a strange feeling you are against paying off the 13 middle layers between the transaction source and destination. Lots of really good companies sit there in those layers and leech off everyone's existence. Be more sensitive to their needs...even 600kg mosquitos need to eat.

Yeah, but it's $10 or so while a letter is around $0.80.

Were the check for $20 it wouldn't be worth it until you know that checkwashing is a thing.

Our Boomers wrote checks in 1960 so they write checks today.

And the banking sector is lousy with fiscal parasites who are all trying to extract rents from everybody so there is no smooth banking payment system.

Third parties like Paypal are notorious for seizing accounts without due process sp they are avoided for anything substantial.

Where I live Bitcoin Cash is used far more than other electronic payment methods because it just works and avoids all the malevolent third parties.

Oh good, it beats older models! You can be out of date with just the RAM you have already!

Aren't they all about prepping the student for the world and their future in it?

If you're someone who fails at written tests, hope you at least learned that much and go into a field where you don't need to do work similar to that. Ex. don't be a supervisor that has to fill out a lot of paperwork. But if you excel at test taking and book learning, maybe look into something fitting (legal?).

OTOH, if you're someone who doesn't do well with oral exams, learn that and don't go into such jobs. Ex. don't be a sales person.

AI grading will have its place too. There are those that excel at interfacing with LLMs, and that's a skill in itself. If you suck at these, that's good to know too.

For those looking to use the test results to grade students, if they pass any of those (assuming the test isn't horribly flawed), then they probably know the subject matter well enough, or can fake it enough that it's just about as good. For example, if you can fake it on a chemistry test by looking up the periodic chart, that's fine - you can look it up on the job too. FWIW, my personal favorite are tests that allow outside material - like sure, bring the AP calc book and a calculator with your favorite algorithms saved, but you'll need to do the work.

I don't give a shit about Rey or Luke either way, as neither ever existed in the really real world. I'm solely explaining why your argument doesn't make sense even in the context of the goofy-ass pulp sci-fi canon.