Exactly. There are many different learning styles. (One issue I had with school is I don't learn like most people - several learning disabilities/issues - so I'm aware of the differences and how things need to be altered, but for most students, yes, repetition within that first 24 hours is important.)

I haven't been in the classroom since close to the year 2000, so I don't remember the study names. What I do remember is that there were studies, plural - studies, that showed that when you learn how to do a new task or learn new information, that using that information or practicing the task within 24 hours increases the chance of it being remembered by a large percentage. That's over 25 years ago for me, and I'm not going to claim it's at a certain percentage, but I know it was WELL over 50%. So if you learn a new process in Algebra, or a new move in ballroom dance, and you don't practice it within 24 hours, you have a lower chance of remembering it. But it was at least over a 50% increase in your chance of remembering it IF you reinforced it by going through it within 24 hours.

I preferred to use homework as practice - not as learning new material (although that might help if it includes reading for the next day's class). I also worked in psych treatment, which meant I taught more than one subject - I had the odd mix of science and math plus English (lit and grammar). So I'd assign reading overnight that gave us more chance for discussion (discussion, not lecture!), and the math I assigned was to use what we had learned in class. For science, I'd actually prefer to assign reading for what we had done that day, compared to what we would do the next day. That way students found the reading easier, it went faster, and they'd bring in a few questions the next day that we could review (before moving on to new material).

When I grew up, I was forced to go to a prep school where we had 3 or more hours of homework a night, plus we were required to stay for some form of athletics, so I rarely got home before 6 PM. With that in mind, I was selective about homework. For the time I was teaching in public schools (as opposed to my time teaching in treatment), the dept. heads and supervisors jumped on me for not giving enough homework or for assigning science material we had reviewed in class - pretty much everything about my homework system offended the dept heads or supervisors.

How is this profitable to them? They sell the same TV all over the world. AFAIK the US is the only company with a monopolist controlling TV listing guides. This monopolist changes them a monthly fee for every active TV, Sony getting no further revenues. I haven't looked in a while but you as a consumer, can also subscribe to this service. I think they want $3/mth from retail customers. I haven't dealt with this in over ten years so I am forgetting the details.

It is because the directory info comes from a US company with a monopoly and they charge exorbitant amounts of money for it and then use copyright to shutout competitors. Tribune Corp used to own it (Chicago Tribune the Wriggly family, those monopolists).

Ads? Never saw that many, now I only see ONE on the page at all.

Guess you haven't heard of Brave and are still being tracked all over the internet,then.

Pretty sure that all taxes are paid by humans in one form or another, I don't think robots are paying taxes yet. Sure you can tax a corporation, but you are just indirectly taxing the shareholders, and they are people too.

You vastly overestimate the taxation capacity of the economy. Go read the fed's papers on optimal taxation and you will see that the US is close to the optimal rate right now. The theory of optimal taxation is to maximize tax collections over time. Sure you can raise taxes a lot right now, but if you do that people stop investing and you lose future taxes. Optimal taxation theory shows how to maximize the combination of current and future taxes.

Since we are sitting pretty close to the optimal number currently, we need to reprioritize spending, not just spend more. Spending more simply increases the debt. Increasing the debt increases interest expense. And the more the government spends on interest, the less it can spend on other priorities.

You need to consider the currencies. The Romans had metals based hard currencies. Try doing this with a fiat currency like the USD and you'll be toting wheelbarrow loads of cash to the grocery store. Look at what is happening in Iran right now with loss of confidence in the currency, 56% inflation in a month.

Total government spending federal, state, local in total is around $10T with $7T of that being federal spending. There are 133 million households in the USA. Now divide. That works out to $75,000 per household per year in government spending. The US median household income is $83,000.

Does anyone really think we need more government spending? Maybe the problem is that the existing spending is not being effectively utilized.

What happens when interest expense exceeds 50% of tax collections? The U.S. government's interest expense consumes a significant chunk of its revenue, recently reaching around 19% of all federal revenue in FY 2025, with projections suggesting it could rise to 27% by 2035. Maybe we can support all of that debt, but we won't have any more government spending programs.

Read the click-bait article carefully. They are not saying real ID is unreliable, they are saying a real ID card can be forged. When there is suspicion of a forged document it can take longer to verify its authenticity.

Well, that isn't too hot. My kiln, in my barn, was running a firing last night that got just about that hot for cone 6 pottery and it can do cone 10, even hotter.

It'll take more than a furnace that can do what the average potter's kiln can do before it sounds impressive.

That has actually been proposed but the physics of it don't work. To make the cable strong enough to resist the extremely high winds it becomes too heavy to get it up the mountain side.

Many commenters don't understand how dangerous the trash removal is. There are human bodies near the summit which haven't been removed.

After a little research drones are likely the answer. They already have them working up to 20,000ft. With more R&D it is possible to make drones which work at the summit and still have lift capacity. Many people are already flying camera drones at the summit.

Pay to have extra sherpas bring up balloons with bags. The balloons have built in thermal source to heat them enough to loft them (or use some other scheme). Launch waste balloons when the wind in the right direction for them to float to the lower elevations. Pay the locals to retrieve them and dispose of the trash. It is slow process but over time it can reduce the waste near the top. Might even be able to optimize with a radio command to drop immediately when over the right area; radio command pops the balloon. These aren't toy balloons. Use balloon which can loft 30-40lb.

This will be cloned in China before they even ship it. Is it for sale on Aliexpress yet?