I can tell that you have no idea what you're talking about because the vast majority of public K-12 school funding is through local taxes, not federal funding. The federal government has almost no control over it so they can't cut funding. If you look at the actual spending on a per pupil basis it's gone up significantly in red and blue areas alike.

The percentage of students enrolled in private schools tends to be slightly higher in blue states as well. The biggest private schools tend to be Catholic (or other religious) schools that aren't that expensive. There are also many states that have charter schools that perform better for less money than the public schools, so it's not a money problem.

The U.S. should invest in expanding the number of charter schools. The real problem is that the public school system has very little competition and therefore no reason to improve. When Sweden expanded charter schools they found that the public schools performed better as well because they had to provide better service.

When all children are left behind, no child is left behind. The system has become too paralyzed in trying (and failing) so hard to never fail a student or even make them feel like they might be, that they're failing all of the students collectively.

If that were the case why wouldn't they already have done this? It's less expensive to hire an Indian working and living in India than it is to hire an Indian H-1B worker in the U.S.

America was born from a tyrannical government. The 2nd Amendment was put in place to enable The People and prevent that shit from infecting the new country. It’s the world’s most infamous lesson learned. Regardless, weapons for simple survival long outdate America or their need for an anti-tyrannical Constitution. As did the simple justification of defending one’s self and family from ANY type of harm. Again, Mother Nature only needs instinct to kill you and anyone you love. Life is worth defending at all costs. Has been for centuries now.

The irony of you assuming that was a valid retort, is hilarious. You’re damn right I’m bringing a gun to a drone fight, which are still no match for 100-year old shotgun technology. Not to mention those cavemen humans deploying EMP, laughing at “modern” warfare naming itself Project Achilles. If you want infallible, it’s found in timeless. If you want cool, it’s found in the hacked pile of long-forgotten.

First, the email server went into the O365 cloud. Then the file server followed. All in the name of saving money.

And NOW you’re concerned about “them” getting their hands on the IP? As if they don’t already, by thy own cheap-ass hand?

(No. I’m not going to pretend full end-to-end-encryption-at-rest is protecting secrets. Mainly due to the 95% chance none of that shit is in use. Because, cheap-ass.)

I can access any LLM that I want with my browser.

Why would I need one embedded in my browser?

Um, yeah ... I wish it were just a play. You assassinated your political opponent.

Do you really believe all this stuff that you spout? Kirk didn't talk like that.

I don't think that they ever will invade because Taiwan might retaliate and blow up the Three Gorges Dam. The devastation that would cause isn't worth gaining control of Taiwan. Instead they'll try to exert soft power to gain control in a more diplomatic fashion. Even if they believed Taiwan couldn't pull that off or that they could stop any attempt, any invasion doesn't guarantee control of valuable resources. Im sure TSMC has someone whose job it is to take a hammer to all of the machines if an invasion occurs. Being willing to destroy the things your enemy wants to seize and letting them know that you'll do it can also do a lot to dissuade aggressive actions as well.

China isn't stupid and after spending the last several years watching Russia destroy itself as much as Ukraine, I can't imagine they're looking to put themselves into a similar situation.

Making something small and compact can easily be more expensive than a product without those constraints. The resolution on most phone displays is close to as good as that on many laptops or even desktop displays. It's more difficult and hence more expensive to make a high PPI touchscreen display for a phone than to make a larger desktop monitor with the same resolution. Boards don't need to cram everything into as small of a space either. A laptop doesn't need to contain a cellular modem/baseband either.

Apple already makes iPads that are much larger than their phones, but also cost much less. I'm more surprised that they would do this because it means that they're cannibalizing some of their own Mac sales that are sure to have better margins. Their phone SoCs aren't that much less expensive than their basic M-series SoCs. Either these are compromising a lot on less expensive components across the board and are being positioned as a more expensive iPad replacement or they think they can sell enough of these to make up for lost profit from purchases of other Mac models.

You're not wrong, but this is a website populated mostly by that 1%. I suspect that most of the people here do upgrade components or build their own PCs from parts.

You'd have to pay me to take it. I don't like ads on my television or my computer, so why would I want them anywhere that never not existed previously? If they are willing to pay me, then I'll take a few million fridges. If they were free, I'd take them as well. They'd look lovely lining the ravine near my house.

Remember - the Federation reserved the Death Penalty for making AI Androids.

Noonian Soong had to exile himself to a remote planet outside Federation control to work on Data and Lore (and his sexbot...).

They needed people to be able to have jobs *that* badly.

Which ... stop sending redshirts outside the ship with magnetic boots in a radiation storm, OK? They could have at least had some astromech droids. Sheesh!

I recently got a "plastic" target that changes color and the holes mostly self-heal if you don't use a hollow-point.

Good for plinking but they do wear out eventually.

I didn't even know this material existed before a buddy told me they were on Amazon. Amazing times, for sure.

Heck, I picked up some 100-lb test fishing line the other day that is some sort of braided heavy-chain polyethylene that is 11 times stronger than steel wire at the same size. The company made mechanical spinnerets to mimic spiders' to get it to work.

Again, I had no idea until a buddy told me it was $20 on Amazon.

Wild.

Back in the day we'd install wild boards that would upgrade the Mac CPU's by a generation or two, add FPU's, etc.

All of this depended on the systems being too expensive to replace or buy new except once in a blue moon.

At $600 which is probably $200 in 1986 money, it's a bit harder to be mad.

Those systems were probably $10K in 2025 dollars. Heck, a few were $10K in 1986 dollars.