So your argument is "we can bigly suck because YOU guys also bigly suck"?

The thing about adopting evidence-based policy is that you also need to review and if necessary change policy when more evidence becomes available. The kind of situation you're describing would surely qualify.

Compared to what was available before, it is quite impressive.

The negative feedback is prompted by the fact that AI is constantly being shoved into every one of our orifices 24/7 by every vaguely tech-related company as if it was the second coming of Jesus. To justify that amount of social pressure, it would indeed have to be quite a bit better than it actually is, and that's why people aren't impressed.

Again, you're being willfully obtuse by taking a "very loose definition" of what (or, rather, does not) "probably" constitute "ultra processed" and attacking on the details. Everything on your list (again, other than coffee and tea, along with some spices) has been "produced at home" for millennia, and the things on your list that haven't don't have anything to do with whether they could be, but only the geography of where they could be. Just like your follow up "but I don't have land" bullshit.

"Milk" is not an ultra processed food (or, rather, it doesn't have to be). Something containing "red dye #5" is. You need a factory and a complicated supply chain for the red dye #5, but not for the milk. See how easy that was?

With regard to your follow up WRT cheese, come the fuck on. Cheese is nothing more than a way of preserving milk. You can make some in your home today, and the knowledge required to do so can be obtained by watching a five minute Youtube video. Really, five minutes. That's all. Will you have Le Grand Gruyere? No, you'll have farmer's cheese, or ricotta, or mozerella, or maybe a nice gouda if you're feeling frisky and want to wait a bit.

until they pass the basics. If they have to take remedial courses, so be it. Graduate at 21 if necessary.

in rot mode now. No better evidence than more than half of the US voted for the orange one.

This 'splains it:

TFA: "One of the course's tutors noted that students faced more issues with "logical thinking" than with math facts per se. They didn't know how to begin solving word problems."

One's gender shouldn't be the govt's fucking business at school. Tell the Talibanjelicals to keep their religion to their OWN asses, I don't believe in your Fox Jesus.

You mean, why does Linus keep agreeing to be interviewed, and then reply to straightforward questions with the obvious answers?

What would you rather he do? Refuse to be interviewed, or maybe make up unexpected answers just to be edgy?

Most of your list could be "produced at home" by most people. Tea and Coffee are the largest problem on the list, but the only reason is geographic and not "processing" related. I'm pretty sure you know that, though, and are being purposefully obtuse for some reason.

Splitting isn't a perfect solution, but better than what we have now. Lincoln made a mistake, should have let the South go. Sanctions could be used by both Europe and the North half to expire slavery.

If his new partner is okay with Ice Lady, I see no real problem. It's their issue, stop bothering them.

Software-based patents should be tossed, they cause more problems than they solve. It only enriches lawyers and judges.

Canada has troglodytes also. Via the Webtubes they get much of the same fake news MAGA and Q does.

Fucking troglodytes like the "good ol' days", with (preventable) plagues and locusts. Time to split the USA, otherwise these neanderclowns will drag us into their lead-filled trailer park.

Has anything actually stored hashes in /etc/passwd in the last thirty years?