Well aren't you all preppy and well prepared. I did my chemistry homework in the bus in on the day it was due. Yeah I could not do anything without a deadline looming.

Multiplication tables

Meh. I as always shit at multiplication tabled at school. I'm still probably worse than a good school student, but I actually understand maths, so I can do fast order of magnitude estimates and sanity checks. Precise digits are for calculators.

Chemical formulae including the Periodic Table

I mean you need an idea of what goes where and what that means, but rot memorization of it is kind of pointless. How much does it help knowing Bismuth is a pnictogen? I guess if you work with pnictides a lot you'd probably start to have it down but it's probably not that necessary otherwise.

There is no virtue in learning / doing those in school time.

Some people don't have the maturity (me) or home life to do them out of school. I spent all my time fucking around with code instead...

There are other very homogeneous societies that aren't so great, and some diverse ones that are pretty nice. There doesn't seem to be any real correlation.

You know I'm happy for the UK to not be #1 in the world in this regard.

Schools are making factory workers? Then why did so many schools drop auto, wood, metal, etc classes?

Those are skilled things, factory workers are ideally low skilled and replaceable. That was one of the main points of the factory system and later the American system. You're not skilfully chiselling wood or hand turning machine parts in a factory.

Is it to improve understanding of the required, basic-standards subject matter?

Is it to provide an enrichment opportunity?

Is it work that literally cannot be done in school, like "interview your grandparents about New Years Day 2000"?

Is it to instill good habits that will be needed later when "all work is homework" such as college/university?

The answers to these questions will drive the answer to the question "how much homework should students have, and what should the homework be?"

The video shows one struggling to apply light pressure to a cargo container, and that's it. I'd love to know what their actual capabilities are.

I was offered lens replacement surgery to improve vision, but decided not to. I'm very sensitive to vision problems, and at my age I would need glasses for both reading and computer use anyway.

When Sony eventually turn the servers off, if they don't patch this out, there go all your games.

Netanyahu doesn't care. He will throw us under the bus to get his Greater Israel.

With elections coming up in Israel, this is a dangerous time. Netanyahu needs to stay in power to avoid the consequences of his actions.

Hopefully the move away from oil as fuel will have gained enough momentum by then that it never recovers.

It would be cheaper to just do that, than to deal with the inevitable next oil shock.

Acetylene torch works too. Problem is it doesn't kill the roots, so the weeds come back.

I wish there was something else that is effective, but I haven't found it.

I didn't RTFA but isn't cataract surgery extremely routine? I guess that's why they started with it.

I'm sure I saw something about some British doctors teaching people in Africa to do it. It was super simple and after about a month they had a few people trained up to do it.

If it lowers costs or reduces waste, it could be a good thing.

I don't really care if they are using "inferior" beans as long as they taste the same and deliver the same dose of caffeine.

Random aside, I've been playing UBOAT lately and when your crew are tired you can give them "coffee" so they can carry on working. The same is sanitized, they removed swastikas... And methamphetamine. The German navy (and other military divisions) used to give their people meth to help them stay alert and get through tiredness.

It has nothing to do with diversity. It's simply that the US government is owned by billionaires and does not work for you. Norway's government works for the people.

Their sovereign wealth fund is a good example. Can you imagine anything like that ever happening in the US? It doesn't even occur to most Americans that such a thing is even possible. That's how far down the rabbit hole you guys are.