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Comment oh, pish, schools always resist any reforms (Score 0, Troll) 69

Schools always walk back any attempts at reform, successful or not, because they're seeking the cheapest possible solutions. Most of the attempts at reforms were harebrained in the first place, but even the ones that work are liable to be thrown into the dumpster. They'll drop the new failing system and return to the old failing system, because success doesn't seem to actually be part of what they're aiming for.

It is painfully obvious that technology is all around us and everybody needs to be familiar with it. Computers are rich and powerful tools. Obviously, you can use a saw either to make a house or cut your toes off, so you need to know enough to avoid doing the latter if you meant to do the former. The fact that some idiots are going to saw their toes off is not a reason to outlaw the use of saws.

Stop being so bloody timid and learn how to use computers without damaging yourself. You can't possibly afford to keep technology out of the classroom. I don't care if your great-grandpa did just fine learning to write on a handheld chalkboard, this is not 1920. If there's any problem with teaching kids how to use computers, it's that keyboards and chunky displays may seem much like chalkboards any decade real soon now.

Comment Everybody panic! Screens are like witches! (Score 0) 63

Witches, I tell you! And the Bible commands us to murder witches! ...although, come to think of it, it doesn't say a word about screens.

SCREENS ARE WITCHES! ...come to think of it, the Bible also recommends murdering your children if they're disrespectful, so sometimes I wonder about that thing. Still.

WITCHES!

Comment "Give users a high" (Score 1) 58

I dunno, that seems like a clueless thing to say. We're talking about psychedelics, here. They certainly do interesting things to your mind but, doing acid just doesn't seem remotely similar to smoking a joint or shooting up in search of the warm fuzzy-buzzies that constitute a "high". Psychedelics are not recreational in the same sense.

Comment I think I took this poll (Score 1) 127

...or possibly just one like it. It excluded concepts such as news aggregators. I get my news online, and most of it comes from established media, but I'm not following any particular site. I go through news aggregators such as Google News, and I can count on the hot stuff to be repeated on Reddit ad nauseum.

Whether aggregators were deliberately excluded from the poll is unclear. They could just be clueless.

Comment Re:Ebb and flow .... (Score 1) 156

Right now in America? The reality is, apartment and condo dwellers typically have no good option to charge an EV at home.

Well, that could be a problem, seeing as apartment and condo dwellers typically have perfectly good options to install their own oil wells and refining plants. Right?

This may come as a surprise to you but, you can recharge EVs at service stations, just like old-fashioned combustion vehicles.

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