I don't disagree but the problem is identifying when we jumped the shark. Which I think happened damn near 100 years ago now when the SCOTUS blinked and let a lot of the New Deal happen.

We have now gone so long without 'keeping up with Amendments' in terms of actually enabling the Federal government to do so much of what American's of all political stripes currently view as good/necessary/appropriate it is really difficult to take "Textualism" to the logical destination it really ought to be taken. The 'soft textualism' we get from current conservative wing of the court is probably the best we can really hope for.

If you really for example did a legitimate read of the 9th and 10th amendments, probably half or more of Federal laws are unconstitutional or at least could not be applied to 90% of the instances they are. It would break our society...

This is real problem people who immediately shut down conversations around national divorce, or moving toward greater State level sovereignty as in letting people start thinking of themselves more as "Virginians, Floridians, New Yorkers", etc rather than "Americans" can't accept. We let a 80 years of sloth and neglect pass by as far rigorously applying the Constitution and using the Amendment process for real rather than feel good issues like Senate elections, and as far as keeping the American experiment on course, I am not sure you can get there from here now.

Let's break this down. Setting aside your particular moral views on any of the issues you just mentioned, you basically said people should ignore issues of morality and vote based on what is good for them economically. This is what a lot of mean when we say the political left are not 'good people'. It isnt even about any specific position what it comes down to is you really don't care or value 'goodness' it is ONLY about what you get personally in terms of wealth and security, and ideally in your minds at the expense of everyone else.

If we listened you rsilvergun, chattel slavery would still be a feature of the American economy. You'll deny it of course, and you'll agree salvery is bad but only because parroting some accepted social/moral position is means to end. The entire moral panic is a project too, I mean seriously WTF do think the act of calling everyone who disagrees with you bigots, Nazi's, etc is?

Face it when you look deep in side and ask the hard questions of yourself, you'll find you're really terrible person as are the people you defend and support politically.

"Computer brief me on $subject" is very cool, at least if you had some degree of faith in correctness.

Briefings are by definition going to contain some over simplifications. Something like Marketplace's "Make me smart" is probably a good format for audio to be consumed while doing something physical driving, laundry, splitting logs, cutting the lawn etc..

They patched it rapidly only to have a very similar vulnerability affecting the very same components drop like a day later.

Arguably the patching effort lacked real analysis, that should have been triggered, and got pushed out with the first obvious fix applied. On the other hand leaving users with only the option to implement a workaround that disables ipsec while a full fix is investigated, is also a problem...

I am not criticizing anyone here, disclosure vs time to patch, and regression avoidance in complex software systems is a difficult problem. While it speaks to things like code quality and security priority, I don't think when it comes to large software projects you can really charaterize either of those things with a methodolgy that amounts SELECT COUNT(*) FROM cve WHERE project = ....

Hmm....only up to about $4 or so here where I live in the New Orleans area...maybe a bit more...I bought at Costco yesterday and didn't really look that close at the pump, but was in the $4 range...

How about we just nuke the Congo?

What rubbish.

You must be one of those uneducated because in terms of most of things you mention there kids today have it better than almost all children throughout history, with possibly the narrow exception of those of us lucky enough to be born between the end of WWII and maybe 2001 in the USA anyway.

For anything you wrote there to be sensible we'd have to assume that the above cohort is the only mentally health group of children in most of history.. LOL

There are stupid posts, and there are rsilvergun stupid posts, this is one of the latter an amazingly it isnt even an rsilvergun post...

Even if true - irrelevant.

Why because even in the most affluent districts we still see a long term decline in academic performance. The only conclusion that can be support is driver of our education problems is not 'spending'

This complete bullshit. I have multiple teachers in the family. First through third year teachers work a lot. After that you mostly just refresh stuff a little bit at a time.

As to your whole Vietnam fairy tail also nonsense, but cause it completely neglects the demand side of the equation. It is not like any little town or burg anywhere just build some more schools and added classrooms because there was glut of teachers on the market. Honestly the stuff you post here, is fucking retarded dude, it does not pass even the basic smell test, let alone 10 seconds of google research anyone can do because they are already accessing a website.

So now we return to teacher pay... No you won't get rich, but you get incredible job security, summers off, and PTO during the year, generally solid benefits, and also a very average salary on an hourly basis using actual school days + required in service days. Is that a compensation structure that is ideal for every house hold, possibly not, but that is NOT the same saying they are under paid, in terms of career and time investment vs market value of total compensation.

That and this

We took away accountability because it hurt little Johny's "feels" and Shaikwa moaned it was 'racist'

Which a really good documentary might, simply offer the statement or some analysis to the effect that John and Yoko where conceptual artists and not everything they record offered great insights, but we can take a listen anyway to perhaps gain some insight into their process.... During which for visuals you don't then need to try and represent the conversation, you probably just show them and what their surroundings might have been at the time.

I don't know I have heard the subject materials either but at least on the surface here it seems like perhaps the wrong problem is being solved here. He notes he ran out of money. So was the real problem that he ran of actually interesting material he could produce on his budget said "i have stretch this thing out another 20min here, lets just play this old tape of some conversation that did not really go any place and does not add anything but hey it will run the clock, if play the melody of Imagine in the background his fans will watch anything" which then lead us to "ok now what can I put on the screen to while I play this"

The other question is why would you want abstract imagery to accompany a philosophical conversation?

I don't see how that could ever be helpful in a documentary where we are supposed to be learning about what Lennon and Yoko were thinking.

Either philosophy has some concrete premises that can be shown, and should be to help anchor the conversation or it is going to be ideas of a conceptual nature that does not have an visual representation that people would understand in a shared way.

I fail to see how some machine-generated-acid-trip to distract viewers from what is being said helps anybody.

Wrong again. I am running modern catalytic equipped wood stoves. They are 80% efficent and should be effectively reburning in particulate.

So if anything only slightly dirtier in terms of smoke stack emissions vs the natural gas or propane counter parts, and using a renewable fuel. Similarly my wood lot is great space for wild life and preservation of bio diversity.

I would bet the environmental foot print of my home, and domestic energy use is rather dramatically less than yours.

The "as much as possible" phrase is an unclosable back door; if you want to keep data centers from using bigger wallets to pull power away from residents, you prohibit data centers from being connected to the local power grid; if a data center needs power, it has to provide its own.

"Cocaine back in coke." - why was it removed in the first place?