When I was a kid they taught penmanship too. I was awful at it but then when I was an adult I had a job where I actually had to use those skills and I was glad to have them - same with everything I learned in Home Ec, most the stuff I learned in wood/metal/auto shop, etc. I think all of those classes are extinct now, based on how people talk about school never teaching them anything useful.

Blow a fat cloud on someone else’s desk so their name pops up, bonus points if your teachers suck and blindly punish anyone whose name gets triggered.

we hope this will reduce vaping through social pressure

The social pressure of all of your friends knowing that you’re cool and break the rules?

The whole IP paradigm needs to change. I can accept the logic that IP needs to exist in the first place so that people who invent something can get paid (at least in our current system) - but the term should be shortened to something like five years, or if it’s going to be longer there needs to be a list of events that immediately invalidate it, including the product no longer being legally available. IP shouldn’t be able to be traded between companies like a commodity, and it shouldn’t be able to be locked up to prevent it from going into the public domain.

The days of modular components in cars is nearing an end.

It’s a shame, because with EVs especially modular everything should be a whole lot easier than ever before. I guess it took a decade and a half for governments to force smartphones to be able to be jailbroken or use the same messaging protocol, hopefully we see a similar evolution on EVs where these locked down features get forced onto common standards.

Same. I started learning Linux on a rolling release distro and it was so frustrating having things Just Work one day and then be broken the next.

The best copilot can do is autofill lines that everyone’s written a million times. That’s not nothing, but it aint replacing a human brain any time soon.

amazon cloud CEO reveals that they have terminal CEO brain and have no idea what reality is like for the people they’re in charge of

checks out

Actually all of the TOS films are great.

Ten years before they pulled this. Hopefully the cookers can be used without the app.

I agree, but I just know that someday Mozilla is going to go down and I’m gonna lose my passwords and I won’t even be able to get into my email to reset them.

electric trains are an over one hundred year old technology.

lol. lmao, even.

Bar around the corner of my house is like this. I’ve never been because they’re across the street from a hole in the wall Japanese place that is really, really good, so whenever I’m walking out of my house to eat that’s where I go.

Since the rise of Impossible/Beyond those are the only veggie burgers I can stand. If I want beans then I’ll order beans, ya know?

an unplanned economy

a dictatorship

These ideas are not in nearly as much tension as you think. California is a bourgeois dictatorship (like all other capitalist nations), and the bourgeoisie require the government to forgo centrally planning the economy in order to maximize their exploitation of the people (and therefore profit margins).

They are, but that’s not actually relevant to this discussion.

sudo rm -rf /french/

well you were spreading misinformation so

I can’t tell if you’re talking about .world or .ml and the funny thing is that both of those would accuse the other of being the bad one

better mods

highly instance dependent.