ChickenOverlord
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ChickenOverlord
2d ago
Hadn't heard of that one, but looking into it at least one member of congress served actual prison time over it, so that sounds like a big deal to me.
A lot of people haven't heard about the government (together with Quaker Oats) feeding radioactive oatmeal to retarded kids without their (nor their parents') knowledge for a science experiment but that doesn't make it any less bad.
ChickenOverlord
3d ago
Sisyphus is rolling a boulder towards the Grand Hilbert Hotel. The hotel has an infinite number of rooms, but they are all full, so they may not be able to accommodate him or his boulder.
If you choose to divert him, his boulder will destroy the Ship of Theseus. But the ship has had all of its constituent parts replaced, so it may not actually be the same ship.
Is Sisyphus happy?
ChickenOverlord
3d ago
Or take the unit about other bases than 10. There are only two cases here with any practical relevance -- base 2 to understand how computers work and base 16 which is commonly used to represent binary numbers.
This is octal erasure
ChickenOverlord
4d ago
They might not know how to do things you think are basic, but it's not a problem unless they need to know, and if they never do need to know than the world is better off for it.
The problem is that this lack of knowledge is showing up even in kids pursuing careers in computer-related fields:
"Jamie, pull up that article about gen z kids raised on iPads not knowing what files and folders are."
I feel bad for feeling this way, and I do genuinely wish society as a whole hadn't failed these kids, but there's a part of me that's saying "Whew, I'll be secure in my software development career until retirement, even with the alleged threat of AI replacing me." I feel awful for feeling this way but I imagine there are others here that feel similarly?
I think it's the same feeling that motivates the (stereotype of) boomers going "Fuck them entitled kids." The part of me that's in control, however, is still pushing to fix society in the limited ways I can to hopefully fix things for future generations (I'm in agreement that despite how bad I feel for these kids there's probably no fix for the retard-maxxing for most of them this late in the game).
As far as what those fixes are, they're the same nonsense most of our right-wing denizens have already been harping on here for years (DEI, lowered standards, etc.). So I won't delve into them because I'm sure the other replies have already started that.
Along those lines, I tried an allergy nasal spray for the first time yesterday and it's the single most effective thing I've ever had at relieving sinus pressure (and being able to breathe through my nose). The problem is I read the side effects list after trying it once and apparently cataracts and glaucoma are side effects of regular use, and apparently this applies to pretty much all other allergy nasal sprays as well.
Definitely not worth going blind to get some sinus relief.
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