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Cake day: August 12th, 2024

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  • If I’m going outside for a minute to do something real fast what is the point of putting on all the layers and shitting around with it. Hell even when I go to the grocery store I spend 30 seconds walking from the warm house to the shelter of the car with heat, and then car to warm store. The only real threat is if your car breaks down… and no one is around somehow. If I were going outside for an hour, sure a jacket is needed, but I just don’t bother most time.

    I’d rather not have to carry it around in the store either. So I just tell myself that my body has to work harder to stay warm when I don’t wear a jacket, so it’s a weight loss benefit haha… same excuse I use for why I refrigerate my water instead of drinking it from the tap. Think I did the math once and it works out to about 2 pounds a year your body would burn having to bring refrigerated/ice water back down to body temperature. (Really I just like cold water better )





  • It’s just online school. If you don’t answer the questions you can’t go to the next sections. If you don’t progress you wouldn’t pass. If you don’t pass school you get held back… Parents who work wouldn’t sign their kids up for online school as they would get arrested for leaving their kids home alone. Some kids do well in it, a lot don’t. The kids that do well in it will get ahead quickly. Likely could finish a year early for those 4 years. Is that good? Debatable… but these things existed before this “slap the name AI on it” craze started. I knew some kids that were doing it in 2018 because hurricane Michael destroyed their school. And then many switched to it when covid started. Nothing really sounds any different here other than the AI being labeled on it.


  • I don’t think the AI is actually teaching anything. Sounds like the courses exist and are written by people. Then a program just presents the content to them, and it has a set of questions. The only thing that sounds to be maybe AI about it is that if they get a question wrong the computer will give them an easier one next. Meaning someone categorized the questions into hardness levels and likely groups that were similar to ensure it could swap them with an easier/harder question pertaining to the same concept. Really it could just be done with an if statement. Maybe they think saying it is being taught by AI is to make people feel like someone is paying attention to their kid… When really they are just left by themself. We could have done this 20 years ago… but maybe we thought better of it back then.





  • I’m sure our opinions differ on many things, but this reminds me of when I get on rants talking about how things could be better as well. I hope you know you are loved by those you will never meet, and please keep trying to see that light and hope. It doesn’t look like the class war is going away any time soon, so punches will keep coming… just please keep standing back up. Maybe one of us will win a billion+ dollar lottery somehow and build a sanctuary city in the middle of nowhere where we can start it all fresh, build it ethically, set up our own healthcare system for the growing city, therapy and help for those coming in and our own policing force to ensure our safety. Ban the construction by large corporations, gas powered vehicles from entering the city and set up public transportation and ensure most of the city is set up walkable without need for cars so everyone can safely and quickly reach their destinations.

    Eventually have just a safe haven where we recycle the initial funds only spending the investments on its expansion. As businesses make money and people are healthier and happier, other cities would likely try to copy some of those things to dispel people leaving there and try to make their own cities nicer.

    Hope you have a wonderful life stranger : )








  • Congress holds the checkbook. Nothing any part of the federal government does is funded by anyone unless they write the metaphorical check.

    News about the world is important to have without it coming from private money, just as news from private money is important to have so it isn’t all coming from the governments money.

    Other instances of money being used in this way is PBS. So, Mr. Rogers, Reading Rainbow, Sesame Street, Arthur, The Magic School Bus, Wishbone… all aired on TV for the American populous because Congress wrote a check.