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  • Tell me, from your interpretation please, of what “Have mixed classes not based on age, with adults and teens" would look like.

    • Who are the "adults" that are in "mixed classes" that are "not based on age"?
    • Where do these adults come from?
    • How often do these "mixed classes" occur?
  • Those are applicable to this line from the original poster: "Have mixed classes not based on age, with adults and teens."

    We're talking about schools here. Are you suggesting that public school wouldn't happen daily?

    People hired by schools that are going to be in contact with children go through background checks for their past employment and criminal histories. The last thing a school would want would be to hire a child sex offender to be in unsupervised contact with the underage students. Are you suggesting that the school that now has these "mixed classes not based on age, with adults and teens" is going to perform full vetting and background checks on the adult students?

  • People complain that education is not currently working, here is your chance to re-envision it. Build large spaces with welding/3dpriners/car repair.

    Isn't that already part of the public education formula? Vo-tech (Vocational Technical)/JVS/trade schools have been parts of many public high school systems for more than 50 years. Looks like Chicago already has them.

    Have mixed classes not based on age, with adults and teens.

    Your suggesting having unvetted adults casually mixing with teenagers in school on a daily basis? That sounds like a recipe for disaster.

  • I don't know if all states. You can check for yourself. Google yourself by searching for your STATE and COUNTY "voter registration". Find your county's site. Enter your first name and last name to see your registration information. None of these show how you voted though. That is private. In some states you have to choose to register with a party to vote in their primary. So that can show up on this voter registration for party. I don't know if Nebraska requires that though.

  • OMG!!! Burying the lede!!!!!

    Prosecutors also allegedly found videos on his laptop of him having sex with three underage girls from Colombia, none of whom were his wife. May allegedly used an account on the social media platform Mega to send messages to these girls that “consisted largely of arranging ‘meet up’ dates, time, price negotiations, and rules regarding the videoing of sexual encounters, all of which are indicative of sex work,” the court indictment against him stated.

  • But that also wastes a lot of freshwater from dish washing

    I'm going to pick on this one point. A high end dishwasher appliance only use 2.4 gallons (9L) of fresh water, while even average dishwashers use about 5 to 6 gallons. To put that in perspective an 8 minute shower likely uses 17 gallons.

    So dishwashing is a tiny tiny waste, if you can even call it a waste.

  • Study co-author Maitreyee Wairagkar, a neuroscientist at the University of California, Davis, and her colleagues trained deep-learning algorithms to capture the signals in his brain every 10 milliseconds. Their system decodes, in real time, the sounds the man attempts to produce rather than his intended words or the constituent phonemes — the subunits of speech that form spoken words.

    This is a really cool approach. They're not having to determine speech meaning, but instead picking up signals after the person's brain has already done that part and is just trying to vocalize. I'm guessing they can capture nerve impulses that would be moving muscles in the face, mouth, lips, and possibly larynx and then using the AI to quickly determine which sounds that would produce in those few milliseconds those conditions exist. Then the machine to produces the sounds artificially. Because they're able to do this so fast (in 10 milliseconds) it can get close to human body response and reproduction of the specific sounds.

  • The article is disappointing. It appears author of that article only has one narrow view and assumes the rest of the world has the same.

    They buy the most fragile and aesthetically pleasing phones, and complain they are fragile. They advocate for manufacturers to stop making fragile aesthetically pleasing phones, and only make rugged or repairable phones instead. They make an inference that phones should be repairable like cars with accessible parts and non-proprietary tools, but they appear to not know that today's cars have difficulty getting replacement parts and absolutely contain mechanical and electronic proprietary tools to repair the cars.

    Mr/Ms author, if you want a phone that doesn't break so easily when dropped, you can buy such a thing right now. Something like CAT phones:

    ... or other ruggedized Android phones.

    I think the last time I dropped a phone an broke the screen on it was maybe 2007. I don't even use phone cases. If your particular use case has you dropping your phone more, buy one that exists and is designed to take those kind of conditions. There's no shame in that, but don't advocate for an entire industry shift because of just your own use case.

    Smartphones/technology are still incredibly young in the grand scheme of things. Each of the new generation of devices that comes out adds more functionality for features that people want. Until that stops, it doesn't make sense to try to switch everyone to a "buy it for life" approach. My Commodore 64 computer still works, and is very easy to service, however I wouldn't have wanted technology to stop back then just because its a sturdy built machine. Today I have the paper thin laptops with 8 hours of battery and high speed CPUs are not as rugged or repairable as my venerable C64, but I'm quite glad to have the fragile laptop instead.

  • Of all the silly trends this one sounds very benign. They aren't hurting anyone. No one is bullied. They don't sound particularly loud or distracting to others not interested.

    Coin boys, keep doing your thing. Even if I'm not into it, be the most awesome Coin boy you can today.