Chapo_is_Red [he/him]

I agree. That’s a different position though than “never do electorlaism”

It depends what you mean by “work”. While he certainly didn’t see it as sufficient, Marx wasn’t categorically against involvement in electoral politics, so he must’ve seen some “work” in it.

I hate them too. Some people insist they actually increase safety

Unironically, I think there’s upsides for children being under silly and arbitrary rules that they have to figure out how get around.

voicing his own thoughts without prompts

Screenshot showing the machine responding to a prompt

Where can I book tickets?

They weren’t built with slaves

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/jan/11/great-pyramid-tombs-slaves-egypt

Aren’t most computer scientists more like technicians or engineers than actual scientists?

The modern revisionists and reactionaries call us Stalinists, thinking that they insult us and, in fact, that is what they have in mind. But, on the contrary, they glorify us with this epithet; it is an honor for us to be Stalinists for while we maintain such a stand the enemy cannot and will never force us to our knees.

Make booze

He illegally modifyied a couple embryos in a way he claimed would make them resistant to certain diseases and subsequently artificially inseminating them (with consent).

He was sentenced to 3(?) years in prison by China and lost his job.

Not sure where he’s working now or what kind of research.

Not to mention all the bs around science publishing, like not publishing negative results

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Most of the time, folks who become teachers don’t have a million dollar career as an alternative.

duty to disobey unlawful orders

How often does this happen?

My last Xiaomi phone cost me 200USD and lasted over five years. Screen started intermittently not working and bought a new one.

Love the about page with the big Lenin pic

He’s partly right. We wanted to just punish cyber truck owners, but couldn’t only target them and decided the first two groups were acceptable sacrifices.

I really doubt homeschooling has much to do with it. Some subset of every gen is good with tech.

The one homeschool kid Im working with this semester is terrified to use the telephone. Their entire experience in home school education was largely sitting in virtual classrooms

Its definitely not all students and, in reality, I believe every generation has been deskilled to diff degrees. So, while these skills are noticeably worse with Gen z than it is with millennials, many young people I meet come to college with some or all of these skills.

So I think you could go with a less extreme intervention lol