if a computer was something everyone wanted or needed, it wouldn’t be constantly shoved (in) your face by every product. People would just use it.”

People did just use it. But because they were so comically expensive and complicated, most people couldn’t afford one until the mid-90s.

Computers were rapidly adopted for business, initially. But they quickly became a popular tool for entertainment as well.

AI serves little in the way of either purpose

White nationalism? From the Dutch?! Who could have seen this coming?

Keir Starmer’s going to hang him out to dry for the same reason he’s been unleashing the British Gestapo on all those Grannies with “Palestine Action” banners.

Labor of love, I suspect

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Does the USA educate the same fraction of their population as Sweden?

I guess that depends on how you value “Business School” as an education model.

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I might argue the Vietnam War was what really changed things. Once college became a means of draft dodging, universities filled up with blue collar kids looking for deferment.

Colleges responded by tightening enrollment standards and setting up new barriers to entry, some of which were financial.

It was free until some time in the 1960s when black people started getting involved

Black students, Jewish students, East Asian students… Anyone who wasn’t a WASP with wealthy parents.

George Bush Jr famously had to make Yale his safety school because he couldn’t qualify for UTexas.

The saying at my kids college/university was “A ‘C’ gets a degree”. And while “haha that’s funny” there were many in that group that took that literally and put in the least effort possible.

I’ve been in classes when I could ace the class in my sleep and classes where I busted ass to pass.

Grades tend to be highly subjective, not just by subject or material but by the course instructor and the school’s attitude towards GPA. Sort of a joke that getting an “A” in colleges like Harvard and Yale is easier than Boston College or Ruetgers. You’re de facto assumed smart if you’re in the Ivy League. But you have to prove yourself against the field in these more accessible schools.

Here in Sweden education is free

Free at point of service. But it’s 7% of Swedish GDP, with all of that coming from public coffers.

Compare it to the US, which spends only 5.5% of GDP on education, with the majority on the heavily privatized university level.

The math gets worse when you look at student/teacher ratios, administration overhead, building construction, and spending on extracurriculars like sports.

Americans spend less overall than their swedish counterparts, but far more on amenities that have nothing to do with the actual mechanics of education.

According to my American economics education, this proves the American system is actually more efficient. Swedes would do better to adopt our model, if they want to be A#1 Liberty Whiskey Sexy, like we are.

I’m sorry if my post offended you.

ultimately lead to everyone being called a “Nazi

There’s two kinds of people who post this.

• People who are extremely naive and don’t understand the context of what they’re saying

• Actual fascists

I kiss yours

Check your communities, and what instances they’re on. Not all are created equal. lemmy.ml tends to be pretty wacko

“Hey y’all, anyone feeling hostility on Lemmy”

“Yeah, let me tell you what, fuck those fuckers over there. They fucking suck and I hope they rot.”

Like, how do you not immediately block everyone on lemmy.ca after reading this hate?

I also find lemmy.ca quite friendly,

Sure, if you ignore the assholes who pop into other communities to take a colossal shit on them.

The idea that being a stay-at-home mother is somehow oppressive and bad

Orthodox Conservatives can’t seem to square that circle. You’re supposed to be a hustler, bringing in those bags, living the ultra-shiekh lifestyle with the 2.3 kids and the Mega-McMansion and the expensive cars and clothes and whatever the fuck else. But then you’re also supposed to be this very humble, folk-of-the-earth religious traditionalists with a one-income household and a giant quiver-full of kids and a military career and also I guess you’re supposed to grow your own corn or some shit?

Everything’s just optics. Nothing is real. When push comes to shove, you aren’t supposed to exist at all. Other people are supposed to stare at an AI facsimile if you and be jealous of how well it is doing at everything.

community-policing and disarmament of the first-contact-point is absolutely something that can and (sometimes) does happen

What I’m seeing around the police harassment of Palestine Action protestors doesn’t reflect that.

Nevermind the persistent obsession with Knife Crime, which has become the subject of hysterical news coverage for decades over there.

There’s a presumption that individuals are less likely to harm themselves or others if they are denied the tools to do so.

Whether you’re dealing with demilitarization (Palestinians are currently being asked to give up any and all remaining weapons, as a condition of permanent peace with Israel while Russia is asking much the same of Ukraine) or local disarment (Reagan’s Mulford Act seeking to deny the Black Panthers the right to Open Carry) or the Lautenberg Amendment to the Gun Control Act of 1996 (prohibits those with a domestic violence misdemeanor conviction from possessing firearms) the expectation is that no weapons means a lower and less lethal instance of future violence.

Generally speaking, the idea’s popularity hinges on whether you believe taking guns away will leave you safer (because a suspect cohort is disarmed) or more vulnerable (because the folks doing disarment intend to do you harm after you’ve been stripped of a means of self-defense)

I believe weapons should be banned and that crime should not exist in the first place

Folks fearful of dictatorship can see crime as a necessity for survival in a country that has made it a public policy to torment them.

On the flip side, “weapons should be banned” never seems to apply to the police or the military. There’s a certain attitude of “if disarment makes us safer, you disarm first”.

I would simply offer an existing VPN free membership in Pornhub in the same way, say, AT&T offers you Max.com or Comcast offers you Hulu as part of your data plan.