I kinda feel this if I turn on both subs and dubs on an anime. Sometimes they’re different, and you can see where one chose a straight translation where the other tried to convey some idiomatic meaning lost in the literal translation. It’s interesting to note the differences, and try to figure out the original meaning by comparing them.

I dunno, prosthetics have only gotten cheaper and more advanced. $6M still buys some pretty top shelf tech.

I think you’re confusing leadership with administration. Generally the boots-on-the-ground leaders aren’t the ones making salary decisions.

Yup. I struggled in school because my dad didn’t respect public education and always filled my afternoons with chores and tasks. If I was lucky I could do homework on the bus, or at lunch, or in earlier classes, but typically not. Despite having the highest test grades in most of my classes, I generally had the lowest overall grades, especially in particularly homework-centric classes like history.

Maybe it would be worthwhile to explicitly build the assignment around using AI, and grading on editing the result? Kinda like how research papers are graded on properly citing and presenting information that’s not supposed to be original.

If LLMs are going to be a lasting tool, maybe using them effectively is an important skill to teach. Encourage AI use in generating components, but force those components into a structure that AI struggles with, and grade based on how well the AI-generated components fit together in a coherent end product.

I remember when I was studying math in college, the upper level courses regularly gave take-home exams because all the tools and resources in the world weren’t going to help if you didn’t understand the material.

It’s not a great solution, if students are using AI to skirt learning the basics then they aren’t going to develop the skills to understand the work they’re editing. Kinda like calculators; they’re great when you’re being evaluated for more complex tasks where the arithmetic isn’t the important part, but kids still need to learn how to do the arithmetic in the first place before they automate it.

But the genie’s out of the bottle. Fair or not, teachers are going to have to adapt to test the skills that can’t be automated yet. I was around for the tail end of teaching kids how to use the card catalog in the library to do research, but everyone just uses search engines now.

I do not envy teachers right now. They have a Hurculean task before them, and I only see it getting worse as AI gets better.

Because voting is specifically a popularity contest, and most people aren’t very politically engaged.

Blue is marginally better than red, in terms of trying to secure conditions where actual action can be effective. Summarizing another commenter, you’re not voting for good vs evil, you’re determining which mainstream option is going to be more difficult to fight against and trying to ensure they don’t win.

I don’t think you can erase the acknowledgement of “no child should be killed” from the masses. The people who already believe that aren’t going to stop, and the ones who don’t aren’t going to start.

But we celebrate saving one child because, again, it’s a popularity contest.

The red voters are pretty stalwart supporters. Their voting habits don’t vary much no matter what their party does. They’ll celebrate killing 3 children because their party tells them that they were the bad kind of children.

The blue voters are much more variable. They like to think of themselves as decent, principled, thinking people. When you inundate them with the child killing, they’re more likely to stay home. And since blue is marginally better for us, that works against our purposes. Ironically, loudly condemning the killing of 2 children makes it more likely that it will be 3 children after the next election.

You’re absolutely right that they’re ghouls who don’t deserve to be celebrated. But we don’t celebrate them because they deserve it, we celebrate them to reduce the chances of getting the worse alternative.

Once the worse alternative is eliminated, and there are better alternatives that stand a chance to win by calling out the lesser evil for still being evil, we should absolutely 100% do that. But until then, I don’t want to demoralize the voters who can help stave off the greater evil until we have a viable alternative, be it an actual leftist candidate with broad appeal or a sufficiently organized revolutionary force.

Certainly possible. In that case I would have expected a good faith attempt to understand that those resources and conditions separate them from a large number of people having a more difficult time, but who knows.

Uh, that seems like a legitimate reason to be stressed. You might just be particularly stress-tolerant.

You can rotisserie things besides chicken. Could be a rhino.

I’m busy, but that’s because I cram a lot of extra things in my life for fulfillment. I’m also fairly lucky in that I make over the median income working 30-35 hours a week. I assume you are also financially comfortable, but our experience is very different from someone who has to work 2 jobs to make ends meet.

I half-joke that my childhood was so stressful that the stress/anxiety circuit in my brain burned out years ago. It’s probably more accurate to say that I have a solution-oriented mindset: when there’s someone wrong in the world, instead of getting anxious I start brainstorming solutions and how to implement them; if I have no solution, stressing still isn’t going to fix anything so I just focus on problems I can find solutions for.

I’d wager most people feel more helpless than that, they see big problems in their life as immutable facts instead of temporary conditions. That certainly plays a role in how stressed/anxious they feel.

*deep tissues

Whereas the study of thyme would fall under horticulture

Yeah, it does. Pretty sure buttons were less common pre-industrialization, limited mostly to more elaborate, fancy clothes. By the time adding buttons was cheap enough for the bulk of the population, design principles were already established.

I interpreted it completely differently, when you “duck”, you crouch down

You have now, officially, crossed the line.

I wore a bandana pirate-style

But my hair was only shoulder length. I’d probably combine that with a bun.

It lessens it, but that’s because I’m tasting liberally while I cook.

That’s why Primer is my favorite depiction of time travel. Machine turns on at your destination time, you get in at your departure time, and it spits you out in the past. This sacrifices freedom of travel (you can’t go back to before you first turned the machine on) to solve the point-of-reference problem (the machine moves normally with the Earth).

I think typically a Rachel also substitutes coleslaw for sauerkraut.

Ironically, I’ve found that in many cases, frequently I find perfectly correct grammar to be more a hindrance to communication than a boon. In certain cases, grammatically wrong leads to fewer misunderstandings.