In a just world, you’d have been bumped up a grade, moved into an advanced track, or given time in advanced sessions with other gifted students. That said, your teacher would have been responsible for making those recommendations.

Oh that did end up happening eventually. I did go down that track. Ended up taking calculus freshman year of high school.

Google:

“No need to sue us. Mr Maclsaac was listed in Google search as a sex offender, but wasn’t actually on the sex offender registry. But no worry, we’ve fixed the problem! We have several government records contracts. Our LLM simply corrected the record and added Ashley to the sex offender registry. The error has been resolved.”

A fool and his money are soon parted.

Adobe Acrobat will grind it to a halt. Fucking how.

“Today Microsoft and Adobe are announcing further AI integration of their products. This AI will tune software performance in an attempt to counteract the slowing effects of previous rounds of AI integration.”

This is Paul Harvey…Good Day!

When I was a child, I was told that Communism failed because it gave no incentive for people to work hard and better themselves and their society. After all, if everyone is paid the same and has a guaranteed job, why worker harder than than anyone else? As an adult, I learned the same thing applies to workers in capitalist societies. In most companies, there is little reason to do more than the bare minimum needed to keep from getting fired. Promotions never happen as companies prefer to hire externally. Real raises and bonuses don’t happen; you have to move companies to get a real raise. And of course, workers don’t get any direct reward for working more. The owners just pocket all the profits and tell you to work harder.

I turns out both American Capitalism and Soviet Communism wasted colossal amounts of human potential.

“How do bird’s fly?”

Mostly horizontally, a bit vertically. 😂

My worst version of this was in third grade where we learned our multiplication tables. Our teacher had us all make multiplication flashcards. 1x1 up through 12x12. She then assigned us to spend a certain amount of hours practicing the flashcards, including some log and parental sign-off IIRC. A card might have “3x8” written on one side, “24” on the other. Practice and drill until you memorize them all.

Well, the problem I had was that I memorized my times tables in a fraction of the time we were required to practice. I ended up getting in trouble for not having enough practice hours - even though I was acing the quizzes we were getting. This wasn’t even about showing your work, as this was a rote exercise in memorization!

But the teacher thought that it took X number of hours of practice to learn your times tables. That’s what she assigned, and nothing was going to change her mind. So I sat at home pointlessly practicing the times tables I had already memorized, instead of doing something fun or even moving ahead to more advanced math concepts.

This just doesn’t pass the smell test to me. Why would they need to go to the trouble? It’s not like they can’t figure out who is trans through name and gender change court records, health records, etc. Even if these aren’t gathered in one list anywhere, it wouldn’t be hard to have an AI run through name change records and flag anyone that changed their name from a typically masculine to a typically feminine name, and vice versa.

Sure, there are some very paranoid/privacy-minded trans folks that never put their transness in government or medical records. They never change their name legally, they DIY HRT, etc. And those folks would be difficult to find. However, I imagine most such folks would be far too cautious to join a trans-specific dating app.

Ok. Next time you meet a genie wish for “immunity to all electric shocks.”

Defibrillators probably wouldn’t work on you. But in turn you can pull off an instant nudity button!

“I attended there for four years. Well, I lived nearby and attended many campus parties in that period…”

For a lot of creators it may not even be about the money they earn directly from it. I have a small educational YouTube channel. It brings in about 20 bucks per month in ad revenue, more in the past when I was more active. But really it’s a nice feather in my cap and something neat on my resume. A modest YouTube channel won’t pay enough by itself to make the effort worthwhile. But if that channel gets you over the top on a new high paying job? Then it’s worth it. In this context, a YouTube channel functions as a kind of personal brand/promotional material.

Thanks! Right now I just crossed the 15 year mark.

As for the username, this name is mostly commemorative. Same as an old reddit account of mine. When I created that, it was literally true. They’re quite wonderful!

Pfft. I’ve been on estrogen longer than “the thousand year reich” lasted.