>That being said, I do feel the tech industry gets more than it's fair share of criticism.
I don't. Afaik the tech inustry is still creating and selling spying and tracking software, enabling unprecedented and unaccountable global surveillance, while being appallingly quiet over the torture and illegal detention of critical whistleblowers.
From hacking people's brains with big data and advertising to corporate espionage, the enabling of massive wealth transfer to billionaires, and the exploitation of resources and the third world, I have very little sympathy for the mean things people are saying about ye.
These aren't isolated mistakes, and actions to correct them have still not been taken. Gates is lionized for his charity work after decades of bullying and strangling competition, while Stallman is forced out of his positions because of a smear campaign. The FCC killed net neutrality with fake data - what did ye do? And now people who I wouldn't trust with an abacus are coming after encryption - and I'm hearing barely a peep from the technosphere.
The tech industry needs more criticism, cuz it sure as fuck isn't getting it's shit together voluntarily.
I'm American, and I agree people everywhere get things wrong without knowing.
But buddy if you think Americans and British people don't do this more than other nations, then you must have missed the whole colonialism thing.
No other nations have the same YouTube compilations where people on the street get asked if made up countries should be bombed - resulting in emphatic and authoritative confirmation that yes they need to be punished.
If we're not even allowed to talk about the particular kind of dumb we have then how can we get better?
This is a hilariously wrong sentence in multiple ways.
Hemp :is: a strain of cannabis. You may have meant to say 'THC producing plants' which would still be technically wrong.
While sensamilla is probably what most people are used to these days, that is not to say seeds are not involved / don't appear in capital C cannabis.
I would bet $10, based purely on the deadpan authoritative delivery of completely factually wrong information, that you are either American or British. Close?
Where does the article say that the TSA are border agents, or that customs and the TSA are the same thing? The pedantry and slating of the journalist here is unwarranted.
The point is, a priceless and unique instrument has been destroyed and there is no accountability. How you got from there to wherever you are is beyond my comprehension.
No one really cares about such a minor distinction. Perhaps you have some experience with these agencies but for the vast majority of people they're basically the same thing - especially for non-Americans (the Grauniad is English).
Deciding that the rest of the story is "highly doubtful" over that is your call but ffs there are pictures. No musician breaks their own utterly unique instrument to craft a fake story. Be real.
That it's apparently so difficult to precisely assign accountability for this damage is it's own issue, not a cause for suspicion of the story. Lol.
There sure has been a shift though. You'd be just the guy to shed some light on these changes.
For example, when did flagged comments become unreadable, rather than simply folded up by default? I'd like to see the logic on that one, if any was given at all.
Was there an algorithm change that lets popular stories under active discussion on touchy subjects get disappeared with a few flags, or was that here from the start too?
Are there any logs you can point me to that would reveal the scale of removed stories over time?
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It seems that there's been an effort to make school as bad as possible.
The research has shown for decades that homework is an utter and complete waste of time, but, much like any hazing ritual, some people foam at the mouth at the suggestion of ending it.
Schools in Scandinavia have proven success with anti-bullying programs, that have not been taken up elsewhere.
School lunch programs (again, pretty much everywhere outside Scandinavia) are dire.
Physical education, proven to enhance learning outcomes and well-being, probably amounts to about 40 minutes per week in most Western countries.
And don't get me started on the American higher education system... My god. It's racist, classist, and still under attack from rabid morons who would rather an Erdogan style system of educating.