The amount of school administrators and non-teachers have increased at 10x the rate of teachers relative to students since 2000. I have no doubt funding keeps going up but virtually all of it is diverted away into bureaucracy.
I was asking it rather specific research questions about a stock the other day and kept getting equivalents of "Would you like to know one weird investment trick that most people don't realize?"
If I agreed, the "tricks" were always something blindingly obvious like recommending I buy a S&P500 index fund. It honestly felt insulting.
They are likely being pressured to meet minimum obligations as part of NATO membership. Canada's military realistically isn't going to be called on for defense of the homeland but as part of a support force for NATO.
I have a gut feeling sycophancy would become a huge problem if I were ever to ask any AI assistant with even a vague idea of my political opinions to start summarizing news stories. If AIs twist other things around to give glowing responses to their users I'm almost certain they'll resort to giving a "spin" to news stories they think is in line with what the user wants to hear. Everyone will get a bespoke biased cable news station in the future!
It's probably much higher than that in reality if you look at assets spiking compared to the dollar. Gold is going completely parabolic right now. Real estate shows no signs of slowing down. Crypto (regardless of your opinion of it) is spiking as people try to store value anywhere besides the dollar. We hear about the AI bubble propping up equity markets all the time but I always wonder how much of it is just investors desperately converting dollars into anything else with a bit of liquidity.
The hand-wringing in this article about Republicans signing up election monitors and having lawyers on stand-by is absurd. Both parties pour huge amounts of resources every election into this sort of thing and aggressively pursue it. If you really want integrity in elections you should want interested parties to be able to audit the results and mount legal challenges if they feel it is justified (and, yes, that means all interested parties and not just who you consider to be the "good guys").