True of virtually every celebrity and professionally managed account at this point.

Hell, I’ve got a few hundred followers on Bluesky and would be shocked if one in ten is a real person

Documentary serial killer:

Actual serial killer:

The typical class size in US public schools is 16-23 students. In the academic year 2020-2021, the mean class size was 18.3 students, a slight decrease from the 2017-2018 average of 19.6 students. These figures represent the mean across both primary and secondary education.

https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/education/class-size

In the United States, average class sizes vary widely, with national averages indicating 21.2 students in elementary schools and up to 26.8 in secondary schools.

COVID exacerbated the situation over the last five years.

Certain irony in that, given Matthew Sorum’s involvement successfully lobbying Beijing for animal rights reforms.

I studied things without technology. I take notes on pen and paper

It’s weird that we don’t consider the mass production of cheap paper and quality pens/pencils a technology.

analog classrooms work better than this chromebook hellhole

I’m not going to become an Evangelical for Ctrl+F because I don’t think it’s worth the fight.

But I will say an analog classroom with 8 students taught by a professional teacher five days a week is vastly superior to an analog classroom with 40 students taught by a TA three days a week.

Do with that what you will.

Teachers are a cost-center

Technology is a profit-center

What are you, some kind of socialist? Your system will never work. We’ll all run out of money!

• Correlation

• Causation

Hey, Computer, what’s been happening to

• Average Class size
• Average teacher years of experience
• Average annual hours in school

Had it been?

• Up
• Down
• Down

But sure, also, they’ve replaced a stack of 5 lb textbooks nobody reads with a tablet computer nobody uses.

The final frontier

Isn’t it incredible that “AI” is sold as a product that is ‘PhD level smart’ (lol), but if it doesn’t do the straightforward thing you asked of it then it’s your fault.

Have you ever tried to get a PhD to do anything?

Philadelphia officials grease city light poles, often with Crisco or hydraulic fluid, to prevent fans from climbing them during major sports celebrations, notably for the Philadelphia Eagles.

Liisten, all this is great, but I’m still not in the market for your 5 1/4" floppy

Holy shit. I live 20 minutes from this car.

This is like finding out you dated Katie Perry in high school

I wonder what the gray market for this kind of hardware is eventually going to look like.

Am I going to be getting my RAM from the back of a van, like I’m buying bootleg DVDs during the mid '00s?

So google, amazon and Microsoft are hostile actors

Obviously not. They’re happy to give MI5 a backdoor into all their systems.

This is the apoteosis of incompetence.

The age old question - malicious or stupid.

But he didn’t draw on them

Because he was rushing to help one of his neighbors recover from tear gas. Which is what an EMT is trained to do.

they removed it from his holster, then murdered him

As they were trained to do

Not personally. But Sanae Takaichi was Abe’s ideological successor. Now she’s right back in the PM with an enormous majority.

You can doohickey the man, but you can’t doohickey the movement.

Very frustrating to see people confuse Gun Ownership with Being Bulletproof.

As though you’re going to quick draw on the entire LASD, at which point they’ll all just tip their hats and proclaim “this person has constitutional rights, we will leave peacefully and not bother you again”.

Banning anything is easy. Enforcement is hard.

When you’re next door to Arizona - regularly in the top five more prodigious gun manufacturing states - it seems absurd to worry about weapons made out of extruded plastic. Ruger & Company is going to do a better job than anything a printer can churn out.

It’s very funny that people think they need a 3D printer to make a tube, a stock, and a trigger.

If you can make a rubber band gun, you’re 70% of the way to a working firearm. And it’ll be sturdier then extruded plastic.