The problem with “required lessons” for things is always, how do you keep it unbiased and directed. You can’t always assume a benevolent leadership, so how do these required lessons resist becoming political tools to suppress minorities.

For instance, a required teaching on informed voting sounds great on paper, but requiring a course before voting adversely affects lower income individuals even if the material is unbiased, but over time these courses would be used by the party in charge to “inform” the voters why their side is better.

The same could be said for required parenting classes or anything else. Not saying we shouldn’t do it, but it’s not nearly as easy as setting up some courses and making people take them.

Even doctors have to Moonlight as doordashers?

They would just blame their eyes for lying to them.

We were always at war with eastasia

Lied? Everyone paying attention knew what he was and it didn’t matter. He could have jumped on table and shat on it during the confirmation hearing and he’d still be in charge of the FDA

I bet he does

Lol. Get fucked zuck

Yeah this is also typical for any job when you have insider information, the underlings all get strongly worded warnings not to use any info to their advantage while the ones in charge silently use it to their best capability and chastise anyone else using the same info.

You have to look at actions rather than words/warnings when you see this.

Not to mention, aren’t they vital for wildfire prevention? A lot of the planned burns originated from studies done by the forestry service. This is incredibly short sighted.

Setting aside all the intangible benefits such as answering why we are here and providing inspiration to generations there are tons of short and long term benefits.

In the short/medium term, research is so much about solving problems and your solutions having unexpected applications in other areas. A lot of our minituarization in tech happened because we needed things smaller and lighter to lift into space, think things like your smart phone camera or laptops. Also things like cordless tools and even memory foam were originally developed for their application in space travel.

In the long term, let’s take a look back, what if we had the same stance when we looked at the ocean, and thought why its even necessary to figure out how to navigate the waters. For our species to propagate or even survive, we need to expand. Right now we are one decently sized asteroid from extinction, but if one day we figured out how to expand to multiple worlds, then we become a heck of a lot of more resilient.

Id say anything trump does to nato should also be included in putin’scolumn

Yeah but this is socialized risk (political influence) for personal gain (access to the apps)

A vast majority of the public do not see themselves as vulnerable to propaganda targeted at themselves, or at least they dont see it happen in real time. So the risk is abstract to them at best but more likely seen as non-existent, while the gain is immediate and concrete.

I didnt hate ready player one but i dont think it deserved all the popularity and acclaim either.I was confused by what he wanted the target audience to be for this book. It reads like a run of the mill young adult novel but then is packed to the gills with 80s nostalgia. I guess it really just shows our decline in reading comprehension that it was so successful.

Not really, im just annoying any tax dollars at all are going to a religious service, Protestant or catholic or pastafarian

This is what happens when you have anti-intellectualism at the top ranks of government, you end up with stupid decisions.

I mean this happens with salary positions all the time. Just this year our manager put out new schedule rotations that make us work an hour longer every day…not like we’re getting paid extra for that.

Wage theft by another name…

Don’t threaten me with a good time

I agree completely, but this congress and administration have shown time and time again that they refuse to learn from history (e.g. The Vietnam War) so it wouldn’t surprise me if the idea at least gets thrown to vote in Congress, which hopefully is enough to ignite more serious protests/riots in the country to dissuade this current trend. This is why people are floating the possibility of one now, to sow the idea to US masses and get a gauge of their reaction.

We’re seeing 50 years of underfunding education in action.

If this was a just world, US government would have nationalized starlink the second they saw Musk’s company was aiding and abetting the Russian Military and hindering Ukraine’s, which we saw in the early stages of the war.

But we all know that original premise isn’t true.

I think the real fear is that there won’t be a draft because one is needed, but because they want to selectively get rid of left wing voters and using them as chaffe for a war in the middle east is dual purpose.

There was a theory that that is why Trump is so obsessed with getting state voter rolls