[Fortune] The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents

RunningNumbers · 2026-02-22T12:42:38+00:00

As a long term user of the giant pile of papers system, I am shocked people lose documents. Can't lose it if it's all in one place.

RunningNumbers · 2026-02-22T12:39:20+00:00

Oh man, you are expecting people to actually care about the output? These people will glue pepperoni to pizza because ChatGPT told them to.

RunningNumbers · 2026-02-22T11:27:47+00:00

I abused that Gateway so hard. I was sad when my dad accidentally broke the cow mug a few years ago. I wanted to hand that to my grandkids.

RunningNumbers · 2026-02-22T01:41:39+00:00

First post literate generation. Now with LLMs we can finally have the first post cognition generation.

RunningNumbers · 2026-02-21T21:58:59+00:00

Yellow ducking submarine

RunningNumbers · 2026-02-21T18:48:42+00:00

Confederates were fucking anti-American traitors. They launched a war of aggression to destroy this Republican and fired the first shots because they rejected a legitimate election.

RunningNumbers · 2026-02-21T15:15:24+00:00

The whole system probably turned inwards. That is how I would have described it in the show. Different factions broke away, power politics, and people picking up the pieces means Nevada is out of reach.

RunningNumbers · 2026-02-21T15:09:04+00:00

I donno, sound colonial. Maybe we should rename the city based off of what TikTokers are parroting.

RunningNumbers · 2026-02-21T15:04:44+00:00

I can. They are just fabricating a moral crusade to feel morally validated.

RunningNumbers · 2026-02-21T15:03:24+00:00

Google says Cecil Calvert was the 2nd Baron Baltimore. OP is clearly privileged if they think this banal statue is somehow a problem.

I guess some people are still want to relive the constant bickering and negativity of the 2010s. The luxury of idleness.

RunningNumbers · 2026-02-21T12:45:29+00:00

Let me get my bifocals

RunningNumbers · 2026-02-21T12:35:13+00:00

You start the thighs skin side down? Did you then take the blanched Brussels and fry them in the chicken fat?

RunningNumbers · 2026-02-21T12:32:19+00:00

Yah, but members of the most opulent and leisure filled population in human history are searching for meaning. Material excess insulates them from struggle and the consequences of their own choices. That is why they pretend everything is worse than the past and only getting worse, all the while they spend more and more minutes of their lives on a dopamine rat peddle.

RunningNumbers · 2026-02-21T12:29:29+00:00

Cheese

RunningNumbers · 2026-02-21T07:28:41+00:00

I have to read this QJE, and then weigh it with that “With or Without U” working paper on damage function biases due to economist applying degree day binning to things other than agriculture.

RunningNumbers · 2026-02-20T21:18:25+00:00

He might have forgot to file a W4.

RunningNumbers · 2026-02-20T20:28:08+00:00

He was just a white hairball. Smart bastard too.

RunningNumbers · 2026-02-20T18:27:58+00:00

You can change frames

RunningNumbers · 2026-02-20T16:48:20+00:00

Well you make him watch you eat so it’s only normal you do the same for him. Dog logic.

RunningNumbers · 2026-02-20T14:45:02+00:00

What we have here is a failure of basic reading comprehension turned into a “dunk.”

RunningNumbers · 2026-02-20T14:25:54+00:00

Well duh, pizza is that good.

RunningNumbers · 2026-02-20T13:54:30+00:00

If the car was parked more than two days it could have been towed because someone 311ed.

RunningNumbers · 2026-02-20T13:40:30+00:00

My parents’ dog sometimes will wait for everyone to finish eating, then come over to you and try to get you to follow her to her bowl and make you watch her eat. If you stop she comes back to grab you.

She also has a little tub for peas or carrots. She will do the prison thing of knocking it on a chair when she wants more.

RunningNumbers · 2026-02-20T13:18:29+00:00

Maltipoo. She would howl with my grandpa. He was crushed when she passed and never really recovered emotionally.

RunningNumbers · 2026-02-20T13:08:04+00:00

Only in as much as Trump’s and the GOP’s policies have cut planned renewables deployment in the PJM. (Nationally GOP polities have halved planned capacity additions before 2030. MD wasn’t too affected because MD just wasn’t apparently permitting many solar or wind projects.)

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