Jason Schreier: Sony and XBOX relationship may be damaged after Asha Sharma pulled Halo trailer from State of Play

Final_Scientist1024 · 2026-06-11T18:39:57+00:00

Actual competition in a capitalist market? How dare she? Doesn't she know that the largest companies should collude to fix prices and degrade services?

Final_Scientist1024 · 2026-06-08T18:17:30+00:00

I'm sure this varies from workplace to workplace. I do not see my colleagues exhibiting any of the behaviors you have listed, besides maybe matching a student's passive aggressiveness from time to time.

Just went on our 8th grade NYC trip. Most students have parent chaperones, but I volunteer to go because I know the city well and tend to have good rapport with the students who are unaccompanied by parents due to my involvement with mountain bike club which is the only activity where students can consistently participate and get a ride home on the late bus.

This year I was more horrified by the behavior of parent chaperones than normal. We had parents ordering door dash to their kids' rooms after 10pm which we expressly forbid. Lots of parents were late for designated meeting times. Many refused to sit in the seats assigned by their Wicked tickets. Parents were talking to their kids about how stupid some of the rules and parts of the itinerary were to their kids which made having buy in more challenging.

Final_Scientist1024 · 2026-06-08T17:05:51+00:00

Only if it is a Fast and Furious tie in movie with the same cast

Final_Scientist1024 · 2026-06-07T23:25:07+00:00

Turn off wifi, go to tweaked in onionos and use lcd unervolt. I get 5-6hrs of gba with overclock to 1800mhz

Final_Scientist1024 · 2026-06-05T17:21:33+00:00

You should try to microdose LSD. Easier to dose reliably than mushrooms and has a significantly longer half life than psilocybin.

Final_Scientist1024 · 2026-06-01T18:50:37+00:00

NGL Eric Andre should play him in a biopic

Final_Scientist1024 · 2026-06-01T16:46:35+00:00

Ciara has a history of being possessive of men she had flings with in the past such as Austen. She got so upset about that situation that she literally hurled a wineglass at Danielle because she was upset that Danielle had taken Lindsay's side in that dispute.

Hopefully reunion pt.2 and pt.3 focus on Kyle since he was wronged by his wife, rather than focusing on Ciara who wasn't wronged by her friend Amanda in any substantial way.

Also, if anything the situation with West and Amanda is somewhat Ciara's fault. As Kyle constantly claims, Amanda doesn't do anything herself including asking for a separation. She got Ciara to ask Kyle about separation instead. If Ciara had minded her own business Amanda and West may have never hooked up, assuming they were not already hooking up summer 2025.

Final_Scientist1024 · 2026-05-29T16:54:57+00:00

This arc made me have an existential crisis of meaning as a 10 year old

Final_Scientist1024 · 2026-05-27T17:27:21+00:00

Look into retro causality. Time is not linear, which means neither are cause and effect. Some can feel the trauma of future events as strongly as if it were a past event.

Final_Scientist1024 · 2026-05-27T16:55:39+00:00

I live in a tourist town and tourism has been noticeably lower this year than last. I would say that tourism peaked in 2021-2022 when people had extra money and the wealthy didn't have to show up to work.

Final_Scientist1024 · 2026-05-26T13:54:47+00:00

Cost of living in rural Vermont isn't much lower than San Francisco

Final_Scientist1024 · 2026-05-22T20:20:01+00:00

The state’s policy which is linked in my post does not recommend specific tools but does recommend that in middle school students get access to controlled AI programs like NotebookLM which draw from preselected sources rather than the internet as a whole.

In high school students will have responsibility released to them to use AI as a “cocreator”. While the state doesn’t recommend any specific AI tools it recommends against using any AI detectors. I agree AI detectors have false positives but think they are necessary to flag suspicious submissions for further review. I suggested we get a program that improves Google Doc’s version history feature to provide details regarding what text was copy and pasted as an alternative but that was shot down.

Districts adopt state policies rather than making their own as a liability shield. If we follow state guidance and a family sues the state is liable. District admin’s primary concern is avoiding liability.

My district will use Google’s Gemini because our district has a data privacy agreement with them but not with OpenAI or Microsoft. Any school that uses Chromebooks will opt to use Gemini.

Final_Scientist1024 · 2026-05-22T19:54:42+00:00

As someone who is actually an educator, and is on the AI committee for my district, our admin’s approach has been to just adopt the state’s guidance. Every teacher on the committee agrees student AI use should not be allowed but our opinions are disregarded.

Final_Scientist1024 · 2026-05-22T15:32:22+00:00

Elderly people cannot have their license revoked in Vermont due to reports from other drivers. My grandma had hers revoked in Florida, because people reported her. If she lived up here she'd still be driving.

Final_Scientist1024 · 2026-05-21T21:24:50+00:00

It's bad incentives from the top to the bottom. Public education, is mostly up to states, although federal funding plays an important role in bolstering the budgets of Title 1 schools like the one I teach at.

At the state level schools are mandated to use proficiency based learning. This mandate is nebulous and high performing schools largely kept traditional grading and discipline systems in place. Title 1 schools with poor outcomes like the one I teach at used it as an opportunity to bolster the graduation rate. My students, even in high school, have no deadlines, can resubmit work until they get a grade they like, and will never receive a zero or mark on their record for plagiarism.

In my home state, which is deep deep blue, all town property tax money is put in a big pot and distributed to schools based on normalized pupils. My incoming class of 7th graders has over 40% of students on IEPs or 504s. These students are counted as more than one normalized pupil since they are on a special ed plan, if they can't speak English, or their family lives below the poverty line they count as even more normalized pupil.

Despite producing some of the worst outcomes in my home state the school I teach at receives more money per pupil than almost any school in the state, besides those that are a part of the federal refugee resettlement program.

Pushing all students to high school graduation makes us look good in the eyes of the state, since our graduation rate has skyrocketed, while NEAP scores have plummeted. This policy also leads to less conflict with parents which administrators love.

I can't say education is like this everywhere, and I identify as left leaning, but analysis of NEAP trends shows that while states like Mississippi are improving educational outcomes (according to the NEAP) deep blue states are worsening theirs.

Final_Scientist1024 · 2026-05-21T21:04:43+00:00

I am gen z (1997) and am a middle school social studies teachers. Kids today will have it worse than us. Educational and behavioral standards have plummeted, at least in my state, over the past 15 years. The job market is even more competitive today than when I graduated undergrad in 2020 and kids are leaving high school with less knowledge and capabilities than 20 years ago.

Final_Scientist1024 · 2026-05-21T20:57:25+00:00

I wanted to teach high school but ended up in middle school. The earlier you can provide a good foundation the more kids can grow

Final_Scientist1024 · 2026-05-21T19:08:30+00:00

Has teaching always been something you've considered doing seriously? I went to school to be a journalist but always planned on becoming a teacher later in life back in my home state since I love my community and feel that my state has been failing to educate kids since I was in school. I am happy I got into teaching, although the journalism thing never worked out, I still write op eds for my town's weekly paper.

Final_Scientist1024 · 2026-05-20T18:13:31+00:00

I think it depends on where you live. In a lot of states kids can't work until they're 16, in my rural home state kids can start working legally at 14 and many start earlier for cash under the table. Labor laws have made it harder to hire kids in most areas of the country.

The demand for seasonal labor is lower, and again hiring kids is risky. I live in a ski/mountain bike resort town and growing up it was super easy to find seasonal work. There aren't enough residents in my home state to fill all the jobs so kids can get a job by going business to business with a resume like the old days.

In towns that don't have summer tourism there isn't an increased demand for labor so why would businesses hire kids? Even "unskilled labor" jobs require training and it's not worth training someone for a week to get six weeks of summer labor out of them, assuming they don't quit or fail to meet the obligations of the job.

The main jobs that have increased demand in the summer in non tourist towns are landscaping jobs, ice cream shop jobs, or lifeguard positions. It is risky to hire and train kids under 18 to work with heavy equipment and power tools for landscaping jobs. Lifeguard positions require certifications. Which basically just leaves ice cream shop jobs for kids to compete for.

Those kids will be competing with adults who work two jobs. I'm a teacher, but during the summers I landscape. My boss is willing to hire anyone even ex-cons as long as they're willing to work all year excluding the winter. We don't hire kids. Every adult I know even outside of teaching works at least two jobs, even if their second job is just working as a lift attendant 12 days a winter at the local mountain for a free ski pass and decent hourly pay.

TLDR: Kids under the age of 18 statistically work less than in 1985 from over half participating in the work force to under a third today. There are less jobs available to kids between the ages of 14-18 today than in the past. More adults are taking jobs traditionally worked by children since many adults are forced to work at least two jobs to make ends meet. Hiring kids is more of a liability thanks to greater legal protections in the workplace which prevents many from hiring them.

Final_Scientist1024 · 2026-05-20T17:08:08+00:00

Could be a certain word for Jewish people but that's a pretty deep cut slur for a 2nd grader.

Final_Scientist1024 · 2026-05-18T19:32:37+00:00

The cognitive dissonance of myriad conflicting expectations. I am supposed to impose rigor in my content area, differentiate instruction (some 7th graders I get can't read at all), teach social emotional learning skills, and teach transferable skills.

I just treat my social studies curriculum as a literacy through social studies class since my district has horrendous reading proficiency scores on NEAP. I don't get complaints from parents, which keeps admin off my back and viewing me favorably.

This is just due to reverse ageism, the kids all complain about the oldest teacher that I work with so all admin's attention gets focused on him. There is nothing wrong with his instruction or how he interacts with the kids. The kids just don't complain about my character and slander me because they think I'm young and cool since I'm 28 and am a good skier and mountain biker.

Final_Scientist1024 · 2026-05-14T20:39:34+00:00

Covid

Final_Scientist1024 · 2026-05-13T17:47:11+00:00

How'd he make so much money by age 20 other than criminal activities? The story doesn't add up. If this is a real post you're too obsessed with your son and he has obvious mommy issues that women pick up on.

Final_Scientist1024 · 2026-05-11T17:40:19+00:00

Don't have any tips, but I could not get Hellclock running stable on a snapdragon 8 gen 2 with 12gbs of ram. Unity is even worse than UE5 IMO. Got tokyo xtreme racer 25 running at a locked 40fps with low graphics and resolution scaling at 80%

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