https://www.edweek.org/technology/u-s-students-computer-literacy-performance-drops/2024/12
It is difficult to find data comparing Gen alpha/"smartphone generation" to other generations, largely because definitions of computer literacy and methods for assessing it have not remained stable on that time scale in the face of evolving technology
Or you don't work full time because you have other priorities. Or you work up to double time (80 hours per week) in an industry/location that pays federal minimum wage and still make less than that, but can't pursue other career options for reasons that are your own business (e.g.: you are a migrant worker and any attempt to better your working conditions is met with the full force of the Gestapo). Or you're one of the other 37 million people in the US living below the poverty level (31200 for a family of four in 2023) for whatever other reason that is more likely to by systemic than personal because, contrary to popular belief, poverty is not something people do if they have other options. Or IDK, you live outside the US in a country where 32k may be a substantial salary. Brother, if you think a person not making 32k is an indication that they are personally deficient, you need to wake up and smell the roses. Odds are, you are much closer to people making less than 32k than you think, both in terms of earnings relative to the 1% and in terms of how many things would have to happen to you before you found yourself in their shoes
Thanks! I'm an idiot, because I'm not the attorney general, so your explanation helped a lot!
I suppose I may have found it more obvious than you that this image was taken in the United States, which possesses a plethora of places that look like this. I did try to look up RPS guardrails to get a bearing on the context you were coming from, but didn't come up with relevant results, probably because the search engine is biased for English/American results to English/American queries. You mind me asking where RPS is from?
The FHWA guidance on guardrails (https://highways.dot.gov/safety/rwd/reduce-crash-severity/guardrail-101) is very clear that the guardrails are there for drivers and in fact makes exactly zero mentions of pedestrian safety. Many states have specific guidance that guardrails should be placed behind sidewalks. Here is an example from NCDOT: "The preferred treatment is to place the face of the guardrail 12 feet from the face of the curb. The 12 feet width provides ample sight distance for any intersecting streets or driveways near the guardrail installation. This placement method will also accommodate for sidewalk installation. The guardrail will be placed behind the sidewalk" (https://connect.ncdot.gov/projects/Roadway/Roadway%20Design%20Manual/03.%20Guardrail,%20Barriers%20and%20Attenuators.pdf). "Them" is the institutionalized practice of traffic engineering that treats safety of those outside of a vehicle as an afterthought and not a primary purpose of road design elements in the US (and to varying extents, other countries)
There's only one Dem to vote for in this race, and it ain't Cuomo
Being pedantic about a good point, but I'm pretty sure you have an extra zero in that percentage. 0.016% of 3 trillion is 480 million, 0.0016% is 48 million
Combining the two: centrists have bad vibes because they always have an authenticity problem. They position themselves against change, but then happily go where the Overton window takes them (see Biden's outgoing border bill). They are for nothing except what they think is popular at the moment, which is usually out of date information, and that comes across as fake and focused on accumulating power rather than solving problems. You don't need to be a policy wonk to see that centrists will say anything to get your vote and do nothing to solve your problems
So you're telling me that this could disrupt the anti-cheat industry, which is currently responsible for a lot of the Windows platform lock in the gaming industry and is tied to a lot of potential security vulnerabilities because it goes to a much higher level of privilege than a reasonable user would expect a game to need? I already wish I was in the right geographic area to sign, you don't need to sell me on it twice!
Know. I don't think or believe how tariffs work, I know how tariffs work. I know he doesn't care about that either though
When waiting for a trial can take a year to defend against an accusation that would typically carry a sentence in months, and when spending time in prison is one of the best predictors for whether someone will be imprisoned again later in life, the waiting thing is a distinction, but the difference it makes is uncomfortably close to being academic. Reminder: these are innocent people in the eyes of the law, so the decision to lock them up is made as an administrative decision (how high to set bail and how the court is scheduled) by the judicial branch, not by a decision that is based in the practice of justice
Imagine living in Vermont and allowing yourself to be convinced that the border in Texas is the number one issue your country can solve for you. For context, the closest point in Vermont to the closest point on the border is 1800 miles and change. For European context, that's just about the same as the distance from Madrid to Helsinki