I have taught at the university in the UK and while it’s true that the students are academically strong on average, they are also some of the most immature young people I have ever met.

The UK education system favours passing tests over softer life skills, such as independent thinking, democratic participation, creativity.

I have also worked in a tech company there, and it’s not my impression that the high PISA scores translate into high professional competence in the long run.

So I don’t really think these benchmarks have much practical value.

Homophobia is shitty, whether used against Putin or not.

I mean I agree that AB testing is normal, and not really anything to start clutching your pearls about.

Yet again Lemmy shows that much of the userbase is young and has little general knowledge.

But this is a pretty patronising statement, mate.

I get what you mean. But. Since I have become a parent I have realized that not all of these incidents are simply inconsiderate. Sometimes mistakes are made in desperation.

Wow that is one extremely aggressive response to what I thought was a relatively sensible comment. I’m sorry if I upset you.

It’s not whatsboutism, it’s a question of scale. Attention is a finite resource, and I think you should place it where it matters most.

There is a post-colonial dimension to Grindadráp that is rarely mentioned by the media. And that matters more to me personally than the lives of the whales.

It’s the same story every year. And it’s a bunch of pearl clutching second grade journalism, if you ask me.

These are animals that have lived free, beautiful lives in their natural habitats. Then they are killed and eaten, with no deliberate cruelty involved. Circle of life.

If we want to reduce animal cruelty, look towards the massive scale of factory farming, not at the 700 animals that are hunted by a small indigenous community.

Thesaurus? Someone brought out the glossary for this one

How come? Fascist AI slop is both fascist and AI slop, so I struggle to find any redeeming qualities.

Here you go:

If all goes to plan, the section of Oxford Street that spans from the western end of Selfridges to just past IKEA will be completely closed to vehicles (including cars, buses, taxis, bikes, scooters, and pedicabs).

I don’t know, I don’t share your pessimism. In my personal experience, most hardware isn’t unhackable. Apart from iPhone / iPad (where hardware and software are non-standard, and also made by the same vendor) I struggle to find any examples.

I have installed Linux many times on Chromebooks, where there is some BIOS module that checks for OS “authenticity”, but that can be disabled. I have flashed ROMs on android devices many times too. It’s sometimes a bit inconvenient, but nothing remotely close to impossible.

Someone will install Linux on them and use them as a cheap barebones computer. I’m sure with a bit of jiggery-pokery they can be repurposed to something useful.

The classroom runs on Chromebooks, Google Classroom, and code.org (AWS). Corporate infrastructure top to bottom.

This is so dystopian. Get the kids hooked on XaaS while they are young, and you’ll have a customer for life.

I’m so happy I live in a welfare state, and gee I hope we manage to make the switch away from the US big tech monopoly.

While this is certainly interesting news, I am somewhat sceptical of the number which corresponds to about 1/5 of the country’s population. I have been looking for another source, but it’s not clear where that number comes from. Maybe the unions have reported it?

The UK has some fairly obvious issues with democracy, like when hundreds of XR and Palestine activists are being routinely imprisoned for exercising their right to assemble. Conservatives have been in power on the UK until very recently and these illiberal developments are their doing.

Steve Forbes is part of the national conservative oligarchy that has allowed those attacks on democracy to happen in the first place. I do think the source of information matters. Words are power, and his words are poison.

Come on, that’s not serious journalism. It’s an opinion piece written by a notorious conservative American media oligarch. Cherry picking examples to support some kind of anti woke narrative. Pull the other one.

The UK is the European country that has most closely attempted to emulate American national conservative capitalism, and what a shit show that has been.

Imagine thinking that Trump is doing this to combat censorship.

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I’m guessing that it was made by someone who speaks German.