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New comment by buellerbueller in "Reading for pleasure is sharply down among schoolkids, report shows"

buellerbueller — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 14:05:30 +0000

No one said it is about grades at all cost. Education, at all cost, yes.

New comment by buellerbueller in "Reading for pleasure is sharply down among schoolkids, report shows"

buellerbueller — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 14:03:12 +0000

If you are a student at any Ivy League, I expect you to have read and, yes, found enjoyment in something more weighty than YA Lit.

New comment by buellerbueller in "Reading for pleasure is sharply down among schoolkids, report shows"

buellerbueller — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 14:01:27 +0000

every screen, even the majority of e-readers, now has advertising, which is designed to distract and incept.

New comment by buellerbueller in "Fully autonomous drones have killed human soldiers for the first time"

buellerbueller — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 21:07:32 +0000

Strange? Its the VC tech utopian ideal: ad funded ai assisted death.

New comment by buellerbueller in "Core PPI up 9.6% annualized (0.8% MoM) in May"

buellerbueller — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 14:39:35 +0000

I've thought a lot about this, because my state is heavily gerrymandered, and the legislature keeps voting to undermine several recently passed amendments (abortion rights, marijuana) to our state constitution. They also tried to change the threshold for passing a referendum from 50% + 1 vote to 60%, when it was clear that there was enough support to pass the abortion rights amendment.

You do it via constitutional amendment, which is a popular referendum.

Fuck what the professional politicians think of sortition; do an end run around them, because professional politicians are the problem.

Get this accomplished in enough states, and then you have a level chance of doing an amendment to the US Constitution.

New comment by buellerbueller in "Vacuum-Form Signage"

buellerbueller — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 13:32:10 +0000

If you ever find yourself in Cincinnati, Ohio, one of the most underrated things there is the "American Sign Museum" which has many examples of this form of signage, as well as the history of advertising signage. They even have a neon glass signworks on-site.

Ironically, the informational signage on the exhibits is somewhat lacking, so I recommend taking the free guided tour, which is about 45-60 minutes in length.

New comment by buellerbueller in "German ruling declares Google liable for false answers in AI Overviews"

buellerbueller — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 13:08:51 +0000

Venture Capital 101! Welcome to Y Combinator :)

New comment by buellerbueller in "German ruling declares Google liable for false answers in AI Overviews"

buellerbueller — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 13:05:29 +0000

Perfectly acceptable to me.

New comment by buellerbueller in "Albania Is Not for Sale: Kushner's $4B Resort Triggers'Flamingo Revolution'"

buellerbueller — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 19:39:28 +0000

You listed a bunch of names, in response to an article that contains factual reporting and sourced information to support the allegations that are being made. Excuse me for not being impressed.

Whereas I recognize many of the names, the only one whose transgressions I am familiar with is Robert Menendez. He is in jail.

The burden of proof rests upon the person who makes the allegation. "Do your own research" lol.

New comment by buellerbueller in "FCC wants to kill burner phones by forcing telecoms to get all customers' IDs"

buellerbueller — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 18:48:32 +0000

I just tried a GigSky eSim on my Samsung Galaxy and it was an epic fail of an experience.

New comment by buellerbueller in "Albania Is Not for Sale: Kushner's $4B Resort Triggers'Flamingo Revolution'"

buellerbueller — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 17:54:29 +0000

No, you just failed to produce evidence, which should have been easy, if your original claim was valid.

New comment by buellerbueller in "Albania Is Not for Sale: Kushner's $4B Resort Triggers'Flamingo Revolution'"

buellerbueller — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 16:03:33 +0000

ok, show us some facts, buddy

New comment by buellerbueller in "Bricks and Minifigs Stole a Man's $200k Lego Collection"

buellerbueller — Fri, 29 May 2026 13:45:20 +0000

hackers are builders; it wouldn't surprise me if the proportion of lego enthusiasts here is far above that of the general population.

New comment by buellerbueller in "New York passes pied-a-terre tax"

buellerbueller — Thu, 28 May 2026 18:08:30 +0000

poor little multimillionaire :( my heart breaks for their 90th percentile wealth.

New comment by buellerbueller in "Citing 'severe' math deficits, UC faculty demand a return to SAT tests for STEM"

buellerbueller — Thu, 28 May 2026 15:34:13 +0000

>Typing on a keyboard is so much faster and more fluent.

...and studies show, inferior for recall:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-writing-by-ha...

New comment by buellerbueller in "Pentagon says military personnel reportedly being targeted using location data"

buellerbueller — Thu, 28 May 2026 15:28:50 +0000

"Lawmakers urge Pentagon to act, citing adtech industry as national security threat".

About damn time. Advertising is a virus.

New comment by buellerbueller in "What we lost when we stopped letting kids leave the front yard"

buellerbueller — Wed, 27 May 2026 13:01:39 +0000

At least today we have a totally competent and sober FBI Director, and an FBI focused on solving actual crimes.

New comment by buellerbueller in "Spain blocks prediction markets Polymarket, Kalshi over lack of gambling licence"

buellerbueller — Tue, 26 May 2026 20:28:22 +0000

"hyperstition," TIL.

Thanks, stranger!

New comment by buellerbueller in "Spain blocks prediction markets Polymarket, Kalshi over lack of gambling licence"

buellerbueller — Tue, 26 May 2026 20:23:49 +0000

what are these "actual odds" and if you have the time machine that lets you observe the necessary outcomes to calculate them, why are you bothering with making money on betting markets?

New comment by buellerbueller in "What we lost when we stopped letting kids leave the front yard"

buellerbueller — Tue, 26 May 2026 20:12:07 +0000

>hood rats

unbiased source data, clearly