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New comment by khat in "Scores decline again for 13-year-old students in reading and mathematics"

khat — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 21:06:23 +0000

Let's see Common Core was released in 2010 and by 2014-2015 most states had implemented it. Lets do the math, 2026 - 13 = 2013. Hmmm... You can say funding all you want but in the same 13 years of Common Core funding per student has increased by 50%.

New comment by khat in "Up to 8M Bees Are Living in an Underground Network Beneath This Cemetery"

khat — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 13:30:26 +0000

"Underground network" in the title but "They live alone..." in the article. I don't care enough to look it up but it sounds like its not a network they are just ground dwelling bees that live in close proximity to other bees, and the author needed a click-bait-y title.

New comment by khat in "Want to write a compiler? Just read these two papers (2008)"

khat — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 17:52:05 +0000

The biggest issue with technical books is they spend the first 1-2 chapters vaguely describing some area and then follow up with but that's for a later more advanced discussion or we'll cover that in that last 1-2 chapters. Don't vaguely tell me about something you're not gonna go into detail about, because now all I'm thinking about reading the subsequent chapters is all the questions I have about that topic.

New comment by khat in "Trevor Milton is raising funds for a new jet he claims will transform flying"

khat — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 21:55:36 +0000

To understand why you must understand the tax code. You can write off any investment losses. You can also recover losses if its from fraud. Though usually not fully. But you give 1 million for investment, boom its a fraud, and you get $800,000 back as opposed to keeping a million and paying $400,000 on it in taxes. It's a win-win situation. There is no penalty in betting on fraudsters. Whether this guy's schemes are deliberately for that is debatable. But on the flip side, putting downsides to investing on possible fraudsters considerably hinders any new genuine start up ideas from gaining investors.

New comment by khat in "Meta Platforms: Lobbying, dark money, and the App Store Accountability Act"

khat — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 18:28:25 +0000

Not working is the opposite of consumerism. Lol. Business's have one objective and that's to make a profit. You can't make a profit if you have no employees. With no employment, citizens won't have money to buy their products. So even if they have a huge inventory, it's useless. When their money stops flowing, that will make changes. And it will be swift.

New comment by khat in "Meta Platforms: Lobbying, dark money, and the App Store Accountability Act"

khat — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 18:24:12 +0000

Unfortunately representatives are bought out by their donors. Nothing you say will change their minds. What will change their minds is if their donors start losing money. (i.e. Having no employees to make their product/service)

New comment by khat in "Meta Platforms: Lobbying, dark money, and the App Store Accountability Act"

khat — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 16:16:15 +0000

Does this surprise anyone, just over a decade ago there was a whistleblower who said the government was spying on its own citizens. The president and half the country called him a traitor. The only way to stop this from happening is half the country refuse to buy any tech that implements OS age verification. That includes working any job that also requires the use of that tech(Basically all jobs). The only thing that talks is money and when half your workforce is not working(or buying anything because they aren't working) then things will get changed real quick. But most people don't want to do that because no one is willing to suffer short term for long term gains. The govt and 1% know this that's why they increment it slowly overtime with generic causes like "save the children"

New comment by khat in "Judge orders government to begin refunding more than $130B in tariffs"

khat — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 22:32:09 +0000

US imposes tariffs, companies increase cost to offset price, consumers front the bill. Companies sue government, judge orders refunds, companies pocket money and keep prices at current rate. The people get screwed over twice.

New comment by khat in "Magical Mushroom – Europe's first industrial-scale mycelium packaging producer"

khat — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 14:43:07 +0000

Now if they can get a mushroom that eats plastic to use it as fuel to grow the mycelium that would be even better.

New comment by khat in "Xbox UI Portfolio Site"

khat — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 15:00:13 +0000

If he has the license then yea it's legal. Chances are if he's posted it publicly he has the rights. Also for a low level personal website that's not going to get a lot of traffic and only hosting 3 songs they probably gave him a license for free.

New comment by khat in "America's Cyber Defense Agency Is Burning Down and Nobody's Coming to Put It Out"

khat — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 14:37:12 +0000

Apparently that's where you stopped reading. If you continue reading, with a little be of logical reasoning and comprehension, you will learn that Plankey has been nominated by Trump, has bipartisan support, and even that Trump started the CISA agency. The only thing holding it up are 2 republicans and 1 democrat over some contract that probably has something to do with their buddies getting some contract deal. This isn't about "this administration", it's about your everyday political favors behind closed doors that has been happening since governments have been a thing.

New comment by khat in "CIA to Sunset the World Factbook"

khat — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 15:23:02 +0000

The CIA was formed in 1947 and the first known controversy was in 1953. And has a whole list of controversies since then. From giving citizens LSD, wiretapping citizens, to supporting Central American cocaine distribution. And this is where you draw the line on trustworthiness? Lol

New comment by khat in "Waymo robotaxi hits a child near an elementary school in Santa Monica"

khat — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 19:39:04 +0000

And if a pedestrian jumps from a bridge to land right in front of you? or how about a passenger jumps of out the car next to you? still going to stand on your absolute?

New comment by khat in "Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux"

khat — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 16:07:05 +0000

Microsoft has always been crap. It's success is contributed to hostile business practices and familiarity not quality of product. IBM and Gates partnered to have an OS installed on its computers to gain customers. With no actual OS Gates bought 86-DOS from Tim Patterson and partnered with IBM. This created a direct competitor to Apple. Then Gates partnered with all other PC manufacturers to do the same. This paved way for Microsoft to dominate Apple because they weren't tied to any specific hardware. Then came Active Directory to solidify business use. The businesses rolled with it and users learned Windows which deepened home PC use. Every app "just worked" BECAUSE of the popularity and developers directly targeted it since most people used it, not because it was a good product. Their file system NTFS is crap. Their registry is a mess. Everything about Windows is just awful.

New comment by khat in "Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux"

khat — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 15:41:33 +0000

Everyone says this but I have only ever used arch. Wiped windows and started with Manjaro. No VM to test straight to bare metal. I learned how Linux worked and then installed the base arch distro. If you can read a wiki, you can use arch. It's not rocket science. All the available arch flavored distros make it even easier today. I tried debian once and found it even more cumbersome. Is it apt or apt-get? is it install or update? Never stuck around to find out.