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byjedidiah
0, 2025 @05:39PM
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Attached to: American Kids Can't Do Math Anymore
Educational standards have been declining for a long time. It hasn't just recently gotten bad because of Corona. Both math and English instruction have declined to the point that people like you are making excuses for remedial instruction in college.
The sabotage is intentional even if those doing it don't think they are engaging in sabotage. This is painfully obvious if you interact with the K12 education system.
Parents these days have to more to repair the damage done by professionals.
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byjedidiah
8, 2025 @08:49PM
(#65783358)
Attached to: Scientists Edit Gene in 15 Patients That May Permanently Reduce High Cholesterol
The kinds of foods that trash your LDL predate the FDA and the United States.
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byjedidiah
2025 @02:19PM
(#65764806)
Attached to: FDA Clears Way For Faster Personalized Gene Editing Therapy
Sometimes experimentation is the only thing standing between you and certain death. None of us would be surviving cancer if not for patients being experimented on.
Beyond terminal illnesses, the regulatory burdens should be very high and not lowered because something shiny and new comes along.
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byjedidiah
2025 @05:02PM
(#65671398)
Attached to: What's Happening To Wholesale Electricity Prices?
Large houses in hot climates don't have enough roof space to accommodate the number of panels you would need to displace grid power. Using obsolete panels that generated less power when they were new is only going to make the problem worse.
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byjedidiah
2025 @04:58PM
(#65671380)
Attached to: What's Happening To Wholesale Electricity Prices?
Leaning into unreliable power sources when demand is increasing is just going to make any supply issues worse.
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byjedidiah
2025 @04:54PM
(#65671376)
Attached to: What's Happening To Wholesale Electricity Prices?
Someone posted what they pay for electricity in California and what their buy back rate is and their rates are insane.
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byjedidiah
025 @12:58PM
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Attached to: Study Reveals Why Credit Card Interest Rates Remain Stubbornly High
If you don't understand the math behind unsecured debt, you shouldn't call yourself a nerd.
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byjedidiah
025 @12:57PM
(#65274333)
Attached to: Study Reveals Why Credit Card Interest Rates Remain Stubbornly High
The key bit of financial ignorance here is not understanding that credit cards are unsecured loans.
Other forms of credit have lower interest rates because the risk of default is mitigated by the ability to seize and sell an asset used to guarantee.
Being unable to pay your bills on time (or at all) increases how much you pay for all forms of credit.
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byjedidiah
25 @04:21PM
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Attached to: California Has 48% More EV Chargers Than Gas Nozzles
Been there and done that. The spouse was once saddled with an EV as a rental because all the regular cars were already taken.
The experience was so horrible that there is zero chance of us ever getting an EV.
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byjedidiah
25 @04:14PM
(#65272673)
Attached to: Netflix CEO Says Movie Theaters Are Dead
You can probably find the space to hang a 85" TV even if you have an apartment the size of a shoe box.
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byjedidiah
2025 @10:57AM
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Attached to: Anonymous Sources: Starship Needs a Major Rebuild After Two Consecutive Failures
DEI is just Jim Crow turned around so that the perpetrator switches place with the victim.
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byjedidiah
2025 @10:51AM
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Attached to: Solar Adds More New Capacity To the US Grid In 2024 Than Any Energy Source In 20 Years
Nuclear can generate power reliably regardless of the weather or time of day. Nuclear or coal will be picking up the slack when the sun isn't out.
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byjedidiah
2025 @10:47AM
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Attached to: Solar Adds More New Capacity To the US Grid In 2024 Than Any Energy Source In 20 Years
Solar panels also degrade in high heat like any other type of electronics.
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byjedidiah
2025 @05:33PM
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Attached to: Volkswagen Announces a Cheap Electric Car to Compete With China
More people would receive treatment and survive conditions that would otherwise be terminal without treatment. This would lead to more people lingering on with chronic conditions and needing future care related or unrelated to what would have killed them.
Some of these treatments and followup supportive care can be very very expensive.
Savings from admin overhead would be more than erased by more people getting better access to services.
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byjedidiah
2025 @05:11PM
(#65167307)
Attached to: Western Digital Aims For 100TB Hard Drives by 2030
If it's spinning rust, it's not going to break suddenly and die unexpectedly. You will probably have enough time to copy your data before the drive dies assuming you didn't already have another copy or two already.
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