Jamie

I always thought there should be a minimum hold time. Somewhere between 1-5 years after they leave their position.

It encourages them to think long term instead of just the next quarter, and they really have to leave the company in a better place than they found it.

benefactor tends to be the Republican party who has members, like Trump himself, who are in the pocket of these foreign nations.

Generally, the benefactors are most rich people in general. If everybody's getting angry at each other about pronouns and medical treatment for a fraction of a percentile of people, they're not paying attention to the rich who get richer from everyone else getting poorer.

You can replace trans rights with whatever overblown topic you choose, I'm just using it as an example because it's topical. But the amount of legislative cost being dedicated to putting down maybe 0.2% of the overall population is ridiculous. That same energy could be spent doing literally anything else productive.

It's the presentation of the information that really matters. Even if it's not effective, a water based battery proof of concept is still better than nothing. Just because it isn't practical right now doesn't mean it isn't noteworthy.

The issue is presenting it with the implication that it's a ready to use product.

I had a feeling something like this was gonna come. It's an age old trick.

Do something that makes people mad and gets attention.

Let it stew for a few days while you're "considering" things.

Come out and say you made a mistake and the initial plan was misguided, present the thing you were actually planning to do instead.

Brag about how much you "care about feedback" while still doing what you want

In my Pokemon Red I used the Master Ball to catch a Polywhirl because I really liked Polywhirl, and underestimated how hard the legendaries would be to catch. Also I was like 8, so long term planning skills weren't all that developed yet.

Take your pick from any any of these

(Each word is a different link)

I don't carry a calculator in my pocket, just a device that has access to the sum of all human knowledge.

And a calculator.

I think at a certain point, you should be able to drop math as a subject and take programming instead. There's no shortage of math concepts in programming that still require understanding of underlying concepts, but I can easily say if I had that option in school, I'd have learned way more in a programming class than I ever did in math.

I had a history teacher in school that liked me even though I barely paid attention in class. I was bored in the class itself, but loved history and would spend the entire period just reading the textbook because I found it interesting. So even though I didn't pay attention I would still ace assignments like nobody else in there.

I was usually a couple chapters past the class at any given time.

Yup, I haven't seen one of my friends in person in years because he's in the army. Another one lives right here in town but has a whole family to take care of, but every single time he's asked me to do anything with him has been a bad time, and I kinda feel bad about it. The rest of my friends have mostly either moved elsewhere or I've just not kept in touch.

So yeah, even people that I kept in touch with for some time after I got out of school have basically not been in my life for some time now. I've got a few friends that I usually hang with online, but all my school mates have basically gone their separate ways.

I'm not them, but while ADHD is a problem, social media and the dopamine quick-hit style that internet content has taken has had a noted effect in reducing attention spans.

I'm not the guy you're replying to, but I will say this is a topic that is never going to see a good consensus, because there are two questions of morality at play, which under normal circumstances are completely agreeable. However, when placed into this context, they collide.

1. Pornography depicting underage persons is reprehensible and should not exist

2. The production and related abuse of children should absolutely be stopped

To allow AI child porn is to say that to some extent, we allow the material to exist, even if it depicts an approximation of a real person whether they are real or not, but at the potential gain of harming the industry producing the real thing. To make it illegal is to agree with the consensus that it shouldn't exist, but will maintain the status quo for issue #2 and, in theory, cause more real children to be harmed.

Of course, the argument here goes much deeper than that. If you try to dig into it mentally, you end up going into recursive branches that lead in both directions. I'm not trying to dive into that rabbit hole here, but I simply wanted to illustrate the moral dilemma of it.