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Are Twain's books Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn still in school libraries? I honestly don't know, haven't been to a school in decades.

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https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/top-high-school-students-getting-214033561.html

 

My son is graduating and I look at these kids in this article and wonder two big things: how did they do in the AP classes? And did their high schools offer dual enrollment classes? 

The reason I am most curious is a 4.2 weighted GPA and 6 AP's is barely  top 30% in my high school because of everything offered. Also taking 6 AP's but only scoring 3 or less on each final is very telling on what you will do in college. To those of you with young kids it is a whole new world compared to the late 90's

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Biden warned of a DARK Winter or some BS while Yellen was talking transition.  

 

Headwinds seem to be coming from everywhere right now.

 

 

These earning reports are going to be interesting.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

On 3/27/2023 at 8:55 PM, T&C said:

Are Twain's books Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn still in school libraries? I honestly don't know, haven't been to a school in decades.

They were re wrote years ago to make them PC.  specially huck Fin.

 

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46 minutes ago, Chris farley said:

They were re wrote years ago to make them PC.  specially huck Fin.

Wow... had no idea, I still have the original ones. Not 1st pressings or anything like that but the way the book was written At That Time.

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AI expert warns Elon Musk-signed letter doesn't go far enough, says 'literally everyone on Earth will die'
Eliezer Yudkowsky writes that advanced AI will kill all sentient life on Earth and must be shut down

 

An artificial intelligence expert with more than two decades of experience studying AI safety said an open letter calling for a six-month moratorium on developing powerful AI systems does not go far enough.

 

"Many researchers steeped in these issues, including myself, expect that the most likely result of building a superhumanly smart AI, under anything remotely like the current circumstances, is that literally everyone on Earth will die," he asserts. "Not as in 'maybe possibly some remote chance,' but as in 'that is the obvious thing that would happen.'"

 

https://www.foxnews.com/tech/ai-expert-warns-elon-musk-signed-letter-doesnt-enough-literally-everyone-earth-will-die

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16 minutes ago, Doc said:

More than 2 decades?  Pshaw.  I knew about the dangers of AI back in 1984...  

Spirit was singing about it in 1970... 

 

 

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@Chris farley https://dnyuz.com/2023/04/03/what-is-the-ideal-retirement-age-for-your-health/.  Average age without disability is 73.  Maybe early retirement isn't so bad!  Now early unemployment?  not so much.

 

Gal Wettstein, a senior research economist at the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College, looked at age and potential for employment in a study about people’s working life expectancy. He found that Americans who are healthy at age 50 can expect to have roughly 23 more years free of disability, plus about eight years living with disability. That would suggest people’s maximum working life expectancy, on average, is age 73.

 

Carpe diem

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I am curious of something I noticed yesterday when in two separate English teachers rooms. These are two people I don't know well but I noticed they each had more than 25% of their bookcases labeled- banned books- so I looked at the covers and none of them are actually banned in  Florida high schools. Several of them were dystopian books and a few were lightly sexual, are the teachers trying to get kids interested in reading by pretending or are they trying to be political? It is frustrating to see someone lie to kids but it is difficult to get kids to read these days.

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2 minutes ago, Roundybout said:


Been a tough week for the MAGA chuds 


They have no idea how politics work.  No sense of strategy.   It’s all emotion with them. 

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