And before anyone corrects me, yes I know the US public education system sucks, but I do believe social media use among children and young adults is having a seriously negative influence on the more vulnerable students.
Banning smart phones in class is a no brainer if you want students to actually pay attention in class. But I’m baffled that they actually expected this ban to meaningfully improve test results.
Getting good grades involves doing your homework, prepping for tests, getting enough sleep to maintain your focus. All of which are done outside the classroom. If social media addiction is really the cause of plummeting school results, them banning phones inside the classroom is not going to solve the problem.
That’s like telling a junkie he can’t do drugs in class, but he can get his heroin back after school.
It’s an absolute travesty. Trump exploited the plea for help from ordinary Iranians to serve his own ego. In doing so he not only destroyed their livelihoods, but also any chance they had of political change. Everyone involved should be deeply ashamed of themselves.
This 👆🏻The Democratic Party is neoliberal and pro-business. It usually aligns itself with the interests of corporate America, many of whom actually support what the Trump administration is doing atm.
Besides, many individual senators personally profit from Trump’s lowering of taxes, removal of legislation and manipulation of the stock market.
Not to put the blame on anyone, but Americans look to me like an a-political people. There is no large, organized opposition movement against the Trump administration. Moderate Americans are stuck thinking the political fight is something they can outsource to the Democratic Party.
A lot of people would answer that the Russian strategy is go “carry on and hope for the best”.
But the Russians have been working very actively to sponsor right-wing extremists and manipulate public opinion, in nearly all Western countries. The election of Trump and Orban for example have been hugely beneficial to Russia.
Plan B I think would be to escalate the war by attacking the EU -forcing them divert resources meant for Ukraine- then sue for peace as soon as they’ve reached some sort of significant territorial gain in either Ukraine or the Baltics.
Its already evident that US won’t lift a finger if NATO countries were to be attacked. In fact Trump would likely use the situation to his advantage and try to extort Europe for money, power or territory.
Yeah, except neither Europe or any of the other countries are going to open the strait by joining an unjust and illegal war with Iran. Instead, we’ll negotiate with Iran and simply accept the new status quo in the region. One in which Iran controls the strait and the US has effectively backed out the region.
Oracle completely missed the jump to cloud and, like Informatica or SAS, it’s been outcompeted by the likes of Microsoft, Google, Snowflake and Amazon for years now.
But hey, that’s not going to go down well with the shareholders, so just say you’re cutting jobs because you’re streamlining your business through the marvels of AI…
That said, who exactly are the people that are being let go? I can imagine the old guard still working at ‘their’ company, but firing young engineers hardly seems like a winning strategy