DharmaCurious

Probably not to the same level of lane-correct-agressiveness, but my SIL's Volkswagen's lane correct is insane. The roads around here aren't great, and it will often detect random streaks or lines of potholes as a lane and refuse to allow you to avoid them. Once an elk ran in front of the car and when my brother tried to swerve to avoid the damn car fought him so hard we only narrowly missed it. And at other times when on roads with no lane markings at all it randomly decides that the road isn't the road, and that ditch over there is the lane we're supposed to be in.

All that said, it works great most of the time, and we just turn it off if it's acting hinkey

Awww

I'm sorry your kids are lame, but the fact that you love dead like me and your username makes me really, really want to hang out with you

A well rounded graduate of highschool, having experienced multiple different kinds of work environments could help our society feel a little more connected, lead to kids better able to determine what it is they want to do with their lives. If you had to do this once per year during highschool, and you had to pick a different one each year, you'd end up with at least 4 different experiences by the end. That's a lot better than our current system of "you've never been allowed to make a decision before. Now, my child, on your 18th year, decide your career for the rest of your life, and blindly take our 200 thousand dollars worth of loans to do it"

That's fair, honestly. I was going to make a quip about kids not wanting to learn math, so what right do we have to force them to learn it. But in all honesty, you're right. We treat kids like little machines who must do and say as we command, and that's a problem. I still stand by saying that experience with the working world would be beneficial, and that it should be part of standard education, but as far as the ethics and morality of it goes, it's a sticky area that would need much discussion.

I'm not suggesting that no one has empathy, or even that most don't, just that some would benefit from this in that arena

How about we just add it to curriculum for school. During general highschool educational, you must take at least one Public Service class per year. You can choose from farming, retail, plumbing, electrician, road crew, et cetera. Each kid has to do a certain number of hour per school year, and it's required even if private school kids. Disability would obviously be an exception, but otherwise you need to be doing at least X number of hours per school year to graduate. Could help people understand how these things work, and hopefully build some empathy in the little sociopaths.

Dammit, that wasn't supposed to post yet. I'm still in the process of revising! Lol.

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Couldn't students just generate a paper with ChatGPT, open two windows wide by side and then type it out in a word document?

Ever read The Stand by King?

First time I read I got to around 1/4 of the way through and felt sick. Thought "jeeze, suggestible much?"

Ended up having the flu for the first time in my life.

Then when the new whoopie Goldberg version came out I sat down to watch it with my mom, and got so sick. Had pancreatitis. Lmao

Y'all need to stop offering me this, I'm gonna take one of you up on it. I want out of the south :(