I’m also okay with harsher penalties for people that demonstrably can’t be trusted to do the right thing, for example by panicking and fleeing the scene.

Which is a good philosophy outside of the military! That’s the same thing the Puritans wanted, for people to not be reliant on a few to do their thinking for them.

From a broader perspective “school” has been a thing since before Socrates and humanity pendulums between “a broad education is the foundation for a strong populace” and “we need a giant pool of disposable labor”.

And the US public education philosophy is similarly inconsistent. At the earliest it was Puritans who wanted everyone to be able to read the Bible for themselves and so pushed for literacy. At times it has been guided specifically by the business economy but it’s inaccurate to say that schools were designed to produce factory workers.

Corporatocracy is part of, and the logical conclusion of, any economic system that values private profit. Capitalism is not the pure, uncorrupted version of this. (And from where I’m sitting you’re a bootlicker too for takes like “he built that company with his own sweat and he deserves to reap the benefits of such.” It conpletely ignores the labor everyone else put into that company, from the employees to the supply chain to the tax-funded infrastructure.)

Took me a second to remember that the US is the weird one with the red conservative party.

I don’t see a point to AR without cameras. Text translation and context-based information are all I would want, maybe a navigation aid, everything else just seems annoying to have right in front of me.

Microwave popcorn hits different.