BakerBagel
@BakerBagel@midwest.social
- Comment on It's Breathtaking How Fast AI Is Screwing Up the Education System 2 days ago:
This is the inevitable result of “No Child Left Behind” linking school funding to how students performed on standardized tests. American schools haven’t been about education for the last 20+ years. They are about getting as much funding as possible.
- Comment on It's Breathtaking How Fast AI Is Screwing Up the Education System 2 days ago:
What do you think testing is for? It’s to show what you know/have learned
- Comment on YSK that in 16 States in the USA has banned Ranked-Choice voting, including 5 that has just banned it in 2025, and 6 of those bans happened in 2024. 3 days ago:
The Ohio HoR just overwhelming voted to remove all state funding from any city that implements ranked choice voting. It threatens the parties in power, so they are both eager to stomp it out
- Comment on YSK that in 16 States in the USA has banned Ranked-Choice voting, including 5 that has just banned it in 2025, and 6 of those bans happened in 2024. 3 days ago:
They just pulled that in the Ohio House this week. They have been calling it “One Person, One Vote” and are going to withhold state funds to any municipality that uses ranked choice voting. It passed our house 22-5 iirc
- Comment on And sir cumference, the sphere 5 days ago:
One thing that is important to note is that King Arthur was sorta used as a template for story telling in medieval England, Wales, and France. There are dozens of conflicting stories and accounts because some tales are from the 7th century, and some are from the 14th. King Arthur and The knights of the round table are essentially a folk hero tale for the nobility of the middle ages.
Thomas Malory’s Le Morte D’Arthur is the first compilation of Arthurian tales that were collected, but it was written in the 15th century and can be a real bear to read if you want something more casual.
- Comment on We gonna fight 1 week ago:
Thry guy who finds himself on top determines the hierarchy until someone supplants him ny whatever means.
- Comment on Selling BTC or not..? 1 week ago:
Jist gonna ignore the part where he said he blew $1500 on shitcoins? He’s down $800 overall
- Comment on We have reached the “severed fingers and abductions” stage of the crypto revolution - Ars Technica 2 weeks ago:
They have to be loud about it because they are crypto influencers. If they shut up after getting rich they lose it all.
- Comment on TRUCKIN' 3 weeks ago:
Because you didn’t have extreme liver damage
- Comment on TRUCKIN' 3 weeks ago:
It’s also indicative of extreme liver damage
- Comment on “Bionic Girl” Debuts New Wireless Hands That Even Work When Detached From the Main Prosthetic 3 weeks ago:
6 dudes at once!
- Comment on More Americans are financing groceries with buy now, pay later loans — and more are paying those bills late, survey says 3 weeks ago:
Yeah man, fuck people just trying to throw a birthday party for their kid. People need to suffer more
- Comment on Walkies? 4 weeks ago:
It used to be so much fun to watch my chihuahua mind her own business and then just say “outside?” to watch her go totally stiff and freeze. Then i would say “Outaide?” again and she would go absolutely ballistic
- Comment on Need a tiebreaker 4 weeks ago:
Idk if kitty litter or dental floss fits into either of those categories
- Comment on Need a tiebreaker 4 weeks ago:
I use the bathroom garbage to empty the litterboxes. Ain’t no way i am raw dogging that
- Comment on Discord CEO steps down, replaced with former Activision Blizzard CSO as they work towards being a public company 4 weeks ago:
12 years ago Skype and team speak were the go to for voice chat for gaming. Once someone comes up with a less shitty platform, everyone will start to migrate again.
- Comment on I feel like if asbestos was banned today there'd be a huge pro-asbestos movement 5 weeks ago:
Lot of people in my town with “party plates”. Yellow plate with red letters to signal to cops that you are a frequent DUI fiend. No clue how youend up with those instead of just having your license revoked
- Comment on I feel like if asbestos was banned today there'd be a huge pro-asbestos movement 5 weeks ago:
Still meet plenty of people who drink beer in the car
- Comment on Stuck 5 weeks ago:
Boys start playing with their weiners as soon as their hands can start grasping stuff. It’s instinctual.
- Comment on Panic! on the trade floor 1 month ago:
Europe is in the midst of a massive housing crisis.
Canada has possibly the worst housing crisis in the developed world
Korean homes are 3x as much in the major cities as smaller rural cities.
Housing has been consuming a larger and larger chunk of people’s incomes for the past 15 years. That’s a cost of living crisis. Because the 2008 crash allowed the wealthy to pick up all the pieces and restart the game using the exact same rules. Nothing changed, nothing improved, neoiberals just painted over the foundational cracks of our society and said everything is fine now. The finacialization of every aspect of our lives has only become more extreme, so i would definitely say the 2008 crisis was never actually solved.
- Comment on Panic! on the trade floor 1 month ago:
Replacing salaried desk jobs with hourly wages and no pay increase isn’t exactly employment growth. If everything recovered just fine, why are millennials miles behind where their parents were at a similar age? Homeownership has been steadily declining, savings accounts have steadily been dwindling, and the rate of Americans living paycheck to paycheck has only gone up in the past 20 years. That’s not a recovery, it’s an adaptation to a new normal.
- Comment on Panic! on the trade floor 1 month ago:
Idk how you can say it ended when the fundamental causes of the collapse were never addressed, the perpetrators were never punished, and the middle class continued to shrink. Stocks were pretty much the only thing that improved since 2008.
- Comment on AI crawlers cause Wikimedia Commons bandwidth demands to surge 50%. 1 month ago:
I recently started as a graphic designer despite knowing absolutely nothing about it, so i am constantly searching how to do stuff in Adobe suite at work. Half the time Google’s AI can’t even keep “Cmnd” and “ctrl” straight, telling me to use’ “cmnd+shift+H” on Windows or “ctrl+shift+H” on Mac’. I don’t even know how it botches that, but it does it about 25% of the time.
- Comment on Terrorists 1 month ago:
- Comment on Dad demands OpenAI delete ChatGPT’s false claim that he murdered his kids 1 month ago:
What models are youseeing where things are 99% correct? Google’s search chat bot can’t even keep Windows vs Mac hotkey commands straight.
- Comment on Dad demands OpenAI delete ChatGPT’s false claim that he murdered his kids 1 month ago:
So then what’s the use of the program if it uses a bunch of energy to just make shit up?
- Comment on $16bn health agency managed finances with Excel spreadsheet. 2 months ago:
'Why do we need a backup when we have a RAID?"
The accounting head when you try to explain that your backup systems are woefully insufficient.
- Comment on You guys have to end it 2 months ago:
Not to mention the DUI rates in the US are astronomical. Over 1/3 of motor fatalities are alcohol related in the US.
- Comment on Microsoft Publisher will no longer be supported after October 2026 - Microsoft Support 2 months ago:
Oh joy. I already have to deal with printing crap people didn’t know how to make properly in Publisher or Canva. I’m super pumped to get emailed an excel file and asked if i can print off as a business card
- Comment on This speaks for itself 2 months ago:
Todd and Margot
