Believe me Bea they know more about you already then you know about yourself. Just the way it is today.
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If I was building a bomb or a timetravel machine llike Mike I might worry. There is nothing secret today, not even govt stuff. If someone wants to know something they probably already do. Now I might be a little hesitant about CC#'s if you also posted your pin, something like that but there is so much stuff out there that they aren't worried about a few old folks knowing how to rebuild an atty.
I am however worried about what is happening in our govt. I'm hoping that whatever transpires will not hurt us.. But I'm afraid it either will or is already and we don't see it.
Oh my goodness, the second day of leftovers and I am stuffed, again. When will I learn to eat a moderate portion for food? Oh, apple pie, should I top it with Vanilla Ice Cream or Cool Whip?
So you don't have to see why we are having such horrific Wildfires
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Ahh, nothing but the best ice cream. It is from the best ice cream store in the area. We get all of our ice cream and milk from Braum's. It is always fresh because all of the stores are located within a 300 radius of their processing plant in Tuttle, Oklahoma.
Trust me, there are people who watched that and came away thinking they had just heard a solution.
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And what do we do with the tons of rakings from those hundreds of thousands of acres?
Got it. Big bonfire!
...and you consider this (not dumbness, which I don't believe to be the case) to be a bad thing?
When my dad was in (Canadian) school, he was taught at least the rudiments of French, Latin, and Greek with optional German, the "times tables" up to 20 times 20 (all 400 combinations, drilled until he could snap off the answer to any of them). A partial generation later and it was Latin and just up to 15 times 15 or 12 times 12. By the time I was in school (in the US) it was down to 10 times 10 (but you had to learn them because "you won't have a calculator with you all the time when you're grown up" - HA HA HA) and a year of my choice of Latin, Spanish, or French. By the time my daughter was in school they taught times tables a bit but calculators were allowed during tests. I don't know what the language requirements were because my daughter chose to take several, including 5 years of French (at university level for the last two) before she finished high school. (After 9 1/2 years at University of Michigan they kicked her out with a degree in Linguistics. I think she just liked going to school.)
My own feeling is that learning to look almost anything up instantly (or how to search online, either with a keyboard or by voice) is a desirable substitute for memorizing a few facts (which will be forgotten as soon as you don't use them every day); learning how to use an online translator (and knowing the limitations) is a desirable substitute for partially learning one or two foreign languages (again, Soon To Be Forgotten), being able to look up any date (and get a list of other important events near that date) is a desirable substitute for learning a few dates (STBF) in whatever history they chose to teach. What needs to be taught is HOW to think and use facts; HOW to use mathematics; HOW to interpret the facts of history; HOW to see a new idea and evaluate it using the scientific method. A good grounding in literature, to be exposed to the wisdom of the human race is more important than a few facts memorized.
As far as privacy (online or otherwise) Isaac Asimov said it best (and back in the 1950s, no less) (I paraphrase):
"The battle for privacy is lost. All that can be done now is to impose draconian penalties on those who abuse it."
He went on to point out that if we had been building a good medical database (1950s remember) of health facts we would have known that smoking causes cancer a full half century before we began to suspect it. Same for asbestos. But you can't build a good database of health without knowing who it is about, which is a complete breakdown of privacy. How much better to simply make all this information about people completely available to anyone, and then REALLY punish anyone who abuses that information, including members of the government.
"The battle for privacy is lost. All that can be done now is to impose draconian penalties on those who abuse it."
He went on to point out that if we had been building a good medical database (1950s remember) of health facts we would have known that smoking causes cancer a full half century before we began to suspect it. Same for asbestos. But you can't build a good database of health without knowing who it is about, which is a complete breakdown of privacy. How much better to simply make all this information about people completely available to anyone, and then REALLY punish anyone who abuses that information, including members of the government.
I'll go along with Bea ...
I totally agree. I'm concerned our educational process is actually dumbing down our children more than access to Google, Siri, Alexa, etc. Actually I think it is a good thing to be able to ask the AI assistants questions. Many times we've been having a conversation about something and and no one in the convo knows a particular fact or background about something ... my daughter goes strait to Google and brings up the 'missing' info. And frequently we'll say ... wow, I didn't know that. Well without the AI assistants help we would have continued not knowing that.
Oh yummm! I'll take either one - or both!! Have you ever made whipped cream in a food processor? It takes only seconds (don't look away or you'll have butter) and comes out fabulous. You can make it dense enough to pipe and it will hold its shape and also, it doesn't separate and become runny.
Yep, that's the key. And instilling the desire to learn by looking further and exploring new things. I'm just afraid that simply asking Alexa or Siri will make it too easy to avoid thinking for themselves.
If anyone has any prayers left today would be good. Ginny goes in for an MRI of her brain at 3pm. Praying it is still clear.
This was not meant to be Political, just some insight of what we are dealing with. Sorry if anyone took it that way.
Do "You" have to ask, especially if it is HOT . . .
(Well - Unless it is French Apple . . .
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