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I was wondering if MSchu was doing a Red-like reference that I missed, or that was just a typo.

Et tu, John Cole?

My little speech went over well. I talked about how we can learn so much from people. It's better to learn than teach in many ways. I mentioned my dad who taught me to polish my shoes and tie a tie. That's about it. But what I learned from him was immeasurable. I told the audience that Lela didn't teach me anything but that I learned from her. She agryto join that club with my dad.

The day was a nice tribute to a woman who began at the college in 1967 and had a 50 year career when women, especially black women, were paid less than men, no matter their credentials. I also got to see a number of retirees, many of whom I liked. Like me, she was also a faculty member, a department chair, and an administrator at the college.

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My mother taught me to read between the lines.

Laura Nyro:

I was raised on the good book Jesus
But I read between the lines . . .

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I found that, to an extent, teaching is learning. You are trying to explain the basics, and the basics is what the subject is about.

You learn about society and the nature of authority, and how the inequalities are passed on from one generation to the next, but that becomes stale after a while. It is all about exam results. That is the first axiom in understanding the education system IMO. And all exam results are for is determining who gets to do what. Certain percentages have to pass and fail, because a percentage have to be the lackeys, and it is maintaining those percentages that is the primary purpose of exams. There is a lot of inertia in education.

I think exam results are more important in Britain than they are here. I agree that inequality is passed from generation to generation, but it's due to income mostly. The best predictor of academic success is the income of the parents.

Many colleges here have moved away from SATs as a requirement, and we see college admissions relying more on grades and extracurricular activity like volunteering. But think about the volunteer opportunities for poor kids. Are there as many opportunities?

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some believe possessing ability to influence central organs of other humans nervous systems for the remainder of their existenant biological habitation of planet earth is just another dumb boot code error upon common startup procedures

the value of knowledge is constrainted, controlled, and commodified more than anything else a human being has to offer this world

Football is over!

Pitchers and catchers report today!

43 days until opening day!

50 days until "wait'll next year" :(

Shows such faith in your White Sox. [emoji849]

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Well, their GM came out and said they would win more games than last year. Then again, if they don't it will be breaking their own record for most losses. Hopefully new manager can light some kind of spark and at least make them fun to watch.

some say breaking records is sweetest when they are your own

Can someone explain to me exactly what a "bot" is?

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A 'bot' (short for Robot) is software that automates a task... like a 'smart contract' that exists on the blockchain.
either could be programed to accomplish nearly anything... including denial of service attacks, time sensitive purchasing or trading execution.

Thanks. So a bot could be a program that could reply to a thread? Like I could be a bot?

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yes... but you might need to integrate a language modeler to vary your responses...

That has been my suspicion for a while now.

Mr BB is the bot. Even posts the same LV trip report every year

Very true 😀

I was thinking about the spam posts in a couple threads. But I'm happy to let a bot do my thinking for me.

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"There are estimated to be between 100 billion to 400 billion stars in the Milky Way galaxy."

"There are estimated to be over 2 trillion galaxies in the observable universe."

Been dicking around asking questions on the internet. I feel comfortable saying we aint alone. On the other hand I am guessing we would be pretty hard to find! And we aint finding anyone.

Drinking gin and watching the new season of "Resident Alien" hence my curiousity.

I think it's common sense that we are not alone in the universe, but unless faster than light speed travel somehow becomes possible, we ain't going to find anything. Look up the Drake equation for an explanation.

That's very simple to do. You could probably Google for a freeware posting bot and find dozens of them. You'd give it a list of posts, or post segments, and off it would go.