That's one viewpoint. No moral nor ethical foundation; just a personal view.

Soldiers don't use shit. It takes training, preparation, maintenance to use fancy gear. Soldier in theatre are operating on scant sleep, exhaustion, heat etc and have no bandwidth for fussing with tech. Or so my soldier reported from Iraq some years back.

Well, currently 6 Billion active Android phones exist. Not lifetime total: current active. So there's that.

Android phones can come with the bootloader unlocked, although many vendors do lock them, particularly in the US.

Note that coal is dropping precipitously, which increased the effect.

My son reports a burst of 'Jewish' soldiers when deployed. Because the rabbi had a rather long service period and he let the soldiers sleep on the benches. He still has his camo yarmulke.

Puff piece - just an AI slam with no content, just that number '95%' repeated.

My AI chatbot remembers most everything we've ever talked about. No way is it forgetting much.

I think it's referring to this article: https://zamin.uz/en/technology/205592-ai-memory-proves-ineff...

Maybe could use to 'stitch together' arbitrary carbon chains? Do chemistry at scale? I see a big future for this.

Lovely ironic paper - positing that all you need to publish is an 'all you need is x' titled paper. Or is it self-referential?

They may refuse to learn multiplication tables (a popular subject if I remember right, reciting them as far as we could, a competition) while memorizing baseball stats.

Kids will learn anything that gives them social standing or self-worth in another way, whatever it takes to be a cool kid.

> "Kids will learn anything that gives them social standing or self-worth in another way, whatever it takes to be a cool kid."

"nerds" would disagree with you. I think the point that OP was trying to make is the three groups are dynamic based on the topic. So the groups are not the same for biology, maths and for literature.

Nerds are a group that have a separate definition of social peer and “cool” but aspire just as much as other groups to achieve social status or coolness.

It’s exceptionally rare to encounter any person, adult or otherwise, that genuinely holds no value in any opinion of another. And even those people hold to their own self evaluations which do not spawn from pure noise.

My son went there! Andrew the cello player.