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A kid living in a wealthy Boston suburb used AI for his essay (that much is not in doubt) and the family is now suing the district because the school objected and his chances of getting into a good finishing school have dropped.
On the other hand you have students attending abusive online universities who are flagged by their plagiarism detector and they wouldn't ever think of availing themselves of the law. US law is for the rich, the purpose of a system is what it does.
We are seeing this with Grammarly already, where instead of a nuance Grammarly picks the beige alternative. The forerunner was the Plain English Campaign, which succeeded in official documents publicised in imprecise language at primary school reading level, it's awful.
It puts forth an interesting thesis: autistic people are let down by the authorities and as a consequence feel justifiably threatened by them.
Surprised to see this appear in the Financial Times of all places and not in the liberal press, if the FT admits that the government is suffering a legitimacy crisis it's serious.
Then they go, eradicate the cats, and wonder where the rats and mice come from. It's called the "mesopredator problem" in ecology, and it's a massive issue when you want to restore ocean islands for birds.
The St Louis Fed has the goods on tomatoes, you would expect that: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WPU02440127
The PPI for tomato sauce, which had been very much constant between 1980 and 2020 (annual increase ~ 1 %) went up by 50 % between mid-2021 and January this year. There is no reason for it to go up, except the grocery monopoly and sticky prices. Of course I want it to come down, the increase isn't due to factors at the producer side.
Here's the price for eggs: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/APU0000708111
At least there the recent increase is explainable by bird flu, but no one expects prices to come down once the epizootic is over.
And there are areas where you want deflation, just to discourage investment. Housing is not supposed to be an investment vehicle.
(Let's rephrase the success part. The campaign was destructive and deadly for the civilian population but did nothing to end the war earlier. Bomber Harris and the Lord Lindemann got a career boost, though.)
They would do that, the pencil detonators the Allies used to disrupt rescue and firefighting efforts after a carpet-bombing run become ever more touchy as time wears on. A bomb that is found is disarmed or exploded, else there will be a repeat of this incident down the line.
There had been longstanding concerns about fumes in the building that made one faculty member sick enough to seek medical attention and workers comp, then they clean up a little and send in a janitor to go and mop, and the following day he is found dead. The photos from the newspaper article are something, cleanup crew in full-body suits with respirator.
It's doubtful that anyone will lose anything over this incident, the hypocrisy and double standard is not acceptable.
Thunderfoot would say "BUSTED!"
People will say, yabbut, airplane hangar houses out on the bajada, but you cannot subdivide those monstrosities into apartments.
In 2007, a 1-BR apartment in Hanover, NH was USD 750. With official inflation at 3 % that would be now something like USD 1325. Good luck finding anything below USD 2250 these days. That's 7 %, more than double headline inflation.
It's a complete policy failure, also because housing is about the most unproductive kind of investment there is.
Waymos on the other hand, they are so new that other traffic participants don't know what to make of them. Maybe it improves in the future because people get more experienced, maybe it doesn't because the alien intelligence is not compatible with human intelligence and those things are inherently unpredictable. We'll see.