They say “history is bunk” because they don’t want to look into history first. That’d take time out of their very busy day of coming up with “new” ideas.
In my experience, a bazinga device like this, if it’s anywhere that’s not directly guarded at all times, will be broken in, oh, a month or less.
Apparently the origins of standardized testing are surprisingly dark even for what it is: in the leadup to WW1, they wanted a way to separate the brains in the bunkers from the bodies in the trench.
Later versions of standarized testing, the ones conjured up by undead creatures like Bill “The Good One” Gates, were intended to be failed as a justification for privatizing more schools and selling more standardized testing.
something original
OH ITS ORIGINAL FOR TECHBROS TO SELL MORE SURVEILLANCE
I haven’t owned a TV since they became “smart.” I hated the idea then and I hate it now.
Another Torment Nexus that is already well underway.
is not a plot device
Unfortunately, for him, it totally was and continued to be.
Smug, self-serving, self-congratulatory, “it’s the internet, therefore caring about anything or expecting any conduct standards is stupid” thought terminating cliches. That shit got tired decades ago and it’s still vile now.