I'm guessing the kids who didn't do the standardized tests at/shortly after 2021 were already prepared for it.

The kids who saw the removal of standardized testing 3 years out from going to college never bothered.

The parallels to comic sans are so obvious that first thing I did in the article is Ctrl-F "comic", because my first thought was: how much further has this taken the concept.

The distribution of mentions of Comic Sans in the article is revealing: there are a bunch of mentions at around the 30% mark (in which they acknowledge the obvious heritage), and then barely after that. This font really does go further. Beautiful!

So one of the ways Robinhood makes money is payment for order flow (PFOF).

One lens to view PFOF is that it connects the most sophisticated traders (HFTs, etc.) with the least sophisticated traders (retail).

Inventing a new, even less sophisticated class of traders seems like exactly the kind of thing that makes sense for their business model.

Suspect there's a cultural aspect as well. As in, US is more of a monoculture (particulary, consumption-wise), than many other countries.

Oh and advertising being widespread and effective means there's more of a winner-take-all dynamic.

Eh, I think this depends on what you're shopping for?

I'm in Australia as well, and Amazon is good for certain products, regularly price matching (or slightly cheaper than) other stores.

That said, Amazon's product and shipping coverage is much better on the east coast of Australia than the west coast.

if the pilot doesn't have their hands on the stick flying the plane, i don't think those hours (... less than single digit minutes?) count.

Very nice!

I skimmed TFA, came back here to ask for the obligatory 11:59:59 rollover, but then went back and found it.

Windows had autorun starting Windows 95, but stopped shipping it as a default in Windows 7 (2009). So, yeah, no we haven't learned our lesson.

extrapolating that line of thinking: "why does computer run malware, i asked it to not run malware ever!”

another fun parallel: "run this [...] and make no mistake ".

human context is just as bad as llms, i swear

oopsie, has someone burned their proprietary intel for internet points?

this can only be effective if the school isn't counting on the bully to help the school win various sports competitions over the next few years.

often the school is in a tough spot because the only reason some jocks are there is for their sport ability, that the school needs.

American colleges I can understand. But other than bragging rights, why should a high school give enough of a shit about championships to look the other way on bullying?

Middle America peaks in High School. Local games are televised and commentated even during the regular season. The TV series Friday Night Lights is a reasonable reference as an outsider

My school wasn't like that. I assumed Varsity Blues was fiction. Or at least, kind of outdated.

Can any Americans confirm this?

Were your high school sports games televised and commentated?

In Texas HS Football is very much the central/highest tier of social status/standing in the community, and the stadiums they play in are bigger than small college stadiums elsewhere (and are televised.)

For football, yes. Although I think it only broadcast on some small cable TV channel that you had to get special access for. There definitely were small media crews at the games (I was in the band; I went to most of them).

One year I was there, the football team made it to the state championship, and got to play in one of the big 70K-seat stadiums the NFL teams use. About half of our small town bought tickets and went to it.

I just checked, looks like mine is one of many schools that streams games live on here: https://www.nfhsnetwork.com/

Really depends on where, and what sport.

If you're in an urban school in a big city, maaayyybe some of the basketball games depending on the specific school. E.g. if your school has people who everyone knows are going into the NBA draft, sometimes the more important games get put on television with commentators.

If you're in a suburban/rural school and it's (American) football or maybe baseball, quite possibly yes as a regular thing. Especially if you're at one of the 50++ high schools that has a 10,000+ capacity stadium.

Edit: yea and as other replier mentioned, there's some regional tendencies too.

> https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/the-largest-high-school-...

Absolutely, there are three high school football stadiums with capacities over twenty thousand, in Ohio and Texas.

Oof wow, that's bigger than I realized. I knew there were a lot of big ones (10k+), but I didn't realize there was US highschool football being played in stadium bigger than the smallest EPL stadiums.

I guess I shouldn't be surprised given a lot of college stadiums are 50k+ capacity.

Eight of the top ten largest stadia in the world are for NCAA Football.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_stadiums_by_capacity

That's my personal experience growing up in a suburban area in the South (edit: in the 90s)

In this case it was at roughly age 8-10. It was a sporty school and I don't think it prioritised that above student wellbeing, not at the level of one individual player anyway.

That said, I know school sports is a way bigger deal in the US than most other countries so YMMV.