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Having children isn’t that expensive.

WSJ:  It Now Costs $300,000 to Raise a Child

WSJ:  It Now Costs $300,000 to Raise a Child

It determined that a married, middle-income couple with two children would spend $310,605—or an average of $18,271 a year—to raise their younger child born in 2015 through age 17. The calculation uses an earlier government estimate as a baseline, with adjustments for inflation trends.

Before Bill Nye the Science Guy became a garden-variety Progressive try-hard, he used to say “Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof.”

It isn’t plausible that it costs $18k per year to raise a child.  Where is the proof?

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Humanoid robots are trash.

Humanoid Robots Have a Serious Design Flaw, And We Need to Fix It

Watch Boston Dynamics’ Atlas robot doing training routines, or the latest humanoids from Figure loading a washing machine, and it’s easy to believe the robot revolution is here.

From the outside, it seems the only remaining challenge is perfecting the AI ( artificial intelligence) software to enable these machines to handle real-life environments.

Humanoid robots won’t be attending the robot revolution.

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Shop class is fun and dangerous.

Sparks in the Schoolyard: What We Lost When Shop Class Disappeared

There are two ways to look at the approach my parents took to academics. 

“We trust your judgement” or, “so long as the school isn’t calling with problems, everything is fine.”

Either way, I could choose my own classes and graduation requirements weren’t as stringent.  I took every shop class that North Olmsted High School offered, and avoided academic classes.

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