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A controversial bill that would require all new cars to be fitted with AM radios looks set to become a law in the near future. Yesterday, Senator Edward Markey (D-Mass) revealed that the "AM Radio for Every Vehicle Act" now has the support of 60 US Senators, as well as 246 co-sponsors in the House of Representatives, making its passage an almost sure thing. Should that happen, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration would be required to ensure that all new cars sold in the US had AM radios at no extra cost.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 6 months ago (3 children)

This is just making me think that there should be a fundamentals of modern technology class in high school somewhere between a shop and physics class. It’d be a nerd elective but by fuck am I that nerd

[–] captain_aggravated 6 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Something between shop class and engineering. Like Technician class. I like it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Yeah as an engineer I think it would’ve been far more useful than the engineering class I took that was basically how to do autocad and measure things. And it would’ve been useful for everyone.

There are two things at play here. 1) one of the primary purposes of the United States’s education policy is to produce engineers. This is an economic and military strategy. And 2) we live in a world where technology abounds and yet so few people understand it. A robot isn’t a magic person made of metal, it’s the manifestation of the laws of physics as applied for our own desires.

Making a radio receiver and a telegraph and a record and telephone and a basic battery etc makes for more grounded adults. Show the teenagers the way the real world works, clever applications of natural phenomena

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

A robot isn’t a magic person made of metal, it’s the manifestation of the laws of physics as applied for our own desires.

I suppose if we discovered magic and understood its principles, it wouldn't really be magic any more.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.


Arthur C. Clarke

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Well now you’re just where I fell when I learned about the imaginary plane in electronics.

[–] leviathan3k 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I dunno, maybe we need something more General.

[–] captain_aggravated 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Aren't you being a little Extra?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

He's just advanced, but you'll never reach that state these days in afraid.

[–] captain_aggravated 2 points 6 months ago

In today's world, it's basically impossible to even start out as a Novice.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

lol no I’m a millennial

[–] vaultdweller013 1 points 6 months ago

Shop was the rednecks making explosives in their garages, I was one of them. Mind you they werent supposed to explode.

[–] CancerMancer 1 points 6 months ago

Considering the growing importance of digital radio communication, Computer-Assisted Design, electronic repair, etc. I'd love to see this kind of thing.