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One of the most common types of bullying in the US is the use of zero tolerance anti bullying rules as a mechanism for bullying.

Example: kid A punches kid B. Then immediately kid A reports kid B for bullying him because kid A knows how the bullying rules work (because they are a bully). Then kid B gets in trouble for getting bullied.

Typically kid A’s parents will enthusiastically back then too because their kid “gets bullied all the time” while kid Bs parents aren’t experienced with the policies and aren’t positive that their kid didn’t do something wrong (because they are normal parents), so they don’t fight it too hard and just want it to go away.

Ask any teacher in the US and they will tell you that they see this all the time and most every kid that supposedly “gets bullied all the time” is doing exactly this.

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Teachers aren’t in charge of school policies and generally aren’t even decision makers past the lowest levels of discipline.

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Seriously. My cats are so relaxed because they get their food at the exact same times every day. I still hand feed the first and last meals (canned wet food), but it gives them something to look forward to during the day, even when we are at work.

They can also apparently tell time now because they get ready within five minutes of most feedings, I like to think that makes them feel more connected to their world and existence.

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For the vast majority of customers that aren’t looking to spend close to a grand for a card that is infinitesimally better than a card for half the price, AMD has plenty to offer.

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Don’t worry, there is a slightly less senile and marginally more human out of touch old man with bad ideas here to save us. Lucky us, I know I’m inspired to be led by shitty old man A or shitty old man B.

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Trump hasn’t said the truth about one thing his entire life.

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I don’t need to give Rogan a view to know that he’s a piece of shit.

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Way too many variables to accurately fire an inert projectile through that much atmosphere without being guided at least part of the way.

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Lower Decks is awesome. The only thing I didn’t like about Picard is that romulans and vulkans need to wear nametags if they are both going to wear federation uniforms.

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This is why the whole “marvel vs DC” thing is fucking stupid. Most people don’t know or care about that difference, they just know they saw a shitty superhero movie. Better movies overall help both companies.

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PB Glizzy, nuclear weapons, computers, same basic difference.

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Or maybe they literally blew up their whole continent and got to start over again after learning how shit worked.

Europe is old, but their current governments and infrastructure isn’t.

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We had an old 286 running the HVAC at a hospital I worked at. This was a hospital with about 2000 employees in a major American city.

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Sadly, it is actually pretty normal in the US, hence the name.

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Roku tvs use IR remotes like any other TV.

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Absent minded

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Wait, his OWN TEAM didn’t have questions for him, their own client? It’s a civil trial, they could have asked him anything, he could have had the whole court room listening to aIl the stupid bullshit he was trying to say in answer to the state. No questions?

I… can’t fathom taking the stand in your own defense and then not having any questions from your own attorneys. How about: “did you do it?” “No, I did not.” Or “why is the da trying to railroad you.” “Magamagamaga”.

No questions is unfathomable.

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And his whole defense is that he isn’t literally a murderer and that he totally didn’t need to steal.

And given the chance to elaborate on that position, his own attorneys had no questions at all.

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The legal team that didn’t bother to cross examine their own client after he testified for the prosecutor? I think they know.

Consider that for a moment. Trump himself just testified ONLY for the plaintiff. His own lawyers had nothing for him to answer at all.

They could have asked him anything like: “explain how it’s someone else that’s responsible for this” or “explain in detail how this is a witch hunt.” Literally anything.

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That’s a reason not to call him at all, not a reason to only let the state ask him questions.

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Would have been smarter to keep him off the stand altogether.

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Imagine trying to argue that a person who isn’t competent to speak in his own defense should be president. I wish our electorate was better informed.

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Virtually every libertarian I know thinks that he’s a fucking genius, especially the really stupid ones.

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The problem is that the bigger and heavier the craft the higher it’s minimum drop height is going to be because it’s more dangerous and needs more clearance.

Obviously it also becomes much more costly to run.

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Well, if you were a billionaire with private doctors and access to preferred care then you would be way better off than someone in Canada, ergo the American system is better.

That’s the only performance based argument in favor of privatized care that I can think of.

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That’s true to all extent, but the more present online folks do end up driving behaviors about regular users as well. There was a tube when even having an ad blocker at all was a “power user” thing, now everyone does it. If they fail to accommodate the people that will put energy into circumventing ads then they will just find and normalize a new work around.

It’s similar to content piracy. You will never get rid of piracy altogether, but if you make content accessible and affordable you can mitigate how common it is.

For YouTube, they need to balance how intrusive the ads are against how easy it is to get around them.

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I can’t imagine trying to check out an entire cart of groceries at a fucking target.

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Pick retirees without little kids, if you get a chance.

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Honestly, the association with Yahoo just makes the platform look like a joke. Like, the first time you do a search and it pops up as Yahoo your first instinct is thinking you’re using the wrong thing.

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This is the problem with the kind of disinformation the right wing media pushes. If you describe something in as objective truthful a way as possible, suddenly none of this shit is controversial.

I’ve seen people totally on board with a description of public health turn around and just rail against how Obama care is Communist.

So much of this just depends entirely on ignorance. Kinda why these people are homeschooling in the first place.

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For the same reason they oppose public health, public school, trans rights, diversity, equity, and inclusion. They literally don’t know what they are.

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Their understanding of feminism comes from right wing media.

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It’s just “what Trump tells me to hate”, there i defined it.

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It is at the school I went to, the school my kids went to, and the schools that my wife teaches at.

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I think it’s more likely to be from things that actually exist

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Honestly, just don’t go to that part of the Internet unless you absolutely have to. YouTube is a great resource for information, but it sucks as entertainment.

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If that’s how you’re using it, then I think it’s reasonable for them to make some revenue from serving you a constant stream of entertainment.

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Why should YouTube content be free?

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But YouTube DOES have advertising and they have had advertising for a decade, everyone that uploads content knows this and accepts it and in many cases is able to monetize their own content. You are arguing that you are entitled to use third party software to personally avoid ads, and your only argument for it is that you’ve been doing it a long time.

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I’m concerned about your inability to comprehend the notion of not living on YouTube 24/7.

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There wouldn’t even be a payback period at all if they weren’t calculating for anticipated value growth.

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OG startrek was probably the “wokest” thing on TV in the sixties. And a bunch of grouchy old men that no one cared about bitched about it back then too.

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Sounds like you aren’t intelligent enough to understand this. This is why fascists attack schools first, they need people like you.

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Most of these were trained/tested using third world labor on mechanical turk. It actually helps to approach the problem from that understanding:

“Would a person who speaks English as a second language and who is getting paid less than a penny to decide, call this a motorcycle?”

Dude needs to answer about a million of those to make money, so he’s not overthinking it, your knee-jerk answer is probably right.

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Must be nice living in countries where the government works for humans instead of corporations.

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I mean yeah, that’s where the Palestinians are, who did they think was the target of a military attack on a city?

It’s getting hard for people to pretend that this isn’t a genocide when the people doing it aren’t even bothering to pretend it isn’t.

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They are posting Internet messages warning people to get out of a place where they have cut electricity and communications, think about that for a second. Those messages aren’t for the Palestinians, they are for ignorant people like you to defend them in the US.

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The complete unwinding of social safety nets, mental health interventions, and educational funding from the Reagan years finally culminated in a completely vulnerable population. Then we began the era of 24 hour news, extremist Identity politics, and just a general erosion of any semblance of shared American identity.

That’s a nasty little stew.

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