taiyang

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[–] taiyang 50 points 4 days ago

Pleeeease, don't threaten us with a good time.

Seriously, we don't need a extra layer of inaction on top of a government already designed to move slowly. That's the whole point of having three branches of government, you already have to compromise even without the filibuster unless you sweep (and at this point a sweep is well deserved!).

Although I guess I'm ok with the talking version. It'd be fun to watch those old assholes suffer an all nighter speaking non stop. Wouldn't ever pull it off.

[–] taiyang 67 points 4 days ago (8 children)

Seems like a good thing?

I was wondering if it was related to anything passed recently, because another service had to change privacy rules to opt in over a rule change in Cali. I just assume if it sounds like a good thing for consumers, it probably wasn't their choice, lol, but I guess in this case it's just a cost cutting measure.

I at least appreciate them being pretty clear about what's different now.

[–] taiyang 1 points 4 days ago

Mine actually started crashing when I opened it, so yeah. Luckily I live in a grid so it's not really hard to figure it out myself.

[–] taiyang 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I found out today a moron I went to grad school with published a successful book. He's also an "important" person's son, though, so it's less of a jealous thing more of the "this world's fucked" thing.

My PhD isn't super useful though so yeah, throw it in the remorse file.

[–] taiyang 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I had to update my LG recently and it had to get approval for all sorts of weird shit. Oddly enough, it let me continue using just about everything even after I denied all the very invasive checkboxes. I guess even they can't deny use of your own tv if you reject the agreement lol

[–] taiyang 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] taiyang 8 points 4 days ago

I needed a reference picture to give remote tech support to my octogenarian grandma. Circles were my addition.

[–] taiyang 20 points 5 days ago

First mayor to be criminally charged, so far. NY sure knows how to pick em.

[–] taiyang 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I haven't noticed, but I did hear you can root WebOS TVs which include LGs. I may look into it if it gets intrusive. The front page is already showing ads, after all, although not nearly as awful as my fire stick was before.

[–] taiyang 5 points 5 days ago

Don't worry, those fans kind of deserve this.

[–] taiyang 2 points 5 days ago

Yup! And if you have the right dashboard you can usually drill down by location down to that level and even include those additional factors as an overlay. I used to do that using census and labor statistics data, and it is indeed very cool.

[–] taiyang 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It's been a while since I learned the history, but if I remecmber right the first schools in the US were religious in nature. But public schooling was generally a huge equalizer, and made the most advances along with workers rights movements, etc.

That said, there's plenty to be upset about class-wise, just not the class size thing. It's true that rich families have always done what they could do to get their kids ahead, generally with private school and tutoring. They have a much higher odds of getting into the better colleges, and the more elite schools tend to lead to higher pay after graduation. They're also doing everything they can to gut public education, which is the whole point of the push for vouchers (which was especially big during the Trump administration).

There's a thousand more reasons to be pissed off at the rich regarding education, but if I wanted to get into every single one I'd still be in academia (My PhD in Ed was all about that). Actually, now that I think of it, take a look at Learning to Labour by Willis, as I think it reflects your train of thought.

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