I work hard not to be the average almost-40 Southern white man. I mean in terms of the body.

Ok sometimes the rate of people dying goes up and down. One is a tragedy. A million is a statistic.

Well the "stormfags" aren't free speechers. Such is not a tenet of National Socialism.

Not ignore. But I'd rather the US offer humanitarian aid than weapons.

A teacher who's doing their job won't care.

I would care. If people actually watch and criticize this would quickly get overwhelming. Not just legit criticism of lesson plans. Parents are going to be complaining that their Johnny doesn't get more attention. Parents are going to complain if their children get disciplined. The only mitigating factor I can think of is that the worst parents will probably be the most likely to ignore the videos, but busybody parents are about to become more of a pain.

I like the idea of having video tapes, in case a question arises whether a teacher broke a rule, but I'd rather use them like security footage than a broadcast. We already have a pretty powerful feedback mechanism in that parents get to talk to their children. Sure a child is a bit of an unreliable narrator, but that's something adults can work through. Lesson plans should absolutely be shared with parents.

That's my guess of what will happen, but I hope somebody tries it. If these problems are going to happen, they will happen quickly.

I haven't given this thing a proper look yet, but I was hoping Apple would come up with something really useful.

I like the thought of them not knowing whether he'll out them, though. Perhaps it will discourage such requests. All transparency advances the cause of transparency, even selective transparency. Even if he just shames one, that would be good.

I wouldn't give money to wealthy people, either, but I wouldn't avoid buying things that enrich them. This is a service that you buy if you want it, not a charitable donation.

Oh I think he's right. Those other platforms are way more censored. He named the big competition, which certainly seems a reasonable set of comparisons to make. I dont' expect him to point out who they censor more than.

I think this goes to show you how few people support actual free speech. I'm not sure if they would feel differently if they were extended the right in practice. They aren't, in practice, so I'm not gonna judge.

I can fully support all of this being the actions of free people and still tell the newspaper that I think they're wrong and they suck. Free speech can only be mandated so far by the government. People have to believe in it.

What's weird about this case is nothing he said comes close to any lines. The speech is at worst rude, not anything close to threatening or slanderous.

So people are not allowed to say that evil mayo monkey Christians genocided the POC any more?

That's not how that works. People don't lose their personal, principled right to free speech by virtue of taking any job. This wasn't just a news story. This was an event that happened within the community, being commented on by a member of that community and in that capacity.

Why even try to erode free speech? How could this kind of petty bullshit possibly help anyone?

I don't condone firing people over dumb shit said on their personal twitter accounts. Apparently I'm the only one. I don't care about the substance of it. Why not just tell that person what you think of them on twitter and move on?

Right now, I'd be worried enough teachers don't want to submit to that that you'd have an even bigger teacher shortage. I mean if your school district already has a waiting list, then by all means. It's going to be hard to do this in places where teachers have a lot more rights and power than parents. Even if you get a law passed. People do not want to work for these school districts. Anything you do to make their job worse makes staffing that much harder.

And it will make it worse. However I feel about teachers, parents can be just as bad. For certain values of parents, them not watching is a good thing.

Well you can't do that with cookie cutter public schools. People seem to want to make our schools even more uniform, envious of tiny countries whose uniformity transcends the schoolhouse. No one tells us to emulate the countries our own size and larger. If that's too few countries for you, then allow for somewhat smaller ones, too. Just once you get to the size of a single state or smaller you better be comparing to the best state in the country.

Tenure was designed to stop controversial ideas being avoided. It has been an utter failure at that. Best to scrap it entirely.

I'm not sure this is all of it. I think it was intended to benefit not just controversial ideas but unsexy or unprofitable ones, too. The idea is that after a certain point an individual who proved himself would be set free of basically oversight in the hopes that him taking his research any direction he wanted would benefit science more than research done with more supervision. The idea is that managers don't know what line of investigation might yield useful results. That people who have proved themselves to have scientific acumen know this better on their own.

Of course this isn't working either with professors now chasing grants and trying to work on whatever they can profit from at a startup.

They're gonna suck as long as the government runs 'em. The existence of good public schools does nothing to provide a path for the rest of them to get good. The existence of good public schools proves that you can have some good schools no matter what system of organization you use.

The existence of good public school systems in other countries similarly does nothing to help the United States. Stuff that our government does usually sucks. Yet the country still does a lot of things well, because they get done in the private sector.

Someone explain to me what about education makes it different such that only the government can do it well.

wtf is opera gx?

Fair, yeah, I didn't pay that close attention to this on, but Hollywood has done a few VR/AR interfaces. The movie Minority Report comes to mind for extensive use of the hand gestures.

As other people pointed out, I can't imagine doing work in one of these. Or using one for more than a few minutes, really. I think AR will be very useful for work but not as a replacement for a desk/keyboard/monitor/mouse. Rather you're out actually doing something and you're getting information related to what you're actually doing. Did they even test this outside?

I didn't realize that Hilton hotels weren't owned by Hilton.

Manatees like to sun themselves on rocks by the ocean, though, whereas hippos like to submerge themselves in, AFAIK, fresh water. European sailors didn't make this mistake up close.

To leftists, proper ownership of an area is fixed at the last owner that wasn't white. It's the only rule correctly predicts all the rightful owners that I know of. Later sometimes ownership transfers to the next group to arrive that wasn't white, as is the case in South Africa.

As kind of a random aside, why do people feel like there are legal and illegal wars? Are you supposed to get permission from the UN? Are they the boss of all of us now?

I'm not gonna sit here and weigh people's claims, like I'm some kind of damned adjudicator. If you say you want something and go take it that's good enough for me.

I don't feel a need to take a side in everyone's civil war. Which is what I consider Ukraine's situation to be. Russia's justification sounds, uh, fine. There are lots of people worth supporting in the world. People don't usually choose which war to go to based on the best justification. So I'm not overly impressed by Russia's escalation of the war, either. Like, I'm not sure that sending a tank column at Kiev was the best way to protect people in Donbas. I think you'll see that played out. At some point even good reasons become self serving.

Of course in Ukraine, we have a country that is not ready to negotiate. It ain't Russia that is saying they want to occupy all of Ukraine. It's Ukraine saying they won't give up a bit of what was their territory just now. All Russia can do is give up or beat on them until they agree to come to terms.

All I can say is Ukraine is weird. Before these Nazis were fighting Russia they were fighting literal communists in the street. They're Ukrainian nationalists, which is understandable. I guess they're not so picky about who gives them weapons. I don't think they have much to do with the old Nazis -- they're not observant Nazis -- they're some kind of neo-Nazis who as we know are all over the place. Some of them are prison gangs, right? They're not all Hitler Youth standouts.

Another angle on this: You know who else likes skulls and lightning bolts and shit? Tough guys and wannabe tough guys. People who fancy themselves murderous, a lot of 'em look up to the SS. Sometimes patches are just patches on guys whose motivation isn't entirely political.