Yes. The reaction of the Persians I know is shifting a lot. First they celebrated, but I think they are feeling the same whiplash that Iranians did in 1979. The cold war never stops repeating the same story.

I use a different open source OS. Have you tried microG? Or is that already on e? Even if you have it, some parts might need configuring.

This is how I feel. I’m enjoying Claude and paying but keeping a close eye. Its nice because it really enables me to do things I am not capable of on my own. I teach as part of my job and used it to code an interactive learning module. Making the module hasn’t been quick and I have to babysit the content a lot to get what I want. But I never could have done it on my own and I never could have paid someone to make it for me and it’s helping educate people. I see this as the correct use of AI.

But if anthrioic goes pure evil I’ll cancel my subscription.

I dunno. I feel like a few countries made a similar bet (but to a higher extreme) during the Arab spring and it went extra bad. It’s important to be careful about who and what you’re trying to replace an authoritarian system with.

For this race, I agree. The worst he can be is a Fetterman… Who sucks but is still better than fucking Dr. Oz.

But be careful with this line of thinking. It’s very similar to how the right ended up voting for Trump. It’s actually how a lot of really awful governments gained power. “Anything different” than the current catastrophe does not inherently mean better.

Im pretty wary… i think hes probably got a bit of authoritarian streak and probably got this tat when he was young and dumb and in the military which leans right. I also think people change and he has changed. I think he’s taken a hard left on the economy and class consciousness.

But is his authoritarian streak gone? His reddit comments show that at the time of posting he had little sympathy for sexual assault victims and was at the very least kinda weird about black people. Hes also very pro gun, which I dont find to be an inherent issue and I even agree the left needs to be more prepared and armed, but when lined up with other problematic views it stresses me out. And I dont realllly trust all of his hand waving around the tattoo and reddit comments.

But maybe should we embrance that hes a bit of a bulldog in an era when the left is so toothless? Also its almost impossible to do worse than Susan Collins lol.

I get your concern in a sense because kids in Rochester do have it pretty rough. While crime stats in the us and NY are down, violent crime Rochester specifically has stayed pretty steady since the 90s and is higher than national and NY crime levels.

But I don’t think this will be the thing that impacts these kids and school districts the most. The issues Rochester face come from poor incentive management for schools, high teacher burnout and poor employee retention, large classroom sizes, issues with corruption within specific school systems, and concentrations of low socioeconomic people.

I need to admit I left the public education world in NY a while ago. But it used to be that the worse a school performed the less money it got. Because schools only get a small percentage of funding from the federal government that gets pulled from them when they underperform (I very quickly looked at the numbers and it appears Rochester gets less than the national % average in federal funding, about 10% compared to the national 13% depending on what year you’re looking at). So schools with students who needed the most help either lost money or just tried to cover up student issues to hide them instead of address them. As long as this and property tax funding is the model and admin dictates their own salaries, schools aren’t going to improve.

IMO, it’s even specifically DEI policies that briefly helped some schools excel in the us during school bussing. Bussing students forced integration of students from all different backgrounds and socioeconomic groups. Rich and attentive parents with more bandwidth made sure whatever school their kid was at was well funded and well run. Kids from different backgrounds became friends and humanized each other. Kids from poor backgrounds were offered support systems outside of gangs and violence. And these poor kids didn’t poison the well and bring crime to their new schools. Kids are kids. If you offer them opportunities, they don’t choose gangs and violence.

What will really fix schools and improve things for kids

• small class sizes (15 kids MAX)
• force integration
• better support for teachers
• free school lunches
• statewide tax funding instead of property tax

I don’t have cartridges and I’ve had no issue with the ink heads in the years I’ve had the printer.

You’re probably right, but I’m just printing random documents on occasion.

I have an epson eco tank. No more ink cartridges.

Yup. I live abroad and pay no US taxes.

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I did that for years and then I emigrated because it didn’t work.

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They aren’t the same. But they don’t need to be the same for them to both suck and not deserve to be in power. But harm reduction is real.

OK. But what are you actually doing right now? What are any of us doing right now?

I have my subscription for another 6 months. If Andy is still in a leadership role by then, I’ll probably cancel. I stopped ignoring red flags in my 20s. I’m not going back now.

This is so disappointing. I’ve already migrated my passwords back to KeePass. Time to start hunting down other alternative. This is what I get for allowing myself the comfort of a centralized ecosystem.

I do this. But, I’m also lucky to live in a city with second hand shit everywhere. Not everyone lives in a city.

But, google shopping will tell you an alternative store to buy most things online. And compare costs for you. This gets tricky if you’re also trying to cut google out of your life though. There really is no ethical consumption under capitalism ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I’m not an expert, but I had an expert explain that an unlocked boot loader is only risky if you think someone nefarious is physically able to get their hand on your phone. Is that true?