DarthBueller @ DarthBueller @lemmy.world

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I am one of those folks that simply doesn't have the personal discipline to work from home. There are literally dozens of us. While office life is lonely now, there's no way that people who don't need to be in the office to be productive should be made to come in. That said, my GF has a coworker who is WFH for a company that is based in the South but they chose to live in NYC (they didn't live there at first) and are getting paid NYC wages, which somehow doesn't seem fair.

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Only after the narwhal bacons at midnight memmy mlem's on a lunar photon voyage.

And further, I wasn't even talking about children. I was talking about ANCIENT FUCKING GRANDMA(S) GETTING KICKED OUT OF PUBLIC HOUSING BECAUSE THEIR GROWN-ASS GRANDKID, WHO GRANDMA HAS NO POWER TO CONTROL, DECIDED GRANDMA'S PROJECT WAS A GOOD PLACE TO DEAL. Jesus H Christ on a stick.

Private schools can't discriminate against protected classes but they can ABSOLUTELY use behavior as selection criteria. That said, sometimes what it takes is a totally different approach to discipline to reach "problem students," approaches that aren't often available in the public school context. Some respond well to iron-fisted authority, some respond well to restorative practices and circles, etc., while some need a ton of personal attention. Some "problem students" have problem parents, some don't. It's a shame that our public education system is as underfunded as it is, that school boards are political, that our public system is, by-and-large, one-size fits all. Charter schools and magnet schools provide some free public alternatives, but most progressives label them as destroying public school funding (at least, until they realize, like I did, that where I live, the standard public school system is a political shitshow and that sending my kid there would lead to conservative indoctrination). My local charter is chock full of incredibly passionate teachers that have an expansive view of the world. Of course I'd sign my kid up for their lottery.

I think there are ways to have equity that don’t trigger as massive a sense of injustice as a privileged handout. If it was suddenly legal to have a policy that pays women and minorities more than white men, I’d be upset. Two wrongs don’t make a right. The current concept of equity as many folks talk about it comes off as punitive and the discourse framed in a way that seems almost intended to fail. For example, time and time again, messaging research clearly shows that way more people are willing to get behind measures that are designed to provide educational opportunities to the poor, but the second you make it about just providing educational opportunities to poor people of X race, support falls off a cliff. Take any issue that impacts a huge swath of humanity, offer a program that only helps a select few, and the research comes out the same. Yet progressives keep running with the messaging that guarantees failure.

While I absolutely believe that understanding how the social construct of race impacts US culture and treatment of POC (EDIT) is crucial to improving our society, I do fear that at some point (maybe in the distant future) this centrality of race in the progressive discourse is going to end up reifying and reinforcing the concept rather than consigning it to the dustbin of history, while simultaneously preventing any real change that benefits all laborers. I’m not saying we’re in a post-racial society—I’m just saying that the left has made a terrible mistake giving lip-service to intersectionality while focusing exclusively on race as the central sickness instead of widespread economic inequality that impacts all peoples.

I got shut down in a social justice exchange in a rural area once, because I had the audacity to stand firm in insisting that food deserts in the rural extremely white high poverty area was the product of economic inequality and rural underinvestment rather than race. Because everything is about race.

Precisely this. Just like there’s solid research showing the bad effects of social media on kids generally, there’s solid research showing the positive effects of social media in the case of LGBTQI+ youth. This is designed to let oppressively religious families cut off their queer children from “the world” and from the idea that “it gets better.” Kids are gonna die.

They do. They're called Charter Schools, and letting folks online know that you're going to send your kid to one is a great way to get downvoted. I have no interest in sending my kid to a rural public school system that is leading the charge against "woke," whatever that is.

My GF's daughter is asking some of her teachers if she can put a voice recorder up front to record the teacher so she could learn. Because the students talk to each other over the teachers and literally curse out the teachers when they try to maintain order. I was shocked - 30 years ago, sure there were a couple of bad apples in some classes, but they'd get ejected if they failed to shut the fuck up after being told to shut the fuck up.

It is hard to have hope in NC, isn't it? My infant daughter and her mother were in a peaceful protest where the county sheriff decided to teargas them, then almost crushed in the ensuing panic, while the actual Klan was driving around flying Trump and Confederate flags and giving fucking coffee to the pigs.

It is absolutely indoctrination. My youth group pastor spent many years indoctrinating us college-bound youth against the "world." Evolution, climate change, premarital sex ("ladies, do you want to be like a used piece of gum?"), abortion ("ladies, abortion will make you kill yourself"), porn ("ladies, watching porn will make you unable to ever have an orgasm"), getting pregnant ("Tina is now going to be shamed in front of all of us, let us listen to her impregnated self tearfully apologize to us for having premarital sex and getting all used up"). Fuckers.

If you think the typical American recites poetry at all, I've got a bridge to sell you.

Okay buddy. Generational poverty doesn't have any impact on subculture, it's all about picking yourself up by your bootstraps even if you don't know what fucking bootstraps are or where to find them. You're right. Fuck them all, they should die for their moral failing of generational poverty and a worldview informed by the same. Everyone should experience poverty like the middle class does, a short term setback while getting an education.

Crazy to think that Commodore's BASIC was coded by Bill Gates, though. I was recently reading a programming article he wrote in Compute! magazine back in 1984, when MS ascendance was anything but guaranteed.

Compromises that make grandmas homeless are bad compromises. Clinton got away with it because nobody gives a shit about the projects, poor people don't vote, and because black folk have been saying the system is rigged for far longer than literally anyone else. D's don't gain credibility with their ostensible base by stabbing them in the back.

I was convinced she'd be a neoliberal and would make grand bargains with the GOP like Bill did. Those grand bargains included "welfare reforms" like kicking grandmas out of public housing when their grandkids would deal drugs in their project (like grandmas have the power to control their grown-ass grandchildren). The impacts of Clinton's actions reached FAR beyond his presidency - I was fighting such evictions at Legal Aid during the second term of Bush Jr., evictions that were the result of Clinton's bargain with the devil.

Though you're right, most of the right's anti-Bill Clinton bumper stickers during his 2 terms were actually shots at Hillary Clinton.

I have two words you need to take time to parse: "Chilling Effect." EDIT: It appears you think the bill is bigoted, based on comments elsewhere. You directing people to the language of the bill like the text speaks for itself is usually something that proponents of the legislation do, hence my confusion as to your rhetorical point.

Okay, how about this. My anarchist punk middle aged friend who used to go to Burning Man every year stopped going because it was becoming a wealthy shit-show. Not even the orgy dome was enough of a draw to make it worth going.EDIT: I’m not hating on burners, just noting that he observed a change.

I mean, decomposition releases methane over time, slower than burning does, but buried wood in the desert is more likely to petrify than rot. There's a lot to be said for burying wood in certain situations. Hugelkultur (making agricultural/garden mounds out of wood and soil) if done right can do amazing things (everything from creating microclimates that increase biodiversity to supercharging the soil with beneficial fungi/bacteria, to increasing water retention).