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You read it backwards. Boys are not permitted to have hair past their eyebrows, earlobes, or collars. The school district's opinion was that it doesn't matter if the hair is tied up in locs, the length of the hair violates their hair-length restrictions regardless of the style.

They have kept the student out of class since August denying him instruction materials and the school-provided hot lunch for not respecting the policy which, among other things, is meant to "teach respect for authority".

Even worse, this is all despite there being a law in Texas that was explicitly written in response to a different Texas high school denying a student from attending graduation with the same hair style. But, according to the school board, and agreed to by the judge, the legislation did not specifically allow for exemption to hair length in school dress codes. They aren't policing his hair style (that requires long hair), they're policing his hair length. Which is, apparently, legal.

Why the fuck is that a school policy in the 21st century? And who the fuck thought it was appropriate to put a student into quasi solitary confinement for a semester and go to court to fight for the right to enforce institutional racism?

i dont even

Somewhat related:

A recommendation about teaching controversial topics: you need to build connection first.

I mean, that's true of all teaching, but when you start to question the (prejudiced) things they're hearing from trusted adults at home, you really need to have a strong relationship with the students.

Being an anti-racist pro-SOGI educator in conservative communities is hard.

I wish you success in your career! Teachers have such an opportunity to make a huge impact on the world.

I don't know about that. The ads and telemetry are how users "pay" for access. Removing ads and telemetry means users are no longer "paying".

If it's not piracy, it's definitely piracy adjacent.

Literally why I bookmarked it. I'm an online teacher, so I'm going to advocate for adding that article to a grade 10 course that's used by thousands of students each year.

The problem is that SEO has made it impossible to find accurate information easily, since even "old, trustworthy brands" can't be trusted online. [This is an excellent article that explains the problem thoroughly, and brings receipts] (https://housefresh.com/david-vs-digital-goliaths/).

My name is Garnett Genuis. I live in Sherwood Park, Alberta, but I travel for work a lot, mostly to Ottawa.

I love asphyxiation porn. I watch it all the time. It's hard to get enough videos since I've watched them all.

Agreed. I copied that exact quote to see if someone called it out already. Also this one:

educational messages tend to try and educate the consumer on the moral and economic damage of piracy.

Citation fucking needed.

As an anecdotal example, I pay for Netflix, Spotify, Prime, and Kindle Unlimited (and CBC Gem partly through taxes), I regularly buy videogames and ebooks (and pay for a library with taxes), and I buy phone apps. I'm paying as much as I comfortably can for media in various forms.

I also pirate TV/film content, books, games, apps, operating systems, etc. A lot.

But about half the TV/film piracy is content I have already paid to get streaming access to simply because it's easier to pirate than figure out which service it's on, and the other half is mostly freely available on YouTube at garbage quality.

The content industry, net everything, is getting all the cash out of me that they ever will. Piracy has 0 net effect on my media spending; I'd just consume different content, content at a lower quality, spend more time on Where To Stream, and get books from the library a bit more often.

Recycling is a distraction. Always has been. It's a marketing and regulatory capture ploy by the plastics industry to avoid any responsibility for their colossal waste.

Sure, recycling before a tiny bit, in the margin, maybe, but imagine where we'd be if all the money and effort that went into recycling instead went into materials engineering to create biodegradable alternatives to one-tube-user plastics?

In fact, getting rid of recycling globally might actually help since it would highlight to people how much they're putting into the landfill. That might actually spark some political will to regulate plastics better, instead of just high-optics items like plastic bags and straws.

As pointed out in the article, that's not necessarily perfect, either. Lots of companies hire people to post to Reddit about their products.

Exactly what's happening in Alberta:

UCP: "Parental Rights™ are why we are not allowing youth to choose their preferred names and pronouns!"

Public: "Lets just ignore the dog whistling in those capital letters for a second; you're saying that parents who, in consultation with medical professionals, want to help their non-cis children in transitioning will be supported, because you support parental rights?"

Danielle Smith: "Fuck no. What a ridiculous question. You must be a pedophile for even asking that. I can't abide icky trans people in my province while I'm premier. I was elected, so only my opinion matters. What do doctors have to do with anything? They're not parents and Parents Know What's Best For Their Kids™."

Here's a link with more details on the story

I get that, but 2SLGBTQ+ is the most politically acceptable term in Canada. It's used by politicians and in education, and the 2S being at the start is a conscious act of reconciliation with our First Nations.

I was looking for someone to mention "opinionated". I've been using computers since the 386 days, mostly on Windows, granted, but with some Linux tinkering here and there, and I have no clue what that means.

Still, maybe I should just jump into Bazzite regardless since gaming performance is a consideration for me.

That only works if you can log in. Otherwise, it would be a massive privacy problem since anyone could takeout anyone's data.

Yes, starting with 2S is part of Canada's move toward Truth & Reconciliation with our local First Nations, to recognize how the intersectionality of racism further marginalizes Two Spirit First Nations people.

School is a metaphor for the media and messaging that goes out to the public, too, not just literally brick & mortar K-12 education institutions.

Convincing the underclass that they benefit from the concentration of wealth amongst the elite. The"Circle of Life" is a metaphor for "Trickle-down Economics".

Or that's how I read it.

Yeah, agreed. I've learned a lot about gender minorities and issues affecting the 2SLGBTQ+ population in the last decade.

Seems like a good idea, but why didn't the off script reset the SetPrimary monitor? And does the "turn off" command just temporarily turn the screens off, so any action on the desktop will turn the screens back on?

Edit: Also, the cd command seems a bit strange. I haven't written a batch file in a while, but I think there's a way to set the path as a variable and then call the executables directly. Probably doesn't matter, but changing directories in a .bat file just feels wrong for some reason, y'know?

Regardless, thanks for posting. This is a great idea, regardless of the specific implementation details.

Students figure out how to dodge any website blocking schools put into place. It just takes one kid to figure it out, then it spreads through the whole school, and pretty soon everyone is using a sketchy free VPN that might be doing man-in-the-middle attacks or running a crypto miner or whatever.

The only real solution is parental (and teacher, in the context of schools) training and supervision. Anything else and students will figure out Tor, or VPNs, or private trackers, or pirate streaming sites, or random sketchy websites (depending on what they're trying to block). It's futile, and encourages students to do unsafe things to get around the blocks.

This will be no different. There are hundreds of ways to avoid this. For a high-profile example, see "VPN" search trends in Utah after porn sites geoblocked the state of Utah.

The full quote is even more biting... And accurate, sadly:

An American veteran who has been training Ukrainian soldiers in combat said he’s disgusted with the Republican Party, which he says is either “totally compromised by Russia and is willfully aiding Russian interests” or is chock-full of “sycophantic cowards who would gladly watch Ukrainians get killed if it meant Trump had a higher chance of winning reelection.”