The state unanimously passed a law to exclude sexually explicit books from public school libraries. A reasonable thing to do. The library association and the ACLU decided they wanted to sue the state. The state, in turn, removed the relatively small amount of funds allocated for the libraries. FaFo. All of this is in the article.
Suing to dispute the constitutionality of a law is also a reasonable thing to do. Cutting funding prior to the adjudication of the legal dispute seems like a legislative attempt to pre-empt the judicial process.
'FaFo' is shorthand for 'Fuck around and find out', yes? I'm not sure this internet tough guy approach is going to persuade anyone.
Why is this reasonable? Children come in touch with porn at earlier and earlier ages and they may be very confused by that.
The school provides a good space to learn something a bit more realistic about sexuality at the appropriate ages. But of course as a european I know that the US in parts has extremely prude ideas (your censorship also affects us).
That being said, there are many modern nations where kids learn about sex in school for a while now, and they didn't develop psychological trauma or anxiety because of that (quite the opposite). It isn't as if there are no studies done in that field.
But prude morality seems to trump everything. Some don't seem to realize that supressing sexuality is something religions tend to do for a reason (and it is not the good of their hearts).
The blockchain hype was in pitching a solution to every problem in an effort to get rich quick. The technology still has application for verification and ultra-micro transactions. I expect it will be foundational within before the end of the decade.
Martyrmade by Darryl Cooper is fantastic. His series “God’s Socialist” provides a backdrop for current events and paints a picture of the 60s and 70s in America they is often not shown; its heartbreaking.
Yes. Mike Duncan is an awesome storyteller. He has now written a couple good books too. "Revolutions" is so good that I listened to the whole thing a second time during the pandemic. "The History of Byzantium" by Robert Pierson is also excellent and is still ongoing.
"The show was created to continue the narrative established by Mike Duncan’s wonderful podcast “The History of Rome.” I have tried to remain faithful to Mike’s structure of half hour installments told from a state-centric perspective." [https://thehistoryofbyzantium.com/]
Imagine a tiny geographical area that punches above its weight (economically-speaking). Its people pay a ton in taxes, take very little from the government, but they also have disproportionately large voting power.
While this setup is blatantly undemocratic, it could be hard to argue that their voting power should be reduced when they're contributing more to the pot than they're taking out. A bullshit justification to someone who actually values democracy, but this logic isn't entirely insane. Indeed, this scenario is reality in some places on earth.
America, as we all know, is nothing like this.
The smaller states take more than they give. There is no excuse to not make their votes count the same as everyone else's.
For many years I didn’t appreciate perfumes. I didn’t understand them. I encourage you to take the advice above, watch a few Jeremy Fragrance videos, and get some feedback from your romantic partner. You’ll be thankful for knowing a thing or two about fragrances.
This is a cool idea. You would probably want to run the PCCaaS as a non-profit and donate some of the money (5% seems generous?) to appropriate causes. The main API would be for displaying an appropriate banner of course.
Another API would be to determine if a specific domain subscribes to the service and how much they care about the appropriate topic (in terms of "points" which are partly correlated with how much they spend on the PCCaaS, but also with some human input). This would be useful to people looking to vote with their wallet. I bet there are plenty of artists who would love to make custom banners, kind of like Google's doodle of the day.
A third API would be to get notified when a customer downgrades or terminates their plan with the Protest Current Thing as a Service. Journalists could subscribe to this last API to get ideas for news stories. /s
That's a great idea. The only problem would be determining the correct set of things to be protested at any given time. So I'd suggest grouping them into flavors - say US liberal or US conservative flavors. You just choose the one you subscribe to and then let the service decide whether to insert say BLM or anti-CRT messages at any given time.
This seems like a reasonable strategy worth if you plan to exit in the next 3 years. It is simple to manage, is designed to be competitive for a point in time, and focuses on performance for growth (up or out).
I think simple to manage and “people who don’t like it won’t bother us about promotions” is high here. Whether that makes it worth losing out on corner cases where you’d benefit from a more individualized approach isn’t as clear to me, but there’s a lot of benefit from elimination of all promotion discussions, referring all of those to “check the calendar; if we haven’t fired you by X, you’ll be level Y on that day.”
