Readit NewsTeaching high school on zoom is one thing, now imagine teaching 3rd. So the veteran elementary teachers retired or quit, and there’s no adequate pipeline to replace them, especially in underserved communities.
Coming through the system now is a cohort of children whose k-5 teachers have been a rotating cast of subs and ineffective new hires, and it shows.
It could be different. It must be. We have role models to imitate, better methods to follow, resources and tools galore. What is needed now is organization toward common purpose. How does the internet bystander locate effective organizations to disrupt the march of folly? This is a situation where the pilot has gone mad and we must seize control of the aircraft but are too paralyzed by social forces to act.
You don't think that transgender treatments is a transgender issue? If you think it is then my response is perfectly on-topic.
> Do you believe that the mere concept of questioning your gender identity or expression is something that should be kept from the minds of minors?
Depending on your jurisdiction, there are messages you can't target to kids. Why should there be a special exemption for this?
Besides, my belief on this is irrelevant; the only transgender issue that has gotten pushback en-masse from the clear majority of people world wide has been transgender treatments on minors.
IOW, this (treatment for persons unable to give informed consent) is a very unpopular position.
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The definition of Communism per the west, is something that always fails by default. The way Chinese define communism is doing whatever it takes to win.
When you remove all the abstract words behind this game, a simple philosophy is if you do the right things you win. You can call it capitalism, communism or whatever you want.
It's too late at this point. The damage is done. These companies trained on illegally obtained data and they will never be held accountable for that. The training is done and they got what they needed. So even if they can't train on it in the future, it doesn't matter. They already have those base models.
How do you get people to leave WhatsApp for something better? - You don't. They just stay on WhatsApp.
One problem being that if you want better security (Signal), you lose a little bit in UX. If you want better UX (Telegram), you completely lose the security aspect. So WhatsApp seems like a local optimum: relatively secure, and you can find your friends there.
Then we can discuss all we want about the merits of Discord/Slack/Matrix/Zulip, but the truth remains this: if you ask someone who mostly uses Discord what they want you to use for your new community, they will say Discord. If they mostly use Zulip, they will say Zulip. People don't want the better solution, they want the least effort.
I have seen multiple open source communities (who spend a fair share of their time complaining about how people don't support open source instead of using the proprietary alternative) choosing their chat system: people were fighting between Slack and Discord, nobody gave a damn about using an open source system. How hypocritical...