cykros

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by cykros 2y ago
If the law mandates attendance, then the law should regulate what that attendance entails. Much like how state or municipal exclusivity agreements on broadband should regulate how those broadband companies should behave toward their custome
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by cykros 2y ago
It's amazing how such a simple policy has changed so much for my wife's experience as a teacher as well. Some of the kids still do their best impression of Gollum, but for the most part, the teachers have suddenly found themselves
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by cykros 2y ago
Parents love comparing to other school districts. It's probably no surprise that in suburbia, the same conformist social dynamics we all loathed from high school are alive and well among the parent community (and teacher, for that mat
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by cykros 2y ago
Arguably a good reason for school to not be the only place teenagers aren't given unfettered access to digital crack.
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by cykros 2y ago
There are plenty of jobs where you'll be told to get off your phone. Or, more likely, told to get off the job if you're dumb enough to have your phone out in the first place. Sure, that may not be most office jobs. But not every
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by cykros 2y ago
There are a lot of parents that have this fantasy in their head of a school shooting in which their child calls them to say goodbye. Or, much more delusional, thinks there'd be anything they can do to help them in the event their chil
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by cykros 2y ago
Software doing it all is antithetical to the Unix philosophy of "Do one thing and do it well." Hence the hate that systemd has, and always will have, as long as there exists a community of people who use Linux because it is a Unix
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by cykros 2y ago
Some people live in the UK, or Germany. Or heck, just want to criticize the UK from anywhere in the world but don't want to find out whether their threat to extradite actually has any teeth.
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by cykros 2y ago
Gotta love the passive voice they keep using. Can't be bothered to say that the pagers didn't just blow up themselves, but were actively armed and detonated in a large scale international terrorist attack by a regime actively enga
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by cykros 2y ago
It's worth remembering that the anti-nuclear crowd was always backed by big oil, and even in the age where solar and wind are being pushed, big oil benefits as the unmet demand for base load power, in the absence of nuclear, means tha
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by cykros 2y ago
This is true even before you start talking about reprocessing spent fuel with breeder reactors.
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by cykros 2y ago
I mean, classical plants and those based around the regulations that the US currently has on the books thanks to some questionable lobbying in the 60s require large amounts of water, sure. These are hardly the only viable plant designs that
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by cykros 2y ago
https://www.energytransitioncrisis.org/ If this story shocked you, do yourself a favor and check out Erik Townsend's docuseries on the need for nuclear to even come close to filling humanity's need for energy in t
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by cykros 2y ago
Given the arrest of the Telegram CEO in France, I tend to agree. We've grown too complacent about trusting the public internet to host content that the censors will want to do something about. And the more gets done on tor, presumably
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by cykros 2y ago
There are a variety of services like Tor2Web that make accessing .onion sites on the plain internet trivial. For MOST .onion sites you may well not want to do this, but when all you want to do is hide the identity of the publisher, rather t
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by cykros 2y ago
Makes the bittersweet we're always battling back seem pretty moderate in comparison. Glad the Japanese knotweed is on the far edge of the property, on the other side of the driveway. It may get there eventually, but not until well afte
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by cykros 2y ago
I mean, these days, it's not even usually smoke. And I don't even just mean vapes; there's all the edibles and tinctures that have soared in popularity particularly with the rise of legalization. Then there's the older u
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by cykros 2y ago
Mostly the right? Something tells me you've already forgotten about what happened across the planet from 2020-~2022 with mandated experimental vaccinations and mandated masking. The right does typically target drugs more (as well as ab
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by cykros 2y ago
You leave my Oldschool Runescape out of this.
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by cykros 2y ago
Ahh, but functional at what? Many people will functionally make use of marijuana throughout the day doing say, restaurant work, and if anything, will function better (YOU try putting up with hangry customers all day without something to tak
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by cykros 2y ago
THC isn't nearly as addictive as sugar. That's not to say it's not addictive, but more to point out that people seem to frequently underestimate just how insidious particularly refined sugar products can be -- mostly because
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by cykros 2y ago
There aren't a ton of things where daily use is a particularly good idea. Even most exercise calls for days off. Water, sleep, bathing (though even there people argue about stripping too many oils). Shouldn't be too surprising. Bu
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by cykros 2y ago
The big issue to me seems to be this idea that software should do everything under the sun, instead of doing one thing, and doing it well. The smaller software is, the less it needs to be designed by committee. I get that this isn't AL
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by cykros 2y ago
Jefferson suggested that we just have another revolution every 200 years.
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by cykros 2y ago
Cocaine is also a schedule 2 substance, meaning it is actually approved and sold for medical use. Not a lot, mind you, and mostly only in hospital settings for local anaesthesia purposes, but it was absolutely found in the catalogs we used
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by cykros 2y ago
The money in modern music isn't there for greatness. It follows the lowest common denominator. See: Taylor Swift and Beyonce. Bach was writing pieces that were commissioned. Commissioned artwork always has a different character than a
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by cykros 2y ago
The implications that those who are easily aroused engage in more high risk behaviors (sexual or otherwise) combined with some high risk activities getting higher risk in the age of AIDS and fentanyl leads one won wonder if the Darwinian fo
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by cykros 2y ago
Fear seems an incorrect analysis. The idea that introverts wish they could talk to people more if not for the anxiety seems to project the desires of an extravert onto them without good reason. Social anxiety is a thing, introversion is a t
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by cykros 2y ago
It's all about picking the right tool for the job. I don't see easily constructing a Discounted Cash Flow model in a relational database making a ton of sense. Sure, you could have the data in one, and use a php script to handle
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by cykros 2y ago
It may not quite be there yet but it will be any day now. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/federal-debt-interest-payments-... Doesn't help that neither party has any interest in fiscal conservativism; just arguments o

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