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by jccalhoun 1y ago
In firefox on desktop I just get a black screen?
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by jccalhoun 1y ago
If the slave issue was secondary is seems weird that so many of the states explicitly mentioned it: >"Following the election of Abraham Lincoln in November 1860, the seven states that would constitute the future Confederate States o
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by jccalhoun 1y ago
Treating legislation like jury duty could be interesting. The question is who would be responsible for weeding out the legislator pool? Representatives from the political parties perhaps? Maybe a senate proposes laws and then a true represe
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by jccalhoun 1y ago
Rumors are Apple will be inventing the folding phone in a year or two.
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by jccalhoun 1y ago
We are part of a system where each school is named College Name - City Name. And we were told that schools in towns earlier in the alphabet were getting hit before our school did.
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by jccalhoun 1y ago
It isn't limited to California. I've encountered it as a professor at a midwest community college.
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by jccalhoun 1y ago
This isn't limited just to California. I teach at a community college in the midwest and we have encountered this too in our online classes. Last semester I had 3-4 in one online class that were fake but a colleague had about 1/3
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by jccalhoun 1y ago
that's like saying l and I are the same letters because they look similar in some sans serif fonts.
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by jccalhoun 1y ago
It is capitalism. If you fail it is your fault. Don't question the system. You just need to work harder like those rich people who were born slightly less rich.
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by jccalhoun 1y ago
These stories about acts of kindness like a recent one where a senior citizen was given a speeding ticket while taking his adult handicapped son to the doctor are really just stories about how the society in which they take is broken. If th
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by jccalhoun 1y ago
One of the best ways to reduce crime and drug addiction is education. Hungry kids don't learn well. Feeding kids so they can concentrate on learning prevents problems not creates them.
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by jccalhoun 1y ago
Yep. That's me. And my state's Republican supermajority just cut the budget of the community college I teach at by 10%.
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by jccalhoun 1y ago
It isn't about that efficiency. I teach at a community college and my state's republican supermajority just cut our budget by 10%.
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by jccalhoun 1y ago
I have considered paying for Kagi and I use their Orion browser on my ipad but with current government fuckery making my job less secure than it was last year, I don't think I should. I tend to use bing as my default if only because th
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by jccalhoun 1y ago
Last year I bought a broken jukebox. I wanted to convert it to be powered by a raspberry pi. I wanted it to work like a traditional jukebox where you used the buttons to input the song number. While there are a few existing projects to conv
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by jccalhoun 1y ago
Yes, in the USA letter size is the standard. A3,4 don't exist. It isn't confusing because I would guess that more than half of all people in the USA don't even know that letter size isn't the standard everywhere. I was p
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by jccalhoun 1y ago
At my community college we are increasingly teaching high school kids. I have taught students who were not of voting age and didn't have a drivers license. That being said, we have contracted with an id verification service to randomly
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by jccalhoun 1y ago
Like anything it depends on the situation. It works well for some people and subjects but not for others. Last semester I had a student in my online class that was every tech illiterate. There was an assignment where they were supposed to d
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by jccalhoun 1y ago
Sort of. As a professor who has encountered this, on one hand if I have fewer papers to grade then I'm happy but on the other hand the "students" do submit work for at least the first couple weeks that I still had to grade. (
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by jccalhoun 1y ago
Community college isn't free but it is much less than 4 year colleges. You can take out loans that will cover things like books and other expenses. I'm not in financial aid so I don't know exactly how it works. I assume they
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by jccalhoun 1y ago
financial aid fraud
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by jccalhoun 1y ago
I'm a prof at a community college and I encountered this last semester. I was teaching an online class of 30 and 3-4 were definitely "fake" students. A college had about half her students turn out to be "fake." Stud
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by jccalhoun 2y ago
Cool. I have this band and I didn't know there was a way to put custom faces on it
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by jccalhoun 2y ago
There are some interesting things in this but there are also some deeply cynical anti-working class stereotypes: >You don’t have people who insist on being paid in cash so that they can keep their disability payments, while they do acrob
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by jccalhoun 2y ago
I'm not economist. Maybe tariffs could work. (It seems like most of the experts say they don't. And how they were determined certainly seems especially dumb) However, it doesn't take a genius to see that enacting them without
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by jccalhoun 2y ago
youtube says the mythbusters video is from 10 years ago so it was written sometime since then.
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by jccalhoun 2y ago
I'm not judging. I read them and enjoyed them. I'm just observing that they sold so many that they are very common.
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by jccalhoun 2y ago
For years I joked that it was a law that every Goodwill store had to have a copy of a Twilight or Hunger Games book on the shelves at all times. Every time I go to one I check and nearly every time they still do all these years later. Or on
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by jccalhoun 2y ago
I remember for a short time Computer Chronicle would have a segment where they flashed what looked like static on the screen to transmit programs. You had to have some device to capture it and send it to a computer. Edit: It looks like it w
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by jccalhoun 2y ago
People seem to like the style but I find them virtually unreadable.

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