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KEN-JENNINGS wrote:

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You get a 50. Fail. According to the grade rubric, you are gay. Says it right here on the printout. Which is strange because I wasn't even testing for that.

Do not see me after class.

Day old donuts as a reward? Boooooo

unnamednewbie13 wrote:

Kids will move mountains if promised a petty reward. I don't like the "do what I say because I'm the adult," approach. Where's the motivation for them to engage in modern society with that? We need to prep them to be satisfied with sub-minimum wages.

I am half with you. On the one hand, leveling with teens oftentimes works. 'Hello', 'thank you', 'sorry' and 'have a good day', 'I appreciate that' are wonder words. Teens are almost adults. The same people management that works on adults also works on kid. Who knew?

On the other hand, there are some kids that are impossible to get through to or level with. The link between action and consequences just never connects. On top of that they are rude and/or annoying. Very difficult. I think most of the crime and chaos that goes on in this country comes from adults who would have made up my class when they were kids. I have evidence about that but don't want to overshare.

KEN-JENNINGS wrote:

Day old donuts as a reward? Boooooo

That US News stat list on the other thread also cites percentage of students who are economically disadvantaged. Is it any wonder that malnourished or otherwise preoccupied children sometimes grow into your special ed cases.

Securing one meal, at least for awhile, is nice. But that doesn't address other important meals or food deserts and prohibitive costs for eating well outside of school. Also some of the very sad school meals I've seen pictures of in recent years that don't look like much to write home about. Also the poverty, and the drug addictions, and the etc. etc.

Our culture went from Spiderman underwear being stereotypically for kids to Spiderman men's hygiene products.

you do know phones introduced faceID systems in about 2015, don’t you?

apple isn’t facebook. they’re completely transparent with their bio data. they made a big point of it in a major do-over a few years ago. they don’t need to sell your face for ad revenue, like facebook does.

don’t you remember that the CIA/FBI couldn’t get into some terrorist’s wife’s iphone or something? and apple refused to unlock it? i’m sure they’ve cracked it by now, but still.

faceID and biometric data never leaves the special security chip on your device. it isn’t uploaded or transmitted anywhere. nothing short of mossad will be able to get at it.

https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/s … 0b31ff/web

Last edited by uziq (2022-03-05 02:29:00)

They did it already, its just now you've found out.

Wait until some Chinese guy with your face stitched on steals your identity.

They can have mine, its rubbish.

Most modern CCTV systems don't have facial recognition because the hardware costs associated with processing the data is way too high for non-government entities to bear. Are they available? Yes, of course.

I would guess most major metropolitan police forces in the US have access to facial recognition systems, and deploy them in specific circumstances. I'm not sure how regularly it's deployed, although there was a recent expose on the Minneapolis PDs extensive use of bleeding edge surveillance technology before, during, and after the Derek Chauvin trial.

I'm not naive enough to think my biometric data isn't already captured in a government data (I've willingly given it up multiple times). It's just jarring to see it in action.

This sparks another thought- I needed to provide physical copies of my legal records to obtain global entry, but these same fucks have access to all my biometric data and can call me by name once my face is scanned?

DesertFox- wrote:

They need to double check in case someone takes your face ... off.