You are just jealous I have a side quest line in Sacramento.
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the only datum i have about sacramento is that's where deftones are from. not bad. not sure i can be jealous about the 6.5 west coast amazonian though.
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Currently working summer school for the last time.
We are on rotating schedules except the "teacher in charge” of each section. I think she feels threatened by me getting there much earlier than her on the days I am scheduled. She snapped at me today when I casually mentioned the school is letting the kids in earlier than they should. I was just casually observing it and she panicked and thought I was criticizing her for not being there earlier.
Then to make it worse the summer school admin text me directly 20 minutes later about changing the part of the program I am scheduled for. I agreed to it and that it was a good idea. Then they told her after the fact. Now she straight up isn't talking to me.
We are on rotating schedules except the "teacher in charge” of each section. I think she feels threatened by me getting there much earlier than her on the days I am scheduled. She snapped at me today when I casually mentioned the school is letting the kids in earlier than they should. I was just casually observing it and she panicked and thought I was criticizing her for not being there earlier.
Then to make it worse the summer school admin text me directly 20 minutes later about changing the part of the program I am scheduled for. I agreed to it and that it was a good idea. Then they told her after the fact. Now she straight up isn't talking to me.
why would she have to get in earlier? she's not the only adult in the building, presumably. i think principals fuck off for large swaths of the day. i remember them being gone a lot, letting the vp take up the slack.
keep your antichrist, dilbs
A Device Hidden in Cars Across the US Leaves Them Vulnerable to Hacking and Paralysis. Patch It Now
https://www.wired.com/story/a-device-hi … popular4-2
i already deal with security updates and a mindbending amount of garbage info, end-of-life nonsense, and discontinued support with other devices. why would i want it in my car. what happens when two years passes and they stop updates? better fork over more money for new hardware!
who has time to both keep a car mechanically sound AND have to flash the bios. stop it. just make cars.
"hang on, let me open my phone for 2-factor authentication so i can get in my car! oh shit, it sent a verification email again because i tried signing in from a new location. just two more minutes! dang, verification code sent to my other phone to sign into that. good, didn't leave it inside. alright, in. now to police my frustration down enough so facial recognition decides i'm fit to drive. user not recognized? now to sit here for 40 minutes on hold with robo tech support, doing absolutely nothing."
how did we get here? who asked for this shit?
A Device Hidden in Cars Across the US Leaves Them Vulnerable to Hacking and Paralysis. Patch It Now
https://www.wired.com/story/a-device-hi … popular4-2
i already deal with security updates and a mindbending amount of garbage info, end-of-life nonsense, and discontinued support with other devices. why would i want it in my car. what happens when two years passes and they stop updates? better fork over more money for new hardware!
who has time to both keep a car mechanically sound AND have to flash the bios. stop it. just make cars.
"hang on, let me open my phone for 2-factor authentication so i can get in my car! oh shit, it sent a verification email again because i tried signing in from a new location. just two more minutes! dang, verification code sent to my other phone to sign into that. good, didn't leave it inside. alright, in. now to police my frustration down enough so facial recognition decides i'm fit to drive. user not recognized? now to sit here for 40 minutes on hold with robo tech support, doing absolutely nothing."
how did we get here? who asked for this shit?
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I've calculated that keeping my heap going is worth A$8k/yr in my pocket - hear me out.
A$50k for a new car - annual cost (rookie numbers):
A$2k in depreciation
A$2k in opportunity cost
Put that A$4k in the bank for 20 years > A$4k in interest.
Also don't have to deal with the 'face not recognised, engaging immobiliser' issue every morning when I look worse than normal.
A$50k for a new car - annual cost (rookie numbers):
A$2k in depreciation
A$2k in opportunity cost
Put that A$4k in the bank for 20 years > A$4k in interest.
Also don't have to deal with the 'face not recognised, engaging immobiliser' issue every morning when I look worse than normal.
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I am getting more into the mind of making this my last year teaching. I have my supervisor and principal certificates. I don't want to commit to waiting in my district anymore for an admin role. I am ready to leave. I have to finish this year because next summer I am getting to go to Washington D.C. on professional trip.
What broke the camel's back was the fact that the statewide NJ Democratic convention is taking place next month. I was invited. I probably can't go since it overlaps with teaching days. I have to ask for the time off and I doubt I can get it.
What broke the camel's back was the fact that the statewide NJ Democratic convention is taking place next month. I was invited. I probably can't go since it overlaps with teaching days. I have to ask for the time off and I doubt I can get it.
you'd figure giving substitutes a chance to substitute would be pretty important in keeping that turnstile rotating.
i get a lot of "you should be a teacher." i can't wrap my head around some of it. a lot of people seen to simultaneously think that it's both a worthless and nonexpendable profession at the same time. like, you want me to get a job you have no respect for and seemingly no understanding of, for the small pay you think i'd deserve? also, weren't you on about kids these days and school shootings risks? gee, thanks for the recommendation into a job you're actively voting to defund. and yeah, i really want to teach a bunch of 12-year-olds or whatever how to angle their bulletproof backpacks for the best impact absorption. doesn't sound depressing at all.
(though, the blockade drills will come in handy during the 2030s riots against ai trump and the trillion dollar secret police ice will become be cemented as. but at this point, shouldn't the kids be the ones teaching new teachers active shooter stuff? they grew up with all this).
i get a lot of "you should be a teacher." i can't wrap my head around some of it. a lot of people seen to simultaneously think that it's both a worthless and nonexpendable profession at the same time. like, you want me to get a job you have no respect for and seemingly no understanding of, for the small pay you think i'd deserve? also, weren't you on about kids these days and school shootings risks? gee, thanks for the recommendation into a job you're actively voting to defund. and yeah, i really want to teach a bunch of 12-year-olds or whatever how to angle their bulletproof backpacks for the best impact absorption. doesn't sound depressing at all.
(though, the blockade drills will come in handy during the 2030s riots against ai trump and the trillion dollar secret police ice will become be cemented as. but at this point, shouldn't the kids be the ones teaching new teachers active shooter stuff? they grew up with all this).
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https://www.motherjones.com/politics/20 … e-officer/
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/20 … f-niklaus/
what the actual fuck?
i know this stuff has been going on for a bit but it's currently blowing up in my feeds.
mac, does your school have resource officers armed with batman/warhammer taser-fists?
maybe sit down and ask what the fuck we're doing wrong in society to supposedly necessitate such a thing, because fuck that shit, and there needs to be more tEeN tAkEoVeRs because of it.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/20 … f-niklaus/
what the actual fuck?
“With a glove, there are no burn marks or scars.” That makes it hard for victims to sue.
jfc“If I try to take away the gloves from those officers at this point I think we may have a mutiny on our hands,” Glueck joked on a podcast interview a couple of years later. “They’ve grown really attached.”
i know this stuff has been going on for a bit but it's currently blowing up in my feeds.
mac, does your school have resource officers armed with batman/warhammer taser-fists?
maybe sit down and ask what the fuck we're doing wrong in society to supposedly necessitate such a thing, because fuck that shit, and there needs to be more tEeN tAkEoVeRs because of it.
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We have a single school resource officer. Short guy who mostly handles traffic and parking tickets.
We have security guards. A few of them are armed. A lot of them have poor boundaries with the teenagers. I feel like one a year gets fired for trying to get a teenagers number or Instagram.
We have security guards. A few of them are armed. A lot of them have poor boundaries with the teenagers. I feel like one a year gets fired for trying to get a teenagers number or Instagram.
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Anecdotally:
A former colleague married her teacher at 16 straight out of school.
At my school multiple teachers were involved with pupils, it was an open secret, a number got fired but never prosecuted, one of them writes crosswords for The Times now.
A former colleague married her teacher at 16 straight out of school.
At my school multiple teachers were involved with pupils, it was an open secret, a number got fired but never prosecuted, one of them writes crosswords for The Times now.
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It happens often. Doesn't make the news as much as you think. From what I understand it was worse before social media and camera phones.
I have now seen inside some of the early development stages of projects in my company, having spent the last couple of years clearing up the mid to late and post-release stages of various failed projects.
My god its awful, project management and systems engineering are basically absent, people are spitting out thought-bubbles and assuming they will work with no evidence, then building on that.
Really not helped by throwing out normal project management and engineering principles and replacing them with half-arsed tools which are barely suitable for software development.
I mean, I'm sure with software if something goes wrong you can just dive in and fix it, its not the same with real products which have one-way timelines, irrevocably sunk costs etc.
At this point I could have already retired a while ago, still taking the money to hedge against the future and sort of enjoying the spectacle in a macabre way.
My god its awful, project management and systems engineering are basically absent, people are spitting out thought-bubbles and assuming they will work with no evidence, then building on that.
Really not helped by throwing out normal project management and engineering principles and replacing them with half-arsed tools which are barely suitable for software development.
I mean, I'm sure with software if something goes wrong you can just dive in and fix it, its not the same with real products which have one-way timelines, irrevocably sunk costs etc.
At this point I could have already retired a while ago, still taking the money to hedge against the future and sort of enjoying the spectacle in a macabre way.
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ai can be a good cleanup tool for just flagging possible issues for review. linux linus pointed this out, and thinks it can do more. he knows more about code than i do, but i still don't think ai should be trusted with the keys. the techbros have a fever.