”Children in elementary school should not have debt tied to their name. We have found out that there are high schools that keep seniors from attending prom or walking at graduation if they have stuff like student lunch debt,” Kramer said. “Some families can’t help it. They can’t pay it off.”
In case anyone had any doubts that the cruelty is the point. Stratify children based on their socioeconomic status at the earliest possible opportunity.
A reminder to close the app that also reminds you how much you hate Google.
Whoever told you that is your enemy
Techbros have gotten so dogmatic and up their own asses that they’re becoming Mormons.
Suicide booth
The question presented is narrow: Are Plaintiffs likely to succeed on their claims that READER violates their First Amendment rights? Controlling precedent suggests the answer is yes,” U.S. Circuit Judge Don Willett, appointed by former President Trump, wrote in the unanimous opinion.
The one miscalculation that the Federalist Society made is that becoming a lifelong-appointed judge makes you able to follow your own conscience. The shadowy cabal of people who want to destroy the world for their own short term profits have no actual control once the appointment is made.
Only the weakest and least-deserving actually hand their bench over to the shady, evil group that got them there.
Generational progress. I’d call that a win.
I hate Zuck and Facebook as much as the next person, but I think the rollout is going slowly enough that we don’t need to fight about it yet.
The discussion is important and needs to be had, but it’s premature.
The Eternal September is coming, as it always does.
Yikes. Thanks for the info.
Is this for real? Those are very big numbers.
I like to keep my funposting separate from seriousposting. I frequently fail, but I try.
Anecdotal, but I bounced around between 5 accounts when I first joined, then settled into 2. One regular account and one for memes/NSFW.
Always love to hear the deep lore. Lemmy’s early development makes a lot more sense now. Good on them(you) to leave everything open and learn from Reddit’s mistakes.
Still, free and open has a limit. No Facebook and no Nazis. That’s just common sense everyone used to have.
Exactly. Facebook is a known bad actor. There is absolutely no reason to believe their intentions are anything but evil. Pretending Threads is just another instance is both naive and dangerous. It is a cancer. If allowed to federate, it will metastacize.
I remember an old school conspiracy theory about technology that could read tiny movements in your vocal cords that mimic thoughts.
While I doubt the technology to read minds remotely actually exists, I’m sure the techbros and their various financiers are working toward it.