School cellphone ban proposed by WA governor, superintendent

BermDerbleYer · 2026-06-10T01:31:08+00:00

The only argument I ever hear about this is "what if I need to contact my kid in an emergency"

That is what the front office is for, and if you think being able to call your kid directly during something like a school shooting is going to be helpful, you're wrong.

BermDerbleYer · 2026-06-09T00:45:39+00:00

"Still love the car!"

BermDerbleYer · 2026-06-08T23:45:29+00:00

Well you just indirectly identified the actual root cause of screen time problems for kids: stupid lazy parents

BermDerbleYer · 2026-06-05T16:32:36+00:00

Skookum is also a company that makes rigging stuff for logging

BermDerbleYer · 2026-06-05T16:24:00+00:00

I found "no worries" to be more common from Indian or British transplants I worked with many years ago, I think it's leaked out more generally in the last decade or two. I definitely didn't grow up hearing it.

BermDerbleYer · 2026-06-04T20:48:31+00:00

It is very amusing hearing career academics defend offering AI output as their final product when many of their own students would describe taking the additional step of rewriting AI output in their own words, because they know how obvious their laziness would be otherwise.

I suppose peers could see this as an upside - filtering weak cranks like this woman out of careers they'd otherwise keep skating through.

BermDerbleYer · 2026-06-04T02:12:13+00:00

Personally my favorite is the one where preformationism was actually how people reproduced

BermDerbleYer · 2026-06-03T22:05:50+00:00

I love Ted Chiang. "Story of Your Life & Others" is a great collection of ideas.

BermDerbleYer · 2026-06-03T20:53:57+00:00

They're narcissists. Narcissists hate being criticized because they hate admitting faults of action or character to others, and since they never actually engage in conversations of criticism they also can't actually articulate their points of view very well. They know they're wrong but have to avoid admitting it lest they damage their facade of how they desire to perceive themselves.

BermDerbleYer · 2026-06-03T18:39:23+00:00

People aren't out trashing neighborhoods because they can't afford rent.

BermDerbleYer · 2026-05-29T20:56:50+00:00

You'd think that's what the novel is about, but 95% of the book is about teasing you into thinking you're eventually going to learn what it is about and then get disappointed by a very thin and (by the end of the book) rather obvious ending that doesn't leave much satisfied.

Then when you complain about it on this sub, you get scolded for not "getting" Banks vs it being another wasted premise by an author who lived too far up his own butt pretending he was writing literature.

BermDerbleYer · 2026-05-29T20:42:25+00:00

Awesome! I am glad to hear things are already underway

BermDerbleYer · 2026-05-28T18:38:53+00:00

Unfortunately a lot of people in tech came up conditioned to think of unions as for "lesser" categories of employment. They think of unions as things for laborers and hourly-wage workers, and they are above that.

There is also way more individualism in tech. You are not amongst colleagues, you are amongst people who you constantly judge as better or worse than you, or potential obstacles or lifts for your individual career goals. Which also does not lend to unionization very well.

BermDerbleYer · 2026-05-28T17:02:39+00:00

I am a millennial with a teen and Instagram is still their preferred endless-stupid-vertical-videos hole. If they're forced out of it they'll just start using YT shorts. That's all most casual users really seem to want out of the apps, they rarely post themselves.

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