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Mirshe

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  • Parents opt kids out of school laptops, ask for pen-and-paper

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  • All of those are MORE expensive, at scale. If you can just hand 1500 kids a $200 Chromebook that fulfills ALL those functions, that's $300k, vs 1500 e-ink readers at $40 a pop, 1500 digital typewriters @ $100 apiece, etc. Hell, that scientific calculator ALONE might be $200+ in some markets because Texas Instruments practically has the market cornered (to the point that I had to go to the administration of my school district to show them that the Casio I had was functionally identical).

  • Parents opt kids out of school laptops, ask for pen-and-paper

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  • So many donations and funds for schools are earmarked, you can only spend them in specific ways. If you spend them in ways that don't align with the earmark, it's incredibly easy for the donors or the state to claw them back. So that $40mil your local suburban school district spent on a new football stadium? That was likely earmarked SPECIFICALLY for football, they can't really just swish the money to better textbooks, or whatever. Same with tech funding - you get $250k to upgrade your school district with Chromebooks or whatever, you MUST buy within what the funding packet tells you you can buy, and you can't really do anything else with it.

    That doesn't even get into the cartelization of textbooks and school software. There's so few real options that it's incredibly easy for these companies to collude without really looking like it's collusion.

  • Kate Mulgrew Defends ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ And Captain Ake From “Disrespectful” Online Attacks

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  • The SAM episode was a little meh, personally, but I like that they're dealing with the shorter season format and still doing episodes based around each character.

  • Nice horsie! 🐎

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  • IIRC a few African groups have legends of people trying to tame zebras as long term mounts or livestock, and these legends rarely end well for the attempter.

  • Father faces no charges for fatally shooting daughter after fight about Donald Trump

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  • So someone else also pointed out grand jury members in TX are appointed positions of "respectable" members of society.

    Sadly, this just sounds like the Good Old Boy Network doing exactly what it's supposed to do.

  • Trump Administration Announces That We Don’t Know Where the Sun Goes at Night | After deciding carbon dioxide does no harm, it was the logical next move.

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  • Please, we all know that great Ra carries it on his boat through the Sea of Reeds and must battle Apep to be able to raise the sun in the heavens the next morning.

  • Broken bones, burning eyes: How Trump's DHS deploys 'less lethal' weapons on protesters

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  • A lot of PDs and federal forces get taught by the IDF, who are notorious for targeting genitalia and eyes.

  • TPUSA's rule will never not be funny

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  • I too would like my public execution be at an unknown (to me) time and place. Like Burgess Meredith in The Obsolete Man.

  • The “He Gets Us” Campaign Has a PR Problem No Super Bowl Ad Can Solve

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  • Actually, marketing is a great way to make it LOOK like things are working. Your comment is exactly what a shareholder might hear in response to that same question.

  • Trump receives trophy as he’s named ‘Undisputed Champion of Beautiful Clean Coal’

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  • He's the one kid at your birthday party who's upset they're not getting attention too.

  • Federal Aviation Administration(FAA) suddenly drops unprecedented air restrictions over El Paso, southern New Mexico

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  • I can't see them conducting it so close to a city, unless it's meant to be a show of force or some bullshit.

  • Trump Will Order Defense Department to Buy Coal Power | Climate and security experts say the plan is outdated and could place the U.S. at a competitive disadvantage.

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  • Hell yeah we need the USS Admiral Kuznetsov.

  • Trump Will Order Defense Department to Buy Coal Power | Climate and security experts say the plan is outdated and could place the U.S. at a competitive disadvantage.

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  • Very few, I'd imagine. At best, this is propping up failing parts of their empire - a lot of mining companies have switched to something easier than coal because coal is getting harder to mine, and a lot of energy companies are diversifying because of the slowdown of effective mining. This seems to simply be "because I can".

  • JD Vance and his 40 cars visit Milan, Italy 🇮🇹

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  • Like father, like son. Part of why Trump eats so shitty is the same fear.

  • Court rules government can't deport Rümeysa Öztürk, Tufts student who criticized Israel, her lawyers say in filing

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  • I was about to say, I'm surprised she hasn't just been black bagged and deported anyway. That's the normal goon squad MO right now, because the law works a lot slower than a plane. Once you're in a foreign prison or whatever, you're officially a problem for the State Department.

  • 'What a great way to kill your community': Discord users are furious about its new age verification checks — and are now hunting for alternatives

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  • They've stated elsewhere that even though they're deploying "age inference" (whatever that is), verification is mandatory if you don't want your account to be restricted to PG-13, basically.

  • Trump threatens to block opening of US-Canada bridge

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  • To cheer everyone up a bit, here's a bit about that time a WV town got a bridge built by asking the USSR.

  • Mother of Olympics TV host kidnapped for bitcoin ransom

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  • Because you can't buy Monero from an ATM, and cash is highly traceable.

  • AI gold rush sees tech firms embracing 72-hour weeks

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  • These positions are also typically salaried so they can claim they don't need to pay OT.