tearsintherain

joined 7 months ago
[–] tearsintherain@leminal.space 7 points 5 months ago

Keeping cell phones out of middle schoolers hands during school hours when they are meant to be learning, and contributing to a community is controlling their lives? Wow, it is no wonder people don't value teachers or education in America.

[–] tearsintherain@leminal.space 1 points 5 months ago

So jamming is not a practical solution.

[–] tearsintherain@leminal.space 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

So they listen for phone traffic, then what? Track down every user throughout the school day and intercept them? I would wager people who respond with IT solutions don't realize they at times sound like a 'tech bro' who believes they have s solution for everything even of they have no experience in education, no experience being an educator and understanding their contexts. It's no wonder why teachers in general in America are treated so poorly. Even folks who say they support teachers don't understand how much they have to do and with so many students and little time.

[–] tearsintherain@leminal.space 36 points 5 months ago

FF (fuck 'em) whoring themselves for Amazon execs isn't the main story here. It's the disgusting exploitation of labor for profits. Organized destruction of unions and workers rights had made this tale an everyday, everywhere occurrence. Long ago there was a time when the news would report about main street and wall street as being more intertwined. Today their well being is in opposite directions. From symbiotic to parasitic.

It seems to prefer coercion as a method to keep people producing rather than inspiring them and earning their best.

Ambush style layoffs remove the feeling of safety, making people desperate to prove they shouldn’t be next. With this approach, Amazon embraces a timelessly blood-curdling rationale: nothing concentrates the mind like a credible threat.

Annual attrition targets for a fixed percentage of people every year create a survival mentality. No one wants to be the slowest gazelle when the lion comes around again, so everyone runs faster. Classic coercion.

[–] tearsintherain@leminal.space 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Amazon: get 30-day free trial.

Very quietly Amazon: we bill you $14.99 two weeks into your 30-day free trial ;)

[–] tearsintherain@leminal.space 18 points 5 months ago (11 children)

Students phone usage in schools are problematic. It's not just in the classroom, but (raises hand) can i go to the bathroom (to use my phone). You can't lock down their at&t or t-mobile phones. Don't know how an outright ban would work but it's worth a shot. Education like democracy is in decline and in peril. Especially public education with the onslaught of charter schools.

[–] tearsintherain@leminal.space 2 points 5 months ago

living in crazy times. like full throttle over a cliff.

[–] tearsintherain@leminal.space 14 points 6 months ago

There is def throwing out meat for the rabid base. Feel like North Carolina is looking to hook up with TX and FL. University of North Carolina to divert $2.3m DEI budget to safety and policing "Some members of the board of trustees, which voted for the divestment, cited students’ recent anti-war demonstrations as a reason for the redesignation of funds to the campus police."

[–] tearsintherain@leminal.space 13 points 6 months ago

Did Jerry Seinfeld's wife find these violent counter protesters as well? Glad to see researchers are unmasking them, but will there be any criminal charges... Meanwhile israel is funding canary mission to doxx peaceful protesters in order to control all narrative and maintain influence.

[–] tearsintherain@leminal.space 10 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

yeah, they're missing the fact it was posted in right to repair maybe.

[–] tearsintherain@leminal.space 20 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

King Abbott, what a poor excuse for a human being.

[–] tearsintherain@leminal.space 147 points 6 months ago (3 children)

This is even more concerning when you look at some of the motivations: "The bill was largely spurred by recent protests on university and college campuses across the country, including North Carolina-based schools, against the war in Gaza."

this is about control, fascism. historically student protests are the canary in the coal mine on a number of issues. powers that be are looking to stamp out any dissent going forward.

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