I was a kid of color going to a middle school full of kids of color in America. This was many years ago. I was on the honor roll, was in the junior engineering program, and was well liked. But the shit I went through at that school was insane until they brought in police that stayed in the school.
In a crowded hallway, I had the sharp end of a protractor shoved into the front of my neck while this guy held me from behind and loudly announced that he would kill me. School did nothing.
This same kid later upgraded to a hand gun which he used inside the school during school hours, shooting random things such as the vending machines. As a student, it looked like the school did nothing.
Same kid had a street gang, and both him and his gang had some sort of fascination with me that was dangerous for me. More violent, coercive stuff happened to me inside the school. I had no support still.
The police came at some point and installed metal detectors and a permanent presence. I cannot express how important it was that the same officers were there every day, monitoring things. They made the environment better.
If these kids went through a fraction of what I went through, then the police presence would only help kids of color, by removing threats to their safety that school administrators are too scared to act on.
Looks like PSLF is probably gonna be the best option for me. Luckily, with the state I live in, there's a lot of government jobs in my field with plenty of room to do research and data analysis for social services
My only complaint about Dylan Mulvaney is that it's confusing that she chose to have a male name. Otherwise, she's done nothing wrong and people need to leave her be.
Here in Austin, they do. It’s an optional program, but if you have a smart thermostat you can give them the option to adjust your thermostat during peak hours.
He raises some good questions about the fact that for-profit entities are acting as the public arbiter of truth. Unfortunately for his argument, vaccine denialism (like his) is Exhibit A for the "information needs to be regulated" argument.
I do think we should be wary of letting Facebook decide what is or isn't "disinformation", but the last 10 years have shown that we need some kind of public information filter. I just don't want Robert Kennedy to be involved in it.
I’d like to see the hard news content integrated into a single news feed. Having many feeds when you can’t combine them is hard to use. But, I’m also more interested in us and world news than business and tech.
Sorry, I meant non-business and tech, for example. I guess you could call it headline news. The problem I’m seeing is that the algorithms for kbin and Lemmy aren’t that great yet and seem to ignore low user subscribed communities. With many different news communities they all tend to get buried unless I catch them on the new filter.
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