I just know the process and know what an uphill battle it is every time. There is so much damn fraud constantly.

Not necessarily, the government may do restitution. But when the individual distribution is not going to lead to meaningful recovery for anyone, it’s better for the government to add the money to their general fund rather than dole it out.

And to anticipate another issue, maybe the governments could have recovered more or even what the actual damages were, but lawsuits are expensive, even for the states and feds, and there a lot of issues that need attention. Trials are risky too. And in a lot of cases, there’s a legal max on the fine/recovery.

If you can, find a neurologist who specializes in sleep disorders. I know someone who described something similar after self-referring to a sleep doc and the doctor’s first words were, essentially, “you’re on an adjusted sleep cycle naturally, but we’re going to start tackling things in order of importance based on your symptoms and needs.” Was fantastic for them to get a doc who took it seriously, was sympathetic, but also realistic that biology might not mesh with what the world required of that person.

This isn’t a class action.

That’s fair, sorry for misunderstanding. There’s a tradeoff between “interesting to the student” and the teacher’s time as well. My guess is most teachers would love to cater reading more towards every student’s interest along with some required reading just because there’s a canon you need to understand, even if you don’t like it. Maybe technology will make that easier, but getting it in the classroom is an uphill battle very much outside of teacher control.

It is possible there was a learning need that wasn’t being met for those people who swore off reading. We’re getting better at catching those but it’s difficult. Kids are people and can hide a learning disorder to seem normal. A good teacher knows how to make the student comfortable enough so the teacher can figure that out and plan an alternative learning strategy. Not all teachers are good, but most try very hard to do well in a very demanding and low-paying job that is increasingly disrespected, including by comments like yours.

The way your comments read seem like an indictment on every teacher and I frequently encounter similar attitudes online based on anecdotal evidence of a single incident. The reality is the world is hard and people are increasingly bragging online about how little work they did in school to prepare themselves for it. This is increasingly going to translate to anti-intellectualism and lower outcomes in society. We already see it.

Going back to your case, you disliked reading Madame Bovary, which I know is just one example. And maybe you had a shit experience with teachers, which I’m sorry you had to go through. But that doesn’t mean people shouldn’t read Madame Bovary in school, it just means you didn’t like it and maybe had other shit you had to deal with as well.

No general education system is going to be able to tailor curricula to every single child based on their individual interests. Besides that, children’s interests change constantly and they need to learn things beyond just what they’re interested in at any given moment. That includes reading things that aren’t interesting to them but might be interesting to their peers (or even to them later on).

Reading boring shit you don’t like is necessary in a lot of jobs. Training yourself to get through it is also a skill set and one you should develop early. And in some cases, it reveals a new interest.

Assuming you mean work-sponsored, they exist. My job usually does one (optional and workload permitting) like every six months. Outside of work…well if you’re an adult nothing is stopping you from going to a museum or an old mill yourself.

Next level pedantry.

There were a lot of options for non-extradition before Russia. Even the route he took when he fled doesn’t make a ton of sense unless he’s selling the information to America’s security competitors. My guess is he genuinely believed in leaking the information and he got paid to do it by one or more foreign countries.

Snowden, and Greenwald by extension, are perfect examples of how being right about one thing doesn’t make someone right about everything. I also have serious problems with how Snowden chose to whistleblow, though the actual whistleblowing was necessary.

It’s true, Sabra’s zero-day exploits must be stopped!

The fuck are you talking about? First of all, primaries exist. Secondly, with only a few notable exceptions, Democrats favor single-payer. The original ACA was a government healthcare bill with a private option but Joe Lieberman was the holdout and gutted it. Stating otherwise is intellectually dishonest and deliberately ignorant, or at worst a malicious rewrite of history.

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There’s actually way more agreement than people think about what’s broken in society and the causes of it, at least at a surface level. The problem is our differing views on how to fix it all.

They’re doing it because the guy on the run crossed state lines. That makes it federal, so the FBI has jurisdiction and it’s easier for them to work cross-border than the NYPD. It’s getting more resources because it’s a highly publicized case. I’m sure there’s some pressure from some wealthy and/or powerful people as well to find whoever did it, but it’s not surprising that the FBI is involved now.

Generally speaking, normalizing extrajudicial killing of people that aren’t liked tends to trend in a bad direction.

Ok but no one is arguing Windows is encrypted. Google is specifically stating, in a way that could get them sued for shitloads of money, that their messaging protocol is E2EE. They have explicitly described how it is E2EE. Google can be a bad company while still doing this thing within the bounds we all understand. For example, just because the chat can’t be backdoored doesn’t mean the device can’t be.

It’s actually kjnd of the opposite: America has the dominant culture going back generations. It’s just that culture is very materialistic, so people try to find something deeper. That’s my theory anyway. Besides, most of us are immigrants and I think a lot of Americans want some connection to their place of origin.

I think it comes down to people not liking that Bluesky is controlled by a board. But that’s what’s needed for mass adoption: a group of people to be accountable.