Good luck!

I would not say “often” better academically. It’s up to the resources the parents have. Poor families doing homeschooling end up poorly educated, wealthy educated families are more able to educate. Humans already did this up until the advent of modern public education systems.

In a public school, the idea is that both the rich family and the poor family are offered the same education, and this is better for society as a whole. I will agree that public education isn’t perfect and could be improved in almost every way, but opting for private education is leaving your child’s future up to random chance as dictated by your social status.

At some point you will try to socialize your homeschooled kid. If you live in a rough community where drugs, gangs, and teen pregnancies are relatively common, you won’t be able to avoid the same influences you’re trying to avoid in public schools. Except now it will be all they know.

IMO exposure to a larger population of people in a public school gives kids more reference for all the kinds of people in society, and control over who they want to interact with. Then it’s the parent’s job to make them feel empowered (not pressured) to make the best choice they have available.

If there is an HR dept, I would raise this with them. If you are no longer on the clock at 5pm, there’s nothing stopping you from hopping out of the vehicle wherever it is and going home. Keep a record of everything, what was asked of you and when, what action you took and when, and maybe even have a witness sign off. If they try to fire you with cause, you can sue for wrongful termination. Just remember that HR is there to prevent the company from being sued, they are not your friend.

At the end of the day, the real solution is obvious: this is what unions are for. Collective bargaining is how you even the odds with greed.

No one has ever gone out of their way to run windows. At least not in 25y.

That seems as reasonable as suggesting they could pass a law requiring everyone to hire a govt licensed computer user in order to interact with their devices, and otherwise touching a keyboard or touchscreen would be illegal.

It doesn’t feel like a realistic estimation of what they would actually try to do. There’s too much that is currently dependent on Linux, you’d do better to just dismantle and ban the internet.

Doesn’t even make sense. Virtually all Linux distros can function completely offline. How do you do age verification completely offline? Classic politician who doesn’t understand tech trying to look like they’re doing something to save the kids.

No, candy.

Yes, absolutely. You’d be dead in a month from various overdoses.

Edit: this was actually covered in a recent Ask Hank Anything. (Specifically the last question about what the healthiest candy would be to live on).

Yeah, my first thought was Kveikur. Such a vibe.

I just use gimp, but for the record, someone recently got modern Photoshop working in wine

Eufy doesn’t have a good track record for keeping things local or secure, despite claiming they are, btw. Source

What does “laid off” mean if you interpret it literally? Have you ever even thought about it? At least you understand how the the term “redundancy” came about. But what if the words we use to convey concepts are just the words we use to convey concepts, and not an act of malice or compliance?

Yeah, seems like there needs to be a distro made for retrofitting various phones or something with those features. Maybe even using the zune hw.

Tell me you’re American without telling me you’re American.

You misread what I said. For the fediverse to work, it needs to be distributed. OP said they didn’t see a stories community on “this instance” (was unclear whether they meant lemmy.world or lemmy.ml, but both are notoriously monolithic). Centralizing all users and communities onto a single instance is antithetical to the fediverse.

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (Gene Wilder version)

And do you believe that you are representative of what most kids these days do in their free time?

I don’t know why you decided that this is a superiority complex

It is entirely possible you didn’t intend for it to sound like you believe writing is superior in some way to drawing.

I don’t trust other places because there’s no way to know if an AI story is created or not.

To be clear, there’s no way to know that here either. I’m not saying go to those other communities, I’m just answering the question about where everyone is.

This is what I imagine asklemmy posts would have looked like in the 1950s.

There are so many levels one could answer at. First off, we don’t want every community to exist on lemmy.world. Just because it doesn’t exist there doesn’t mean you need to make it. Second, I consider graphic novels/comics/manga to be just as out of fashion as books these days. AFAIK kids barely read at all anymore. Third, I consider drawing much harder than writing, but that’s a personal thing. Heck, both are trivially generated by AI these days, so the idea of having a superiority complex about one seems silly to me. Artists should stick together. In the same medium, if they want to.

If you don’t like seeing visual art next to written art, that’s a personal preference. I don’t think it says anything about the state of people’s brains that one community is larger than another, if anything, visuals are probably just easier to market in a world with a LOT of “content” going around. But at the end of the day, there just aren’t a whole lotta people using Lemmy. So I’m not surprised when you say a specific community doesn’t have a lot of activity. It could be that people interested in stories just have more established communities on [competing sites].

The ability to fork is core to the FOSS movement, and I certainly don’t trust any govt to decide how all browsers should be made. I don’t consider FOSS or competition to be a workaround, I consider that to be the best possible solution to this problem.