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Firmly agree, what the US considers left versus with the rest of the world considered the left is vastly different. Even it's left-leaning parties are borderline to moderate right when compared to the rest of the civilized countries who share similar ideologies.

Any true left leaning candidates get their funding ripped out at the roots and get stonewalled off the ballets, even Sanders, while a breath of fresh air was still more centrist than leftist when he was running, it's just the US scale is so off balance that he used the "socialist/leftist" tag to get into the news/boost his PR.

I wanna preface this with I had a small keyboard slide phone in school, not a smart phone by today's standards, but I am firmly against this archaic mentality.

It doesn't address the elephant in the room, classrooms have become painstakingly boring. There is no real incentive for the student to actually do well anymore, or even pay attention. This is exclusively for the k-12 system though, as the issues seem to have become non-existent entering the college and university system. I went from being a solid D/C student in high-school to being an A/B+ student going into college

I spent my time in grade school fucking around and barely paying attention, this was without a smart phone. I couldn't keep focused on the class subjects, and so therefore I gave up. The college system has the process down-packed, it's laid back, not hours on end in a row learning useless shit you won't need, and you have the freedom to either listen or don't, there isn't the constant pressure from professors "You are failing you need to do better" like in high school. Plus the professors seem actually happy to be there and they make the content more enjoyable, its not just droning on and on on a subject.

The only things removing a phone from a classroom is going to do is remove a potential learning tool, and just annoying your students even further. If your student doesn't want to learn, removing items isn't magically going to make the kid learn. Make it entertaining, do something OTHER than this stupid info cram shit where you just regurgitate information constantly. There is zero incentive on almost every subject you learn to actually want to learn it. You don't learn any type of life skills, you don't learn anything for your career/future. Hell they don't even teach cursive anymore. My sister couldn't even read a physical clock entering 7th grade. They don't teach it. But you can bet things like "what happens in the 16th century" will be taught, or what basic cell structure is (I couldn't tell you, I forgot all that info leaving that class room).

Like I get needing to know history, and basic mathematics, but the current schooling system is a overburdened plug of useless information for society. Everyone knows it, everyone lies to their kid saying things like "yea you will definitely need to know what beware the ides of march means in life". If things were taught that people knew would be useful in life (or at the very least explained HOW it would be), and it wasn't just a professor saying "ok class open your book, this is the lesson" for 3/4 of the year, you might have a better student attention span.

BC2 in my eyes is the best multiplayer battlefield style game. The destruction physics <3

I loved this game, I used to play it on my PS3. It was really the only game I felt comfortable using the flying mechanics in and it didn't seem super overpowered weapon wise to the point you just got stomped by people who were amazing at the game

the sad thing is, according to that article, the only reason it was caught is because a major dealership lobby caught wind and reported it. They might have got away with it otherwise(if they are illegitimate)

That first party warranty repair services sometimes don't allow having a second party do the repair.

I have always just been able to bring the item into the nearest repair facility, and just have them do the repair under warranty, it wasn't until today that I learned there is some brands that straight out won't let you do anything but the ship in and fix style warranties. I would figure it would be cheaper to allow second party repair reimbursement but nope.

I'm surprised that if they are building without permits or permission, on cali land, that cali hasent started issuing demo orders for the unauthorized builds. If it's as clear as the article seems to be making that, Sable is intentionally avoiding the correct process hoping that the courts will side with their alternative mindset.

I doubt they will find anything copyright wise, patent wise maybe if they had patents for some of the mechanics, but if they don't already have the mechanics, and try to file post-fact that's going to backfire.

I left and blocked reddit on my network after the landed gantry debacle. I'm not banned but I might as well be.

He mentioned that it is possible to bypass the cloud bullshit with a third party Library he just didn't want to do the setup for it, personally I was waiting for the "so I tore it out of the wall and returned it" because I can't think of a single appliance store that has a return policy that's less than like 30 days. Locking advertised features behind an app would be an instant "honey we're bringing this back to the store"

He even mentions that people have mentioned to return it already

When I posted on social media about this, a lot of people told me to return it.

But I spent four hours installing this thing built into my kitchen.
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At a minimum, I think what Bosch should do is make it so that the dishwasher can be accessed locally with no requirement for a cloud account. (Really, it'd be even better to have all the functions accessible on the control panel!)

Why would they do that, the person who posted it's a prime example of why they don't, he's willing to just use it without the features, he isn't even willing to return it even though it's very clear he hates everything about the cloud requirement. Companies aren't just going to change with no action. They change when there's a loss of money involved, processing refunds because of the shitty mechanics hurts the appliance stores selling it which then snowballs into the store maybe thinking twice about buying the appliance again.

That is what makes companies change, not keeping the item and saying "oh well" I guess I'll buy a different brand next time.

I have noticed that it seems like the best coffee comes from people who are super openly expressive of their styles. I think it's probably due to the fact that the people who are open about their expressions, are also more open for varying away from the hard set recipe in order to improve the drink.

It's a relation I hadent connected the dots on till I saw this post and started thinking.

that would have been so cool, but I don't really know how it coulda worked out, like an isolated horror-scape wouldnt allow for char development or anything.