MNByChoice

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I finally started to listen to "Sold a Story", then in a panic reviewed how my school system is teaching children to read.

While listening to episode 2, "The Idea", I learned that many students were taught how to read with the skills that are certain to make them poor readers. (This made me reflect on the recent news that a great many Americans don't read at the 6th grade level.)

I hope that you all check what your school district is doing, and like me find that the school district is following a good plan. (Minnesota requires the reading plans for school districts to be made public. I read the plan, and then I ran it through Gemini to check against "sold a story" as this is not my area of expertise.)

As an aside many reading program have suspiciously terrible names, like "Read Naturally". While the google I use found the main site quickly, criticisms of that program are harder to locate. (There are many criticisms of other programs that use the phrase "read naturally".)

[–] MNByChoice@midwest.social 15 points 19 hours ago

How horrible. I hope the BBC is also publishing this in Arabic (apparently the primary language of Syria).

[–] MNByChoice@midwest.social 5 points 1 day ago

If he were really against it he would have donated a billion.

[–] MNByChoice@midwest.social 3 points 1 day ago

From "the monitor goes dark", it would be helpful to split monitor issues from computer issues. When the computer becomes unresponsive, do any "non-monitor" functions still work? Does the DVD-drive tray eject or does audio continue to play? Any other details? Do any other lights on the computer stay on, like keyboard and mouse lights?

If the issue is primarily the monitor, then splitting between the physical monitor and the video card would also be helpful.

How old is the hardware?

When you say "nothing is logged", is the hard shutdown logged or anything after the time of the event? Or does "nothing is logged" mean the normal items are logged, but nothing of interest is logged? Some issues, especially hardware ones, stop the computer from logging.

Story: I once had a 15+ year old computer do something similar. The screen would go dark, but the lights on the keyboard stayed on. I had to hard power the system off and sometimes on boot the monitor wouldn't work. A monitor swap didn't fix the issue, but a USB video card did. The video card had failed. (Looking up what I think the interconnect was, the system may be 20 years old at this point.) NOTE: The system was not functional long term with a USB video card due to how the BIOS in the system handled the two video cards.

[–] MNByChoice@midwest.social 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Ugh, we keep making this mistake. Gotta have rotating groups of body guard, and a secret group of body guards watching the other body guards (best to ensure all body guards are in mutually exclusive secret groups watching all of the other body guards.)

[–] MNByChoice@midwest.social 33 points 4 days ago (3 children)

A war against our biggest trading partner. One where many of their nationals, and decedents live legally within our country. One we share a large land boarder with. A country that has voluntarily held migrants that want to enter our country on their side of the boarder. A boarder known to be porous.

This can only go well.

[–] MNByChoice@midwest.social 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I get the prices are going up, and DDR5 is hard to get. There are still many computers on the shelves locally.

Why is this specific company in Japan failing to get computers when so many others are doing an decent job of it?

 

Actual video is far better then the summary and is on Reddit at https://www.reddit.com/r/Minneapolis/comments/1q7w6sx/former_governor_of_minnesota_former_navy_seal/ (I am failed to locate the original source.)

[–] MNByChoice@midwest.social 17 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (5 children)

I am out of the loop and the article didn't provide the answers. I get the limited supply, but what PC shortage? Is this only impacting Japan? I see many advertisements in the USA for new PCs.

[–] MNByChoice@midwest.social 5 points 6 days ago

We are up to two videos. More will come out, like body cam. I very much want to know what happened early and exactly what the conversations were.

All said, I likely very much agree with you.

[–] MNByChoice@midwest.social 11 points 6 days ago

Local news is covering it extensively. Audio is not shared on news due to swearing. Kristi Noem has called the victim a terrorist. Another article states the victim was given conflicting orders.

No clear idea of what actually happened yet.

[–] MNByChoice@midwest.social 3 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Local news is covering it extensively. Audio is not shared on news due to swearing. Kristi Noem has called the victim a terrorist. Article states the victim was given conflicting orders.

No clear idea of what actually happened yet.

[–] MNByChoice@midwest.social 12 points 6 days ago (2 children)

There are a few northern Germanic languages that are deceptive to English readers. They almost read correctly in English, if one assumes the speaker is drunk. Sadly, they can also give the wrong impression. The spoken version tends to be harder to handle in this way.

Clearly, there must be a name for languages that share this sort of property.

[–] MNByChoice@midwest.social 1 points 6 days ago

Nice made up numbers. With 90% of the effort and 50% of the power, they can only get 10% of the results.

If you care about issues like Israel, then you need to support the candidates that support your view.

 

What are American’s doing now to prepare for the next USA government shutdown?

What were pain points from the previous shutdown?

The next possible USA government shutdown is Feb 1, 2026, which is just over 45 days away as I post this.

Here is a countdown clock: https://www.calculatorsoup.com/calculators/time/government-shutdown-timer.php

#Posting here for the politics focused replies.

 

What are American's doing now to prepare for the next USA government shutdown?

What were pain points from the previous shutdown?

The next possible USA government shutdown is Feb 1, 2026, which is just over 45 days away as I post this.

Here is a countdown clock: https://www.calculatorsoup.com/calculators/time/government-shutdown-timer.php

#Posted here for the non-political replies.

 

https://youtu.be/rStL7niR7gs

This is part 2. Part 1 discusses the relationship between power and key holders. Part 2 discusses this in terms of dictatorships and democracies.

Today I learned that even in a democracy, there are key holders that those in power must keep happy. It is interesting to review this video and reflect on who those key holders must be.

 

This is prompted by a post over on "Comic Strips@lemmy.world" about what Photographic Memory was called prior to the invention of photographs.

Looking into it, it seems that perhaps it was not notable until recently.

Photographic Memory, Eidetic Memory, Total Recall, and Hyperthymesia are all currently used for the ability, though often with different connotations.

Does anyone know of ancient writing on the subject?

I am discounting the trained memorization of bards and storytellers of old, which I understand typically used memorization and not "Total Recall". Please let me know if I am incorrect.

The Wikipedia pages on Eidetic Memory and Hyperthymesia cover different aspects, but neither cites anything older than “Funes the Memorious”. Funes the Memorious was written after the camera was invented. “Total Recall” is also used for the ability, but also does not appear to have a long history.

Unrelated but fun: ‘Photographic Memory’ The story of how we stored digital photographs

 

I provide technical support for a small number of children that enjoy Minecraft. Their play involves many MODs from the Minecraft store, frequent adjustment of server settings, and creating new worlds (a new one every 10 minutes).

I have investigated a few Minecraft servers (mostly reading their manuals, I have only fully setup one), but they all appear focused on running a single stable world for a long period of time.

Are there any Minecraft servers that allow the "local" experience?

 

Lemmy is great, but there are some "subreddits" that would be great to implement on Lemmy. This means I will have to add them myself and be a moderator.

How much work will this likely involve? Assume moderately popular. Both in "hours per day" and "frustration".

Are there legal risks?
Assume I am in the USA, in a state with a functioning government.

Thank you!

 

According to the Minnesota Department of Corrections (DOC), three out of 10 water samples collected at the Lino Lakes prison on July 29 tested above the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) action level of 15 parts per billion (ppb). The contaminated samples were found in two living units and a kitchen area.

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Similar issue reported in 2023

 

cross-posted from: https://midwest.social/post/33549298

At a time when the U.S. Department of Agriculture was slashing aid to schools and food banks in the name of fiscal responsibility, newly confirmed Secretary Brooke Rollins elected to spend thousands of dollars to purchase massive banners of President Donald Trump, one of which now hangs outside her department’s headquarters in Washington, DC, according to documents obtained by Salon.

In May, visitors to the nation’s capital noticed two, 31-foot additions to the USDA’s building on Independence Avenue, ostensibly intended to mark its 163rd anniversary: a banner featuring President Abraham Lincoln, who signed the bill creating the department, and another featuring Trump, both featuring the tagline: “Growing America Since 1862.”

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At a time when the U.S. Department of Agriculture was slashing aid to schools and food banks in the name of fiscal responsibility, newly confirmed Secretary Brooke Rollins elected to spend thousands of dollars to purchase massive banners of President Donald Trump, one of which now hangs outside her department’s headquarters in Washington, DC, according to documents obtained by Salon.

In May, visitors to the nation’s capital noticed two, 31-foot additions to the USDA’s building on Independence Avenue, ostensibly intended to mark its 163rd anniversary: a banner featuring President Abraham Lincoln, who signed the bill creating the department, and another featuring Trump, both featuring the tagline: “Growing America Since 1862.”

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