Now show some intestinal fortitude and do the same for alcohol advertising and gambling advertising. As a matter of fact apply strong ID checks & spending precommitments should keep the kids safe from gambling, their own and that of people around them.
This fiddling around the margins is performative theatre to distract the masses while they build the powers of the surveillance state.
Hey let's give this some runway, if they want it to be a success maybe they will consider ditching Windows and putting a variant of Linux on it. Imagine how much positivity the community would extend to them if they made it run mainline Bazzite, then they could throw a bunch of financial support at the Bazzite team...
Ahh who am I kidding, they will be loading it up with special Windows Gamer OS that is stripped of all ads and telemetry until the day after launch to give the reviewers with early access time to rave about how amazing it is that Microslop cares about their fans, before treating them like the little pay piggies they see them as.
Is this paving the way for them to start selling War bonds? As I understand it they are running out of ammunition already so they might need to consider some WW2 inspired manufacturing push as well.
Oh well maybe we should shove them in front of a screen and have them use AI until the scores improve. /s
Seriously when they do the analysis in 100 years we are going to cop so much negativity about our misguided attempts to make education a success by making it more profitable for the corporations that are forever sinking their claws deeper and deeper into our childrens future.
We know that LLMs have a negative impact on learning, mental health and the environment but we keep getting presented the Emperors wrinkled backside and then being told to marvel at it.
Anyway I tend to go on rants if I don't reign myself in, so I'm going to stop there.
Parent by choice not by accident so its incumbent on me to do my best, although I would never claim to be perfect, or even close.
Right from the start I will state I know the plural of anecdote isn't evidence. But I have a friend who has given up teaching year 11/12 athletic development and now teaches grade 7 pe. Primary reason is the mysoginistic shit she had to put up with from the boys who felt their gender made them better at anything sports related than her. She would compete in triathlon in her spare time with all the training & commitment that entails, and yet the podgy, vaping 18yo man children would tell jokes with each other about how she should go back to the kitchen "where she belongs".
When we were discussing this amongst a group that included 3 other female teachers every one of them agreed they are seeing more of that sort of crap every year. My guess would be all the Manosphere brainrot is having an effect. Couple that with kids around that age feeling the urge to be as edgy as possible...
I have noticed once or twice that my sons have started talking that way due to a combination of online and peer influence and I have stepped in to disabuse them of the notion that their chromosomes make them special or superior. But it's the world they live in and I pity the kids without a parent who is keeping any eye on them.
He was aware of the use case. He was told in no uncertain terms what it would be used for and made suggestions around how to conceal the devices. I think we all know that there are certain people who will get so caught up working the problem that they often don't think about consequences til much later.
Well yes, but also no. I went to school with a bunch of dumb asses who used metalwork classes to make "throwing stars", and half of them haven't been to prison yet.
I had an electronics teacher help me make "tripwires" to play a prank on a friend at school camp that would set off an airhorn once tripped, it was only after I finished he thought to mention "Don't use these to trigger anything else, and don't put the airhorn inside the tent with him."
Teenagers and sometimes the engineers who fall in to teaching them can be astoundingly dumb and work the challenge rather than think of the consequences.
Literally my first thought: s it going to be based on honesty policy or is one of them going to act as the official genital inspector? I mean I am a heterosexual cisgender man, but even I can see that they are going to struggle to attract new young members when the newbies have to demonstrate their fully functional reproductive system to a senior member before being invited to events.
I have heard some pretty rough stories of women transvestigating people and making it worse by pushing past the limits of verbal and psychological harassment into physical assault. Do they really feel that this will make their community safer?
That looks a lot like an Australian street. Ergo that aign was set up by an Australian Council Worker... Yeah this all tracks.
Ooops made a mistake, read the comments under the article. How is there such a vocal group who live in their own manufactured reality and don't let anything dent the facade?
Oh I'm sure certain elements will run, for a certain value of run.