LanyrdSkynrd

most business owners might try to appear politically neutral publicly (as a means of avoiding controversy that might affect their business)

It constantly surprises me how many businesses have abandoned this principle in the Trump era. There's a new shop in my town that erected a huge sign that says, "Vote out the corrupt Democrats in all 50 states!". This is in a town that voted 71% for Hillary Clinton in 2016. I don't understand a business owner that would try so hard to get the majority of residents to avoid their business.

I think homework harmed me because I wouldn't do it and I didn't have parents that were very involved in my life to make me do it. I went to school during the peak of the homework madness in my area so we were expected to do hours of homework each day.

I always learned the material, always passed the tests, almost never did the homework. I had to do summer school once, was held back the next year, and then dropped out because it's embarrassing to be held back and not know any of your classmates.

I'm not sure that homework has no value at all, but I don't think it's smart to penalize kids for not doing work at home. Not everyone has a home conducive to homework and expecting "homework clubs" to work seems nieve to me. I know I wouldn't have chosen to stay at school longer to do homework, and my parents wouldn't have made me.

If kids need more time dedicated to learning, why can't the school day be made longer to accommodate it? I get that teachers already don't have enough time, but why couldn't you have a study period staffed by other people?

Every time I've said something similar to a therapist they tell me I just need try a bunch of therapists and find one that works for me. That's the kind of logic that led people to think draining your blood or going to chiropractors works. Just trying random shit until you feel somewhat better forces you to rely on a single piece of anecdotal evidence for your mental health.

They need some way to enforce standards within their profession. It's malpractice to expect patients, many of whom are in crisis, to be able to judge the quality of their providers.

That grift is still going on.

Medicare Advantage is still syphoning billions every year in overpayments. That's on top of the main profits they're making by this privitisation scheme. They kick the most sick people off their rolls by denying their coverage until they leave. That leaves them only the most profitable people to insure.

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/its-time-to-end-the-medicare-advantage-scam/

I did dialup tech support and the same thing would happen. Certain numbers would go down all the time and the techs would know something was wrong. If they bosses acknowledged it, it would be considered downtime, so we'd do pointless troubleshooting for hours until it came back online. Tons of wasted time just to keep the fiction of 99% uptime intact.

I'm using amcrest cameras with frigate. They work offline, but their doorbell cameras are wireless only, IIRC.

Frigate records and does object detection, so you can get notifications(with photos in the notification) only when there is a certain object in a certain area(like only people in one area, cars and people in another, cats in a third area).

It's a cheap setup if you already have a server running 24/7. It takes quite a bit of setup, but has been trouble free since.

Me, on my deathbed:

"My only regret is that I didn't spend more time online"

The story about the connections between the CIA and journalists was written by Bernstein by himself. It's a decent read:

https://www.carlbernstein.com/the-cia-and-the-media-rolling-stone-10-20-1977

This is an easy and informative read. It's basically a FAQ about communism.

https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/11/prin-com.htm

You're getting spit all over me

What I don't get is why did almost everyone in government and media try so hard to prove it wasn't a lab leak? Wouldn't it serve their hegemonic goals to have Americans think the evil CCP is making bioweapons and simultaneously organizationally incompetent because communism?

While I acknowledge I am not smart enough to have an informed opinion on this subject, I've read stuff on both sides of the argument that make sense to me. The overwhelming effort to shout down anyone saying it was a lab leak makes me skeptical of the natural origin narrative.

I had hemorrhoids and my doctor told me to try citrus bioflavonoids. They seemed to work, but it could have been a coincidence. They were cheap enough that you might want to give it a shot.