I had been off facebook for 5 years. Now my kid started school and there's info in private facebook groups that is not shared any other way. I hate it but decided to rejoin.
So wait...the school uses Facebook for communication? Gross. My kids' school uses something called ClassDojo, which is exactly like Facebook, but geared towards classroom settings. It works well enough.
I'm guessing that parents connect through Facebook groups.
Today, being the first day of school here in Colorado, my wife told me that the parents decided to organize a Facebook group to share information. My suggestion was a Whatsapp group, but I guess that's Facebook as well :).
"Financial literacy" is a category - not a badge. The badges in that category for 2nd and 3rd graders were Money Management (maybe all those cookie sales?) and Philanthropy... which are things most troops do anyway.
I have adaptive cruise control in my Subaru Legacy and I have often wondered what will happen when more people have ACC. Or even if I were following another car exactly like mine - would the lag time grow exponentially with more intense stop/go or would it even out? Or does it depend on how well the car implements it?
The adaptive cruise control in my Ford turns itself off if the speed is low enough-- which on Seattle-area freeways happens pretty often. So I stopped trying to use it.
The Subaru one stays on until you come to a complete stop. Even then, it's still "on" in a way, since it'll hold the brakes, but you have to flick up on the cruise control switch to get the car to start moving again. It'll also notify you if the car in front has started moving again and you haven't done anything (with or without ACC on). It's on my girlfriend's car, so I don't use it every day, but it has been nice the times I've driven it in traffic.
I used ACC on my mom's hybrid Accord recently and it was an aweful experience. It was like regular cruise control, but broken. Lagging start, unnecessary distances, slow responses. That and the out of lane beep whenever I passed a car (staying in the same lane but getting to the edge of the lane for increased margin of error) was really annoying. If this is the future of assisted driving, just give me fully automated driving.
I haven't done my research yet, but the website I made when I was 15-16 is archived and needs to come down. I'm hoping being made by a minor helps? Anyone had experience taking stuff down or do you have to issue a DMCA?
It's hard to put genies back in bottles. If you still own the domain, my understanding is that the Internet Archive does respect robots.txt even retroactively. Otherwise, you can try doing a DMCA takedown but you may not have much luck as you no longer have any directly-established ownership over the content.
I cannot wait for tiny house living to take off. I want to sleep in a tiny box, have access to a super clean shower and spend 100% of my free time and money doing fun things around town. I don't want to force other people to live in those conditions... so how do you allow it without making it mandatory for poor people?
As someone who lives in a Tiny House, its cute until its not. Your life grows, but your place doesn't. Its like being planted in too small a pot. By the time you move on, market rates for larger places to live have gone up a lot.
It's really tricky... But really, what's the alternative? Build larger homes people can't afford? That causes gentrification even faster, pushing people outside the city who can't afford it. In Amsterdam for example the waiting list for social housing is something like 10-15 years... so either you live way outside the city centre, have special connections, make a lot of money to pay the market rate or you leave the city. Building smaller homes would probably reduce the waiting list to something more sensible, the alternative is for people to leave the city and commute in... I'd guess that having the option to choose to live small bests not having it, but I'm definitely not completely sure on that, lots of counterexamples.
I do think regulations can and should say something about the number of people living in a unit, and enforce it. A small studio should be just that, a studio for one person or a couple. That's really hard to enforce of course, but if possible, prevent the issue of having 5 people living in a place designed for 1-2.
"The photographs used by Sinnigen included revealing and/or suggestive photographs of Plaintiff, including photographs of the Plaintiff in her bra and panties." There is NO WAY to justify this.
