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  • It doesnt look like returning the devices has to be immediate or convenient. Heres my proposed plan:

    Ban devices entirely. Any item discovered gets confiscated, labeled, and placed in a bin in the office (achieving the “secure” location requirement of the bill.) Students are permitted to label their item. Items are available for pickup weekly at the end of a district-wide midday “value of education” parental education session.

    Labelmaker: ~$200/school

    Labels: $0.01/item

    2 hrs labor weekly: 38×2×$50=$3800/district/year

    Value of inconveniencing parents enough to care: priceless.








  • Your job is framing houses. A big part of that is using a hammer to drive nails. A rational person might expect their employer to make sure the house stands up, or even look at all the nails holding it together. But the world is so far from rational.

    Your employer doesn’t actually own any hammers, they rent them from OpenHammer (which rents closed-source hammers). OpenHammer bills your employer every time you pick up the hammer, whether you do anything useful with it or not.

    Your employer just looks at their bill at the end of the month, and they offer a round of applause and a pat on the back for their most productive employees… you know, the ones that picked up the hammer a bunch of times?

    So this “tool” just picks up a hammer a bunch of times, not doing anything useful with it or anything. It’s mostly meming on how stupid a lot of employers are getting hyped on AI.





  • Bgugi@lemmy.worldtome_irl@lemmy.worldMe_irl
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    4 months ago

    There’s definitely a threshold between “want” and “need” that separates the sickly rich from everyone else.

    When we have nothing, we need to grow to meet our needs.

    When we have something, we need to grow to maintain our needs.

    When we have enough, we need to grow to ensure our needs will remain met.

    When we have plenty, it’s sick to reach for everything.

    Healthy cells and cancerous cells will both consume, grow, and multiply when conditions call for it. What sets cancer apart from a healthy cell is that it ignores the signal to stop.