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#3407802 27-Aug-2025 11:13

In 2019, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed into law allowing classroom teachers to be armed.

District participation is voluntary, and teachers receive a one-time $500 stipend for participating.

In six years, no district had yet opted to allow classroom teachers to participate.

I guess the politican trust armed teachers more than the districts. Either that, or the schools were worried about lawsuits from teachers shooting students accidently (???).

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#3407803 27-Aug-2025 11:21

Teachers shooting students accidentally, or deliberately?

Or worried about the students stealing the guns and playing with them, given gun death is the leading cause of death in US youth: https://publichealth.jhu.edu/2024/guns-remain-leading-cause-of-death-for-children-and-teens

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#3408594 29-Aug-2025 15:03

kingdragonfly:

“It is acceptable to engage a child in conversations that are romantic or sensual,” according to the policy.
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Is this Presidential policy?

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#3408597 29-Aug-2025 15:25

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Armed Drones to Be Deployed at Schools To Stop Mass Shooters: Newsweek

Does the 2nd Amendment cover owning (and flying) armed drones? If so, I foresee an arms race that will make Ukraine look like a sideshow.

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#3408611 29-Aug-2025 16:04

I'm pretty sure it's a federal offence to arm anything that can fly. I remember reading about someone in the US getting a thorough spanking for attaching a 9mm pistol to a drone and putting the footage on YouTube.

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#3410208 1-Sep-2025 19:28

About Polish CEO Piotr Szczerek snatching a baseball hat while it was being handed to a child, and, like a pickpocket, executes a lightning fast hand-off to his wife, ignoring the child's complaints.

Then threatens lawsuits against anyone saying something negative on social media, and demanding written apologies and thousands in recompenses for each comment.

Another CEO Lawyers Up..

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#3410656 3-Sep-2025 09:29

I'm hoping they already fixed this. Basically Woolworths had left open a gift card utility webpage that doesn't have a captcha, and allows unlimited unthrottled attempts. So you can brute force the pin.

Is This Australia’s Most Easily Hacked Gift Card? (The Card Network)

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#3410669 3-Sep-2025 10:23

That gift card company needs the book thrown at them as many people will not have dealt with the recovery of the money from them and just given up.

This is why gift cards are a bad idea and if you think that giving them instead of cash is better, then you are part of the problem that lets them survive.

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#3410679 3-Sep-2025 10:48

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/571891/opinion-amazon-gives-up-building-its-own-auckland-data-centre-as-power-prices-soar

Short version: Amazon started building an NZ data centre, stopped, took photos of a foreign one, and announced that the NZ one had "launched".

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#3410685 3-Sep-2025 11:18

Behodar:

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/571891/opinion-amazon-gives-up-building-its-own-auckland-data-centre-as-power-prices-soar

Short version: Amazon started building an NZ data centre, stopped, took photos of a foreign one, and announced that the NZ one had "launched".

For this $7.5B figure being bandied around they could simply purchase the Manapouri power station and the Comalco plant and connect a high capacity data pipe the world from there.

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#3410713 3-Sep-2025 13:07

I just found an issue of a magazine in my letterbox, addressed to the previous homeowner. I bought the house seventeen years ago. Either something went wrong with their membership database, or their publishing schedule is extremely sporadic.

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#3410718 3-Sep-2025 13:15

Behodar:

I just found an issue of a magazine in my letterbox, addressed to the previous homeowner. I bought the house seventeen years ago. Either something went wrong with their membership database, or their publishing schedule is extremely sporadic.

Boy did they have to go back a long way to find a viable backup to restore!

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#3410828 3-Sep-2025 18:23

Behodar:
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/571891/opinion-amazon-gives-up-building-its-own-auckland-data-centre-as-power-prices-soar

Short version: Amazon started building an NZ data centre, stopped, took photos of a foreign one, and announced that the NZ one had "launched".

The following is hearsay: A friend told me The NZ PM Christopher Luxon was on TV this morning patting himself on the back for the $7B investment from Amazon on the same new data centers near Auckland that have apparently just gone live.

Christopher Luxon seem to forget that Labour got the ball rolling.

The reporter asked him where's the power coming from, given that we've have trouble keeping the lights on in the past. Luxon laughed saying it was something we're working on.

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#3410881 3-Sep-2025 18:43

There is a politics subforum for political discussions. This topic is being discussed there

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#3411054 4-Sep-2025 12:32

For clarity, I'm not a vegetarian / vegan.

And I don't support non-science based banning of lab-grown meat, just to protect an old industry from a new one.

In this video, they show a frankly gruesome image of BBQ ribs. It reminded me of a heart surgeon telling me about ribs and sternum work, splitting the breastbone (sternotomy) and retracting the chest and how it resembled prepping ribs for the grill.

Texas bans lab-grown meat sales, sparking debate over consumer choice

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Here's the linkhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYCYEPp0vxI

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