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  • spacecadet@lemm.eetoNews@lemmy.worldWhat Trump's Win Means for Education
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    8 days ago

    The department of education provides funding and some guidance. How do they provide this funding? Based on test scores and student success. The department came about in 1980 and since has overseen the. Largest decrease in American literacy. The main reason is because they made schools “teach the test” in order to secure funding. While the roots of our modern education system go farther back to “create obedient factory workers” we have seen it erode even further under the DoE. Want to know when college prices started to grow out of control? Wow, surprise it directly correlates with the DoE starting to fund student loans! Broken clock right twice a day, blah, blah, blah



  • Kamala Harris state has the lowest test scores in the United States as well as the lowest literacy rates, I don’t think education is going to change that much. Public school education in America is just a glorified baby sitting gig, it’s trash and will remain trash. Those who are lucky enough to go to college and get a real degree will be the only beneficiaries of American education



  • A “friendly little pit bull”. I was walking down a sidewalk in an urban area when I passed by it and its owner and it decided I was snack time. The small woman owner couldn’t control it and when I was able to get it off I luckily could run inside a building. Two good Samaritans who saw the attack followed the woman to her home and called the police to tell them where she was.

    I initially told the owner cover my hospital bills and rehab and let’s call it a day. Instead she tried to blame me because I looked “intimidating” to her dog (what she told police). Luckily the good Samaritans provided a statement to police stating they just saw me walking down the street like every other person.

    I was out thousands in medical bills and lost workdays and she wouldn’t pay so I sued her and she dodged process servers so we got a judge to file a bench warrant for her arrest. That got her to court real quick and instead of paying $5k in medical bills she ended up posting me $110k, some was covered by her policy but she was still out of pocket $35k according to the discussions my lawyer had with her lawyer and insurance company



  • Worked at a major tech company as a data engineer, constantly warn everybody that major tech company is doing crazy surveillance, nobody cares. Told everybody my job was taking economists and research scientists python models, translating them into production code for data pipelines that would operate on terabytes of streaming data and it would change our recommendation system on the fly to keep you on the page. It was designed by academics to prey on basic human instincts. Tons more sketchy stuff, but I always felt like that was the most predatory. All we need to know was your zip code and gender and we knew how to recommend you stuff you wanted, and then people would voluntarily give us more identifying information.