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  • wjrii@lemmy.worldtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•life hacks
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    20 hours ago

    Also the tactic of the exceedingly rare “PE coach with a brain” when they are doing a team sports unit; it’s much quicker than the usual draft process.

    If one the “captains” is being a douche, the less scrupulous coaches will spring the second half on them after letting them pick, but then the less athletic kids catch hell from the now-angry douchebag and get their asses kicked in the game.







  • Yes, going off memory here, but IIRC the earliest legal degrees in the US was the LL.B. - I think HAAAAAHRVAAARD still awards them - but as the field became more of a post-baccalaureate graduate/professional program, the lawyers got butthurt about “only” getting a Bachelor of Laws, so they got the name changed at most schools to a Juris Doctorate. Meanwhile, the LL.M. has evolved into mostly a specialist tax law or international law thing, or a way to get obviously well-educated foreign lawyers a US degree more quickly so they could sit for a bar exam somewhere. Since it was never the biggest thing, and since almost all law professors just have a JD anyway, nobody worried about changing the name.




  • I don’t know if they’ll ever be perfect, as it’s just a serious materials science issue to make something fold that should never show a seam, but I’d be willing to tolerate a little crease if they didn’t charge an arm and a leg and made them “reliable but eventually with a small crease.” Seems we are not there yet, but I thank the early adopters for their service.



  • I’ll join the chorus. If the price-point were right and the tech were reliable, I’d happily trade a good amount of thickness in order to have the option of an iPad Mini or an iPhone, but in the footprint of the latter when not in use. I really prefer to carry my phone in my front pocket and not to EDC a bag.

    It’s just that the price-point is wrong and the tech is not reliable.




  • Dada Center, LOL.

    Anyway, on the one hand, fuck 'em. On the other, extracting community value from any industry is the only way it can possibly work, and data centers don’t provide long-term employment in any reasonable number, so it needs to be taxes and other more direct aid.

    The local residents and their governments “just” (that word’s doing a lot of heavy lifting, I know) need to hold them over a barrel until they get enough to truly make it worthwhile. Making the tech industry pay their fair share would also suppress the number of datacenters down to what actually matches the realistic demand estimates. What we’re seeing right now is undercapitalized bullshit trying to externalize the costs and retain the profits.

    Easy to say, hard to do so, so I guess what it comes down to is this: fuck 'em.