A lot of people use TVs to watch shows with someone else. Phones suck for that. When I’m watching something alone I just use my computer and its fine.

It just looked like generic US to me.

It’s because higher education is a business and people running it only care about profits, not actually teaching anyone anything.

It tells you a lot about the state of corporate media in US when a journalist stating an obvious fact is considered news.

It was a hit job. Her mother is lawyer. She took this class and submitted this paperto start a shitshow and use it to attack a trans teacher. It worked perfectly, they won. Two teachers are now suspended and the entire education system was pushed a little bit further to the right. It’s crazy how easy it is.

Yes and also “Poles have to suffer for the greater good of Europe”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christ_of_Europe

It’s all pretty depressing and fucked up.

I don’t know this story but in Poland, books that were mandatory to read in primary school included:

• story about a poor kid who really wanted to play violin, dared to touch violin belonging to the landlord and was beaten to death as a punishment (Janko muzykant)
• story about a young girl that gets sick, as a “fold remedy” is put into an oven for the duration of a prayer and dies (Antek)
• story about a kid who goes to school under German occupation and studies so much he gets brain inflammation and dies (Syzyfowe prace)
• story about a dog that gets left behind when his family moves, starts running in a desperate attempt to find his owner, finds her and dies of exhaustion in her arms (what was the title??)
• story about a horse working in a coalmine that can’t ever get out because he entered when he was younger and now the ceiling is too low, the horse dies (Łysek z pokładu idy)
• story about a kid how gets pneumonia from playing outside with friends and dies (Chłopcy z placu broni)
• story about a kid who fights Germans during occupation, gets caught, is tortured and beaten up so badly that he dies shortly after his friends rescue him (Kamienie na szaniec)
• story about a teacher working in a small village, trying to teach poor children science. she gets sick and dies because there’s a blizzard and they can’t deliver medicine in time (Siłaczka)
• story about a dog that rides trains. the dog is hit by a train and dies (O psie który jeździł koleją)

I’m probably forgetting about couple more “fun” stories. So yeah, I would love to have read about spiders fucking instead.

Hungary should have had their membership suspended like 3 years ago. It’s insane they tolerate country openly supporting Russia for so long.

Can you also make the overpass racist?

Yes, it’s the same party.

Amen.

My LG TV is connected through PiHole with all lg domains blocked. I’m not getting any update notifications and can still stream from Jellyfin.

Yes, railroads are rarely profitable. It’s usually a investment which you recover in the form of greater mobility and economic opportunities it brings. What happens in US/UK is that after years of pumping money into the project and cutting scope in desperate attempts to finish it it becomes impossible to recover it in any form because it simply doesn’t move enough people. Government sees it as a failure and is reluctant to invest in other projects. Without continuity private companies can’t plan long term and focus only on one project trying to get as much money out of it as possible. And the cycle continues…

I read an interesting report about high speed rail development in Europe. It was comparing Spain and UK a lot. Spain has the biggest high speed network in Europe (second biggest in the world after China) and UK failed to build a single line after the costs reached $100B and project was scaled down. Spain is also building its network at lowest cost in Europe. According to the report the main reasons for that are:

• consistent political backing: all parties support rail development so over the last couple of decades the entire process was optimized
• consistent support on all levels of administration: central and local governments support rail so the plans don’t change all the time. proper planning can be done
• mature public-private cooperation: over the years government and private companies learned to work together to build quickly and cheaply while maintaining quality

What is happening in UK and USA is that high speed rail is a for-profit project for private companies. Government promises them $20B and they start building. If they finish the money dries up so they never finish. When they spend everything government gives them more money. They can’t cancel the project because thousands of people work on it so they just limit the scope making it less and less useful. In the end the rail doesn’t even reach the cities it was supposed to, less people can use it, everything stops being economically viable and the whole thing collapses.

Basically in Spain private companies make profit as long as building railways makes economical sense. In US/UK they make money for as long as government can fund them. Building anything is not the goal.

Whether or not all religions are equally useless for truth and morality is a big and absolute statement. I can’t say that I agree or disagree because I’m not familiar with every religion.

I don’t think you have to know all religions to be able to say that. You just need to know what religion is and how it works. Religion can’t be the source of truth because it’s based on faith, not truth. If you look for truth without any dogma restricting your research you’re a scientists, not a theologian. Religion can’t be the source or morality because it’s goal is to enrich and empower the people that control it, not to teach anything useful. If you teach about morality without demanding obedience and money from your followers you’re a philosopher, not a religious leader.

Mac, obviously…

Exactly, genocides happen and no religion is good at preventing them. All religions are equally useless as sources of truth and morality. We should neither vilify or praise anyone for being religious or adhere to one religion of the other.

/s obviously.

Prices going down! Thanks, Trump!

So is Russia.