It is awkward for a prof to be in world news for romantically chasing after a mentee, asking for advice from someone he knew was a convicted sex predator. Then he is expected to lead a lecture. Maybe you’ve never led a college lecture, but I can assure you from experience that would be a very difficult situation. Maintaining an environment of respect between professor and students is already difficult in normal circumstances

Ah yeah, Lawrence Krauss, very few are surprised about that one

Yes, Civic hybrid looks good. Too bad no plug-in option for it :( The discontinued Honda Clarity plug-in might be a used option, but it’s kind of frumpy to be honest.

The thing that really frustrates me is that I can’t buy the car I want. I would like a successor to my Chevy Volt but it’s become very difficult to find a compact hybrid hatchback in the States. It’s basically Prius Prime or bust, and the Prius is not nearly as fun to drive as the Volt.

Its rather remarkable that they spend years claiming the elites of this country are a secret cabal of child predators, then they elect a guy who is literally a child predator and he pardons various child predators to protect himself. It really was accusations in a mirror and projection the whole damn time.

In a just country that would happen. I am no longer confident that’s how it would play out. For example, this court already ruled that Native American religion doesn’t matter and it’s ok to demolish their sacred sites: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-turns-away-native-american-lawsuit-copper-mine-sacred-la-rcna183774

I almost wish they’d just pull off the bandaid, openly rule that the first amendment only applies to Christians and unmask themselves. They’ve been slowly making a Christian theocracy and people need to wake up to what is happening.

They’ve been bought out and gutted a couple times over. It’s very sad

They needed a safe space for their ideas. Less scary stuff like pronouns that make their brains hurt

Even in CA, we had a Texan middle school teacher who drilled into our heads like a mantra that the Civil War was about disagreements over States’ rights/tariffs/etc.

They say the camera points down, but that makes me wonder…what about the reflections?? Oh god, the reflections

A tragedy is an event of great loss, usually of human life. Such an event is said to be tragic. Traditionally, the event would require “some element of moral failure, some flaw in character, or some extraordinary combination of elements” to be tragic.

To me this is tragic even in the Greek sense

But the cleaning lady had some guts!

Corporations are only people when it benefits them. Speech is only free when it benefits them. The market is only free when it benefits them. Congress only holds power of the purse when it benefits them. Hypocrisy is a tool the oligarchs use to express their power. Hypocrisy is the point.

Weird AI Slopovic

You are making a common mistake of being too literal with headlines! What you described is quite difficult and laborious. Nothing prevents you from doing that. Please try in the future to read headlines knowing the editor has written them to attract your attention, using a provocative word like “impossible”, while the piece itself might still provide useful information. This is an important aspect of media literacy.

I am honestly surprised it took this long! Kindle has been around a long time and it’s not like Amazon was any less evil back then. It makes me wonder if the competition has been starting to make them nervous!

You might try one of the larger Kobos to be able to read PDFs comfortably. The little ones might be a bit cramped with most PDFs. For html I’ve never tried that with Kobo, but a lot of people swear by the Android e-ink tablets from Onyx and Boox, though those are sometimes pricey!

I used this guide from a thread on Reddit. It relies on Calibre and a set of plugins https://www.reddit.com/r/Calibre/comments/1c2ryfz/2024_guide_to_dedrm_kindle_books/

I’m pretty happy with Kobo. I’ve had the same model for about ten years and it’s still working great. They had color temperature changing for the backlight before it was cool. The syncing to Pocket was neat before stupid Mozilla killed it, and now they’ve pivoted to Instapaper. Plus I can install KOreader to also read stuff on my own ebook server, though I find the Kobo firmware is quite nice so I often just stick on that.

They also consistently put their ebooks on sale. I’ve gone cold turkey on buying from them and have noticed they often have the best prices on books. They want people to build a library and be locked in.