You got done dirty. Good on you for fighting back on the policy.

Totally. Some teachers have nothing else going for them so we end up with a strong authoritarian influence in education. It almost always misses the target where the actually trustworthy kids get unfairly punished.

Good on you. An actual hero.

You have valid concerns. It’s an unfortunate shifting landscape. There’s no opt-out for collection devices you don’t own (it’s hard enough already for the ones you do own) so consent has disintegrated completely. The reflexive reaction is threat model focus and adjusting your expectations of privacy. But what’s becoming more complex at that approach is how widely and with whom the data is being shared. If the doorbell server owner was using it to improve the doorbell product only, it wouldn’t be so concerning. But when it becomes a data harvesting tool for law enforcement or any other company willing to pay, relatively trivial data collection becomes much more imposing since it can be combined with other sources.

I am not at shirt-over-my-face level yet, but I would feel much more comfortable with a face mask any time I approach an unknown camera, which is increasingly common these days.

Are you ok

“You forgot to assign the homework”

Story of my life. People need to respect the clock.

When will they finally start grifting renewable energy to save humanity once and for all?

…because your tithing is too small. Impenetrable defense ain’t free!

Hey, laugh all you want. It’s a 24/7 job that would break even the strongest of men.

Oh the glory! 🙏

Sin count freshly reset to zero

Thanks for the perspective

Time to put a ring on it

Look at the price of the NES when it launched. $180. Then you had games averaging about $40 in price, up to $60. Adjust for inflation, development expenses, and the fact that games offer many more hours of replay these days…it’s not priced that badly. Relative to Steam it will look high, but PC games change pricing to grab different customer groups that wouldn’t ever buy the game otherwise as a last-ditch attempt to find revenue.