A lot of union jobs work at the casinos. You also have a higher than average performance sector.

And this is going to suck for the American economy.

A large part of the economy is built on providing goods and services to all members of the economy. The economy is going to suck when half of it can’t afford to spend.

The powermods arent bringing anything unique moderation except a network that allows them to control content for a specific audience.

It depends who. There are some that build tools and procedures for handling large forums. They may also share best practices across different subs.

As for controlling content, it isn’t like a corporation or political group can’t create 20 accounts and take over subs. That’s already happened on Reddit.

Its overall a good thing but the powermods will be replaced with reddit admins doing the ame

Or sock puppet accounts. Banning the current set of mods without a plan on who replaces them doesn’t fix the problem.

The problem with powermod isn’t that they exist, though. Moderation of a large sub is still done by volunteers that have had to hack solutions together because they don’t get a lot of support from Reddit. It helps Reddit to have experienced mods overseeing several subs because they bring with them experience on how to handle high profile and large scale moderation efforts. They are a technical talent pool that Reddit relies upon a lot.

The problem is that Reddit has shitty mod governance. It still uses rank by add date and offers no ability for users to kick a mod out except for TOS faults. Reddit doesn’t want to fix mod governance issues because it creates a legitimate mod power structure and Reddit doesn’t want to give that much power to users, including mods.

That said, Reddit’s shitty mod governance was copied directly to Lemmy.

Well, he lived a good life.

That was how the Internet worked back in the day. Site reliability for small sites was shit and going viral would routinely pull a smaller site down.

This is why, in Trump’s own words, smart people don’t like Trump.

The conservative need to burn everything down got Trump elected.

The problems with Charlie Kirk’s assassination is the following.

First, random gun violence hit a conservative news commentator. Worse, it was someone who grew up in a conservative family. So, you’ve got a lot of conflicting emotions playing out in real time.

Second, there has been a lot of push back regarding what kind of commentator Charlie Kirk was. The discussions of who Kirk was outside of the conservative bubble are leaking in and a lot of Kirk’s fans hate it.

The funnier thing would be having them react to hearing ChatGPT answer a question verbally asked "How many R’s are in the word strawberry? and hearing ChatGPT answer back verbally “Four.”

Like, a computer program could convert sounds to written text, understand it was a question that needed a number for the answer, and then completely beef it on the answer.

We’re used to kids getting shot.

Probably ~20%.

It would be higher if you removed “thriving” from the list.

It depends on how many Republican donors send their kids to public school.

There’s also a “magnet” school […] in the county seat that seems to only be useful for draining off the non-sports smart kids.

It has been shown that there are benefits to the smart kids to separate them into a different curriculum. Grade skipping has problems as it pushes kids into social situations they meet not be equipped to handle. By creating different tracks, you can have some students take more rigours courses which actually challenge them and so kids can learn the soft skills they wouldn’t learn with an easier curriculum. I’ve seen some high schools where you can basically graduate with a year’s worth of college credits.

Which if you didn’t know is a way to drain funding from “under performing”, i.e., poor, usually minority, schools.

And I would agree that is part of the problem as expressed in the article. Most states are preserving or increasing the teaching quality for high performing students while absolutely collapsing funding for under performing students.

Maybe you should make some noise until an MP cleans up the issue.

So how does UK law handle federation?

IANAL, but most law that I’ve heard of regarding third party content requires the site hosting the content to conform to takedown notices issued. So, having a good DCMA system requires you to be able to take down content from instances that may not be bad, but governed differently.

As for the law “catching up with” federation sites, I don’t see that happening unless Mastodon and Lemmy start creating massive lobbying arms.

Yeah, if.

It is deliberate.

As the article pointed out, the top 10% of students aren’t seeing major drops, it is mainly in the bottom marginal students who need more institutional help to get a better education.

If we’re deporting all these immigrants, the country is going to need a new underclass.

Has BlueSky implemented federation yet?

I feel like this is going to become a problem with federation in the future. A Mastodon instance is hosting content outside of its control that may or may not comply with its internal policies or local law. Is that instance protected legally? Likely not.

It would likely be treated the same way as auto forwarding an email would be treated.