Where I live we are allowed to smile for a driver's license, but not a passport photo. I think it's because when you are traveling long distances you are going to look miserable so your passport has to reflect that.

We've known this for decades, but almost no districts will make the changes necessary. The youngest grades (K-4 or 5) should be the first schools to start in the morning, and the HS the last.

What happens when that is suggested is people balk at either sports programs needing to be cut or the argument that the older siblings need to be out of school to babysit the younger siblings.

This is the part that pisses me off. It should be same crime same time.

Culturally irrelevant or culturally apathetic?

I don't give two shits about being "relevant" I just get shit done.

This is the problem with people that think in terms of being "management". Management will always have an adversarial relationship with everyone else in an organization simply because they think they have to. The longer they stay in those positions the worse it gets.

I think I can understand your point. Large ‘“media” companies will horde the content and refuse to let it see the light of day because they believe they own it. I don’t think that’s how it would go down. Anything I’ve ever produced to be put on the web still exists somewhere on a hard drive that I control. I doubt the big name educational YouTubers are deleting the source material as soon as it goes up to YouTube.

Besides, a lot of the good ones have already moved to Nebula as well. If thought like educational YouTube you should check it out.

First, I agree with everything you typed. BUT

Second, "a little fortress of solitude and separates me from the public" is kinda the problem we have that leads to the top part of the picture. We in the West in general and the United States in particular have lost our sense of community. My car by myself listening to what I want in solitude is AWESOME, but stopping to sit and be part of a community is probably better for me.

I remember when both Voyagers were making their fly bys. We'd get a bunch of images in magazines and stuff, and then wait several more years for the next planet. Between that and the Space Shuttle flights it was awesome.

I wasn't around for the moon landings so Skylab and Voyager were the highlights of my days.

And now you’re even older.

And NOW you’re even older.

Hell, why would the Telari build the boats in the first place if they didn’t want them to sail?

"fun" little historical factoid on that. WAY back when the idea of national standards was being developed around 1992ish all the various disciplines started working on their stuff. A lot of them had agreed standards by 1994 or shortly thereafter. History/Social Studies took almost 10+ years to get that far because they were arguing over if dates/actions were more important or trends/impacts were more important. As it was explained to me at the time (2006ish) the issue was just stating facts or making them meaningful.

Disclaimer: I'm not claiming the above is scientific fact. That is what was relayed to me when taking a non-history course 20 years ago. Still, a fun thought experiment on what is truly important in learning.

Came in to say exactly this.

I had to teach a zero period jazz band when I student taught. Waking up that early to drive the 45 minutes suuuuuckkkked

I think I can see where you are coming from here. The difference between your creativity and writers, actors, musicians is that while your work is used by the company you built the system for that company isn't selling it to someone else. You built infrastructure.

Writers, actors, and musicians work is being sold by the companies they work for as a revenue stream.

I like Apollo 18 a lot, but for me it’s Flood.

Apollo 18 is some of their best work, but as a whole Flood delivers.

I just unsubscribed to News myself for the same reason. I do like keeping up with what's going on in the world, but what gets posted is WAY too much politics. It brings in the negativity, and in your opinion that negativity spreads. I read a thread the other day about the Artemis launch and the top comments were all negative. It takes me not want to post or engage.

I'm going to start browsing only subscribed communities and see if that is any different.

There are definitely less lightning bugs now. I remember there being tons growing up, but now I rarely see them, and I live very close to where I lived as a kid.

I Think Leazel is a traditional German/Austrian name. Wasn't one of the Von Trapp kids Leazel?

not everyone who IS American wants to read it all the tome either.

That depends on what your definition of the word "is" is.