Seriously. This whole article reads like people congratulating themselves for pathologizing this kid's behavior, while not actually doing much about the obvious cause of that condition. They say the kid was suspended, for making a hand gesture in response to bullying. Why weren't the bullies suspended, especially when the pattern of abuse became clear? Perhaps twice as long to send a clear message and let the victim reacclimate to the school when they're not getting bullied. Ultimately it seems like the school administration is still mainly concerned about things that might cause some problem for them, and so is quite content to let such situations fester until the victim reacts in a way for which they too can pile on.
Considering how fked up the world is these days, I was expecting much worse than this. I was expecting imprisonment or psychiatric medication. I was really surprized (in a good way) they didn't even expel him from school.
Being harassed non-stop and only doing a gesture and getting suspended by a gesture when you get much worse is so unfair. Like "let's see if we can create school shooters" level of unfair.
I wonder if the USA has a lot of school shooters because the teachers and administrators are dumb like this and not because of other reasons. If adults misunderstand situations like this you feel like nobody has your back.
Understand, the teachers and administrators are not on the same team!
The admin is a political body, who basically gets their job by being voted in (or more exactly, they are hired by the school board, who is explicitly voted in). They will ignore teachers reporting problems because it's not politically expedient to actually deal with those problems.
In almost all towns, the school board serves the local Old Boys club, not the general public. Bob doesn't give a fuck that his kid is a bully, he still has the most pull in the town. He's not going to sit aside when you punish his kid, even if his kid is demonstrably a bully.
The parents of bullies will not pay attention to "your child is literally harming other kids" but you can bet, the second you suspend their child, they will somehow manage a media campaign that an entire mob will rally behind. "oh that's just what kids do" says the mob. They will then say "we need to bring spanking back into schools" and that will increase the size of the mob.
At no point did the admin help the teacher do their damn job.
>I wonder if the USA has a lot of school shooters because the teachers and administrators are dumb like this and not because of other reasons. If adults misunderstand situations like this you feel like nobody has your back.
They don't misunderstand. They are incentivized by the system to behave this way. The ones that can't adapt their morals change their line of work. See also: cops.
You claim to be against X, but there is no X around, so you condition or bring someone to the breaking point to make X appealing to them, then you can claim that you were righteous all along. You create a problem and then "solve" it. In reality you did nothing, except wreck someone else's life, for the sake of your own grandiosity.
Based on what I've read, the bullies wanted the school shooting more than the supposed school shooter. Like, they genuinely wanted him to shoot them.
They are different concepts, but they are reliant on each other. Framing them as separate qualities is a false dichotomy pushed by webapps that want to market themselves as "secure" as they're set up to attack you.
Every modern motherboard comes pre-installed with unremoveable malware. Vulnerabilities just let different actors try to be king of the hill. The real answer is that all these persistent storage areas (eg flash chips) need to be documented and writable by the user. Any boot integrity needs to be done on top of an open environment, rather than continuing to rely on security through obscurity.
I see the point you're trying to make but it's really very orthogonal to this issue: this was an issue in a documented part of a documented feature, it's not some "deeply embedded" system management controller with no documentation, it's "the signed firmware update feature in the big obvious selling point where the server has a backdoor management interface was broken."
Solar panel voltage goes up as temperature decreases. The chart is misleading, it's stating something like an equivalent max voltage if you think of the solar cell voltage as staying the same (and presuming your temperature coefficient matches)
Why does the Delta Pro not have a fuse on the input, with the MPPT limiting the max voltage to 150v (by upping the current until the voltage sags and/or the fuse blows, or even a straight crowbar circuit). This is a premium consumer brand selling a mostly complete product, and protecting the input from overvoltage would be straightforward. The frustration at the warranty weaseling isn't surprising.
You might think that the voltage rise could be too fast for most protective technologies to save the downstream electronics, but the general case is that the temperature slowly drops and the sun slowly rises. So the voltage should slowly approach the limit.
Adding a normally-open relay and a voltmeter and a microcontroller should fix this. Relay won't close on startup unless the voltage is safe. Microcontroller will open the relay if the voltage gradually nears the limit. Should be solvable for <$5 in parts.
Dark start (when the batteries are flat w/o grid power) will be challenging. There will need to be a small battery to power the voltmeter and relay, or a high-voltage tolerant supply to power the microcontroller and relay temporarily. A 9V should likely be sufficient.
No the DC/DC converter could just turn it's transistors to short out the panels and rely on the fuse you want anyways to handle idiots paralleling more panels than allowed.
Common relays don't handle 150VDC, and I'd spec the voltage even higher even though one would think the voltage rating has more to do with arc interruption rather than creepage while off. Also a microcontroller is complete overkill, draws too much current to be easily powerable by the solar panel side, and adds complexity for something to go wrong. A simple analog comparator suffices.
The standard answer for overvoltage protection is a crowbar circuit + fuse, and I think that's what I'd aim for rather than a relay. The problem with DIYing that is knowing the input capacitance of the Delta and finding out whether it has any other problems with its input being abruptly shorted.
Cancel culture has become an official policy of the federal government, the new focus on [performing] "domestic terrorism" means increasing persecution of wrongthink, and all those feeds from the private surveillance industry previously reserved for "national security" are set to be used in support of government-led domestic terrorism. Of course people are limiting their exposure, even "I've got nothing to hide" falls flat when speech has been de facto criminalized.
I voted conservative, too. Actually conservative, meaning the Democratic party - not tear-it-all-down hate-everything-about-America revanchist Republican.
At least we've seemingly gotten an answer to the anthromorphic principle thought experiment of why we were (individually) born in this time - it's the most populous time in human history looking backwards and forwards. At this rate I doubt we'll be getting off this rock. That civilization-bootstrapping energy stored in easily-accessible oil deposits isn't coming back any time soon.
> Actually conservative, meaning the Democratic party
Not in this universe they're not. Not conservative nor democratic or they'd have run Sanders as candidate instead of Clinton, they'd have had a primary these last elections instead of rigging things so that Biden's handlers could try to run the show again, they'd have another primary again when the game was up for where Biden's handlers were concerned instead of pushing forward Harris. They are no conservative by any stretch of the imagination and would most likely consider that label to be an insult.
> At this rate I doubt we'll be getting off this rock. That civilization-bootstrapping energy stored in easily-accessible oil deposits isn't coming back any time soon
There's plenty of fossil sources left and that's leaving aside the fact that these are but a first stage in 'getting off this planet'. The latest generation of rockets - Starship being the prime and most likely to become operation example - run on Methane which is fairly easy to generate out of CO₂ and H₂O given enough energy and at least H₂O is available in large quantities while CO₂ can be produced by many means. No, capturing it from the atmosphere will not be the way to go since no matter how much the media want you to believe CO₂ is overwhelming us it is still a trace element measured in the hundreds of parts per million. It is much easier to capture it from fermentation processes (breweries, bakeries etc), source it as a byproduct from Ammonia production, get it from natural wells or free it from CaCO₃ by heating it up - it decomposes to CaO and CO₂.
Just let people like Musk (et al) work on this and before you know it we will be 'getting off this rock'.
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