chiliedogg
Fun story. I took Latin the first year my school offered it as a second language, and they were required to offer any language a minimum of 3 years for the students who started it because it 3 years was required for some diploma programs.
After the first year, the teacher quit. So for the second year they hired a new guy who they were very excited about. He used to teach Latin on a live satellite broadcast to high schools and colleges, which was a huge deal to have accomplished in the 90s.
Well, it turned out he basically read scripts and has assistants give him answers when students called in questions to the hotline, and he didn’t actually know how to teach Latin.
But the class was taught in a computer lab because some of the other Language classes has software for exercises.
And that’s how I spent the entirety of Latin II playing Starcraft.
83 here. We’re a bridge generation.
We were in high school by the time the internet really started picking up, but we’re exposed to tech early enough to learn it.
We also had much jankier software. I’m finding that the kids coming out of college now in non-tech fields are less tech-literate than 10-20 years ago because all the smart devices they’ve grown up on just do everything for them.
It was a poem about the bombardment of a fort at the subsequent repulsion of the British forces in the Battle of Baltimore in 1814. It was literally titled “Defence of Fort M’Henry” before it was used as the lyrics to the national anthem.
The context of the poem doesn’t jibe with it being about African slaves.
We have lots of bullshit revisionist history that tries to whitewash racism, but this ain’t it.
That’s why it’s important to hire professional city staff. For requeats that are important or reasonable, we find a way to do it. And even with the one from my example, my first reaction wasn’t “No,” but for me to clarify why the request was so difficult and for me to suggest how they might revise their request in a manner that would both be easier to provide, but also would provide more useful information.
I keep incredibly detailed records, which is why we’ve won every court case that’s come up since I took over these duties. So I know how to search the data and parse out what is actually useful.
Phones can have exponential growth in hardware capabilities, but the bigger thing is they don’t need to get more powerful.
All the app makers want their apps to work on any device, so a 10yo budget phone with 1/60th the horsepower of a modern flagship will work just fine with most apps, and New phones are just way overpowered for what they actually do.