Hm.

I just logged into my fb account and got zero removed like that. Just posts from a distant cousin, a few local people I follow and my local news.

I make it a point to hide/block all the extraneous removed that the feed offers - and have sone so for years - so maybe that’s the difference?

Weird.

Good lord what a clown.

NGL, I have Win 7 on a Mac that I play old as hell PC games with and FF has been a disaster on it for a long time - to the point where I get most of the downloads of games and the various drivers they need with the macOS install…

Oooh, IIRC it dawned on me about the time that facebook insisted all users have their actual names on their pages. (I can’t remember when that was, maybe 2012 or 2013? Not sure, it was a while ago however.)

That was the red flag for me.

It was also the point when I deleted my posts and comments on fb (it took months to get it all) then unfriended everyone and logged out for a month. When I logged back in I had a handful of comments on the (ex-)friends pages that popped up, since the feed will scour the servers to show you content on your home page, so I re-friended them, deleted the comments, logged out and waited another month. After the last time I logged in (I did four deletion waves of comments) fb was showing me totally random strangers “I Might Know…”

Perfect.

I then changed up my primary email on FB to my yahoo throwaway, logged out for another month, logged in with the new email and made a totally fake name for myself… Who I am does not exist on facebook, nor are any friends or family listed as friends and no one can see anything on my page.

You know… here’s the thing…

Years ago, I’d be on Reddit and reading the usual rants and raves about the government, and how the public should be wary of it and we are heading into a security state… and I always positied that the real threat actors WRT privacy and security were going to be companies like facebook and google and the businesses that made internet-connected devices.

Compared to them, as far as data colleciton and surveillance of people - the government was filled with rank amateurs.

I’d consistently get downvoted or pooh-poohed for being “naive.”

God fucking dammit… on this… I am absolutely pissed off that I was calling this one - and have been - for over a decade.

FML, I hate this SOOOOOO much.

Oh, spend time on Reddit.

I was there almost 15 years and it is mind-meltingly toxic compared to lemmy.

Now I’m on the lemmy.zip instance and tend to lean towards more tech ended stuff, so maybe that’s the difference…

This site is light-years nicer than Reddit’s been since about 2018.

I think it’s the lack of rage-bots here, that’s the ticket…

Holy removed. Lemme guess… it’s a southern state and in a majority black district?

This was a public school and they tolerated this removed?

Sweet Jesus the standards have fallen.

Is it the parents, school board and administration or a combination of all 3?

The fine motor control that comes of handwriting is critical if he likes to tinker or discovers any sort of work/hobby that requires manual dexterity.

Keep pushing on that, also, get a book on how to print like you’re writing the dialogue in a comic book or how to print like an architect making a blueprint. If he can work out the shapes and spacing, he can develop his own legible style in time and move on to a fusion-style cursive with those print shapes… It realy does make a difference in note-taking.

My dad was a design draftsman and taught me how to do that block print that I’d see on blueprints, and I have a super easy to read cursive based on that now.

… it’s a problem that’s arisen because class sizes are out of control …

If I may ask, just how large are the classes today?

For reference, in 1980, my 10th grade English class (Mrs. Chase, she was awesome) had 36 students.

That was average for my school at the time.

The BIG classes like general US History (taught by Mr. Conway, who was wildly popular) had 40+ kids.

Mr Conway also kept a real honest to goodness stocks in his class room, so anyone that misbehaved had two options… into the stocks for the class or off to the assistant Vice Prinicpal’s office and spend a day in ISS. (in school suspension)

There would ALWAYS be one jackass Junior in each class that would opt for the stocks, at the start of every year and then NO one EVER caused a beef in Mr. Conway’s classes - or really ANY of the government studies (US History, Civics, Social Studies) deparement classes… Hearing about who chose the stocks and the rumors usually scared the underclassmen shitless, so they rarely ever piped up… except for the really stupid smartasses that always tried to test how far they could go…

I just went through and checked out the site and hit a bunch of the links… Honestly, with the nature of the data, there really is no reason to have more than the basics. Also, think of what Berkshire Hathaway is about and as far as maximizing everything that they can for the stake and stock-holders, it makes sense. Focus on the investment essentials, not the window dressing online.

I wish more businesses were oriented this way.