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I pay for both. It is annoying moving it around. I mostly keep the iPhone in its packaging case and check it periodically.

I am not important enough to need to be on call 24/7. And the extra phone bill isn't bad. I get a yearly stipend from the union directly and also free trips, expenses, compensation, and other stuff. So I just pick the lowest tier plan available.

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It is a blessing. I should have separated everything harder and sooner.

I actually feel really good about it. I no longer ever have to worry about accidentally uploading something to the school computer. I think next will be removing my school profile from my home PC. Just get the school off of every device and minimize how much I am tied to the district at all beyond contract hours.

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I am not enforcing the cellphone ban. According to my students a lot of teachers aren't. Some teachers are and so far 14 students were suspended for it. But frankly I think the ban gave some control freaks Nazi teachers the ability to be assholes to the students.

Of course they asked me to submit a cell policy and I said "I am using classroom based interventions to ensure compliance..."

i'm surprised cell phones didn't cause more discontent among boomers. working boomers went from call-free vacations and road trips to always being on call. zero conceivable boundaries between your personal life and your work. that wasn't a smooth transition for families.

simpsons sold everyone a pack of lies. cell phones were a good thing. heart feels funny? make a call and dr hibbert will make you feel all better again. instead, we ended up with bosses calling people at 2 am about a tripped alarm somewhere to go check. "but you'll still be in early, right?" there should have been a revolt and time of terrors before the y2k bug.



republicans: "blah blah blah family values"
republicans on parental leave and work/life balance and workers' rights, etc: *crickets*

let's be real though, (all but the very oldest) boomers in the 90s were younger than elder millennials today. working for the greatest generation. they were sold into phone slavery as easy as they (and pretty much everyone else) sold out to reagan 2.0. a lot of younger people alive now weren't alive when you could always step out of your house and be uncontactable until you return within hearing range of your land line's ringer. having to sit to wait for an important call sucked, but at least you weren't locked down 24/7. this country needs protections.

for coming down on kids so much for smartphones, american life is fucking married to the them. how are you going to prepare schoolchildren to be good business team players, always connected, if they don't always have the stupid things on hand? "y'all need to disconnect," until it inconveniences business.

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wish i could tell you, it's hard enough mastering meiji-era textbook japanese that makes me sound like a rural postmaster.

i do know that they have a few stock phrases that are remarkably versatile (polysemous, i believe, is the proper technical term).

the kids can say "sugoi!" (cool! awesome! wow! neat!) or "yabai!" (that's crazy! cool!) and have it mean basically like 30 different things. japanese is the most context-dependent language i know. i'm led to understand it's even more extreme with the written systems: there's so many kanji characters that half the time, when reading, they're effectively speed reading the entire sentence/column and inferring what half a dozen unknown kanji mean from the context alone. kind of hard to get your head around ...

i'd pass on it if it were me. there's a lot of companies trying to put a modern spin on 2000s hits and cash in, while sucking people into their increasingly overbearing and draconic ecosystems. i don't know if the feel of the 2000s internet, or the wild west of online games of that era, can be successfully replicated. everything's regimented now. rules, rules, rules, rules, rules, and they can change anything any time they want to the top-down, uncaring detriment of the end user. combined with the unsure future of consumer hardware, lobby chaos, and the increasing scumminess of the business, and i find i'd rather keep my glasses rose-tinted.

I want a "Battlefield 2005." I would schedule weekly play time for that.

it's also fraught with more and more stories like "97% overwhelmingly positive. but the company fired half their staff before release to avoid bonus payouts." hopefully little victories like (Judge Slams Subnautica 2 Publisher Krafton in Victory for Fired Workers, Orders Company Reinstate Boss and Extend $250 Million Bonus) can spread, but it's hard to imagine the industry not shoring up its pocketed politicians and legal teams to avoid a repeat.

there's always been scummy games to an extent ever since someone got the idea to engineer game difficulty for optimized quarter extraction. (usually) very different vibe between the business politics of a small team and Big Bizness, i can at least allow. i didn't feel grody trying out stardew valley.

what do you do as a consumer, though? music and movies too are filled with personal horror stories. some interesting comments from authors in notes and interviews. it's exhausting doing the detective work for everything you buy in the capitalist environment (we shouldn't be in the situation where doing a deep trace on a every food item we consider adding to our cart is possibly recommendable). you could take up whittling, but the metal in the knife you use could have come from a foundry that gives more than the usual amount of people in the area cancer.


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