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[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Is this the child's debt? No its the parents' debt for something they needed to buy for their child.

Except for the fact that the child is punished for it via methods such as not being allowed to graduate if there's any of this debt whatseoever, and in the language of the paperwork & websites used to pay it off it's generally portrayed as debt belonging to the child.

Kids also used to flat out be refused food if they had lunch debt, but now kids just get a shitty non-nutritious "debt" lunch instead which is better than nothing I guess (but still causes them to be judged by peers). It's actually not even illegal to prevent stigmatizing/shaming kids who have this debt...

I was nearly prevented from graduating (in Georgia, the same state in this article) because I owed something like $4 or $16 in "debt" to the school, lol. Schools can also prevent you from advancing to the next grade if you have debt.

It's also completely legal to withhold school records, report cards, etc. from students if debt is unpaid – so even if the student graduates, have fun getting the things you need to go to college... oh wait, they're not going to college anyways because they definitely can't afford that. I don't think they do that here though.

Also your comparison with ballet lessons is bad. Those are outside of the school system, outside any government organization, and it's completely the parent's responsibility and choice to even enroll the student in such things. The education system, and basic human needs like lunch, are completely different. Your remark comes off as you commodifying school lunches, treating it like a child's basic human needs are even remotely comparable to voluntary non-school activities.

If you were to compare it rather to, band or drama or ballet class (extracurriculars) then I would actually say the point still completely stands for those too – such things can be vital to a child's health, development, and social life, and to assign DEBT to participate in those activities is absurd and directly affects the students negatively. My school was one of the few in my area where it didn't cost hundreds of dollars just to participate in band in middle and high school. And it still costed a lot of money to do things like marching band, because the program was underfunded! A majority of extracurricular funding goes to sports, specifically football, in most of the south, so programs like band had to have parents of students sponsor them for tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars, and to do plenty of fundraising events, just to make it so we could function. Students still had to contribute a lot of money if they wanted to do specific things.

That's just band, but there are many examples. That wasn't my parent's debt, that was my debt. When I had the opportunity to take AP tests and the like and potentially get scholarships, I was ashamed to do so in the fear that I might fail and waste my family's money. And I'm still lucky in this regard, because many other kids can't afford those things, and they can't take on the debt because it prevents them from graduating. With the fucked state of financial aid/welfare in the US, many of those kids don't even qualify to have those kinds of costs covered by the state, so at best they're left in shame with the only other choice being to beg and hope that the people they go to aren't dismissive or can help.

It is the student's debt, practically. They get all the consequences and they're treated like they're responsible. If it wasn't their debt, they wouldn't be prevented from graduating their grade, or graduating high school, or being given proper nutrition, or doing extracurriculars.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

depending on the implementation this may be optional or not allowed though

[–] [email protected] 28 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (6 children)

download Ryujinx, get keys by downloading them from a site (like from prodkeys.net) and you should get files "prod.keys" and "title.keys", place them in "./Ryujinx/system/". then you can go on a site like www.nxbrew.com, download nsp or xci files of the game (and a potential updates and whatever dlc), and throw them in folders of your choice (i personally have a "roms" folder with all my game files for different consoles, including a "switch" folder, with folders called "games" and subfolders "updates", "dlc", "mods", "cheats").

then, get on ryujinx, select the folder with your games as your game directory, and your games should be visible. you can right click on the game on the list and add updates or dlc, you can go to the mod directory ryujinx made for the game and add a bunch of folders with the mod data inside of it (for example, for ACNH i might have a folder called "360_camera" and inside of it will be a folder called "romfs"/"romFs" which will have a bunch of files/folders for the mod in it) and then select the mods to enable. for cheats you just need a folder named "cheats" in the mod directory and then you can put cheats for the game in plain text in the folder.

you can also mess with the graphics settings, use an input device (probably an xbox/playstation/switch controller), change datetime (although i find it doesn't allow you to make the date out of sync with your device's date, so you may want to go to your computer settings and manually change it if you want to do that), etc.

redditors even on piracy subs treat actually pirating things like it's voldemort, so when i wanted to emulate switch games it was a pain in the ass for me to find out what i needed to do, i hope this helps you not run into those issues lol.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

It genuinely surprises me the amount of diehard nintendo fans who will defend the corporation's heinous acts tooth and nail that there are. They make good games, and they were my childhood, therefore their wrongs are excusable (or not wrongs at all)!

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (9 children)

i'd play totk on grapefruit, or kiyomi, or tangor, or even rangpur. perhaps kampei, or jabara, or iyokan. maybe lumia or pompia, or daidai, or chinotto, or calamansi. koji and reikou work too. suenkat/sunki, sudachi, kabosu, oroblanco, dangyuja, amanatsu... the possibilities are endless!

but maybe citri are too obvious, maybe we should think out of the box... like melons! honeydew sounds like a good emulator name (maybe a bit overused though), and so does argos, gaya or hami too! kajari, mirza, and dosakai as well...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

They don't increase in calories, they just have higher energy density. 15 convection dried vegetables will have the same (or less) amount of calories as if they weren't

If you freeze 10 stones, they will increase in volume (because water ice expands when it gets colder) and have a lower density. If you then remove all the water from those stones, they will decrease in volume and increase in density, so you can fit more stone in the same area

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

of course, but that's not an issue with "the government needs to not be able to hide anything". you can't just nitpick some examples of where it may do good to justify the position – you open an entire can of worms with the vagueness. should they have to disclose a list of all the people theyre keeping tabs on, how theyre doing so, and the info they hold on them? that would be extremely dangerous for society. should they disclose the exact methods which they use to track people? again, you're just showing the people they're tracking (for good reason) how to avoid being tracked. if you just want no backdoors then say "we shouldn't have government backdoors", but the only way to properly ensure that the government isn't illegally doing so is by exposing a whole lot more stuff that may not go so nicely.

i don't want the government surveilling me illegally, but i find it reasonable that the government can hide a lot of stuff for the sake of all safety. i also find it reasonable for them to be audited extensively. do I trust the government? lol no, but i can't complain about the government not previously keeping tabs on obvious shooters, then say i don't want the government keeping secrets like that... it's one or the other.

obviously many specific things shouldn't be able to be hidden by the government. but you're painting with a broad brush

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

so your solution is for the government to notify people of those vulnerabilities so others can immediately take abuse of them? because people know that the government makes backdoors on a lot of tech, it's no secret to people, your "solution" wouldn't exactly achieve anything. the current government doesn't care about collateral so it's not like they'd just stop doing it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (4 children)

quick, let's notify the future shooter how government may track him so that he'll take the exact necessary steps to not be caught before committing a shooting. and the foreign spy. and the person who plans to sell/traffic illegal items. they deserve a right to know exactly how the government tracks them, after all

how do you catch criminals if they know exactly how the government would catch them? saying the government has nothing to hide if it has nothing to fear is very wrong

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

sorry buddy but you're wrong

the notion of "correct" and "incorrect" made up language is silly

[–] [email protected] 18 points 8 months ago

what are they gonna do, draw 2 up quarks, a down quark, and gluons?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago

generally furries are really good creatives in a wide variety of differnent areas

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