Recent content by Rich Conway

I don't know that I agree with everything here, but it's food for thought. https://www.salon.com/2024/04/12/social-media-is-a-lifeline-for-mental-health-not-a-curse-according-to-cdcs-own-data/

At the very least, he has to leverage that offer (plus, I don't know, back-to-back titles) for a new contract at UCONN.

Most mocks I've seen have Clingan going in the top 5. That's a 3-year guaranteed contract. If the goal is purely maximizing career earnings, I would think coming out is the best move.

And pickleball. I mean, WTF is that?!

Self-driving cars might come close to the phone if they were all the way there. Since those are still incomplete, it's got to be the phones.

Western CT. Definitely felt it here.

Middle-aged, sir. Middle-aged,

It's absolutely doable via wholesale bannings of trolls, but the question is whether that's worth the effort.

Huge difference between no phones in school and no phones in class. No phones in class isn't really different than no comic books in class and no Walkmans in class. No phones in school is something different, especially in high schools where kids have free periods, activities like practice and...

I don't see this as much different from teacher not allowing students to read comic books, play cards, or otherwise disrupt class by not following along with the material. I see "keeps phones out of classrooms" and "banning social media" as completely separate topics with no real overlap. I...

Isn't it legal for parents to allow their own kids alcohol at home?

If you're into Mumford and The Lumineers, you should definitely check out The Avett Brothers.

We have data that shows this began long before the advent of social media. The internet may have hastened it, but it certainly didn't start it.

While it's true that "just because it's easy to circumvent the language filter doesn't necessarily mean we shouldn't have a language filter", the ease of circumvention should be considered when we attempt to calculate the cost and benefit of any given proposal. Specifically, if the language...

You're thinking of the technical issues as opposed to the privacy issues. Going back to the first couple pages of this thread, the privacy issues have been entirely ignored.