You are correct, teachers don't own children, either. Some teachers, like some parents, like some religious leaders, like some coaches, like some musicians, like some neighbors, like some uncles, like some grandparents, like some creeps, have exploited children - sexually, physically, emotionally, academically.

Children belong to themselves. And the right children have to grow up, and be healthy, and get health care, and be protected from violence, and make choices about their own lives, outweighs the "rights" of the adults in these various groups to think they own them or control them.

You have no workplace protection rights - if you get injured on the job, such as someone dropping a crate of strawberries on your head, it could be very difficult to get workers compensation for that injury. The employer could also just decide to not pay you for awhile, with the threat that if you don't do what they want (such as working extra hours for free or doing certain dangerous jobs without proper protective equipment) they will report you to ICE and have you deported.

Calling someone the name they prefer seems to be just common decency. Imagine if you were in a restaurant, and the waiter insisted on calling you asshat. And you said, please, "I'm not an asshat, please call me cayene8. I may look like an asshat, and I may behave like an asshat, but I prefer to be called cayene8." And if the waiter continued to call you asshat, would you not have a reasonable complaint with the manager of that restaurant?

Laws that require people to use the bathroom that corresponds with their birth certificates require transmen (who look like men but were marked "W" at birth) to use women's restrooms. So you will have people who look just like men using women's restrooms with such laws. Is this really want you want?
And if the problem is locker rooms and restrooms, why not make those spaces private for everyone through better design (such as stalls with doors that go down to the floor, or private changing spaces)?
Sports leagues have long had rules to protect fairness, and they seem to be working just fine. There's no evidence that specific sports allowing transgirls or transwomen to compete in women's / girls' sports, who meet specific guidelines, is dangerous or unfair.

Oh no, acknowledging that there are queer and trans people in our communities, and observing that the way they perceive society might be different...the horror!

Children have a right to health care, just like adults. While we may limit access to certain procedures for children, such as sex reassignment surgery (which generally were not happening anyway - most states that banned this could not identify ANY instances of such surgeries occurring), children still have a right to be healthy and get health care even if their parents object.

Sorry, you don't own your kids. You are not their master. They have rights as human beings, and sometimes that means going against what their parents want.

Except it appears "regular citizens" already have jobs and are not interested in the jobs the undocumented immigrants are leaving, even at higher wages. And the increasing cost of producing products in the U.S. further advantages products from other countries, which now also have a flood of new cheap labor returning to their countries. Which means that the U.S. businesses, even with tariffs, can't compete, and so they go out of business and close and those jobs disappear.

Good plan.

Why is the board discussing such an unimportant, mundane task? The people who work in the building should be empowered to just fix any problem they come across in their facility. That the employees either A) didn't care enough to solve an obvious problem at work or B) didn't think they were empowered to solve a problem indicates to me that this company is doomed.

In the U.S. the hot fields for making big money are finance, economics, and business. Many of our best and brightest are staying away from health care (too much education required, too much burnout, and too much yuck), engineering (too much math, not enough jobs), and law (yay?), and instead chasing the easy money of Wall Street. Which is really sad because Wall Street produces nothing of value for society.

People said the same thing each time a new technology disrupted education - the typewriter (what will it do to the teaching of handwriting!), the spell-checker (what will it do to the teaching of spelling!), Wikipedia (what will it do the use of the library!) - and so on and so on.

The AI genie is out of the bottle, and schools and teachers need to adapt their practices and curricula so it meets today's AI reality.

All of those subcompact vehicles were extremely dangerous by current standards, with a death rate per million vehicles that is 6 times+ higher than current rates (https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.iihs.org%2Fratings%2Fdriver-death-rates-by-make-and-model). There's no doubt those vehicles were unsafe - all of them - and the government should have stepped in and insisted companies produce safer vehicles. But they didn't for a long time, and many regulatory changes to improve safety were fought tooth and nail, all in the name of $$.

There is some evidence that wearables have individual benefits in producing additional steps and physical activity (https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2F35868813%2F). Some wearables might have data that are clinically valuable, but that would be something to discuss directly with your physician. At the population level, we already have pretty good data on health behaviors - people in the U.S. tend to live very unhealthy lifestyles - and solving that is much more complicated than telling people to buy more wearables -> instead, it requires building infrastructure and systemic societal changes (such as walkable / bikeable communities, safe sidewalks, grocery stores with healthy, affordable food in all neighborhoods, pollution reduction, more money to spend on food, affordable housing, access to preventive care, vaccinations, etc.).

Wasting time on wearables makes it seem like they are doing something while letting them ignore all the big changes that would have a much more substantial and long-lasting impact.

Stalking, and calculating property tax increases?

You can sometimes identify someone without being able to see their face, such as by their vehicle (e.g., parked in the driveway), or if kids live there (via yard toys, bikes, etc.), etc. As long as photos are taken from public spaces, then yes, it is legal, but it is not accurate to say there are "no privacy concerns."

I haven't seen the push promotion either...maybe you have to have a Fandango account or something?

I do try to turn off most notifications, but Wallet is one I have on as it is useful for tracking expenses & purchases, but if they start using it for ads, I will be done with it altogether.

It was a long time ago and all I had at the time was an iPod, and I vaguely remember having to actively request a download of the free album. I'm a U2 fan, so I was happy to get a free album, but it seemed like a strange promotion since most people have other favorite bands that are not U2, and it would have been a better promotion to give everyone a chance to download a free album from a band of their choice...but they didn't ask me....

So are you saying that authors will have to examine every work created by Claude to see if it is sufficiently transformative to be legal under copyright law? It seems like this is going to be impossible for authors as AI slop creates an endless supply of low-profit material (only selling, for example, a few dozen copies of a book), many of which might infringe but might also only earn a few dollars of profit.
It's death by a thousand small cuts for authors and content creators.

Um, creating an image or picture that represents what people want is an expression of what they want. Therefore, by my definition, yes, it would be art. It might be cliche, cloying, or downright bad, but it is still art.

I believe humans can use AI as a tool to create art; but I do not believe AI can create art 'on its own', particularly when AI is generally trained to emulate art that has already been created.

Great, now financial advisors & investment bankers will rely on AI-summaries of AI-generated reports to make investment decisions...what could possibly go wrong! And if I call to make an investment decision, the "advice" I will receive will be from AI! All so Goldman Sachs can continue to reap huge profits while the individual investor gets screwed once again...