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ICE is offering a $45,000 SIGNING BONUS plus $100,000 starting salary.
I make $55,000 as a teacher in my 8th year with a Masters.
It was never true that wE dOn'T hAvE eNoUgH mOnEy to pay teachers more. It was always intentional. Education has been INTENTIONALLY defunded for decades because an educated populous is a threat to power. Read the books. Do the work. They are TERRIFIED of education.
I have been telling my wife that weβre gonna start seeing recruitment ads for ICE on TV, just like the armed forces. They have so much funding now they can just about light money on fire.
Those that fail to learn from History, are doomed to repeat it.
those in power donβt like educated citizens they rebel and protest
Accurate. Also βpopulaceβ (noun), not βpopulousβ (adjective).
Iβm seeing this error quite often. Autocorrect, perhaps?
I saw a post of someone saying it wouldn't be a bad idea to apply, get the money and sabotage. To be as 'stupid' as one can be, slow things down...etc.
@Psyche30_ had this thought, too, but then again I think you need to build groups before to support one another, because aline among fascists must be a very frightful experience.
an educated populace scares the ignorance out of the RWNJs.
Doesn't matter what country you are USA or UK (other countries are available)
The oft use phrases
'We don't have the funding' .. 'Their is no money available' .. 'We cannot afford to do that' etc
Are all lies
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LIes lies all lies!
LIes lies all lies!
I have been going to my public library and trying to learn as much as I can before those in power move to shut them all down for good. Libraries provide free information and education. That has proven throughout history to be intolerable to dictators.
so start at ICE and teach them about Hitler and how it ended?
For the reckrd: that is just sickening. One can't blame "the Republicans", either, though they are the ones who have put emphasis on ICE recently. Teachers salaries are atrocious in nearly all "advanced" countries and neither "side" of politics seems to want to correct it. One of the most trusted, yet undervalued, demographics.
not only this. You also pay in average 28% tax as a teacher, the top 1% pay only 20%.
And here I was wondering how they would fill up their ranks. I looked it up, starting salary for the army is Private First Class $25,297.20, if your a are married private (E2) in Fort Campbell, KY, with less than two years of service and all bonuses you'll be at $67,285.
This is how they bypass trained soldiers not obeying illegal orders. Damn.
Sounds like Russia! Next up: Recruiting straight from prisons with amnesty for your crimes as payment!
@gimulnautti that's probably already the case...
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Already recruiting prison felons, only the Jan 6 thugs were pardoned first, then rewarded with high paying goon jobs.
Already recruiting prison felons, only the Jan 6 thugs were pardoned first, then rewarded with high paying goon jobs.
while itβs true that the USA always had money to properly fund education, itβs also true that the USA canβt afford the current ICE budget. Inflation is rising and itβs going to keep rising for a while yet.
The same applies to healthcare.
Yes but how many times a day do you hurt an innocent person on camera and give Republicans a sexual thrill?
back in the 80s conservatives had my dad and others convinced that school was a waste of money and was just "good people paying to raise welfare kids". he voted for oregon's ballot measure 5 which limited the state's ability to use property tax to fund schools. in the following years we saw schools cut music, shop and media production classes and cut a week or so at the end of the year to make up budget deficits.
it gives me a bit of shadenfreude to see people who supported this back then melt down about how nobody wants to have kids now.
@prozacchiwawa yep... I'm with you there.
That's actually part o what I don't understand about their strategy... it just doesn't work long term...
That's actually part o what I don't understand about their strategy... it just doesn't work long term...
the idea of an overpopulation crisis was part of the zeitgeist of that era and the conservative lens viewed it in terms of darwinism.
i think when they told my generation not to get married early, not to waste time dating when we could be in college or making a name in our careers, not to have kids until we were financially secure, each and every one was imagining how successful _their_ kid would be against the gas pumpers and video rental clerks everyone else was raising.
That kind of priority is a big part of why I moved abroad, yeah.
I moved from St. Louis to Cyprus.
It's safe, affordable, and has a national healthcare system, so definitely an upgrade overall
I moved from St. Louis to Cyprus.
There were other reasons for the move, of course, but in 2020, when there was enough stockpiled tear gas to use during months of some of the largest sustained protests in US history, and plenty of gas masks for cops, while hospital staff were wearing garbage bags and being issued a single n95 mask for use over a 2 week period, I was filled with absolute disgust at a society with such warped priorities.
Doesn't seem like the OP numbers are correct. The GS pay scale starts at 22k$ a year if you start with no qualifications. It can reach up to 122k$ but that appears to be rare that you would ever start at that level.
The point is still valid of course, the budgets seem to be available but not sure they are spent on people here either
opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/β¦
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wondering what sort of teacher uses the word 'populous' instead of 'populace'. American masters education can't be all that good...
and that's why people should always check before posting, which is where education should come into it.
@UkeleleEric bit of a crappy move to dismiss someone's important point because of a detail like this. Could have happened for a variety of reasons. I grew up with a lot of emphasis on spelling things correctly and therefore always notice those "errors" but I try hard to not fall into the fallacy of dismissing a whole book for a typo, which too often silences lower socio-economic voices.
Also, language evolves. Today's error might be tomorrow's accepted spelling. Chill out about it.
Also, language evolves. Today's error might be tomorrow's accepted spelling. Chill out about it.
@stragu She claims to be highly -educated in her post. And then obviously uses a word that would only be used by someone highly -educated (I probably wouldn't even use it, there are simpler synonyms), and can't even spell it correctly, or notice that an automatic spelling checker has inserted the wrong word. Methinks this person's not as highly -educated as she makes out.
it's boggling to me that people don't recognize that a wealthy country like the United States has all the the money it needs, but the political shell game of controlling the money for things you agree with is at an all time-high. We could pay for everything people need, just choose not to.
imagine ICE thugs taking to facebook with amazon shopping lists for plastic restrainers, camo pants and balaclavas
Yes... that's the best adjective to describe it and I wish people would stop pretending.
π€£ I totally believed it... then again I don't go really...
The uneducated populace is populous indeed.
saddest thing I'll read for the next month. 
Imagine selling your humanity for 100K/yr. Even if I were young enough to apply, I wouldn't.
a billion people would..... life is tough these days and the only thing that rules is money...π€·ββοΈ
And have. Since forever (the gold rush is back).
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@elala yeah... though it's probably a 'die now or die later' situation so 'if i don't do it someone else will anyway' and bam. Done.
Then the dollars and their acquired property will be taken from them again, just like from everyone else. Through education costs for their children, illness, care, rising food costs, special levies ...
The difference to everyone else, however, will be that they will not have forgotten who played what role in this dirty game and should therefore not necessarily hope for solidarity.
The difference to everyone else, however, will be that they will not have forgotten who played what role in this dirty game and should therefore not necessarily hope for solidarity.
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@elala 100% I could not agree more BUT they don't see it. At all.
Which is why thy need to be held accountable. ALL OF THEM.
Which is why thy need to be held accountable. ALL OF THEM.
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even plato was able to identify this.
Or rather, the role of education in a just and ideal state. Since the current US administration appear to wish the opposite of a just and/or ideal state, it naturally follows, that they have to keep the population as uneducated as possible.
and yeah, it is worth pointing out that some bigbrained bloke from 2373 years ago is still able to call bullshit on the current trump administration.
can i have a source for this please? because every source i can find quotes the figure "between $49,739 and $89,528 per year" (and those two numbers exactly) with no mention of a signing bonus.
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The guide tries to answer common questions about media attachments on Mastodon, including which kinds of files can be uploaded and how large they can be.
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The couple times I've tried, it appears to convert supported audio formats to 128k mp3, so I started preconverting them before upload.
What I'd really like is native opus support. You should get better quality at a smaller file size, but if I upload a 64k opus, it'll be converted to 128k mp3, and that doesn't help anyone.
Am I in error anywhere?
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I had a quick look at the Mastodon Github issues about this, and as far as I can tell MP3 conversion happens due to browser compatibility?
MP3 seems to work pretty much everywhere but some browsers have (or had) problems playing Opus in websites. I'm not sure if this is the case any more though, as shown by the discussions in these issues.
The issues I looked at are:
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Don't transcode FLACs
FLAC is a free lossless audio format. Transcoding it to mp3 loses detail. All browsers support FLAC decoding natively.ddevault (GitHub)
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I'm quite proud of this fediverse onboarding feature in FediDB!
I've heard your feedback and will be simplifying it to make it even easier for people to find their first federated home β€οΈ
Spread the word.
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@skyfire747 βListen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.β
@skyfire747 βYou canβt expect to wield supreme executive power just βcause some watery tart threw a sword at you!β
@skyfire747 βI mean, if I went around saying I was an emperor just because some moistened bint had lobbed a scimitar at me, theyβd put me away!β
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The more I roll it around in my mouth, the more certain I am that the "AI" mania *perfectly* encapsulates neoliberalism in its entirety.
- doesn't work and never has
- steals everything around it
- produces nothing of value
- destroys all things with actual value
- lies
- creates the illusion of efficiency while vastly increasing both monetary and social costs
- is supported by militant zealots with tiny minds and hearts
- enriches a tiny group of individuals at the cost of destroying Earth
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On top of that:
- viciously punishes people who refuse to pretend they're eager to participate
- creates incredible suffering wherever it goes
- cannot exist without exploiting the global South
- is subsidized by governments at the expense of social programs
- makes up most of the "data" it presents to the public
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