Google translation of the text under the post

DON’T EXPECT good news 1:38 ‼️I was expecting a call from the kindergarten, but received an offer to sign a contract.

Nadezhda Bondareva, a resident of the Kaliningrad region, reported an unusual call she received shortly after her child was enrolled in kindergarten. At first, she thought it was another call about registration, but they introduced themselves as employees of the military registration and enlistment office. They offered to sign a contract, promising a payment of approximately 3.1 million rubles.

She claims she immediately declined the offer, but her answer was not accepted.

“To which I immediately said: ‘No, thank you, I’m not interested.’ They immediately cut me off, didn’t let me finish my sentence, and asked me to try anyway.”

Instead, she was told that the final decision would have to be confirmed later—preferably by appearing in person at the military registration and enlistment office and writing a statement of acceptance or refusal. Furthermore, during the conversation, the officers inquired whether any adult men were living with her.

The woman was particularly perplexed by the fact that she, with no connection to the military or medical fields, received this offer. She was also informed of a government program that, if she signed the contract, would supposedly guarantee her child care and supervision. This raised questions about the practice of such requests and the criteria used to select citizens for such offers.

If you see something like this again, tell us. We rely on your feedback and vigilance.

Or … you could ensure something like this doesn’t happen again yourselves. It’s not our job to police your social media purchases.

Plus, it seems like you were notified and got feedback - just that it happened way more publicly than you wanted. Which again, isn’t our problem to deal with.

I’m looking forward to the 1.7 update of Stardew Valley. I love discovering new stuff and going through all the mods people have created.

No Child Left Behind. If a kid failed a grade, the school got less money, which eventually leads either to the school going into a financial death spiral and closing, or just passing kids regardless of whether they understand the work. There are teachers who failed kids, only for the principal overrule them and pass the kid anyway. The next teacher inherits the kid, can’t make up the various learning deficits, and is also forced to pass the kid.

Teachers have been warning about this for like 20 years. Several years ago, college professors also started warning about it. If you read through some of the threads on /r/teachers, you’ll see some common comments: kids struggle to read and do math. They have no reading comprehension skills. They want everything spoonfed to them, and have no curiosity or drive to find things out for themselves. There’s a group in college now that has no social skills: when they show up to class, they never talk to their classmates, they just sit there staring. They want step by step instructions on how to things, but they often don’t mentally retain those instructions for subsequent exercises, and they rarely generalize that knowledge. They don’t look at manuals to follow processes or resolve issues. When they hit a roadblock on doing something, they just sit there and wait for someone to come, figure out the issue, and tell them how to proceed.

/r/teachers has been saying for a while now that they’re graduating cohorts of students that are unprepared for the world and explicitly unprepared for working independently.

It’s not every kid, of course: there’s occasional talk that they’re seeing kids move from a bell curve distribution to a K-shaped distribution: that the classes divide between kids who are curious, or have learning support at home, or whatever, who are doing fine as always; and the other half just aren’t.

I don’t know what to tell you: mentorship programs help some who are struggling, but businesses don’t want to spend money training people anymore. Questioning candidates about how they’d solve individual problems, or their approach to solving problems in general, may filter out some of the bad candidates but (as with “what’s your worst quality”) that’ll only last until they come up with a standard answer.

a revised terms of service published on 6 April 2026. The updated document states explicitly that paying a deposit ‘does not constitute a completed purchase and does not create a binding legal contract.’ The payment is described as ‘a conditional opportunity to buy the device if Trump Mobile eventually chooses to sell it,’ with the company retaining all control over whether a phone is produced at all.

, but what I’d love to see is a copy of the email they’ve been getting.

Thank you for your service!

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Psst … Hey, Tony, can you do me a favor real quick?

Fucking bullshit is what it is. I bet they’re going to use this announcement as a way to try to blame all their backroom bets on some poor Pentagon intern-equivalent.

Any suggestions for decent FOSS replacements?

The article only talks about the war with Iran. But Ukraine has taken out more of Russia’s processing facilities and Russia has announced that they’re no longer going to export [?gas ?petroleum? can’t remember offhand]. Whatever it is, the loss of the additional fuel is also going to drive up the cost of fuel.

It’s also going to drive to the cost of food - not only in transporting seed and fertilizer to the farm, tractors and combines on the farms, and trucks away from the farms, but also because gas and oil and their byproducts are critical components of several types of fertilizer. Food insecure nations are going to be struggling, and even nations who are comparatively food stable will see rising prices.

Well, that’s a shame, isn’t it …

That’s lovely!

Yeah, there was another site I checked with a couple months ago, and it was showing one local company supplying office equipment and another one selling training munitions; neither of those are listed here.

“The point of AI is to allow the wealthy to access the benefits of the talented, while preventing the talented to access the benefit of wealth.”

I vote in the primaries, and I vote the most leftist candidate on the ballot. If there isn’t one that I really like, I’ll write one in. It’s an easy message to send, that you want more liberal people in office.

I’m GenX. We’ve never had any political, population, or economic power: we were constantly outnumbered by the Boomers, who were always like, “Wait your turn!” - while simultaneously refusing to give anyone else their turn.

It looked like power was going to go straight from Boomers to Millennials, which was fine, as they’re more in tune with the world, and more overall.

It scares me to think that power may instead transfer to the young hyper conservative/MAGA/Andrew Tate people instead. I’m hoping that either that won’t happen, or that I’ll be dead before they get control.

I’d argue that Tillis retiring is exactly why he’s saying this stuff - it’s his way of playing both sides of the fence He’s getting out while he can still (partially) claim deniability, putting on this show with Noem, and at the same time voting to let Trump continue to bomb Iran unchecked. By participating in this farce now, he limits the amount of flack he’ll get for it from the True Believers, yet he’s also providing cover for Republicans who think ICE has gone too far. And in the end, absolutely nothing significant will change.

They built about 25k T72s, but those were built a while ago and not maintained. The last estimate I saw that seemed credible was that there were about 6000 T72s left. Let’s say 1/3 are unusable, 1/3 are good for parts, and 1/3 can be repaired. That’s still 2000 tanks - 20 more months of war, during which anything can happen.

Hunh, you’re right. Looks like they outline that “window” in the shower. I am so confused …

What’s with the very tiny plant on the far side of the shower?