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The Hottest Chat App for Teens is Google Docs (theatlantic.com)
An anonymous reader shares a report: As more and more laptops find their way into middle and high schools, educators are using Google Docs to do collaborative exercises and help students follow along with the lesson plan. The students, however, are using it to organize running conversations behind teachers' backs. Teens told me they use Google Docs to chat just about any time they need to put their phone away but know their friends will be on computers. Sometimes they'll use the service's live chat function, which doesn't open by default, and which many teachers don't even know exists. Or, they'll take advantage of the fact that Google allows users to highlight certain phrases or words, then comment on them via a pop-up box on the right side: They'll clone a teacher's shared Google document, then chat in the comments, so it appears to the causal viewer that they're just making notes on the lesson plan. If a teacher approaches to take a closer look, they can click the "Resolve" button and the entire thread will disappear.
If the project isn't a collaborative one, kids will just create a shared document where they'll chat line by line in what looks like a paragraph of text. "People will just make a new page and talk in different fonts so you know who is who," Skyler said. "I had one really good friend and we were in different homerooms. So, we'd email each other a doc and would just chat about whatever was going on." At the end of class, they just delete a doc or resolve all the comments. Rarely does anyone save them the way previous generations may have stored away paper notes from friends.
If the project isn't a collaborative one, kids will just create a shared document where they'll chat line by line in what looks like a paragraph of text. "People will just make a new page and talk in different fonts so you know who is who," Skyler said. "I had one really good friend and we were in different homerooms. So, we'd email each other a doc and would just chat about whatever was going on." At the end of class, they just delete a doc or resolve all the comments. Rarely does anyone save them the way previous generations may have stored away paper notes from friends.
We're all tired of seeing women, homosexuals, and trannies in the spotlight.
Women are 51 percent of the population. And what do you mean by spotlight? You're offended by the very mention of GLBT folks?
America was at her apex in the 1950s.
What? When there were fewer college graduates and goverment sanctioned racism?
Integrated military now and we wonder why we've not won a war since WWII.
you're complaining about racial integration?
Won a war? Which wars are you saying we have lost?
We don't even want to kill the enemy any more.
Who says? What we want to do is kill enemies without antagonizing civilians we'll want to not attack in the future.
When I was in school back in the 1970s, we celebrated the carpet bombing of Germany and the trashing of Japan.
Celebrated? I wouldn't say that, discussed as necessary evils which were then followed up by the Marshall Plan, which REBUILT Germany and Japan so that they are now are friends.
People now think flying the American flag is bigoted and wrong.
Who says that? Some right wing pundit? Some Texan who full of Southern Partisan bragadoccio? Plenty of liberals fly the flag, they just won't fly the Confederate flag.
We are not really even slouching towards Gomorrah, we're there.
Bible reference, how funny. It's funny how you go on about military victories and smashing enemies when the Bible directly says: Thou Shalt Not Kill. It doesn't say "Hooo doggie, you can kill all the spics, nigras, sand nigras, indo-chimps, and Jew York City fags and trannies you want, jes don keel god-fearin Texans, YEE HAW, the south is goin to rise again"
It literally says "THOU SHALT NOT KILL" and by going on about enemies and the military you are being a total hypocrite, just like most other Southern Evangelicals. You aren't really Christians, you're legalist "Paulians"
Big talk from a keyboard warrior,
Likewise. You really think that your gun carrying rednecks with some rifles can stand up against airstrikes, armored vehicles, and everything else?
What would happen when the groceries stopped being delivered, or all the telecommunications were shut down, or the electrical grid go down. Or your granny can't buy her medicine at the pharmacy.
Most states besides the East and Left coasts are highly conservative.
You're forgetting the upper midwest.
Let's see... the military is a little over 1M people.
Active duty perhaps, but that doesn't include reservists or Guard now does it.
Not enough to round all us deplorables.
No need to round you up, just cut off the infrastructure. Most of you good ol boys who think you'd be a "militia" are just as dependent on your ESPN, Internet, Grocery stores, pharmacies, etc as the "coastal liberals" are. Texas is arid, cut off the AC and Monday Night Football and you braggart Texan machismo would cave in,
The left barely know how to use guns, let alone own them.
And who says liberals don't know how to use guns? That's the same old argument you southern boys pulled off in the 19th century...when a bunch of yankee "shopkeepers, clerks and factory workers" defeated a bunch of squirrel huntin illiterates duped into fighting for a bunch of slaver plutocrats with logistics, technology and MASSIVE firepower.
I stand by my reasoning that Kavanaugh is not fit for the supreme (or any) court, not for anything he did prior to 2018, but because of his horrible conduct and batshit insane "defence" that he displayed in front of a senate committee.