I'm still trying to figure out why this is in civil court with no mention of criminal charges, and the mention of a witness only makes me wonder more. Given that the last I checked, the evidence was that the vast majority of sexual assaults are committed by a small group of offenders, the odds are pretty good that if this really happened--he's a serial offender.
So, y'know, it's kind of important to press charges.
Non-functional addicts in general are not known for their intelligence. More importantly, by the time somebody's hit the point in addiction that they're committing robberies to support their habit, they're well past the point where they're thinking clearly about the risks involved--if they were? They'd be checking themselves into rehab instead.
I've spent most of my life in an area where power outages are a pretty effing regular problem because the local power company refuses to just bury the lines already. A lot of electronic card readers simply won't work unless the (electronic) register is up, and while certainly quite a few stores have UPSes set up precisely so you can get the last customers stuff processed and the registers shut down properly...not all of them do, and it doesn't do that much good if it'll be a week plus to get power back up.
Meanwhile, those electronic registers? Many of them become very large and expensive paperweights when the power is out--you can't even get into the cash drawers to get money out. The time I was in a store which had a very sudden power outage (due to incompetent electrician next door) they basically went to cash only and used an envelope to hold the cash. Once again, most locals are used to these things--and aware that the power going out means the store is closing, so be happy that you can maybe manage to pay for stuff.
At least one place I was at during an outage actually did have somebody manage to dig out one of the old paper card things, and I've heard tales of some store a couple years ago having had somebody manage to scrounge up a still-functional mechanical register during a long power outage.
I've been in a cell phone dead zone--yes, they still exist, and usually in places where good effing luck finding anybody with a landline in an emergency--and, honestly, from what I can tell if you're going to be using a Square device, the costs are such you might as well use it when the power's on, too.
Your $500 Android is more valuable to them than a couple of tens or twenties. Give them a wallet, some fake cash perhaps, they won't sit there and check, most will run as soon as they get what they want; if you have "too much" money or you look like you've got lots of money they may also accompany you to the nearest ATM and make you withdraw a couple of hundreds.
That last one can happen if you have no cash when Mr Mugger comes a-calling and you do have plastic on you--and a frustrated mugger may decide to take out the frustration on you if you've got neither. The advice I've heard--from people involved in law enforcement, at that--is to just have a sacrificial wallet with a few bills--do not have counterfeits, if you want to make the wallet a bit thicker then just use some play money.
That said, the government is quite capable of taking money from you when it's in the bank. If your goal is to prevent that, cash and any decent cryptocurrency are your best bets.
Because endlessly questioning where to draw the line is the favourite tactic of people who want to avoid talking about the really unambiguous stuff.
How you define harassment and who gets to do it is part of the really unambiguous stuff. There are people out there who would say you are harassing them, merely because you happen to be existing in the same public space as they are; is anybody like that somebody you want to have defining what is harassment? It's also important to regularly checked to make sure that the definition of harassment being used is not constructed so only certain people can be harassed, be harassers, or both. I've been around a few too many rounds of people using (absurd) claims of harassment to harass somebody to be particularly comfortable with it.
Of course! Have you seen the shelf life of bad ideas in pop psych? There's parts that Freud himself complained about which are still there! It helps a lot that people don't really want to talk much about how bad pop psych can be and how much damage it can and has done.
Actually, I'd disagree with a minor stipulation: The best K12 teachers I had? Every single one of them had an advanced degree--in the subject they focused in teaching. They were capable of answering questions students had about the educational materials, supplementing the materials when needed, actually understood what they were teaching, and loved the subject they were teaching. I know one went on to be a college professor in her subject...two years after she was my 4th grade teacher.
Not everybody homeschools for religious reasons, and last I checked that's actually very much a stereotype not supported by the actual demographics.
For example, home schooling is very often the only viable choice when you have a kid with disabilities--the schools may be legally obligated to accommodate students with disabilities, but actually getting the school to follow through with even those accommodations they themselves specifically agreed to can be difficult. Plus, a lot of rather nasty myths like 'disabilities make you stupid' remain within the educational system. I've had the distinct 'pleasure' of having to deal with quite a few who were entirely and completely convinced that I had an IQ in the low double digits merely because of that myth...and also had teachers confused as to why somebody whose motor problems mean their handwriting is lousy can be good at typing. I've also worked with an effectively-deaf kid with ADHD this year, who outright needed reassurance that this didn't make them stupid. (I'm really not sure how anybody could expect somebody who can't hear the teacher most of the time to do well, but unfortunate experience has taught me better than to expect logic in teachers.)
There's also a significant number of people who've had a bit too much experience with the basic fact that the overlap between 'has a teaching license' and 'should be allowed to teach' is not as good as it ought to be. Private schools are, yes, an option, but how good an option they are can depend on a lot of things, ranging from merely if a good private school can be found in the area to the nasty one of what precisely is the damage done by the abusive teacher(s) to the kid. A teacher can do a disturbing amount of damage to kids without any particular repercussions...
The bottom line there? The intersection between "people who have a teaching license" and "people who should be teaching" is not what it ought to be, even if you're not expecting for the former to be completely a subset of the latter.
(back in the day, it was like what gluten-free diet or cleansings ar today).
You mean often done as a fad, but sometimes medically necessary?
There are a number of serious conditions for which the only current treatment is management through a gluten-free diet. For example: coeliac disease. It always irks me when someone dismisses it as quackery because of the trendy folk who think it's the newest fad. I'm always a bit worried that someone will think "urgh, hippy" (or the local equivalent) and just serve me normal (not gluten-free) food while I'm out, with me ending up severely ill as a result.
This is actually a major reason for the huge amount of annoyance with the people who hopped aboard and started attributing all sorts of ailments to gluten in the diet, actually. Even bloodletting is sometimes medically indicated; sorcerer's apprentice mode can happen in biological systems, and when it happens to the mechanisms in charge of producing blood...well, the body is capable of producing blood faster than it can safely dispose of it.
The problem is when you start believing something is a panacea which will cure everything, and make your SO turn into a set of hot triplets into foursomes together...
Last I heard, the major problem with 'e-Waste' recycling was that, to put it bluntly, on a good day it is just 'shipped to the 3rd world to be burned for the copper'--and apparently the heavy metals also can be leeched out of the panels by rainwater & end up in the soil, which has its own problems because not all solar farms are on land actually owned by the people running the solar farm. (Good damn luck figuring out who's legally responsible for the hazmat site!)
Really, I'm not going to trust anybody in the solar panel industry telling me that I basically shouldn't worry my little head about these problems, expecting honesty from them on potential environmental harm from solar panels. They've got a vested interest in denying everything, because the main selling point for solar power is that it's 'environmentally friendly.' This is an essential problem with any product where its key selling point is how (allegedly) environmentally-friendly it is--there is simply too much incentive for those profiting off the whole green movement for them to cover up any hint that their products might not be 100% harmless to the environment.
You mean WASTE, which got semi-forked over to here. Pass around the news, it could definitely use being revived but I've no idea how to do it aside from let people know it exists.
Interesting note: Its initial release in 2003 got reported here.
Pidgin is not available for Android. Don't know if for iPhone, don't care. I am rather annoyed with this, since most of the choices for accessing open chat protocols on Android look...iffy.
A computer left logged out, even if it's only got one user, will at best let you at a guest account. I typically leave mine set to only let you see the lock screen when I might be leaving it booted somewhere where it'll be easy for other people to access it--and it doesn't log itself in on boot.
If you take a hammer to it, though, I will not have that much trouble getting the cops to do something, especially compared to ransomware.
I think what was meant is that you simply walking off while still logged in lets me do more to the system than send messages as you & post places as you about the astounding, phenomenal, and utterly impressive bagginess of 'my' pants--not that I have your password, but that it doesn't even ask if I have your password when I do something like tell it to reformat the hard drive the OS is on.
I pretty much took one look at the first trailer for the Prequel Trilogy and fled the fandom--and I adored the Original Trilogy. But...the Prequel Trilogy really does make it very easy to believe that a huge part of the Original Trilogy's quality had to do with the people working with Lucas, and not Lucas himself.
That said, Timothy Zahn is a very good author and it's well worth reading his original works.
It wouldn't be safer at all because autopilot doesn't seem to know how to pull over.
I'd consider that actually a basic thing to have a vehicle's autopilot capable of doing before it's ready to be released in the wild--the most basic use of autopilot I can imagine is having it capable of stopping the car safely if the driver has a sudden, unexpected medical emergency.
We've had third parties form and destroy one of the prior big parties in the past when that happened. What's going on now is an utter failure by 50%+ of the population to agree to disagree on some points in order to form a new third party that does represent them better.
Revolution by peaceful means is possible, as long as you're sufficiently committed to those peaceful means to actually do it. If you refuse to work to build consensus, if you hold all your dogmas too sacred to be willing to sacrifice even the most frivolous of them for the sake of building the required consensus--if you remain utterly hostile to people who actually share damn near all the same political goals merely because they are from the 'wrong side' of the aisle... This doesn't mean that peaceful revolution is impossible. It means that you're part of the problem.
By that reasoning, announcing very clearly that you are going over right now to rape, murder, and eat your neighbor's toddler--not necessarily in that order--should also not result in you getting at the very least an involuntary brief stay in a mental ward because that is definitely 'amount or content of speech' and it is 'locking you up.'
The same level of obviousness has almost always been required to have incitement to riot charges filed against you, or for the Fighting Words doctrine to be a viable defense for assaulting you--and currently you have to be very, very deliberately trying to hit the requirements, or have the sort of gifted stupidity that means that it probably isn't safe for you to be wandering around without a competent adult watching you.
And by 'very, very deliberately trying,' I mean that right now, you would almost certainly need to hire lawyers to help you figure out how to get yourself charged with incitement to riot or what you can say that would have the person who assaults you able to even try to use the Fighting Words doctrine as a defense. (I am not, of course,
going to rule out that somebody could, in a fit of highly gifted stupidity, somehow manage to do it by complete and total accident. The odds are not zero--but they're very close to zero.)
You have incitement to riot backwards--the person who is supposed to be charged is the person who goes, basically, "Let's have a riot!" and has the audience respond with...let's call it enthusiastic approval. It preserves free speech, but like the fighting words doctrine, takes the view that free speech is 'free to say what you want' but not 'free of consequences.' (The rioters also are supposed to be charged, for what exactly depends on the locality, because you're quite right: They certainly could have chosen to just go "No" and leave.)
If you can't understand that college students are pretty much the poster children for irrational, short term, emotion driven behaviour, you are fucking clueless. So you're god damn right that they're acting childishly. The pre-frontal cortex on the average person doesn't complete it's develop until after they have graduated from college, and there's not a whole lot that anyone can do about that. Telling people to be different than they are is about as effective as pissing into the wind.
Fun fact! Merely not having the finishing touches to your prefrontal cortex does not, in fact, do a damn thing to stop you from being capable of acting more mature than a college student. What happens to a person whose prefrontal cortex isn't working right is something I actually put in time studying--the short version? Imagine going through life with absolutely nothing whatsoever keeping you from getting caught in loops and following through with absolutely any and every impulse that skitters across your mind--yes you will be aware, people with prefrontal damage are even able to outright tell you that this is not a thing what they want to do. (Oh, yes, and on the whole consent doesn't really have anything to do with somebody with significant compromise to the prefrontal lobes...and any impulse you can imagine, some case study in the lit probably mentions a patient who had it skitter across their mind. Yes, even the nightmarish ones.)
The particular executive abilities associated with the prefrontal lobe, however, start turning up really, really early. You may have noticed this in that kids are capable of, well, learning to behave. Part of how you can tell its development is that kids will get better with age--and yes, this is also practice, practice helps firm up the development and keep the 'circuits' involved from getting culled for disuse. Cultures which expect kids to gradually pick up adult responsibilities actually have a very good idea here--you give them practice early, in a manner that will be rewarding for them ("Look I'm a big kid they let me do these grownup things now!") instead of just dropping it on them pretty much all at once & expecting them to do fine without practice.
So, actually, cultural expectations and methods of child-rearing do matter and certainly you can start a kid with low-end practice much, much earlier than you probably think a kid is capable of it--and it's a very, very good thing. Or did you not stop to think that there's a reason you can make an Elementary school age kid really happy just by trusting them to do something simple? Those skills do not just appear like you're buying them with experience points as you age...
There's nothing actually keeping FB from becoming that 'platform no one else uses,' because everybody else has moved on, leaving FB a mass of abandoned accounts. It wouldn't even be the first social media platform to die that way.
My experience with the people whose listings make it clear that they'll even give the time of day to non-locals is that if they're expecting you to pay for your own move? Then the you can be pretty certain that pay they're offering is not enough for the area's cost of living, and they can't get any locals to bite.
It doesn't exactly help that the places that they want me to move to, I'd expect most of that 5K cost that somebody else mentioned to go to obtaining a place to live--deposit and first month's rent, plus whatever assorted fees go to the landlord, plus the various things the utilities will want me to pay for 'hooking me up' when that is now very rarely going to require more than a minute on a computer for them to do. (I'd actually be perfectly fine taking those kinds of wages if the job's close enough for me to live with my parents--but that's because nearly all the entry-level jobs expect you to come with 2+ years of experience, and once I've got those...)
Things change. One of them, unfortunately, is what you can expect of employers if you're not an experienced, skilled worker.
Yes, but that the school got access to the private group--or, if what somebody who was willing to click through to the original article reports, runs the private group and explicitly asked for controversial memes--means that there's Problems, with a capital P. The only difference will be where the problems are.
If Harvard asked Facebook and got access to look into the private group, then we've got issues with private groups being private. Facebook shouldn't be granting access, Harvard should not be asking.
If it was a private group they ran? Well, if you're asking for controversial memes...I'm really not sure what to say except I'd expect the staff at university as prestigious as Harvard to be bright enough to know that this is precisely what they ought to expect. In that case this pretty much means "We will ask you to do things and then take it out on you when you do exactly what we asked." While this is worse--the behavior itself is abusive, and there is no defense of it possible--at least there the problem is entirely with Harvard and not with Facebook.
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I'm still trying to figure out why this is in civil court with no mention of criminal charges, and the mention of a witness only makes me wonder more. Given that the last I checked, the evidence was that the vast majority of sexual assaults are committed by a small group of offenders, the odds are pretty good that if this really happened--he's a serial offender.
So, y'know, it's kind of important to press charges.
Non-functional addicts in general are not known for their intelligence. More importantly, by the time somebody's hit the point in addiction that they're committing robberies to support their habit, they're well past the point where they're thinking clearly about the risks involved--if they were? They'd be checking themselves into rehab instead.
I've spent most of my life in an area where power outages are a pretty effing regular problem because the local power company refuses to just bury the lines already. A lot of electronic card readers simply won't work unless the (electronic) register is up, and while certainly quite a few stores have UPSes set up precisely so you can get the last customers stuff processed and the registers shut down properly...not all of them do, and it doesn't do that much good if it'll be a week plus to get power back up.
Meanwhile, those electronic registers? Many of them become very large and expensive paperweights when the power is out--you can't even get into the cash drawers to get money out. The time I was in a store which had a very sudden power outage (due to incompetent electrician next door) they basically went to cash only and used an envelope to hold the cash. Once again, most locals are used to these things--and aware that the power going out means the store is closing, so be happy that you can maybe manage to pay for stuff.
At least one place I was at during an outage actually did have somebody manage to dig out one of the old paper card things, and I've heard tales of some store a couple years ago having had somebody manage to scrounge up a still-functional mechanical register during a long power outage.
I've been in a cell phone dead zone--yes, they still exist, and usually in places where good effing luck finding anybody with a landline in an emergency--and, honestly, from what I can tell if you're going to be using a Square device, the costs are such you might as well use it when the power's on, too.
Your $500 Android is more valuable to them than a couple of tens or twenties. Give them a wallet, some fake cash perhaps, they won't sit there and check, most will run as soon as they get what they want; if you have "too much" money or you look like you've got lots of money they may also accompany you to the nearest ATM and make you withdraw a couple of hundreds.
That last one can happen if you have no cash when Mr Mugger comes a-calling and you do have plastic on you--and a frustrated mugger may decide to take out the frustration on you if you've got neither. The advice I've heard--from people involved in law enforcement, at that--is to just have a sacrificial wallet with a few bills--do not have counterfeits, if you want to make the wallet a bit thicker then just use some play money.
That said, the government is quite capable of taking money from you when it's in the bank. If your goal is to prevent that, cash and any decent cryptocurrency are your best bets.
Because endlessly questioning where to draw the line is the favourite tactic of people who want to avoid talking about the really unambiguous stuff.
How you define harassment and who gets to do it is part of the really unambiguous stuff. There are people out there who would say you are harassing them, merely because you happen to be existing in the same public space as they are; is anybody like that somebody you want to have defining what is harassment? It's also important to regularly checked to make sure that the definition of harassment being used is not constructed so only certain people can be harassed, be harassers, or both. I've been around a few too many rounds of people using (absurd) claims of harassment to harass somebody to be particularly comfortable with it.
Of course! Have you seen the shelf life of bad ideas in pop psych? There's parts that Freud himself complained about which are still there! It helps a lot that people don't really want to talk much about how bad pop psych can be and how much damage it can and has done.
Actually, I'd disagree with a minor stipulation: The best K12 teachers I had? Every single one of them had an advanced degree--in the subject they focused in teaching. They were capable of answering questions students had about the educational materials, supplementing the materials when needed, actually understood what they were teaching, and loved the subject they were teaching. I know one went on to be a college professor in her subject...two years after she was my 4th grade teacher.
Not everybody homeschools for religious reasons, and last I checked that's actually very much a stereotype not supported by the actual demographics.
For example, home schooling is very often the only viable choice when you have a kid with disabilities--the schools may be legally obligated to accommodate students with disabilities, but actually getting the school to follow through with even those accommodations they themselves specifically agreed to can be difficult. Plus, a lot of rather nasty myths like 'disabilities make you stupid' remain within the educational system. I've had the distinct 'pleasure' of having to deal with quite a few who were entirely and completely convinced that I had an IQ in the low double digits merely because of that myth...and also had teachers confused as to why somebody whose motor problems mean their handwriting is lousy can be good at typing. I've also worked with an effectively-deaf kid with ADHD this year, who outright needed reassurance that this didn't make them stupid. (I'm really not sure how anybody could expect somebody who can't hear the teacher most of the time to do well, but unfortunate experience has taught me better than to expect logic in teachers.)
There's also a significant number of people who've had a bit too much experience with the basic fact that the overlap between 'has a teaching license' and 'should be allowed to teach' is not as good as it ought to be. Private schools are, yes, an option, but how good an option they are can depend on a lot of things, ranging from merely if a good private school can be found in the area to the nasty one of what precisely is the damage done by the abusive teacher(s) to the kid. A teacher can do a disturbing amount of damage to kids without any particular repercussions...
The bottom line there? The intersection between "people who have a teaching license" and "people who should be teaching" is not what it ought to be, even if you're not expecting for the former to be completely a subset of the latter.
(back in the day, it was like what gluten-free diet or cleansings ar today).
You mean often done as a fad, but sometimes medically necessary?
There are a number of serious conditions for which the only current treatment is management through a gluten-free diet. For example: coeliac disease. It always irks me when someone dismisses it as quackery because of the trendy folk who think it's the newest fad. I'm always a bit worried that someone will think "urgh, hippy" (or the local equivalent) and just serve me normal (not gluten-free) food while I'm out, with me ending up severely ill as a result.
This is actually a major reason for the huge amount of annoyance with the people who hopped aboard and started attributing all sorts of ailments to gluten in the diet, actually. Even bloodletting is sometimes medically indicated; sorcerer's apprentice mode can happen in biological systems, and when it happens to the mechanisms in charge of producing blood...well, the body is capable of producing blood faster than it can safely dispose of it.
The problem is when you start believing something is a panacea which will cure everything, and make your SO turn into a set of hot triplets into foursomes together...
Last I heard, the major problem with 'e-Waste' recycling was that, to put it bluntly, on a good day it is just 'shipped to the 3rd world to be burned for the copper'--and apparently the heavy metals also can be leeched out of the panels by rainwater & end up in the soil, which has its own problems because not all solar farms are on land actually owned by the people running the solar farm. (Good damn luck figuring out who's legally responsible for the hazmat site!)
Really, I'm not going to trust anybody in the solar panel industry telling me that I basically shouldn't worry my little head about these problems, expecting honesty from them on potential environmental harm from solar panels. They've got a vested interest in denying everything, because the main selling point for solar power is that it's 'environmentally friendly.' This is an essential problem with any product where its key selling point is how (allegedly) environmentally-friendly it is--there is simply too much incentive for those profiting off the whole green movement for them to cover up any hint that their products might not be 100% harmless to the environment.
You mean WASTE, which got semi-forked over to here. Pass around the news, it could definitely use being revived but I've no idea how to do it aside from let people know it exists.
Interesting note: Its initial release in 2003 got reported here.
Pidgin is not available for Android. Don't know if for iPhone, don't care. I am rather annoyed with this, since most of the choices for accessing open chat protocols on Android look...iffy.
A computer left logged out, even if it's only got one user, will at best let you at a guest account. I typically leave mine set to only let you see the lock screen when I might be leaving it booted somewhere where it'll be easy for other people to access it--and it doesn't log itself in on boot.
If you take a hammer to it, though, I will not have that much trouble getting the cops to do something, especially compared to ransomware.
I think what was meant is that you simply walking off while still logged in lets me do more to the system than send messages as you & post places as you about the astounding, phenomenal, and utterly impressive bagginess of 'my' pants--not that I have your password, but that it doesn't even ask if I have your password when I do something like tell it to reformat the hard drive the OS is on.
I pretty much took one look at the first trailer for the Prequel Trilogy and fled the fandom--and I adored the Original Trilogy. But...the Prequel Trilogy really does make it very easy to believe that a huge part of the Original Trilogy's quality had to do with the people working with Lucas, and not Lucas himself.
That said, Timothy Zahn is a very good author and it's well worth reading his original works.
It wouldn't be safer at all because autopilot doesn't seem to know how to pull over.
I'd consider that actually a basic thing to have a vehicle's autopilot capable of doing before it's ready to be released in the wild--the most basic use of autopilot I can imagine is having it capable of stopping the car safely if the driver has a sudden, unexpected medical emergency.
We've had third parties form and destroy one of the prior big parties in the past when that happened. What's going on now is an utter failure by 50%+ of the population to agree to disagree on some points in order to form a new third party that does represent them better.
Revolution by peaceful means is possible, as long as you're sufficiently committed to those peaceful means to actually do it. If you refuse to work to build consensus, if you hold all your dogmas too sacred to be willing to sacrifice even the most frivolous of them for the sake of building the required consensus--if you remain utterly hostile to people who actually share damn near all the same political goals merely because they are from the 'wrong side' of the aisle... This doesn't mean that peaceful revolution is impossible. It means that you're part of the problem.
I've generally just quit watching all of network news, because it looks like competing stealth attempts to remake Network now.
By that reasoning, announcing very clearly that you are going over right now to rape, murder, and eat your neighbor's toddler--not necessarily in that order--should also not result in you getting at the very least an involuntary brief stay in a mental ward because that is definitely 'amount or content of speech' and it is 'locking you up.'
The same level of obviousness has almost always been required to have incitement to riot charges filed against you, or for the Fighting Words doctrine to be a viable defense for assaulting you--and currently you have to be very, very deliberately trying to hit the requirements, or have the sort of gifted stupidity that means that it probably isn't safe for you to be wandering around without a competent adult watching you.
And by 'very, very deliberately trying,' I mean that right now, you would almost certainly need to hire lawyers to help you figure out how to get yourself charged with incitement to riot or what you can say that would have the person who assaults you able to even try to use the Fighting Words doctrine as a defense. (I am not, of course, going to rule out that somebody could, in a fit of highly gifted stupidity, somehow manage to do it by complete and total accident. The odds are not zero--but they're very close to zero.)
You have incitement to riot backwards--the person who is supposed to be charged is the person who goes, basically, "Let's have a riot!" and has the audience respond with...let's call it enthusiastic approval. It preserves free speech, but like the fighting words doctrine, takes the view that free speech is 'free to say what you want' but not 'free of consequences.' (The rioters also are supposed to be charged, for what exactly depends on the locality, because you're quite right: They certainly could have chosen to just go "No" and leave.)
If you can't understand that college students are pretty much the poster children for irrational, short term, emotion driven behaviour, you are fucking clueless. So you're god damn right that they're acting childishly. The pre-frontal cortex on the average person doesn't complete it's develop until after they have graduated from college, and there's not a whole lot that anyone can do about that. Telling people to be different than they are is about as effective as pissing into the wind.
Fun fact! Merely not having the finishing touches to your prefrontal cortex does not, in fact, do a damn thing to stop you from being capable of acting more mature than a college student. What happens to a person whose prefrontal cortex isn't working right is something I actually put in time studying--the short version? Imagine going through life with absolutely nothing whatsoever keeping you from getting caught in loops and following through with absolutely any and every impulse that skitters across your mind--yes you will be aware, people with prefrontal damage are even able to outright tell you that this is not a thing what they want to do. (Oh, yes, and on the whole consent doesn't really have anything to do with somebody with significant compromise to the prefrontal lobes...and any impulse you can imagine, some case study in the lit probably mentions a patient who had it skitter across their mind. Yes, even the nightmarish ones.)
The particular executive abilities associated with the prefrontal lobe, however, start turning up really, really early. You may have noticed this in that kids are capable of, well, learning to behave. Part of how you can tell its development is that kids will get better with age--and yes, this is also practice, practice helps firm up the development and keep the 'circuits' involved from getting culled for disuse. Cultures which expect kids to gradually pick up adult responsibilities actually have a very good idea here--you give them practice early, in a manner that will be rewarding for them ("Look I'm a big kid they let me do these grownup things now!") instead of just dropping it on them pretty much all at once & expecting them to do fine without practice.
So, actually, cultural expectations and methods of child-rearing do matter and certainly you can start a kid with low-end practice much, much earlier than you probably think a kid is capable of it--and it's a very, very good thing. Or did you not stop to think that there's a reason you can make an Elementary school age kid really happy just by trusting them to do something simple? Those skills do not just appear like you're buying them with experience points as you age...
There's nothing actually keeping FB from becoming that 'platform no one else uses,' because everybody else has moved on, leaving FB a mass of abandoned accounts. It wouldn't even be the first social media platform to die that way.
My experience with the people whose listings make it clear that they'll even give the time of day to non-locals is that if they're expecting you to pay for your own move? Then the you can be pretty certain that pay they're offering is not enough for the area's cost of living, and they can't get any locals to bite.
It doesn't exactly help that the places that they want me to move to, I'd expect most of that 5K cost that somebody else mentioned to go to obtaining a place to live--deposit and first month's rent, plus whatever assorted fees go to the landlord, plus the various things the utilities will want me to pay for 'hooking me up' when that is now very rarely going to require more than a minute on a computer for them to do. (I'd actually be perfectly fine taking those kinds of wages if the job's close enough for me to live with my parents--but that's because nearly all the entry-level jobs expect you to come with 2+ years of experience, and once I've got those...)
Things change. One of them, unfortunately, is what you can expect of employers if you're not an experienced, skilled worker.
Yes, but that the school got access to the private group--or, if what somebody who was willing to click through to the original article reports, runs the private group and explicitly asked for controversial memes--means that there's Problems, with a capital P. The only difference will be where the problems are.
If Harvard asked Facebook and got access to look into the private group, then we've got issues with private groups being private. Facebook shouldn't be granting access, Harvard should not be asking.
If it was a private group they ran? Well, if you're asking for controversial memes...I'm really not sure what to say except I'd expect the staff at university as prestigious as Harvard to be bright enough to know that this is precisely what they ought to expect. In that case this pretty much means "We will ask you to do things and then take it out on you when you do exactly what we asked." While this is worse--the behavior itself is abusive, and there is no defense of it possible--at least there the problem is entirely with Harvard and not with Facebook.