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It's also a way to get the state to pay for religious education, but most importantly, to weaken public education.

Charter schools, much lauded by plenty of mainstream Republicans and Democrats, also perform a similar function. But it's not just low income kids they keep out, it's also the difficult kids' with bad home lives, behavioral problems, and special needs. Mind you, public schools legally have to enroll every child, as they should.

But wouldn't you know, Charter Schools have an admissions process, and well, not everyone can make the cut...

This enables upper and middle class enclaves, who wouldn't otherwise spring for a private education, to achieve a somewhat similar results, but with public funds.

Others may have better, or fancier solutions, but I'm a fan VPN -> Home Network -> VNC over SSH/TLS for Linux boxes, and RDP for Windows.

Again, none of VNC or RDP ports or services are ever exposed externally, and even on the LAN, they require authentication and use secure tunnels.

Full disclosure, I haven't used RDP in a while and I don't know what version of SSL/TLS it comes with anymore.

I know their are self-hosted AnyDesk style options and maybe they're better than my approach, but I've never used them so I can't really speak on that.

I stupidly signed my name in at a single campaign event almost a decade ago. Of course, that information made it's way to a large local political organization, and they've refused to remove me from their contact list, no matter how many times I asked.

What has sort of worked is replying, every time they contact me, that their nonconsensual text messages have swayed me to vote against their candidate or issue, and I that will continue to vote, out of spite, against any candidate that sends me unsolicited texts messages.

It's not perfect, but I have gotten significantly less election related text spam since I started this approach.

Just to be clear, I spent years asking them politely to take me off their lists, but nothing reduced the volume of election spam until I switch my approach to this.

Stop using TeamViewer. If you can't setup your own secure self hosted remote desktop, then at least use AnyDesk.

I'm not claiming they're perfect, or that any SaaS RD provider is good, but TeamViewer is right there with LogMeIn as the worst of a bad bunch.

Probably depends on the media itself, as in, is it rare or hard to find on a P2P service.

One way they conduct themselves is by using the politicians they've purchased to advocate for forming public-private partnerships, in areas where they shouldn't exist, which they can then legally siphon off the resources from.

I disagree on the private sector aspect of this, but I agree on the democracy part. Although, I don't really view America as true democracy at this moment in history, but that's besides the point here.

Fusion technology is at a point in its life cycle where it needs to be a public sector project. There is no path to profitability in the near-term, that would justify private sector involvement, except as a means to extract profit from the very expensive research process of even making this technology feasible.

Not that I'm against the private sector within the nuclear power industry. I'm very excited to see what they can do with SMR technology. I'm just extremely skeptical of most private-public partnerships, especially in cases like this.

Goddamnit, you've made one heck of a case and now I'm a believer.

Yes, they were a regional hegemon.

If I'm being generous, from the view of the average Roman citizen, they were a global hegemony, because they didn't know how big the world really was.

But they were not. There was no shortage of rival empires, some even right on their borders, and all during Pax Romana, including the Parthian Empire, Kushan Empire, and the Han Dynasty.

And my history is a bit rusty, but I'm pretty sure Rome tried multiple times to conquer the Parthian Empire, and failed.

Most importantly however, their reach did not extend across the globe, only where they could build their roads through, or sail their boats to, such as Carthage.

Also, Pax Romana, refers to a period of relative peace for Rome, brought by their imperial power. It's only indirectly related to their hegemonic status, but it's not in reference to it.

Sorry, meant that now deleted reply for someone else.

Two words: Armenian genocide