Oh, look! It was posted by Timothy!

Is it Groundhog Day? Nope, that's pretty much just every day on Slashdot.

Saw sensationalist title, with non-news summary following it, in email.
Clicked expecting to see that it was posted by timothy. Oh look.
Another pile of crap Slashdot has published for some reason...

Saw the article was by timothy

Stopped reading.

But does time travel belong in a space opera? Not in my opinion. Adding time travel to Star Wars, so late into the game, makes no narrative sense anyway.

Hear, hear.

The title of this article immediately proves itself to be false. This is a problem.

A person is in prison, in solitary confinement, and your title claims he has been released.

Your title: "Pirate Bay Founder Released From Solitary Confinement"
The implied meaning of these words: So and so HAS ALREADY BEEN released.

Immediately following those words, comes these: "...is set to be released from solitary confinement..."
Meaning, HAS NOT BEEN released.

This is a person who is sitting in a solitary confinement cell right now. Slashdot's usual piss-poor editorial standards have resulted in your site claiming he is out. Perhaps he will be released on schedule, perhaps not. I hope nobody made the mistake of believing this headline since it is not true and falsely represents that a political prisoner has been freed from solitary.

FIX YOUR EDITORIAL STANDARDS GODDAMNIT.

If it's true, then he's harmful to people, anyone with a brain will damn him as such, and all parties will move on. If it's false, I hope the charges are thrown out swiftly. But if he actually did this, he is too dumb for the spokesperson job.

Teachers (IMO correctly) see themselves as the last line of defense, protecting an ancient tradition of simply having people in your community who are dedicated to the structured improvement and guidance of children. Of course their paycheck factors in, and can be the only factor for some teachers or certain issues. But teachers have always borne the weight of the next generation. People become teachers mostly because they want to improve the next generation. They want a say in how people turn out.

It's possible we'll eventually find out that the one-to-many classroom model is far inferior to self-guided study for the bare mechanical act of learning; but without a social context, intellectual context, or just confirmation that learning activities don't exist in a vacuum, quality of humanness degenerates. Both guidance (on what to learn) and context (on what it all means) become clannish affairs. Society becomes ingrown. The student is the only person he or she sees improving him- or herself. Humility, regard for others, the expectation that others can contribute, any training in the exchanges that add to the learning (or other growth) processes ... wholly self-guided (or automaton-guided) students lack all this, and their brains physically model around this lack of support, lack of regard, and lack of context.

In short, I'm a non-parent / non-teacher and a college dropout, but you can pry my community's teachers from my cold dead hands.