While Gaggle is indeed crazy intrusive, they're not really alone in this world of K12 monitoring. GoGuardian and Lightspeed Systems are doing the same thing, perhaps to a lesser degree, but maybe not.
For example, administrators using GoGuardian can get 'Smart Alerts' for 'self-harm' and other objectionable material. They'll receive an email that includes a screenshot of the material in question, and for G Suite, it spans Google search, Docs, and effectively any Google service.
However, that said, I just tried to pull up a link for GoGuardian and noticed they have this disclaimer:
"Please note: Smart Alerts for the "Self-Harm" category is no longer available for new customers. For more information, please reach out to your sales representative."
I completely agree with you here on everything, I just think that conservatives here could easily get riled into supporting coal merely for political reasons. You're right, there's not a huge quantity of reasons to like it, but in our binary political culture, I could see them getting behind it.
I mean, we have Texas oil barons that are blocking access to public land in the McCall area that has really great hunting, but the Idaho legislators here opted not to pass legislation to help regular Idahoans have access. Why? Private property and individual rights were the big reasons I read, which clearly affects most Idahoans, but for some reason they didn't support them.
I don't completely buy into the notion that conservatives here are conservationists. I think there definitely are some that are, but I think larger contributing factors are that we have an abundance of renewable energy (hydro, wind, and sun), low population, and a ton of federally-owned land.
We have so much hydro power that some of our dams aren't even owned by Idaho Power. For example, Lucky Peak Dam, which provides flood control for the Boise River and Boise, has a power plant there that is actually owned by Seattle City Light that provides 4% of Seattle's power (1).
Also, Idaho doesn't have a lot of fossil fuels to harvest (2), so this likely plays into lack of desire for coal. Mining in the north and agriculture in the south are our primary economic drivers.
In terms of the politics, our legislature this year just barely formed a committee to discuss climate change, but our governor did say it exists and is a problem, so who knows? I suppose I tend to think that our population's demand for electricity is no where near greater than our supply, which is why demand for coal isn't really there.
However, if someone from the outside wanted to install a coal power plant, I think conservatives here would easily support it. That may be my cynicism coming through, but I could easily see Trump advocating for it and then the freedom trucks with their freedom flags and freedom coal rolling exhausts would rally to support this.
> Cities change. They always change. Sometimes they change in ways a particular person likes; sometimes they don't. But this whole business of "good Seattle" is just crap.
I echo this sentiment here in Boise, Idaho, and we seem to be in the middle of this change. Companies all over being recruited into the Treasure Valley, and the cities here are dealing with these growing pains of being an attractive place to live that has jobs and low unemployment.
Some of the "locals", however, seem to think we can have economic prosperity and growth without the negative externalities that sometimes accompany it. I think the "locals" would be happier in small towns a few hours outside of Boise, where they're not really changing (although brain drain is a bit of an issue in rural America).
You know, Lenovo tried reinventing the keyboard a few years ago with their X1 Carbons by putting on a touch bar with function keys, volume keys, etc. and it was horrible. Trying to do any terminal work was horrible; for example, my insert key was touchbar FN + I or something ridiculous like that.
AFAIK, they didn't reproduce that model. Surprised Apple didn't take note.
https://www.daysofwonder.com/memoir-44/