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I don't know what that measns.

VPN = Virtual Private Network

It's used by some people (such as companies with their employees) to set up a secure network such that remote employees can validate that they are within the network when they use company-approved applications that occur "within the company firewall".

It can also be used to obfuscate your personal computer IP address and network by routing yourself through an intermediary (the VPN), which many people use for some nefarious purposes like pirating movies/etc, such that anyone who tries to figure out who is on the other end of a computer connection will see the VPN's IP address, not the actual user's. 

Your IP address typically also associates to your general location, so if you connect to a website it can use your IP address to try to determine your location. For example, Windows has a weather app in the taskbar. When I'm not connected to my work VPN, it believes I'm in Mission Viejo. When I connect to my work VPN, it assigns me an IP address within the company domain and advertises an IP address based upon company HQ, and thus it suddenly thinks I'm in San Jose, CA and displays the weather there. 

If you had some sort of VPN or something else advertising an LA-based IP address from your home laptop when you go to Google's website, they think you're in LA. So if you pull up Maps, it'll default to a location in the LA area. 

But if you don't know what a VPN is, you're almost assuredly not using one. So I don't know why Google thinks you're in LA. 

public schools don't need VPNs

it's public

How did you teach/work remotely without VPN?

Some other platform?

Perhaps it’s just running in the background and he doesn’t know?

Downside, Badge, you know what this is. So no supreme court spot for you. Senate might be out too. 

I would prefer to be in the 4th branch of government, so I could dictate policy from my basement, with no chance of any ramifications. 

Thank for your support.

SCOTUS has stayed enforcement of the Biden/OSHA vaccine mandate:

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/21pdf/21a244_hgci.pdf

To be clear, while most in media won't make this distinction, this has NOT decided the issue at SCOTUS of whether or not the vaccine mandate is Constitutional. The issue at hand is whether OSHA is allowed to enforce the mandate while the various legal issues are litigated, and SCOTUS said no... No enforcement of the mandate is permissible until it's actually fully decided.

However, the important part is that the Court in general issued the stay on enforcement partially because they openly stated that the petitioners requesting the stay are likely to prevail. So they definitely made their opinions felt...

SCOTUS has stayed enforcement of the Biden/OSHA vaccine mandate:

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/21pdf/21a244_hgci.pdf

To be clear, while most in media won't make this distinction, this has NOT decided the issue at SCOTUS of whether or not the vaccine mandate is Constitutional. The issue at hand is whether OSHA is allowed to enforce the mandate while the various legal issues are litigated, and SCOTUS said no... No enforcement of the mandate is permissible until it's actually fully decided.

However, the important part is that the Court in general issued the stay on enforcement partially because they openly stated that the petitioners requesting the stay are likely to prevail. So they definitely made their opinions felt...

Looking at a few of the more serious legal sources I check, sounds like that was mostly expected, just because it was an aggressive reading of the law. 

I had a friend who was explaining how it was scary and wrong. I said I'd check the good lawyers, he said there was one specific source he used. I looked at the source, and was alas sad to realize it was one of those partisan content millers you find. Every headline about how the world is about to be very mean to my side. Disheartening, but not uncommon. 

Sadly today I learned of the death of a coworkers dad from COVID. I met the man a time or two.  He was 69. Unsure if he had other health issues or what.

Sorry to hear that Gigem.