hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
3hr ago
The governor’s address is public information.
hydroacetylene
3hr ago
Normie red tribers do not think soccer is gay, they just think it isn’t for them- like basketball or bike racing or something.
hydroacetylene
3hr ago
Isn’t China’s population data known to be particularly bad because of high levels of fraud by government officials trying to inflate their own importance?
hydroacetylene
3hr ago
Uh, didn't the local chapter of the TPUSA play a starring role?
hydroacetylene
6hr ago
I think it was probably written to get the Oklahoma congress to take up the problem of increasing supervision on state universities to 'prevent anti-Christian discrimination' and demonstrates the minimum amount of effort needed for that purpose.
hydroacetylene
6hr ago
I mean, it's very plausible she didn't put a lot of effort into the essay. This was clearly intended as a political stunt. I suspect it worked better than it was supposed to- the goal was probably to testify about the need to give TPUSA actual legal authorities over state universities before the Oklahoma house.
hydroacetylene
6hr ago
The obvious place to start would be the following question: "Let's see the other essays submitted and the grades they received." I would imagine someone asking that question is why the school has so abruptly sided with Fulnecky, because I would bet a hundred bucks to the charity of my opposite's choice that there were objectively worse essays given better grades in that grading pile. Do you think I'm overly confident in that assessment, particularly given the school's response? If you don't, then what's the basis of our disagreement?
I mean, the University of Oklahoma almost certainly is highly worried about the state government taking away big chunks of its independence for political reasons, and telling a trans TA(so not even a professor) to shut up and sit down is a small price to pay.
hydroacetylene
6hr ago
At OU? She would have been speaking in the Oklahoma statehouse which would pass a law restricting the university's independence, maybe. That may have been the goal. But losing the war was gonna be implausible.
hydroacetylene
23hr ago
I mean, covid happened in 2020, and permanently smashed social trust for a huge percentage of the population.
hydroacetylene
23hr ago
I'm going to back this one up- no one in my bubble thinks the economy is bad.
hydroacetylene
23hr ago
I mean it might be the University of Oklahoma, but it's still the University of Oklahoma, that is, a state flagship. It doesn't get the serious bottom of the barrel students- in the local neighborhood Texas Tech or Kansas State would be the schools notorious for graduating students who are barely literate. This isn't some HBCU or Police-Department-Requires-a-Diploma mill.
hydroacetylene
23hr ago
Who the hell is pushing for higher standards and more rigor at universities? Literally who? Like that's not going to happen. And state schools in flyover aren't going to be leading the charge on that even if you get a genie out of a bottle.
hydroacetylene
23hr ago
This woman very obviously submitted an essay to court controversy. But it's interesting to note- the Oklahoma government is actually based. Principled, but based. And the university is just kind of automatically taking her side(really, it was not a good essay and deserved a failing grade). This looks to me more like evidence that the university is subservient than evidence of it being despoiled.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
I mean, Turkmenistan is the most oppressive country in the region(and it borders Iran and Afghanistan, in an area where democracy is unheard of). It has a history of dictators doing absurd personality cult things like forced karaoke and… everything about the Ruhnama. It’s probably on a preexisting ‘yeah, these guys are baddies if we ever decide to give a shit about them’ list.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Carol would generally be regarded as more Catholic than Bob by most practicing Catholics and by the church hierarchy. This matrix is a live question and the Catholic Church has a literal definition of the minimum standards to be accounted a practicing Catholic- the six precepts of the church.
If Carol was a public figure she might be subject to church discipline for heretical views(Nancy Pelosi notably is), which would change the equation. But church discipline is not levied against random people for heresy.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Wasn’t nursing always a college track? It used to only require an associates degree(and as a legal matter, still does- nurses getting bachelors is mostly employer driven rather than regulatory) but it was never ‘trade school’.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
We have a word for genuine street smarts- wisdom. You’ll notice these people rarely call themselves, or are described as, wise.
There’s definitely wise men who are not so good at math or books. And there’s definitely math whizzes and literary geniuses who are not so wise. But the first group doesn’t tend to use the word ‘street smarts’.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
This often requires expensive diagnosis shopping (though it takes less and less shopping every year) and
Correct me if I’m wrong, but while learning deficit diagnoses are still cartoonishly easy to get, they’ve actually gotten harder since they entered the popular consciousness in the bush era. ADHD is still almost always a garbage bag diagnosis but in theory it now actually requires at least some supporting evidence, when in the past it did not.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
‘Those who can’t, teach’- except that American schools actually do very well. Once adjusted for race American schools are the best in the world.
They engage in lots of very expensive boondoggles, yes, and could improve pedagogy, but that’s just normal waste in an institution that is immune from criticism and oversight.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
It makes perfect sense for ethical vegans/vegetarians to see roadkill as different from butchered meat. I disagree with their perspective strongly, but it has considerable internal logic, and is endorsed by PETA(albeit in typical clown show fashion).
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Even assuming they’re real, which they may not be, there’s plenty of jobs that would be OK for his conditions.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
No. The pope is not infallible on scientific matters.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Only half of self identified evangelicals attend church weekly.
Oh it’s worse than that. There’s three methods of counting church attendance-
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is survey data- just asking people how often they go to church. For social desirability reasons, this tends to be biased upwards, but it’s probably close enough for government work to the monthly rate, or the Christmas and Easter rate.
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is checking attendance counts at the churches themselves, which suffers from poor and inconsistent methodology. There’s also usually no way to tell which people are going to church here.
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is cell phone tracking data. This is almost certainly an undercount for a wide variety of technical reasons- notably reception tends to be worse in church buildings and attendees tend to ping less than elsewhere because of behavior at church(lots of people have their cell phones off, for example).
So basically we have no way of knowing what actual church attendance rates are, except that the ‘official’ rates are overestimates.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
I mean if he could finish law school he could have a nice career as an accountant or teacher or something.
I’ll have you know I’m actually fourteen.
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