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Rov_Scam
19hr ago
Forget the Duolingo. It looks like most of the "teaching" this school does is plopping the kids in front of computer education modules that give them feedback on the problems. One wonders why they need "guides" who make 100k a year to not teach them. Presumably the effect of a good teacher is proportional to the amount of teaching they actually do.
phailyoor
19hr ago
Asian tiger parent culture is different due to bugman conformalism. They send their kids to extra lessons to get ahead in public school, the same one normal kids go to. Not this abomination that this parent is getting into.
VoxelVexillologist
Multidimensional Radical Centrist
19hr ago
PP seems to show up in lots of anecdotes about cross-sex hormone prescriptions, especially for trans minors with relatively few questions asked. As far as I can tell (see SCOTUS thread) those are rather controversial. But I can't say what fraction of their business that is.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
19hr ago
I... don't actually know what we can do about it, other than to let the blue tribe shrivel up and die from the low fertility this produces.
Considering this guy has three kids, this plan isn't panning out in this case.
Fruck
Lacks all conviction
19hr ago
Like you say though, the dose makes the poison, and there's always a risk. I had a bit of a similar experience with pot to your experience with mushrooms. For a long time I followed the advice of the doctors - I'd always refuse it when offered because of its well recognised effects on people like me. But about a decade ago my depression felt overwhelming and that was around the time psychedelics were showing promising results (ecstacy was also being trialled at the time in Australia, I wonder why it didn't take off like psilocybin?) so I wanted to try mushrooms or LSD, but I didn't know anyone who had access and couldn't get into a trial due to my condition. So in a desperate move to just feel something different, I tried pot.
It has basically fixed me. Ok it was probably the CBD and that's hyperbole, I still have the paranoia and the over inclusive reasoning and holistic bias, but I regret not trying it sooner with all my heart. I have stability, a community I love and who has my back, and I no longer need anti-anxiety, anti-depressant or anti-psychotic medication. But I was never taking massive doses - even when I wanted to get high I'm too paranoid to tolerate the cognitive impact.
Also I don't blame the doctors or anything - they were doing the best they could with the information available to them, and people are unique. But like prima said, it's under-researched. In fact to counter balance what I just said, my brother (who is mentally healthy) also avoided pot for the same reason, but accidentally ate an edible while visiting our uncle and came close to disassociating completely and reckons it took him half a year to get over it. And I've met plenty of schizophrenics who were triggered by pot. It's not a gamble I'd suggest others take.
OliveTapenade
19hr ago
No, it's actually just correct. Being a citizen of the US is a reward for anyone not entitled to it by blood. We're the best. Everyone knows it.
I have family members who lived in the United States for over a decade, on permanent visas. They went there for work, and undoubtedly contributed to American prosperity. Their presence was completely legal.
Eventually they were offered pathways to American citizenship.
They refused, because they didn't want to be American citizens. They wanted to leave and come back home to Australia, which they eventually did. They sometimes still visit the US for business reasons, but only for short stays. They tell me quite frankly that they prefer living in Australia and view Australian citizenship as preferable to American.
Are they wrong?
self_made_human
C'est la vie
19hr ago
Reading the motte could certainly be damaging to some minors. I wonder how many people would participate if they had to send a picture of their driving license to the mods first.
I wouldn't mind, I'd just be looking at my own driving license.
Hmm.. I wonder if there's room for "creative" thinking here. Every new member is automatically promoted to mod status temporarily, verifies their own ID, and then resigns with dignity before becoming a normal participant.
HughCaulk
19hr ago
Yeah same with alcohol bro. How many people die from drunk driving every year?
HughCaulk
20hr ago
Agreed, clinical trials are just a bullshit way to approach these drugs/medicines imo.
For you personally, yeah go on a forest walk and get into nature. That’s the real way to experience these drugs and most likely to have a positive life changing experience.
If you’re really ADD and need stimulation, maybe just go to a music festival then?
hydroacetylene
20hr ago
I'm not sure that you're hearing what I'm saying. In 1890 it would have been normal to say 'so, you've been seeing my daughter for three months already, do you need her ring size?' The shortness of the courtship and the reminders from dad as to the reason for dating in the first place was a big part of how the whole shotgun wedding mentality worked.
AvocadoPanic
20hr ago
There isn't a crime rate minimum for opening an adult bookstore.
No. But typically they can't be near schools, parks, houses of worship, other areas frequented by children etc.
They are excluded from some areas because of the nuisance they bring.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
20hr ago
Sure but that's vastly different.
"We're in a good faith relationship, and a pregnancy results, and we decide to move our timeline forward and get serious."
Has little in common with
"He thinks we're just having fun, I'm hoping to have his baby and force him to get serious."
hydroacetylene
20hr ago
That person is not me.
JarJarJedi
20hr ago
If Congress didn't declare war, committing an act of war is illegal and unconstitutional.
No it is not. You are welcome to provide a single precedent confirming otherwise, and the list of Presidents prosecuted for Vietnam, Korea, Libya, Grenada, Panama, Yugoslavia, and similar military actions. I don't even require a conviction - a mere holding by any appropriate judicial authority, such as SCOTUS, that all these usages of military were illegal, and that the Supreme Commander of the Military has no rights to use the military without congressional vote, would suffice. Absent that, I will be forced to conclude you pulled this judicial opinion from some place where you have tattoos - which is usually not a good source of judicial opinions.
I got it from carefully reading my tattoo of the US constitution.
No you did not, unless of course Article 2 is tatooed in some place that is hard for you to reach. And even if you did, US jurisprudence somewhat developed since 1789, and one of the things that has been well established and confirmed by numerous precedent is the power of the President to employ the military. It is not absolute - if you have some un-tatooed places left, you can probably fit War Powers Act somewhere. After you are done with that, you may think about why the Congress required the President to merely notify them in 48 hours about something that you claim is completely illegal and unconstitutional - and then gives them 60 days to keep doing it, and then another 30 days to keep doing it. Is Congress really unaware that it all has been illegal from the start? Did you do you civil duty and tell them so they could fix this colossal blunder?
I didn't get this from whatever fantasy of Democratic talking points you're imagining
My imagination is so powerful that is reflected on TV, in major Democratic newspapers and in many speeches of Democratic politician. How stupid of me to imagine this silliness instead of using my vast powers to imagine myself a billionaire!
5434a
20hr ago
Can somebody classpill me on contraception? Class considerations on this are utterly foreign to me beyond "back street abortions with makeshift implements and voodoo herbs = desperate and/or ignorant" and "rhythm method = Catholic".
hydroacetylene
20hr ago
Ken Paxton is not running for reelection(he wants to be a senator instead) and only targeting homosexuals and pornsites is... very like him anyways.
gattsuru
20hr ago
"We won't enforce the 10k USD/day, promise , unless it gets too gay" is putting a lot of trust in Ken Paxton.
EDIT: I agree that he very probably won't go after the vast majority of such websites. I also think the only thing limiting him from picking up the weakest-looking inmate and slamming them into the wall is wanting to get some as-applied challenges settled first, and the one-in-one-hundred risk of that will make a lot of changes in behavior.
hydroacetylene
20hr ago
He openly admits he's a eugenicist, prioritizes abortion access, and c'mon, do you really believe the population of South Carolinans he doesn't want reproducing isn't extremely black-heavy?
In @hydroacetylene's defense the OP has been pretty open (both on the motte and elsewhere) about their belief in the significant "eugenic benefits" of maximizing access to abortion in states with large populations of negroes and/or Trump voters even if they have never clearly stated what those benefits are supposed to be.
hydroacetylene
20hr ago
I guess I like orgasms more than you. Or maybe you get much more enjoyment out of videogames than I ever have.
hydroacetylene
20hr ago
I tried to read the book review before making a top level response, I really did. But I couldn't make it past this part without going on a rant:
In practice “deep” just meant “un‑measured.”
It should certainly raise our hackles when an organization claims its strengths are unmeasurable. Like maybe these people are lying.
But more to the point, there seems to be this mentality of the educational institution being what matters. Not results, not the kids. The system. Spending more money on public schools is automatically better, even if it's spent on buying cigarettes to pass out to the kids it's better than spending the money on some not-public-school-related thing. Iron law I suppose.
None of this is casting shade on individual teachers, who mostly care about how the kids are doing, would like to be paid more but wouldn't everybody, and are simply very conformist women who've been taught that people pulling ideas out of their assholes are 'experts' who should be listened to. Union heads and admins, on the other hand...
I think we see this mentality on wild display with the principle in this first section- she is, by virtue of her position, entitled to deference and respect and obviously knows best, correspondence to reality be damned.
I went to a Montessori school from first through sixth grade, this wasn’t a completely unschooling experience (in first through third grade they made us learn how to read, learn basic arithmetic, etc. but 3rd - 6th grade is basically as you described, except that in addition to the library we had works (such as a board that used beads for doing long division etc.), which we could choose from). I learned a lot of roman history, played a lot of RuneScape and developed a love of gardening which I have retained to the present day. I had no trouble catching up when I entered a regular middle school for 7th grade (I actually tested a year ahead in my science and math courses). This experience has left me with a very strong belief that kids should be taught how to read, preform basic arithmetic and learn to socialize with others in elementary school and otherwise be left alone.
Okay? So ban porn advertising on any site that targets children. I'm pretty sure that law isn't even necessary because websites have a lot more control over their ads than stores have over their neighborhood.
If a city council sorted their areas by crime rate and excluded adult bookstores from the bottom X%, then I'm pretty sure the (prospective) store owners would have a good case the restrictions are illegal. If the city pulled all its cops and banned private security from them, it would be a slam-dunk case.
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