Amezarak

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by Amezarak 3y ago
Electing judges does not preclude having legal requirements for running or holding the position. I’d wager more states have requirements like “must have practiced law in state x for y years” than not. Mine does. Going into this judge’s back
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by Amezarak 3y ago
Weekend custody exchanges are a pretty common case.
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It certainly matters to the poorer people who could buy more stuff if their tax burden was shifted more fairly. This has concrete effects: VAT has no impact on a wealthy person say, stocking every room in his house with a 80” 4K TV, while i
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by Amezarak 3y ago
There is of course no national US sales tax and every state does it differently - some even have no sales tax at all - but generally speaking, it’s already structured to prevent double-taxing situations like the one you’re describing (plus
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by Amezarak 3y ago
I’ve never been sympathetic to the American argument that we want people to constantly feel how much they’re paying in taxes, but VAT might be a good point in their favor. VAT is very high (20-25% in many countries) and horrifically regress
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Considering education majors are as a group among the academically poorest performing majors, I think your concerns are unfounded. Consider also the educational fads like three-cueing that actively harmed children. A few decades ago, most t
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by Amezarak 3y ago
It sounds like the article is about parents holding themselves fully accountable for their children’s education. The problem is what you do with the parents who do not care at all. People making these statements that “it’s about the parents
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One imagines that students with any reason to suspect the university they're applying to will not know enough about their high school, or possibly derogatory information about their high school, will submit an application with test sco
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> Because they have some kind of accreditation body that monitors and approves the schools with established standards and approved/documented practices, whereas homeschool does not? There are "accredited" homeschool progra
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by Amezarak 3y ago
How else do you think a transcript should work? What makes you think a random private school transcript has anything else backing it up? Presumably the students are also applying with ACT/SAT scores in hand, which do have an establishe
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Similarly, there are many public school horror stories. For example, despite spending $21k/student, making it the third-highest funded school system in the country, 23 Baltimore schools failed to produce a single student with basic mat
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This is completely incorrect. "Color" was spelled "color" in England throughout its history. "Colour" was a later variant that came along later and existed alongside "color" for many years. America ev
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by Amezarak 3y ago
I don't think the discussion is about the truth or untruth of the motivations behind "15 minute cities", but the fact the author of the article clearly believes that disagreement with the policy is disinformation and should b
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by Amezarak 3y ago
The GP is probably referring to this: > After the worst of the pandemic was over, those same falsehoods fed into other conspiracy theories that continue to disrupt society. The original white paper that was the bill’s foundation included
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Make sure to bookmark this for the next discussion where people insist nothing like this can happen in Europe.
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I didn’t say they were just as good. They’re not. What I suggested is that many to most academic historians are also relying on translations.
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Considering one of the best-known and well-regarded classicists of the 21st century admits she has enormous difficulty reading Latin texts she hasn't read before, I don't think reading mostly translations sets you any worse off th
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by Amezarak 3y ago
Sure, clearly diaries would be even better being closer to the time in question, no argument there. Better educated than the average layman? Certainly. Than the average history buff? Maybe. Depends on the historian and the history buff. Goi
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by Amezarak 3y ago
> History, as written by historians, is applying source criticism to primary sources. Unfortunately, most "source criticism" is absolutely atrocious and developed primarily as part of the publish-or-perish paradigm, of such low
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Most wars are not the "good" guys vs the "bad" guys. In many of the cases you mention, I have no idea who you even think the good guys were.
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An injected vaccine was never going to cut a respiratory virus off from human reservoirs. The mucosal immune compartment has a nearly independent immune response, including antibody production. Mild and asymptomatic cases were never going t
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by Amezarak 3y ago
Values are axiomatic. How do you propose people compare them? Simply declaring their values Bad and our values Good isn’t helpful. Nobody thinks their own values are bad, and you can’t reason yourself or others into having different values.
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by Amezarak 3y ago
It is not productive to declare that the people who don't agree with your policy goals are emotional, uneducated, and unsophisticated, clinging to "irrationality." People have different values. They may not be able to articul
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by Amezarak 3y ago
Click the parent link on my post. This is the full text: > In the last couple of years I've been thinking more often about a Venus scenario where life does not survive. We are just hoping that life will find a new equilibrium in the
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by Amezarak 3y ago
I’m responding to the comments about the extinction of life on Earth, not the extinction of humanity. As you can see on the graph, for most of the last 500 million years the Earth was hotter than it is now, and obviously there was life. I w
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https://www.climate.gov/news-features/climate-qa/whats-hotte... See, in particular: http://www.climate.gov/media/11332 We have a long, long way to go before Earth could be considered hot by h
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Witch did not imply woman in former centuries. For example, if you take a look at the "witches" executed during the Salem witch trials, many of them are men, including the alleged ringleader; George Burroughs, George Jacobs, Joh
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Christianized Jews and Jews generally were spread throughout and beyond the empire. The persecutions, even postwar, were terrible but relatively localized and there is no reason to believe it involved the mass redaction of all existing docu
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I'm not sure why you think an explanation involving a vast empire-spanning conspiracy supported with widespread propaganda and centuries of silence and suppression even from its enemies is more likely than the usual naturalistic explan
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> For centuries English kings thought they were the descendants of King Arthur because of what a cleric wrote in the early 12th century. Stories of Arthur uncontroversially predate the 12th century, and it is an open debate as to whethe

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