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by akramachamarei 5mo ago
> But I also understand that accelerated classes have tended to allocate more resources to students who are already succeeding. Where does your understanding come from? I'd imagine that educating less-gifted (intellectually or socio
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> Within the wider historical scope In what situations would you attribute effects to concrete, near-term causes instead or abstract, historical ones? In particular, why do you attribute academic success in some areas to historical racis
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by akramachamarei 5mo ago
The article compares in particular Grokipedia to Wikipedia, and it states: > Similarity measures across the two platforms reveal a bimodal structure: many Grokipedia articles closely resemble their Wikipedia counterparts, while a conside
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by akramachamarei 5mo ago
Yeah that would be good to address too. I wonder if we'd end up with vertically stacked Representatives like in Star Wars.
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by akramachamarei 5mo ago
What about the notion of No Taxation without Representation? With that in mind, shouldn't you get to vote wherever you are (substantially) taxed?
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by akramachamarei 5mo ago
Do they? It's an interesting question whether resources can be spawned by fiat. I think the only entity capable of doing so is the government, i.e. when it prints money.
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Yes
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by akramachamarei 5mo ago
I think we need to review what is being discussed. The comment to which I replied said: > They're probably referring to the millions of dollars of gifts Clarence Thomas received over the years, often just prior to ruling in the gift
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by akramachamarei 5mo ago
I'm not sure what you mean by happen "with." But, as a random online, my prediction is that nothing will happen. The whole media hubbub came and went, and IIRC Thomas slowed down the gift getting afterwards. I don't see
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by akramachamarei 5mo ago
Please see my response above. Your presumption of malice is... quite odd, and frankly somewhat lazy.
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by akramachamarei 5mo ago
Not cherrypicking, honest, officer! Anyway, I didn't include those stats since scotusblog hasn't presented them yet... probably because they aren't even done deciding/releasing all the 2025 cases! (And the SCOTUS term is
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by akramachamarei 5mo ago
Citation needed? Refer to a dictionary ;). I think the big question mark is on "you subsequently decide cases along party lines." Citation needed? This I think is the major stumbling block in the public perception of the court. It
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by akramachamarei 5mo ago
Same reason as any gift? Friendship and fun :)
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by akramachamarei 5mo ago
Sure, but as far as I can tell, there's no evidence that happened. And I think I would have heard about it if the journalists were able to mention it. The correct metaphor is if you had an interest in a case, gave Clarence Thomas $10 a
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by akramachamarei 5mo ago
Note that, when you say "ruling in the gift givers favor," we should be careful not to imply that the gift givers were involved in any Supreme Court cases. At least, not Harlan Crow, who is the big name on this topic, was not invo
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by akramachamarei 5mo ago
You'll see many comments here complaining about the corruption or partisanship of the Supreme Court. Notably, though, no actual accusations of bribery (gifts to judges from people not involved in cases is not bribery), nor are any opin
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by akramachamarei 5mo ago
I have no gotcha. You've just upset me. I made a mistake talking to you.
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I am struck, in reading his paraphrasing of Torniello's instructions, by their potential fitness as a classroom geometry exercise. You could assign students each a letter or two; might be fun.
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by akramachamarei 5mo ago
Coconuts are fruit, actually. Also while corn kernels and soy beans are technically seeds, they are, at least in my opinion, pretty far from the vernacular definition of seed. Part of this is that soy is a legume, corn a cereal, unlike saff
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by akramachamarei 5mo ago
So, I can't find anything on Wikipedia at least about Kirk being a neo-Nazi or a white supremacist, and I'm not sure what you mean by unwilling to debate. (Like did he turn down debates or...?) But I can see how the optics of havi
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by akramachamarei 5mo ago
You're really struggling with nuance. Yes, he judges the 2nd amendment dangers an acceptable tradeoff. That's a reasonable belief. He doesn't conceptualize school shootings et al as "freak accidents". That would be
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They shouldn't be killed for it. The allergy to even bad faith debate which apparently so incensed his shooter is a problem. Again, this is why I think it wasn't unreasonable he might be this center's namesake.
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Uhh so this is an Iowa thing, and China has already been running reeducation camps without feeling a need to justify itself by comparison. Also it's confusing why you think some other country would say this given that there's noth
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by akramachamarei 5mo ago
Uh, yeah. That was like, one of the major things he was known for, earning the epithet of a "debate-me bro".
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Source?
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Since when was Thomas Massie a populist?
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I don't think parent was praising Trump, neither directly nor indirectly by praising populism.
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You can lead a horse to water, but can't make him drink. The students might not even be that thirsty anyway.
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I think the Iranian school bombing was pretty clearly a mistake, given its proximity to an IRGC base, and (IIRC) the previous usage of that plot of land for military purposes, suggesting an issue of outdated target intelligence. That compou
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by akramachamarei 5mo ago
On the contrary, this statement about force and boarding has been repeated and also countered numerous times. For one, I've yet to see the "forced" claim elaborated. Leveraging retaliatory tariffs is not an act of force--that

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