jdmtheNth

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by jdmtheNth 4y ago
I've always though it was absurd to have a kid get his or her teachers certificate and just start teaching. I'd rather see someone mature, with life experience teaching because they know things outside the narrowly-delineated curr
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It's worse now that they are lowering the standards to enter medical school.
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My experience of teachers is in Canada, and spans my children's (15 and 25) current and completed school careers and my wife's employment at the local university's BEd program. While I've met a couple of exceptional and
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by jdmtheNth 4y ago
Everyone has something to teach you, however stupid they may seem. You just have to figure out what it is.
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by jdmtheNth 4y ago
Take your pick; it seems to be a progressive plank that children should be having sex: https://twitter.com/i/status/1624391129259966467 https://thepostmillennial.com/philadelphia-quaker-school-sex.
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by jdmtheNth 4y ago
Remediation is the word environmental cleanup companies often use. Essentially just removing the top ten or fifteen feet of soil and saying "all clean". Interestingly, all a company needs to do to demonstrate that an area is clean
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by jdmtheNth 4y ago
Like that fellow that claims children are sexual beings from birth? He wants to start sex ed at 3.
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by jdmtheNth 4y ago
Satanic panic 2 is seeing "far right" plots and nazis everywhere.
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by jdmtheNth 4y ago
I'd like it to be aliens, but knowing that about myself, I'm going to need rock-solid proof.
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by jdmtheNth 4y ago
I don't even understand the concept of "passion". There is nothing I enjoy doing, nothing I look forward to. I work because it's everyone's responsibility to pay their own way. I'm just counting sleeps until th
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by jdmtheNth 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_science
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by jdmtheNth 4y ago
Omnivore, the way humans are evolved to be.
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by jdmtheNth 4y ago
Creatives tend towards mental instability. This is why people in Hollywood should be treated like trained circus bears. Be entertained and amazed that they act just like real people, but for heaven's sake, don't trust their judgme
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Racism harms wildlife, too [pdf](rlearley.people.ua.edu)
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"Dry scooping is a novel dietary practice characterized by consuming pre-workout powders without mixing with a liquid as directed." From the abstract.
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The Great Pizza Funeral of 1973(reason.com)
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by jdmtheNth 4y ago
The article sounds plausible, but I just don't know...
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Is Death Reversible?(popularmechanics.com)
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I didn't realize just how much people hate musk and what they're willing to upload to discredit him.
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I don't. Consequently, I've held a series of low-paying jobs all my life, each one only marginally better than the last. I understand the importance of networking, I just don't have access to anyone, nor the ability to sell
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NYC Buses Migrants to Canada(bbc.com)
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by jdmtheNth 4y ago
Interesting. Deny men the jobs they want, force them into psychologically and socially-damaging unemployment, and maybe then their pride will be sufficiently broken to accept jobs that they don't want. I guess we'll always sewer
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by jdmtheNth 4y ago
I'm not a computer guy, what's the likelihood of this working for its intended purpose?
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by jdmtheNth 4y ago
As long as there are more people that will do a given job for less, we're all replaceable. There's just no incentive to raise the wages or standards.
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by jdmtheNth 4y ago
This seems like a great idea, especially for cities. I wonder if it would be worth the effort to try to capture methane for heating, industry, etc. I've always thought there had to be a productive use for corpses, somehow.
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by jdmtheNth 4y ago
I've pre-ordered mine. Counterculture should have its say. https://quillette.com/2023/02/06/colonialism-and-its-discont...
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by jdmtheNth 4y ago
https://spsp.org/news-center/character-context-blog/stereoty...
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by jdmtheNth 4y ago
It won't matter if Hollywood keeps putting out crap. I find maybe one movie per year worth spending money on.
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Art by committee, or corporation, can never be worthwhile.
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by jdmtheNth 4y ago
Cool. What's it called in Ki-Swahili? Or Maori? Haida?

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