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by syzarian 4y ago
Shortly before the explosions Russia had shut down Nordstream1 for “maintenance”. This was believed at the time to be an attempt to squeeze gas supplies in Europe in retaliation for sanctions and helping Ukraine. By September 2022 Nordste
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On February 22, 2022 German Chancellor Scholz suspended certification of Nordstream2 following Russia formally recognizing Donetsk and Luhansk as republics. I believe that, but can’t find a confirming source, that Russia was obligated to m
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Germany gets its gas natural gas from Norway now. It would be unlikely that the U.S. would attack the gas supplies of a major NATO ally. Especially when that ally has been less than enthusiastic in helping Ukraine. https://www.
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His reporting on Syria lost him some credibility. It appears from my perspective that he has a bias toward always thinking the U.S. is the culprit. Given the power of the U.S. and it’s history of shenanigans he’ll often times be right. h
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I think it’s plausible that Putin wanted it done. It got Russia out of a contractual obligation and greater isolation of Russian companies makes the oligarchs’ position tied to Putin. The oligarchs can’t go to the West since they’ve been
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He has links in the article but those links don’t give any evidence of what he claims. For instance, he has a link to the Gang of Eight but this doesn’t provide any evidence to what he ways. He uses links in a clever way to make it seem
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Seymour doesn’t provide any proof or any evidence. It’s argument by assertion. What he writes is plausible but without any sources or other corroborating evidence. I think it more believable that Seymour has been paid to write this by a
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That is obviously not a valid translation. It appears you did not understand what I wrote. When dealing with a complex problem, in this case several hundred years of discriminatory practices and laws, it’s not possible to come up with a r
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I really like your phrasing: problems that are not our fault but are now our responsibility That’s a very nice, concise way of summarizing the essence of the issue.
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The U.S. has a long history of discriminating against brown people and an especially nasty history of discriminating against black people. This discrimination was so ingrained amongst the white population that after desegregation public po
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What was the point of rayiner saying that the nurses striking in the UK are public employees? How is that relevant to the point they tried to make? That comment that rayiner made is the non-sequitor since there are lots of examples of non
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Nurses in the U.S. sometimes go on strike. Nurses in the U.K. sometimes go on strike. Neither group goes on strike because their employer is a government. People go on strike due to working conditions and pay; not because their employer
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Other countries provide universal care and access to the system is not determined by how generous your employer is or how much money you have. A lot of people in the U.S. put off care due to upfront costs at the point of usage. This is pa
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In every healthcare system rationing has to occur since there aren’t enough resources to 100% cover everything. The U.S. rations its care in one of the most unethical ways amongst the industrialized nations. The whole system needs a reboo
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Almost everyone in the U.S. spends money they don’t have. We borrow to buy a car, a house, to go to college. When one does not live on the precipice of missing rent and whatnot it is easy to say, “ Don’t spend money you don’t have.” Such
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My limited viewpoint is over 20 years in higher education and experiencing reforms over the years. I’m not an expert in these matters and never claimed to be one. Nor have I given an impression of being an authority. It is common for peop
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It’s not that his math skills needed brushing up. Noether’s Theorem was proven as a result of the need to for conservation laws in his theory of general relativity. She discovered (invented?) the mathematics that demonstrated the existenc
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Every discussion about college success rates that I have been a part of revolved around faculty not doing their job correctly. The latest fashion is doing “trauma informed teaching”. Every reform in math teaching is about the need to chan
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The question was can retarded people learn college algebra. There are some people who can’t learn college algebra.
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If one asserts that anyone can learn any topic, and there are many in higher ed who do assert this, then demonstrating this isn’t true by pointing out that mentally disabled people can’t learn college algebra is enough to demonstrate the ab
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I think you don’t understand what assumption means. I made no assumption in my last sentence. I wrote how your post appears. This is an opinion of mine. This ought to have been clear because I used appears and don’t seem . The rea
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I think you don’t understand the what constitutes flawed logic. If gave a counterexample to the statement: Everyone can learn college algebra. Therefore this statement is not true. We are then left we needing to modify the statement. Wh
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I don't know of any examples of hyper focused, autistic, high achieving leaders. I'm not aware of any examples of hyper focused, high achieving leaders having been confirmed as being autistic. So, for vacuous reasons, the answer
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Of course smart is a vague term and it's not one that can be precisely defined or measured. However, let's consider the question, Can a mentally disabled person learn college algebra? The answer is yes or no, or some can but
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Elon Musk is both smart and an asshole in my opinion. Same for Dr. House. The two properties are not mutually exclusive.
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I don't know why you are down voted. I've been accused of racism for saying that some people are smarter than others. I guess it is a given for some people that a person's worthiness is tied to their intelligence. I hold n
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by syzarian 4y ago
Indeed. It is surprising how often I've been chastised for saying that some people are smarter than others. Relatedly I believe that some people are just incapable of learning, for example, college algebra. As an extreme example can
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From the abstract: These findings pose a challenge for theories of learning to explain the odd combination of large variation in student initial performance and striking regularity in student learning rate. My anecdotal experience from te
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You come across as being a bit fragile whilst complaining about being recommended to read White Fragility . Just seeing a recommendation for that book - not a requirement to read it - appears to cause consternation. I find this ironic. N
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And how does that help the feeling the poster has now? Of course in hindsight it will be known if things are as bad as the poster thinks. Why state the obvious that in the future it will be known if this present time was as bad as some th

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