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by trs8080 4y ago
> So the police will literally stand across the street and watch a street vendor get robbed and do nothing. Are you saying that SFPD is not stopping crimes that are occurring in front of them because they believe that the suspect will no
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by trs8080 4y ago
> I call him with a first name basis because he's probably the person I know best outside my very best friends and my own family. I've been following and listening to him for a decade now and I know his personality well. You d
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by trs8080 4y ago
This is thinly veiled racist fear mongering from a right wing blog designed to look like a legitimate news organization. Nowhere in that linked slide deck is there anything about "adjusting grading scales to account for the skin color
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by trs8080 4y ago
Sacrificing other people's children at the altar of "freedom" isn't "accepting the risks." What risk have you taken?
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by trs8080 4y ago
> That said, framing the debate around abortion purely as a question of bodily autonomy always seemed to be a very dishonest way of engaging with the debate. Maybe /you/ think it's a dishonest way of engaging with the deba
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by trs8080 5y ago
Literally all of the examples are violent. This isn't just "crazy revenge stories," it's targeted attacks with high death tolls. - Scott Paul Beierle - mass shooting - Roy Den Hollander - murder - "a shooting at an
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by trs8080 5y ago
This still shows the uncombined components. What does the color blue represent in this map? Is it a height? -500m? 5000m? 6000m? What does white represent? This map is a fundamental misrepresentation of the actual data. This is the formula:
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by trs8080 5y ago
I think there's a misunderstanding of the data here. It appears that the underlying data used for this map is DEM data ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_elevation_model ), which encodes values in the red, gree
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by trs8080 5y ago
> Quite possibly. One of the big successes of the law and modern political traditions like liberalism has been demonstrating that the most successful path is when "we" don't respond and provide mechanisms to let individual
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by trs8080 5y ago
The political contextualization of the article exists because this is a social justice magazine for activists called "Rethinking Schools." The "wrong outcomes" you're decrying come from people who are already entren
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by trs8080 5y ago
Agreed. Pride can be healthy when it encourages self-confidence and community, but can quickly become dangerous when it's used to justify supremacy.
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by trs8080 5y ago
Teachers are "authority figures" because their knowledge of education is recognized, accepted, and legally certified. Children ages 5-9 are not always capable of self-governance and sometimes need the guidance of an authority figu
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by trs8080 5y ago
When dealing with children ages 5-9, it is sometimes important to remove an emotional catalyst in order to calmly reflect and have a productive conversation. The Legos were removed, a conversation occurred over several weeks, and the Legos
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by trs8080 5y ago
> This wasn't one guided conversation - this was months of them. Yes, complex topics often require prolonged discussion. "Conversation" can imply an active exchange over the course of time. > And the children were being
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by trs8080 5y ago
> Conversely, I would not share my politics with children, even abstractly Except you already do when you support school curricula that preach the righteousness of Manifest Destiny, whitewash the civil rights movement, extol the virtues
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by trs8080 5y ago
Cooperation, empathy, and a sense of duty.
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by trs8080 5y ago
You should really read the article. A hierarchy formed where children were actively being regulated and excluded by other children. The teachers guided a conversation that allowed for everyone to participate equitably. Your last sentence sa
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by trs8080 5y ago
Says you. Some of us believe that sharing and taking turns is a social obligation -- not a generosity -- necessary to living in a functioning society. Even more of us believe that a small minority should not be allowed to hoard all resource
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by trs8080 5y ago
If you had actually read the article, you would know that this is a private after-school program whose participants are "upper-middle class and socially liberal." Your comment sounds like "MY values aren't being taught s
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by trs8080 5y ago
Fortunately, human beings have gathered into societies which allow them to act in concert and for the benefit of all members of said society. If you'd prefer to not take part in these social structures, feel free to leave. Let us know
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by trs8080 5y ago
> If you just want to forgive debt, why limit it to student loans? Why not forgive healthcare debts? Now we're on the same page! We should absolutely have universal healthcare. > What about consumer debt after Christmas? How abou
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by trs8080 5y ago
> But I guess it gets clicks for the conspiracy-minded who think he's Darth Sidious instead of just some smart rich guy who happens to like Trump This is... not why people dislike Peter Thiel.
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Calif. sues Tesla over alleged rampant discrimination against Black employees(npr.org)
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by trs8080 5y ago
> There is no shortage of evidence if you look for it instead of having it spoon-fed by the media. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=cops+shoots literally all of the videos in that search are coming from broad
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by trs8080 5y ago
Just to be clear here -- based on your response, you believe that the NYT refusing to publish your article is censorship?
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by trs8080 5y ago
I can count on one hand the number of people I've known in my lifetime who are over 7', but met hundreds of students over four years in college who understood recursion. And programming is not the NBA, and people who write code
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by trs8080 5y ago
Does that mean you also rally against video games and movies that depict violence? Would watching a documentary about the Holocaust also be a bridge too far? Keep in mind this is the curriculum for eighth-graders. > hiding that fact behi
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by trs8080 5y ago
"We are talking about teaching ethics to our kids, and it starts out with the dad and the son talking about when the dad lost his virginity. It wasn’t explicit but it was in there. You see the naked pictures, you see the razor, the bla
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by trs8080 5y ago
what's "The Narrative"? sounds like some kind of conspiracy?
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by trs8080 5y ago
> And afterwards, everyone is then either vaccinated or recovered or dead and we can drop all of the precautions. What am I overlooking? a lot of us don't believe in eugenics and condemning our friends and families to die.

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