Citing what I saw on Philip DeFranco earlier, apparently in a shutdown the executive branch has a lot of power in terms of what specifics get shutdown and how.
Was news to me considering the shitshow that happens every time the budget needs to be voted on but with all the DOGEness going on makes sense that there’s extra caution around this. Still sucks that Dems rolled over so easily.
Deep? Can Musk and DOGE count as deep state with how new they are to government (if you can call DOGE that)? He’s not even from the US, he’s so far out he’s circled back around to deep state.
Then again, foreign actors blatantly controlling the white house seems to be the trend right now
I have immediate family in the US and one of the main reasons I don’t visit is because I am legit afraid shit like this or worse will happen.
Feel like the wording of this headline implies that all Gen Z is LGBTQ+
Not saying that would be a bad thing to be clear
I feel like this professor pissed off a lot of students who joined his class expecting sermons or something. Did more to reinforce my atheism than anything else. He was a good dude
Knew a theology professor (ended up in his class for credits somehow) who went with the “multiple Jesus’s” theory. Apparently it’s quite possible that stories of a variety of healers/figures got combined into the Jesus mythos. Explains a lot of the time and geographical inconsistencies with the historical record iirc
I’d like to say I did that on purpose to show how dumb they’d be renaming it, but it is I who can’t remember my East and West
True. Guess it’s more like them getting Google to change Greenland into West Alaska
Imagine being a tourist in the US, looking for an address you believe to be say, Martin Luther King Street. Can’t find it anywhere, even on Google maps, then eventually you talk to someone and find out it’s now called Elon Musk Avenue.
Not saying this is exactly the same, but if we’re letting people change the names of places on commonly used global map software willy nilly, even if it’s just region to region, we’re gonna end up with problems. It’s not like “freedom fries” back in the day that legitimately affected no one.
And I am suddenly seeing a parenthetical on the Gulf here outside the US, so there technically was a sudden change
I think at this point it’s more about what the case represents. I don’t know how exactly I want this to happen, but I do hope the results of his trial somehow creates positive changes in how insurance companies work.
Wishful thinking, but I think that’s the kind of feeling people have around this.
The attack is being investigated as a possible bias-motivated crime.
The levels of avoiding saying “hate-crime”
Ah man, they make great E-ink android tablets… Was just thinking of upgrading my Nova 3 to the new Note 4C. That’s a shame.
Just feels like we’re at that point in history all over again
We storming the Bastille then?
Been wandering if greed/power is actually the Great Filter of the Fermi paradox looking at the world we live in. The “evils” just keep getting worse…
Crazy thing is, research says frequent testing actually improves learning. BUT, the way it’s practiced by a lot of educational institutions feels like major misinterpretations of this information. It’s about practicing recall, and even better if it’s in a practical context and in low to no stakes scenarios.
Like you said, when you put so many incentives on test results, teaching to the test rather than the content becomes the norm, and everyone suffers.
it is the right moment for everyone who builds systems of control to reflect. It’s the right moment to pierce those layers of abstraction that allow you to get through each day, and question why it’s so financially lucrative for the system you’re building to exist.
Because there is no abstraction as leaky as a man waiting outside your hotel at 6:45 in the morning with a gun and murderous intent
Amazingly written article, last line giving me chills
I never watched the last episode of season 1, I’m allowing myself the delusion that for me, it didn’t end
“Saving money by” vs “making money by”
I spent two years in Saudi Arabia in the early 2000s and was hearing stories like this even back then as a kid. I remember some kids even put on a skit involving maid abuse for some kind of social justice style project (I don’t remember the specifics) so it was a well known enough issue even then. Terrifying stuff and disgusting that they still hey away with it.