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WombaT
Northern Ireland24378 Posts
It feels nowadays that ‘big coverage’ means either wall to wall stuff for a short period, or something sticking around for a good few days. Not sure if it’s just more material competing on different platforms, or a more fragmented news space or whatever. | ||
KwarK
United States42249 Posts
On April 23 2019 04:24 Plansix wrote: The war on Christmas was never real. The only problems people have with Christmas are related to it being a holiday about consuming in support of capitalism. How dare you disrespect all the veterans of the war on Christmas and the Happy Holidays they endured! | ||
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franzji
United States581 Posts
On April 23 2019 04:20 Dangermousecatdog wrote: It reads more like an attempt to write "church worshippers" and "christians" but without insulting either of those who count themselves as such, but that would not attend Easter services, which are attributed to be pagan rituals. Most who count themselves of being in a church, or would call themselves Christians do not attend Easter services at all. It is strange phrasing, but when the President of USA writes that 138 million Sri Lankans were killed by a terrorist attack, that's much more worthy to focus on. That is far more interesting words for youngjiddle to point out instead. In any case, no group has claimed ownership of the attack, which is somewhat strange to be honest. That too is far more interesting. come on, he probably just miss typed, he didn't actually think 138 million Sri Lankans were killed. if you actually think that he meant that, well you must just be purposely denying common sense to make Trump look worse. | ||
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KwarK
United States42249 Posts
On April 23 2019 09:17 youngjiddle wrote: come on, he probably just miss typed, he didn't actually think 138 million Sri Lankans were killed. if you actually think that he meant that, well you must just be purposely denying common sense to make Trump look worse. Would you make that mistake? One thing we see a lot with Trump apologists is people saying "X is completely normal" and then when asked backtracking to "well no, I personally would never do X". It's not like he typed m instead of k or whatever. He described a completely different event (mass genocide on a scale never before seen on earth) than the one that happened by adding an additional word. I don't think it's a typo, I think it's senility. We saw the same thing with McCain for a few months before the brain tumour became public. I believe that for whatever reason Trump briefly believed that 138 million Sri Lankans were killed and nothing in his brain triggered his "this doesn't sound true" reflex because he doesn't have one of those. You can't typo "" as " millions". The Levenshtein distance between those two is 9. I'd believe "m" instead of "k", that's just a Levenshtein distance of 1. | ||
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iamthedave
England2814 Posts
On April 23 2019 08:42 KwarK wrote: How dare you disrespect all the veterans of the war on Christmas and the Happy Holidays they endured! I get PTSD just thinking about those times I spent at Christmas... opening presents... eating... the endless eating... On April 23 2019 09:17 youngjiddle wrote: come on, he probably just miss typed, he didn't actually think 138 million Sri Lankans were killed. if you actually think that he meant that, well you must just be purposely denying common sense to make Trump look worse. Why are you mentioning common sense and Trump in the same sentence? He says utterly stupid things so regularly that even his supporters on here regularly say we should ignore his tweets because they're so reliably nonsensical. And he doubles down on a lot of his nonsense. | ||
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JimmiC
Canada22817 Posts
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semantics
10040 Posts
On April 23 2019 09:17 youngjiddle wrote: come on, he probably just miss typed, he didn't actually think 138 million Sri Lankans were killed. if you actually think that he meant that, well you must just be purposely denying common sense to make Trump look worse. How do you go from 138 to adding the word million and call that a mistype. He didn't think/care and word vomited out a tweet, which is perfectly inline with most of his tweets. | ||
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On_Slaught
United States12190 Posts
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Biff The Understudy
France7856 Posts
On April 23 2019 04:52 Sent. wrote: The reporting is "small" because the attacks happened in a third world country. I don't think it's fair to blame the media for covering it like they did instead of giving it the same attention the 2015 Paris attacks received. Yup. To be honest, muslims die by thousand in terrorist attacks in the middle east that don’t get reported at all. That attack, rightfully so, made the main title of every newspaper I am reading and is still the main story of the NYT days after, with many articles on the islamist group that did it. But again, some people are so committed to a specific narrative that it has to be that « the mainstream media doesn’t talk about it and hides it was islamist killing christians because of the liberals and the PC police ». Even though you can figure out it’s utter crap by opening virtually any news outlet. Some things just don’t change. I also love that you guys go for tiny and totally insignificant semantic detail to be outraged - so, so outraged. And then say that liberals are snowflakes. | ||
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WombaT
Northern Ireland24378 Posts
As with Trump’s Presidency in many ways I thought he’d largely steer clear of certain social issues, bar some lip service because his historic positions would have made a switch of tack too transparent, and he’d stick to his immigrant bashing/populism and whatnot. www.theguardian.com | ||
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Acrofales
Spain17911 Posts
On April 23 2019 20:59 Wombat_NI wrote: Came across this on my travels, I know it’s only the UN and it’s known for being super effective, but still. As with Trump’s Presidency in many ways I thought he’d largely steer clear of certain social issues, bar some lip service because his historic positions would have made a switch of tack too transparent, and he’d stick to his immigrant bashing/populism and whatnot. www.theguardian.com I'm confused. What is the resolution about? Rape as a "weapon of war"? Or sexual and reproductive health and access to healthcare services. I might be stupid, but I don't really see what one has to do with the other at all, and therefore don't see why removing the language about the latter is problematic. | ||
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WombaT
Northern Ireland24378 Posts
On April 23 2019 21:07 Acrofales wrote: I'm confused. What is the resolution about? Rape as a "weapon of war"? Or sexual and reproductive health and access to healthcare services. I might be stupid, but I don't really see what one has to do with the other at all, and therefore don't see why removing the language about the latter is problematic. Both I assume? Presumably the odd rape will result in pregnancy so it seems kind of something you have to include in any kind of resolution on this issue. Seems an odd hill to not die on really, considering the US isn’t staunchly pro life exactly, and even many who are make an exception for rape and incest. | ||
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Mohdoo
United States15465 Posts
My perspective: The more we learn about emotional/mental development, the more clear it is that there is a huge difference between good and bad teachers. Teachers need to not only relay information, but basically be mini-psychologists. The foundation we build for people as children continues to play a role way, way later in development. In many ways, teachers can play a huge role in determining how well kids turn out. This is especially true because the vast majority of parents don't even tutor their own children. They are negligent and in many ways the state is forced to pick up the slack. Poll: Teacher (K-12) salary: % of engineer salary 50% (1) 75% (5) 100% (7) 125% (3) 150% (1) 17 total votes You must be logged in to vote in this poll. ☐ 50% | ||
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JimmiC
Canada22817 Posts
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Plansix
United States60190 Posts
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WombaT
Northern Ireland24378 Posts
In a way you don’t want it to be too lucrative necessarily, in that people who are good teachers tend to be intrinsically motivated to teach to some degree. I mean obviously I’m exaggerating but you don’t want the kinds of folks who go into finance for the money ending up in teaching But yes they should be paid more considering the importance of what they do. On basically every way of thinking about it from the moralistic to the ruthlessly pragmatic ‘we are dogs of the capitalist machine’, good teachers help you get better cogs. | ||
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WombaT
Northern Ireland24378 Posts
Their chief gripe isn’t pay, obviously everyone would like to be paid more if it was an option, but it’s continuous changes to the curriculum that are based on political whims rather than good evidence-based tweaks informed by any expertise on how children optimally learn. | ||
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farvacola
United States18820 Posts
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Plansix
United States60190 Posts
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Mohdoo
United States15465 Posts
On April 23 2019 22:54 JimmiC wrote: Part of it is supply and demand. And here teachers make great money, habe great benifits and holidays. My wife is a teacher and very happy with her pay. She just wants reasonable class sizes and assistants when she has severe behavior children. I would totally be a teacher if it didn't mean making way less money. In Oregon it's about 50% of engineer salary. As a result, no one with engineering credentials ever decide to be a teacher. Lots of really bright people who are great at lecturing/mentoring choose not to apply that to elevating children because the pay is too low. | ||
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