raze2012

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[–] raze2012@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

C shaped economy implies the admin is trying to take money from the rich. No chance in hell. Trump is constantly on air talking about how he wants to keep home prices high.

[–] raze2012@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

In some extents, yes. I get what you're saying, but I do believe the ability to recognize and reflect om your country's dark spots (past and present) and recognize the rise of an authoritarian regime are universal lessons.

To clarify, I'm not opposed to fitting some YA literature as well into that too. I was introduced to Pendragon through 9th grade English, and ended up reading the entire series by myself afterwards.

[–] raze2012@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

The parents, apparently.

[–] raze2012@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

why is there not an expectation that coursework should be interesting and compelling for students?

As you said, you had the executive function of a teenage boy. The works still get taught because they are interesting and relevant. but it's hard to see that as a kid, as you're developing vocabulary and literacy and also lacking life experiences to relate.

Schools try to compromise by giving a list of choices and letting students choose from those on what is most interesting. But curriculums only flex so much.

[–] raze2012@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

I don't think the kinds of people who still complain on CS via phone are the ones giving sony a PR crisis on Twitter

[–] raze2012@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

We're using "volunteer" very strongly in a society where we need to work to live.

Put it this way: military recruitment is almost always inversely proportional to the economic wellbeing. I. E. When the economy sucks and people can't find jobs, that's when you often get the highest amount of recruits.

That's not even going into systematic issues that can lead to that; my mom was in ROTC to pay off her college and my uncles went in when my grandpa kicked them out of the house, almost as soon as they graduated high school.


But yes, back on point: yes, at any point you can be told you are going to be drafted. Just becsuse it's not this specific boat doesn't mean it won't ever happen.

[–] raze2012@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

I don't think it's inherently bad. We don't need to use double the world's energy to power it (as we see with open weight models) . We don't need to centralize it in trillion aire companies. We don't need to leverage an entire global economy on it. We don't need to use it to replace human labor without a proper economic model.

Those are all aspects of greed and stupidity. None of that is inherent.

[–] raze2012@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

But we very much do enforce times on when not to use calcs. Thars the whole point here.

[–] raze2012@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

nothing is good nor evil, but thinking makes it so.

But i see the issues on both sides of the aisle. Kind of like how social media is a great tool that brings about instant worldwide communication. But those merits don't cancel out how it's been used to exploit the human psyche, influence elections, and even coax genocides.

In this case, the downwind effects from encouraging use by mature professionals is impacting the impressionable future. And no one seems to care about the future anymore.

[–] raze2012@lemmy.world -4 points 3 days ago (5 children)

Every US male who turns 18 "volunteers" to be eligible to "volunteer" to die overseas for the Epstein class.

[–] raze2012@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

I also don’t know why everyone is surprised by wartime food.

https://xkcd.com/1053/

That's why awareness needs to be constant. It's why coke spends a billion a year on advertising despite "everyone knows what coca cola is".

[–] raze2012@lemmy.world 10 points 4 days ago

Haven't done it in years, but that's "impromptu weekend getaway with the boys" level of celebration for me.

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