Vaporization is not the same as hydrolysis. Vaporisation means liquid turning to vapor.

"The problem is, how do we fix it? Having many friends and family members who are teachers, I can also 100% say that education classes don't confer any particular ability to teach either."

Yup I agree. I hesitate to say that teacher training is the only or even best solution (having a BEd myself) but I think it's probably a good place to start.

How dare students expect to be properly taught by people they are paying to teach them?

You didn't actually challenge my assertion that a PhD doesn't confer an ability to teach, rather you merely acknowledged that the teachers suck and then claim that students are entitled for expecting to get any kind of value out of their expensive tuition dollars. If in your world the only thing a degree confers is an ability to acquire knowledge independently, then all a university is is a massively overpriced testing facility.

Probably has more to do with the fact that these professors have little to no teacher training. There is an implicit assumption that a PhD in mathematics automatically confers an ability to teach.

It makes no sense...a PhD in chemistry doesn't confer you an ability to research astronomy...why should it make you a good teacher?

I'd say it's more like teaching people how to resist torture, seen as that is a sanctioned US security technique.

Further, the idea that drug lords can infiltrate federal agencies in the absence of polygraph tests is really scary. That is essentially their point. That means all their investigative powers are useless, and it all boils down to a pseudoscience test.

Not to mention, we don't seem to have any problem shedding the taboos against torture and killing first responders (Guantanamo and US drone double tap strikes).

Both are war crimes and both are carried out knowingly and intentionally. At this point it would make more sense for Russia to be the human rights watch dog of the world.

I'm totally on board with you of course, my original post mocking the GP's suggestion that NOT racial profiling is costing the US money.

"It aims to produce intelligent robo-sentinels that can patrol areas, and learn to detect abnormalities in human behavior."

Forget "abnormalities," if they just programmed the robots to detect and harass black people, you could replace the entire NYPD!

We could save a lot of money and efficiency if we just dispensed with human rights. Think of the labour savings in the days of slavery! /nostalgia

Also I find it amusing that you consider the US PC.

Nobody knew the implications of the electron when it was discovered.

Not that I disagree with you, it's just I wish there was a country that could take this role that doesn't engage in torture or intentionally kill first responders. It's hard to take the US seriously when they stand against war crimes.

Yea I could stand for that reasoning if they were going after the crimes that were exposed. Sure it's a big dump, and some of it might have been legitimately classified. But the selective prosecution gives you all the information you need to know about what's going on.

Obvious solution? Kill them all, put them all in jail.

Maybe if we can apply laws disproportionately, such that if they commit the same crime they get more time or harsher sentences, that will deter them from the poor choice of being black. Btw let's not give them jobs, since they will only rob us. Let's put them in ghettos so the white folk don't have to be subjected to their violence, and make sure those ghettos have underfunded education systems so they can't learn how to rob us better. Better yet, maybe we can send them to Haiti, to make our country safer. What's that, we brought the black people here in the first place? Hogwash! They are "other" and they are our scapegoats!

Best case scenario, you have extraordinarily weak critical thinking abilities. Worst and most likely scenario, you have deep rooted xenophobia and no amount of evidence or reason would sway you. I guess you could also be a troll, in which case hats of to you. In all cases, leaving this thread for others cause I don't have time for that shit.

Hahaha. Not sure if you're being sarcastic. If you are, then disregard the following.

In the event that you're being earnest, let's just ignore the racial disparity in arrests, sentencing, prison population and executions. That's what you want right? "Shhh if we don't acknowledge it it's not there."

It's one thing to quibble over whether the guy behind the McDonald's looked at you funny because of race, it's another thing to deny racism in the face of verifiable demographics, especially in a context where the very lives of those affected literally hang in the balance.

If your starting point is that we should ignore racism in the criminal justice system, or that it doesn't exist in the first place, then you are the type of person who either lies or refuses to acknowledge facts before your face and you really don't have anything meaningful to contribute to this conversation.

Lol it's bad enough that black people are already disproprotionately executed. Now you want to add a financial incentive to the for-profit prison model by harvesting organs? What could go wrong?

"Whhhhhhhhhat? You're telling me we could be getting paid for executing black people? Where do I sign up?!"