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Comment Re:let's see actual statistics (Score 1) 255

Pesky facts.
Maybe try #followthescience?

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/i...
"Just a small percentage of the hundreds of thousands of migrants processed by the U.S. this year have received COVID-19 vaccinations while in federal custody, and half of them are unaccompanied children" - a few hundred k out of 1.6 million over the reported span

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/a...
"The RIM community has (statistically significantly) lower vaccination coverage when compared to those born in the US."

(Japan) https://www.sciencedirect.com/...

https://www.thegazette.com/gov... This one tries hard to disprove it, the best they can get is "While vaccination rates appear to be low among migrants and asylum-seekers, data shows few are actually crossing the border and making their way into the United States" - in 2021, which would suggest that the tidal fucking wave of immigrants in the later Biden 'open border' phase were actually a big issue because then they very much WERE 'making their way into the US'.

Comment Re:Alternate headline (Score 1) 79

Ah syntax is so hard for leftists.

Justification doesn't imply constraint, duh?

(The need for a militia is important so) the right to have guns shall not be limited.

Nothing in there implies that guns are limited to official militias, not even slightly.
If you STILL insist on your dumbass interpretation, fine: every adult male in the US is the militia, by law.:
US Code Sec 246:
The militia of the United States consists of all able-bodied males at least 17 years of age and, except as provided in section 313 of title 32, under 45 years of age who are, or who have made a declaration of intention to become, citizens of the United States and of female citizens of the United States who are members of the National Guard.
(b) The classes of the militia areâ"
(1) the organized militia, which consists of the National Guard and the Naval Militia; and
(2) the unorganized militia, which consists of the members of the militia who are not members of the National Guard or the Naval Militia.

So even if your ridiculous interpretation is correct, all males in the US under 45 are "the militia" so if gun ownership is 'restricted' to the militia, that's every man under 45. Satisfied?

https://www.law.cornell.edu/us...
God it's hard to talk with retards.

Comment Re:College is not middle school (Score 1) 253

You think $70million for some meeting rooms is reasonable? Can I sell you a bridge?
It was actually a HALF $BILLION capital campaign.

https://www.minnpost.com/polit...
In fact that campaign was for both the student center AND a new 'training center' (not a stadium, but close) and the training center was 2x the cost, about 1.5x the size.

I *also* think that was ridiculous.

https://www.google.com/maps/di...
(the student center is directly SW)

Comment Re:Windows is NOT a professional operating system. (Score 1) 94

I have the issue where not every mouse click is recognized. On anything. Web page, form, MS Office software, third-party software, Windows itself, text field, you name it. I'll click somewhere, the mouse directly on what needs selected, and nothing happens. I have to click again to do what I want.

I first noticed it in W10 and it has continued to W11.

Comment Re: We're in the group (Score 4, Insightful) 209

The "pandemic" showed that the kids could do the schoolwork in 3 hours, so what were they doing the rest of the day?

Learning social skills by having to talk (how horrible!) to other people face-to-face. Interacting with people from different households (the travesty!). Hearing people with opposing points of view (madness!). Getting off their fat ass and walking from class to class (will this never end!). Not looking at their screens (this is the last straw!).

Comment to be clear (Score -1, Flamebait) 209

I think homeschooling is generally a bad idea; what you learn from school is imo only about 1/3 from books, it's at least half about socialization and how to get along with your fellow humans in the myriad of contexts of human interactions: friendships, fights, love, hate, power relationships to authority, conformance (or non-), etc.

NONE of that extra stuff is really available for homeschoolies, aside from pre-programmed 'playdates' or whatever is the equivalent at older ages which help but are insufficient: part of the lesson IS the spontaneity, unplanned context of humans in groups.

THAT SAID, at least in the US schools are deeply fucked up.
They throw more money at each student than anywhere else in the world, and get worse results than most of their industrialized peers.
There is little to no ability to discipline students. (St Paul public schools for example were unhappy with the higher rates of punishment for black students, their answer was to change the rules so black students were not punished as much for the same penalties as white studients....I shit you not: https://www.apmreports.org/sto...)
Seattle schools abandoned math standards as "racist". (https://www.reddit.com/r/SeattleWA/comments/wfddoi/seattle_schools_teach_students_that_math_is/)
They are ideologically captured, with Teachers generally being the reliably highest % donors to Democrat candidates for decades. Moreover, the 'crazy years' that we're only just emerging from seem to have enabled the most radical teachers to believe they could bukkake their radical (eg trans & other entirely inappropriate) agendas all over the kids down to the kindegarten level without consequence, and largely they're right.

I think homeschooling is bad, but until schools stop abandoning actual education in favor of being bastions of leftist indoctrination, I fully see why parents will make such a choice.

My kids are in their 30s, thank god, because I honestly can't tell you what my reaction would be if I heard some teacher had the audacity to tell me to my face the words of their union leader: "The children are always ours. Every single one of them. All over the globe." and later "Yes, we do [think your children are our children]." (https://x.com/DeAngelisCorey/status/1937316711159443658)
I fear how I would react.

Comment Re:Imagine if the COVID vaccine cultists (Score 5, Insightful) 304

You mean a country with one of the highest aged populations had a sudden increase in deaths when a highly contagious virus was going around? Well done, Dr. House.

Let's try all the excess deaths of people who weren't vaccinated. Or the ones where coroners deliberately changed death certificates or didn't bother to count covid deaths at all. How about fake reporting to keep the covid death count lower than it actually was?

Comment Re:Imagine if the COVID vaccine cultists (Score 4, Informative) 304

For the 1000th time, having a "reaction" listed on VAERS _does not_ mean the vaccine caused the reaction. That is not how it works nor what that site is intended for.

But keep spreading misinformation if it makes you feel better and so you can keep your anti-vax credentials.

Comment Re:College is not middle school (Score 1) 253

Sadly, while they sneer at for-profit colleges, the "real" colleges are no better.

While there are still noble souls who believe in things like open discourse, the intrinsic value of education as betterment, and the service of our whole society by making better people - the reality (and certainly the management) of the collegiate institutions today is farming fundraising, milking foreign students for full-fare tuition (which is obscene), and building the endowment.

When my son was being recruited to play college football (2010), St Thomas here in Mpls was starting a 10 year fundraising drive to raise $70m for a new student center. I believe they hit the target in 4y.

$70m for a single 225,000 sqft (~22500sqm) building that's basically a glorified cafeteria/study area/some meeting rooms.
Is this a building focused on education and betterment? https://www.tommiemedia.com/an...

Comment Re:Alternate headline (Score -1, Troll) 79

Also, you're just a dumbfuck if you can't understand 14 words.

"...the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed..."

Not a lot of wiggle room.
Yes, the clause before it says why it's a good idea, but there's no legal authority EVER that has sided with your dumbass interpretation that 'explanatory note' = conditional constraint.

Comment Usurping Congress Again (Score 1) 79

Of course, the correct way to do this is to pass a Federal Law regulating AI, and then using the supremacy clause of the Constitution to set aside State laws that conflict with it.

But, Trump has never been one to do things in the Constitutional way. He just things that EOs are "rule by decree" even if they're not.

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