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Comment Re:You know the disease variance breeding over her (Score 1) 157

You make an interesting point. Not as much about the dollar... the world has been dealing in disparate currencies for a very long time. It'll get sorted out.

But about an America becoming aggressive in desperation... that's a concern. But not as much as people think. The world is not that of the British Empire, and there are some strong militaries. Countries don't need to beat the US. They just need to stave the off. And the history of the US trying to take and hold resources in other countries is abysmal.

Comment Re:Sad (Score 1) 157

At this rate, I wonder if the only remaining solution is Darwinian (which they also don't believe in). Hopefully some of the unfortunate children of anti-vaxers will learn the truth and get their doctor to give them the shot anyway (but I'm guessing MAGA will move to make the punishment for that worse than for murder).

Comment Not really no (Score 0) 157

Pedophilia is not just about age or physical characteristics it's about exerting power over a helpless individual.

Once you're an adult in most countries you at least have some agency. But the reason Trump targets children is because they don't have that agency and he enjoys abusing that fact.

So the difference you're talking about might matter for the purposes of a psychiatrist treating Donald Trump for his particular form of psychopathy but from a practical standpoint he is very much a pedophile.

And he is effectively above the law so it's not like he's going to get treatment. He's just an unrepentant pedophile and a substantial number of the people here voted for him knowing that.

Comment Re:The talented ones can (Score 1) 197

The parents who are implored to help the kids with their homework aren't IN the class. So how are they to know that in order toe be able to help? Without the explanatory note there's no communication there.

The thing is, multiplication in real numbers (the only numbers that have been introduced in the primary grades) *IS* commutative. You might as well claim that if multiplication was division, both answers would be wrong. It need not have been explicitly taught, I figured that out just looking at a multiplication table (saved me memorizing half of the table in one simple realization). I only learned that that was called commutative later.

If you want to differentiate between a kid who figured that out and one who is just wrong, see if they always pick the larger number to add a smaller number of times. Surely that's better than punishing the kid that figured it out by marking every answer wrong.

Comment Re:Electric Trucker (Score 1) 73

For your brother's sake, along with the sakes of all the other workers, let's hope there was some meaningful regulatory oversight in how that infrastructure was built. It's not as though US industry has ever really given two shits about the health of workers, whether farm laborers, meatpackers, or miners. And particulates are pretty fucking bad for you, especially PM2.5s emitted during incomplete combustion cycles.

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