Comment Re: Gee every thing going up is a necessity others (Score 1) 261
Capitalism: you pick the education you want for your children
Jesus H Christ on a fucking stick. Proof that Capitalism works: this dumb fuck thinks he gets to choose.
Capitalism: you pick the education you want for your children
Jesus H Christ on a fucking stick. Proof that Capitalism works: this dumb fuck thinks he gets to choose.
We went through Islam, Christianity, Judaism, and Hinduism. In 4th Grade. It took about six weeks if memory serves. I remember hating it, I wanted to get back to history and politics, those were my areas of strength in social studies, but I got through it and hated it less than algebra, lol.
We didn't do the rest. I'm not really sure who determined what would be covered. It is reasonable to say at a certain point something is probably too niche to require a deep dive in primary education. By number of global followers you could argue that Judaism shouldn't have been included, Buddhism commands 20 to 30 times as many followers, but I grew up in New York and there are a lot of Jews there, so, yeah, it made sense to include it. Judaism is also foundational for a proper study of Christianity and Islam, both of which have followers in the billions, and nobody would suggest not covering those.
Out of curiosity, what exactly did study of "Christianity" entail? I'm an atheist so you may take everything I say or ask with a grain of salt, but to my mind American Christianity has a broad band of insanity running through it. Christianity in Eurasia had its fun over nearly 2000 years, splitting off from Judaism into Islam, Roman Catholicism, Orthodox Catholicism, Anglican Catholicism, and the various Dissenter churches, but you Yanks have come up with weirdness like Mormonism and Prosperity Evangelicalism in an amazingly short time. We now have American TV pastors declaring that Donald Trump, an obvious con artist with no morals, is in fact the second coming of Christ. How is all this presented in a neutral, objective classroom setting for study?
meat is incredibly resource-intensive to produce, only 10% of the caloric value in the animal feed ends up in the meat.
That's not a great argument against meat. You might as well just say that sugar is much more efficient in providing calories. It is, but meat is a hell of a lot healthier.
vote in idiots, vote out idiots and replace them with the opposing idiot
If only there were other options.
I worry about ventilation issues. The article suggests improving sealing of the house. There are already issues with indoor air quality, because of houses being so tightly sealed ( radon, off gassing from plastics, etc.).
You can get heat exchange air vents.
Surprise: Putin isn't what you think
Putin is exactly what we think. He is a dictator who wants to expand his borders to natural chokepoints, necessitating the annexation of Ukraine, Moldova, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, and parts of Romania. People who think it is is resurgent nationalism, a wounded sense of pride, longing for past greatness, etc. completely miss the point. Putin knows climate change will cause massive political and social upheaval, and associated mass migrations, and he wants to secure Russia's borders by conquering other nations.
At some point, the EU starts to look like Highway Robbers, as they attempt to extort money and regulate every aspect of life for the world.
To paraphrase every bigot ever, if Facebook don't like it they can go home.
For example, "adding a percent" is really a matter of multiplication. Consequently, people will think that a 20% discount followed by a 30% discount is a 50% discount. The actual total discount is 44% off. The "I don't need math" flub is off by about 6% in this case.
10.715% actually
Humanity has always thrived during warmer climate periods and suffered during colder times. Always.
Tell that to the peoples of Babylon, the Indus valley, the Khmer empire, the Maya empire, and the mesolithic Sahara. Their civilisations were all destroyed by drought.
HELP!!!! I'm being held prisoner in /usr/games/lib!
