While this reports that 35% of people are satisfied with K-12 education, remember that the front cover of Time Magazine in ~2004 highlighted that ~30% of high school graduates couldn't read or write.
They could - however - reproduce. They have kids now.
It's more likely that 35% of people responding to the poll didn't understand the questions, and that 95% of people are dissatisfied with K-12 education.
Step #1: Pay teachers so little that you have to subsidize corporate housing to attract them to your school.
Step #2: Incentivize teachers to use personal funds to equip their students.
Step #3: Remove parental accountability from student behavior.
Step #4: Drive away teachers with a passion for teaching with administrative challenges and not supporting them in student/parent issues.
Step#5: Be left with those willing to stick it out until retirement OR those who can't get a real job OR those insanely crazy few who's passion keeps them there.
Step#6: Standardize Testing, Teach the Test, Ignore Critical Thinking skills.
Step #7: Accept resulting failure in results, give up, and start teaching critical race theory and transgender acceptance in math classes.
Step #8: ????
Step #9: Profit.
I just researched those links, and the threats. TL;DR: You shouldn't knowingly lie on TV or in print, especially where it crosses the lines into libel or slander, without fear of reprisal or lawsuit.
Those lawsuits are happening now.
Oh, and I can't edit this - but before you start accusing ME of ISMs and phobias:
I DID NOT VOTE FOR TRUMP.
I also did not vote for Kamala. She is a committed liar, a fraud - and I don't appreciate an Indian woman pretending she is black to try stealing my vote, despite evidence and testimony from her own family that she is not black. Race-baiting is too far.
I am a MODERATE LIBERAL. However, the democrat party has spiraled into far left progressive
Wait, what?
How can you report those things without examining evidence?
Trump received 94% negative coverage from media. Kamala received 57% positive coverage and 11% negative coverage. Tim Wlaz received 62% positive coverage, JD Vance received 92% negative coverage.
Think of it this way: There was an assassination attempt on Trump. The media reported things like, "disturbance at Trump Rally" instead of ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT.
You're right one one thing - two newspapers that are going out of business were prevented from endorsing Kamala Harris, because their owners are trying to develop a new business model - one that is not rabidly pro-progressive. They need to try something new to stay in business. One of the two owners believes that it is not the place of a newspaper to endorse a political candidate, but rather - to report the news. It just so happens that the entire valuation of that newspaper is less than the cost of his yacht, so its small potatoes to him.
Meanwhile
Can you imagine? One of the democrat presidential candidates left his party because the Democrats were illegally blocking him from running for president, while bypassing the democratic voting process to install Kamala - the worst performing presidential candidate in the DNC history - into the candidacy by bypassing the primary voting process. Another of the democratic presidential candidates left her party because
And on the Republican side, the 2000 era "Let's invade Iraq for oil" crew switched sides to the Democrats, who are now the party of war. And EMINEM GOT ON STAGE AND SAID, "YES PLEASE, MORE WAR." Eminem, who got famous singing about "Fuck Bush, Fuck Cheney, fuck war" is now on the side of those same people.
Meanwhile, Blue Sky has arisen out of rebellion of X no longer being a left-wing circle jerk; itsinstead 48/49 representative now, which is fair - except that conservative voices aren't automatically banned, and misinformation gets community noted. But lots of progressives don't want debate or equal representation, so they made a new progressive circle-jerk called Blue Sky, which is currently ripping itself apart in mass-reportings, mass-bannings, because the amount of child-material is out of control, the hate speech is out of control, and its progressive audience is enthusiastically sabotaging itself - par for the course for a group of people who label any tiniest disagreement on any issue as an ism / phobia.
Why do I never have mod points when I see this kind of internet gold?
Over the centuries of discourse about the possible likely cause of the end of the human species....we've focused on war, plague, asteroid impacts, the Second Coming, acid raid, global starvation, water wars, nuclear holocaust, fission gone wild, our solar system's sun
How completely anticlimactic would it be if we just
Psilocybin / Ketamine / DMT are not "automatic" conversions to faith. Rather, there is an interesting correlation between users who are introduced to them in a clinical setting, and who also have a metaphysical change in belief structure.
Check out the white paper I linked; I think they dig into it about 2/3 of the way down.
Alright, so this has been a heavily studied concept. This is one of my favorite white papers. https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/...
Summing up research: Ketamine, Psilocybin, DMT, etc - all essentially do the same thing: They dysregulate independent neural functions, which essentially control the brain's "bucketization" category, or how we process stimuli into different stereotypes; causing a "blended consciousness" experience, where IQ, memory, positive and negative subjective emotional inputs are simultaneously experiencing synaptic tagging - or more interestingly - cortical expansion with TOP plasticity enhancements.
These are the same things experienced by those in deep, meditative states, or those with adrenaline-infused NDE/ADE experiences; essentially giving spiritual, metaphysical changes in belief structure as imagination, IQ, memory, and feelings merge into a powerful blending of multi-functional neural activity.
Literally: Don't believe in God? Or "A" God? Take Psilocybin and meet the heavenly host. You won't disbelieve again.
Doesn't work. That article is written for Americans, but the outage affects EVERYONE, EVERYWHERE. I am currently in Latvia, recently out of Norway, and everyone is out. Natives and tourists alike. Cellular network in the entire country is down; it's due to the backbone provider and international roaming agreements.
I'm waiting for the Doom-style, "Can it run on a toaster?" Can it by powered by a potato-battery? Can it run on a pregnancy tester?
This sounds like an anti-theft measure. With people walking around using AR, if any random person could take it off your head, factory reset it and say, "Mine now" it would be an invitation to thievery.
Birth rates in the US are falling in large part because of the dissolution of the nuclear family. The advent of birth control and the following sexual freedom had long reaching affect on pair-bonding that is only now being understood. The US leads the world in single-mother households at 23.9%; in the black community it's over 70%. Meanwhile, marriages are a punitive contract that women are financially rewarded for breaking.
Layered on top of that is a collapsing social security system that originated with 42:1 people paying in to taking out that is falling to 3:1. It's not sustainable - wild economic growth and new taxpayers are the only way to keep it alive, and people aren't having babies because of the points above.
Other countries have similar situations.
Wish I had upvotes for this one.
The lawsuit cites the example of a University of North Texas researcher who studies young people's use of social media, who has been forced to abandon research projects that rely on university computers and to remove material about TikTok from her courses.
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And nothing of value was lost.
An optimist believes we live in the best world possible; a pessimist fears this is true.
