Comment We get it (Score 1) 94
Comment Re:adverse training for students (Score 1) 33
This a VERY thinly veiled parallel to a hotly divided political issue that teachers/unions [and chatbot trained bias] tend be on one side of and the majority of the public, parents, and truth on the opposite of. Given that adults of the highest levels of performance in our society, be it professional achievement, economic achievement, political achievement, IQ, and education disagree on the matter it sounds like what the teacher is likely testing is alignment with her own ideology and not evidence-based arguments.
I saw the same thing in many of my own courses, examples and material used in classes [especially logic classes like critical thinking] that taught and test concepts through distilled 'analogs' to popular political issues with an attempt to appear neutral and present both sides while actually presenting a weakened strawman of one side the argument and consistently that strawman was on the same side. Cleverly these were not the topics for essays where students spent effort on time and research and independent thought but the class examples that most would never look at additional material on... simply walk away believing they formed a valid independent judgement at the pinnacle of their own education.
Comment Re:bullshit (Score 1) 61
Comment Re:I hate it here (Score 1) 274
...yes, people still use textbooks
talking about the priorities of an organization which is mostly symbolic except for the security commission, aka the US doesn't need to care what you think club, is pretty silly
Comment Re:A giant step forward for mankind (Score 0) 274
the purpose of the democratic party is to absorb criticism, they're a propaganda wing of the fascist uniparty
Comment Re:I hate it here (Score 1) 274
except you can't put that in a textbook
Comment I hate it here (Score 1, Troll) 274
I am both disappointed and proud to be the first person on slashdot to take this seriously. Accurate maps are important because the whole point of sticking with the old shitty projections is literally minimizing Africa. Why does this website have so many racists on it?
Comment The rest of the headline (Score 5, Funny) 84
Just changing horses, not actually learning why mass surveillance is a *problem*.
Comment Re: Let me think (Score 1) 153
That reply was so stupid I am not even going to point out why. Try again. Read my original post and try to understand what I wrote. Just try to apply basic logic.
Your response was so fallacious you might as well have written 2 plus 2 equals five.
I am embarrassed for you.
Comment Re: good luck with that (Score 1) 76
Gosh, I wonder why we'd need to make a law against behaving like Homo Economicus in a free-market system. I can't think of anything you could do to a free-market system that might cause that sort of problem.
Comment Re: Let me think (Score 1) 153
Would those same insurance companies even cover a wreck that happened if the driver hopped in the back seat? That is what we are talking about, not a driver using autonomous features that they can instantly override at any time.