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Comment Re:the solution to "the mental health crisis" (Score 1) 85

My understand though is you still get marks, and all the other ordinary feedback the instructor would provide. As far as electives go the other students are not taking it pass fail or might not be so if their is any bell curve grading happening you will be slugging it out with people that have full skin in the game.

I think I would find being told - "You passed, but if you deliver this kind of performance next semester you'll be getting a D." My reaction to that would be "well crap, I just dodged a real bullet better shape up because the next one counts!"

I do also see your point though for some folks it would be just another event where they receive no real consequences, and that only serves to reinforce their idea/experience with life of there being no consequences.

The flip side is if you sitting there with a merit scholarship that requires you to maintain a 3.0 GPA or something and you finish semester 1 with something closer to 2.0, because you really did not understand what studying actually means yet.. Are not despairing? Because I know I'd be thinking crap not only do I need to do better next semester I am going to need to jump all the way to straight As or I am done, maybe I ought to just quit.

Also pass/fail is still not exactly no consequences if you really FA, you will still FO; and get failing mark, and no course credit.

Comment Re: Good, Bad, and Ugly (Score 1) 41

Private care is so spectacularly bad that VA health care can be very bad and still be better.

I can't remember the last time I witnessed a hospital demonstrating general competence. Usually there are only a few people who can even do their jobs correctly and management is clinically worthless.

Comment Re:the solution to "the mental health crisis" (Score 2) 85

About the only thing I can see here as far as this being helpful is the fact that a lot of students depending on what their primary education was actually like are surprised by how much higher the bar at University might be.

So getting a D after being in some HS where they hand out As as participation trophies might be rather shocking. So being able to go ok 'well this one does not really count I still passed' does afford that student who

1) simply cares about getting high marks
2) needs to keep a scholarship
3) hopes to earn some kind of honors diploma

a little space to adjust their expectations and effort level before being told after their first semester, you dug a deep hole for yourself and might be well and truly f***ed as far having a decent GPA, graduating Cum laude, not losing their merit monies, and so on.

So as far as a marking system goes I don't think is bad and maybe it is even more 'fair'. I don't really see this doing much for mental heath though.

Comment the solution to "the mental health crisis" (Score 4, Insightful) 85

...is not found in avoiding the problem.

You are here to educate these kids. This is your role.
Granted, these issues should have been addressed long before COLLEGE but the idea of entering supposed 'adulthood' without the mental armor to deal with things like "being rated for your performance" is...asinine.

STOP WRAPPING PEOPLE IN BUBBLE WRAP. You are not doing them favors, you are just kicking their mental health issues down the road (while exacerbating them, most likely) for someone else to deal with.

Comment Re:The grift is now right out in the open (Score 1) 74

A lot of the things you listed there can be determined by watching the parking lot for a few days.

Which I have absolutely know investors to do. The bar to proving insider trading is as the parent suggested actually higher than most people expect.

That facilities guy if he got dragged into court, is going to argue that anyone living near by could tell you the number of Cintas and Granger trucks in and out lately made the situation clear to anyone watching. He is a facilities guy nobody tells him what the plans are, he can guess because all the work order entries he has put in for basic repairs for the last eight weeks have been declined, but he does not actually know..either as far as the law is concerned.

Comment Re:STATE'S RIGHTS! STATE'S RIGHTS! (Score 1) 74

Re-Inusrance would be a swap, primary insurance is very much regulated by states. Your interpretation would absolutely upend the insurance industry.

I would also not be so sure the administration is "wrong" here about CFTC authority. If we consider the down right radical determine the courts have embrace for a century regarding the commerce clause, if you read this clause in the same expansive way, just about anything does have commercial potential ... consequence. The word potential there can do a lot of work. I mean if we bet on the number of concerts Taylor Swift will have on her next tour that has potential commercial consequences for anyone in the business of screen printing t-shirts; you never know they could *potentially* land the order and the number of show might determine how big the order is..

If we really had a functioning legal system 7 USC Â 1a(47)(A) - would be struck down as 'void for vagueness'

"associated with a potential financial, economic, or commercial consequence" is so broad it should never have been legally acceptable language; but that describes half the US code now days... In short the law is whatever the politically motivated judge you venue shop for decides now..

Comment Orders to keep operating? (Score 2) 74

That seems inappropriate.

Certainly the feds should assert their legal supremacy if they truly believe federal law covers the activity. It would be reasonably for them petition the state court to stay any orders requiring a business to cease operation while Feds seek to settle who the regulatory authority lays with.

However outside of defense production like situations I don't think federal government should be ordering anyone to operate anything. Clearing the way for the do so sure, but if say Kalshi simply does not want to deal with NY and NY customers until matter is settled they should be entirely free to simply exit the state.

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