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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
flushed her emotional support hamster down the toilet
What I really don't get is this:
The student claimed a Spirit employee suggested she either flush Pebbles down the toilet or let the animal free.
Oh, that's much better, she can just let it go...
So she did what she felt was the most humane choice. “She was scared. I was scared. It was horrifying trying to put her in the toilet,” Aldecosea said.
Wait, what? How is that the humane choice?
The student said she considered letting Pebbles run free outside but could not bear thinking of her hamster freezing to death or getting hit.
"I'll drown her instead, that will be much better!"
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@dragoon said in In other news today...:
I have to agree, my crystal ball said the same thing last month.
Very little information in the article, it seems to have been written mainly as a hatchet job. This seemed the most egregious bit to me:
Any probabilistic prediction is only possible in relation to the possibility of complete certainty. But since complete certainty is impossible to predict, probabilistic models are of no real significance either.
Predictions are useless unless they are 100% certain? Guess I'd better stop listening to the weather forecast then.
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@tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
@anotherusername said in In other news today...:
the general formula for volume of an isosceles triangle in polar coordinates.
WTF is that even? You memorized that but you didn't memorize the formula for the volume of a cone?
The usual integration to get the volume of a general cone as 1/3 (base area) (perpendicular height) seems easier than the method described... assuming @anotherusername could at least remember the formula for the area of a circle.
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@jbert said in In other news today...:
Collisions have been one very clear downside of Apple’s $427 million spaceship office in Cupertino
Best line from the article:
Transparency, after all, is the key to addressing these issues.
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@rhywden said in In other news today...:
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@scarlet_manuka said in In other news today...:
@tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
@anotherusername said in In other news today...:
the general formula for volume of an isosceles triangle in polar coordinates.
WTF is that even? You memorized that but you didn't memorize the formula for the volume of a cone?
The usual integration to get the volume of a general cone as 1/3 (base area) (perpendicular height) seems easier than the method described... assuming @anotherusername could at least remember the formula for the area of a circle.
Yeah, I think that's what I ended up doing. I had originally started by trying to use polar coordinates but I couldn't remember what you have to use for the dx term.
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@boner said in In other news today...:
I don't know if there were critical details missing, but no published lines are what I would call "abusive". She's probably not the smartest person in the world, because some of her lines were not quite correct, but that's a different question.
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"This is not solely about the note," Staffordshire Police said, "the arrest related to matters of verbal abuse."
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"The chicken crossed the road, just not to our restaurants," KFC said on Twitter.
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It go BOOM!
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@karla said in In other news today...:
@greybeard said in In other news today...:
Praise the effort, not the result.This...I am completely in agreement.
Our school showed us this video in an orientation meeting:
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@karla We are so fortunate we won the lottery for our parent-participation magnet. Their philosophy allows for quite a bit of flexibility in learning style. They focus more on the social skills in the early grades, preparing them to better pick up the academics in the later grades. They get good results, thus the highly contended lottery.
My six year old is behind in some areas, such as fine motor, and ahead in others, such as reading and vocabulary. A regimented school would so not work.
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@greybeard said in In other news today...:
@karla said in In other news today...:
@greybeard said in In other news today...:
Praise the effort, not the result.
This...I am completely in agreement.
Our school showed us this video in an orientation meeting:
I'll check this out when I get home.
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@greybeard said in In other news today...:
@karla We are so fortunate we won the lottery for our parent-participation magnet. Their philosophy allows for quite a bit of flexibility in learning style. They focus more on the social skills in the early grades, preparing them to better pick up the academics in the later grades. They get good results, thus the highly contended lottery.
My six year old is behind in some areas, such as fine motor, and ahead in others, such as reading and vocabulary. A regimented school would so not work.
It is good when it works out.
I just brought her into work today...since she had off. My coworkers understood most of what she said and one even mentioned that everything she said made sense. Her pre-K son has much less sentence structure.
I asked downstairs if I had to sign her in and when got up there she told a couple of my coworkers that she didn't need to be signed in.
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@karla said in In other news today...:
I asked downstairs if I had to sign her in and when got up there she told a couple of my coworkers that she didn't need to be signed in.
:D That's adorable! Much more so than randomly playing puppies in any case...
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@rhywden said in In other news today...:
Not really today:
Posted on April 04, 2017, 10:57 GMT
Also, at least one of the imprisoned got released, as posted on April 14, 2017:
EDIT: Great job onebox, "LIVE" means a month short of a year ago?
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@jbert Well, it was news to me and I just saw that article today, so...
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@jbert I hope the crooked cop is in prison now.
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@timebandit said in In other news today...:
@jbert I hope the crooked cop is in prison now.
Yeah. On the other hand, pigs still don't fly and Chicago is still fighting against exonerations so I wouldn't get my hopes up.
I searched a bit and there's not even a hint that they're even considering a trial or something.
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@rhywden said in In other news today...:
On the other hand, pigs still don't fly
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@timebandit Okay, make that: "Non-genetically-modified Pigs without cybernetic enhancements still don't fly under their own power."
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Yeah, it's a complete and utter failure of the American judicial system that cops aren't held to account for their rampant abuses of power (both in court and out of court).
No here, I'm being totally and utterly serious.
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@timebandit Sometimes, rarely, in extreme cases, cops in the US are held accountable for major law violations. Egregious lying in court that ends up sending innocents to jail? Basically never.
Part of it is the tight network between prosecutors, judges, and police departments. Another part is the police unions, who have tremendous political pull. A third is the mass squandering of opportunity and good-will by politicians who tried to make everything about race (when it's really about unjust power). I'm sure there are other reasons as well.
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@masonwheeler said in In other news today...:
They pragmatically expanded the powers of the federal government to cover necessary functions, but they remained somewhat shell-shocked after British oppression and the war that arose from it, and kept trying to cling to their small-government ideas (which had already failed once!) as much as they could, in defiance of reason and human nature.
You're rewriting history here and confusing federalism with "small government."
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@karla said in In other news today...:
@magus said in In other news today...:
@karla That image really... serves a different purpose than probably needs to be served.
Of course there's room to be yourself; these days that's pretty universally agreed upon. But at the same time, horrible, boring repetition is useful for learning control. Balance is important.
For 4 and 5 year olds?
There's also spanking.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
You're rewriting history here and confusing federalism with "small government."
How so?
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@masonwheeler said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
You're rewriting history here and confusing federalism with "small government."
How so?
You're only thinking about the central, federal government and not about the states themselves, where most of the power (even then and even under the Constitution) remained, which is really the difference between the AoC and the Constitution.
Your anti-libertarian / limited government fetish is orthogonal to the failure of the AoC and the success of the Constitution.
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@boomzilla I'm thinking of the natural hierarchy of human social behavior. Any social system of non-trivial size has an organizational hierarchy that's generally shaped like a pyramid. You can see it in everything from families to clubs to businesses to governments to religions. Systems that are set up in a deliberate attempt to buck this pattern--such as the Articles of Confederation, or, more recently, Occupy Wall Street--inevitably end up failing.
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@masonwheeler said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla I'm thinking of the natural hierarchy of human social behavior. Any social system of non-trivial size has an organizational hierarchy that's generally shaped like a pyramid. You can see it in everything from families to clubs to businesses to governments to religions. Systems that are set up in a deliberate attempt to buck this pattern--such as the Articles of Confederation, or, more recently, Occupy Wall Street--inevitably end up failing.
Well, that wasn't what you said before and in any case I think you're drastically over simplifying.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
in any case I think you're drastically over simplifying
Feel free to elaborate...
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@masonwheeler I'm good.
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I am awestruck at this level of supreme dedication to doing the absolute bare minimum. It is amazing.
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@greybeard said in In other news today...:
@karla said in In other news today...:
@greybeard said in In other news today...:
Praise the effort, not the result.
This...I am completely in agreement.
Our school showed us this video in an orientation meeting:
This totally explains my experience.
And thanks for sharing...because it has helped remind me to keep it up.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@karla said in In other news today...:
@magus said in In other news today...:
@karla That image really... serves a different purpose than probably needs to be served.
Of course there's room to be yourself; these days that's pretty universally agreed upon. But at the same time, horrible, boring repetition is useful for learning control. Balance is important.
For 4 and 5 year olds?
There's also spanking.
Because she can't write her name?
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@karla said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@karla said in In other news today...:
@magus said in In other news today...:
@karla That image really... serves a different purpose than probably needs to be served.
Of course there's room to be yourself; these days that's pretty universally agreed upon. But at the same time, horrible, boring repetition is useful for learning control. Balance is important.
For 4 and 5 year olds?
There's also spanking.
Because she can't write her name?
Asphinctersayswhat? Was that the context of all this?
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@hardwaregeek said in In other news today...:
@anotherusername said in In other news today...:
knows or should know that the response to the report is likely to cause death or great bodily injury
I agree this guy should get slammed hard, but to consider for a moment that arguments that would likely be presented to a jury, a reasonable person should know there is a risk of harm, but is the harm likely?
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@rhywden Most of it was just a depressing tale of systemic corruption, but then there was this:
In Illinois, innocence alone isn’t enough to overturn a conviction.
"OK, I guess you didn't do it, but we're going to keep you in jail anyway."
@timebandit said in In other news today...:
@benjamin-hall In Canada, they sometimes are
Charged is one thing. How often do they get (a) convicted, and (b) meaningfully punished?
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@polygeekery said in In other news today...:
I am awestruck at this level of supreme dedication to doing the absolute bare minimum. It is amazing.
I read more about it. This girl is my hero.
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@polygeekery said in In other news today...:
supreme dedication to doing the absolute bare minimum
I think this girl is my spirit animal
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@karla said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@karla said in In other news today...:
@magus said in In other news today...:
@karla That image really... serves a different purpose than probably needs to be served.
Of course there's room to be yourself; these days that's pretty universally agreed upon. But at the same time, horrible, boring repetition is useful for learning control. Balance is important.
For 4 and 5 year olds?
There's also spanking.
Because she can't write her name?
Asphinctersayswhat? Was that the context of all this?
That was the original posit: That the teacher would force repetition of writing because the child is not very good at it yet. Then the topic swayde to how best to learn things, then apparently how best to punish those who aren't learning at the expected rate.
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Adjacent stories in my local TV station's news feed:
THESIS:
ANTITHESIS:
SYNTHESIS: Drinking helps you live longer but makes you do crazy stuff like want to work out....
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Onebox says Feb 18, article says Feb 17, I saw it on the news today.
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