netstack
Texas is freedom land
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netstack
Texas is freedom land
13d ago
AP testing technically dates back to the 50s, but I don’t believe it really took off until the 90s. They certainly have their own problems.
I’m actually having a hard time naming any pedagogy newer than the 1950s. There’s the common core math, which sucks. Different learning types (kinesthetic, visual…) were introduced in ‘83; they’re still popular, maybe even useful.
Best I could find was immersion learning for languages, which spread through schools some time after 1971.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
13d ago
How much of this is…well…real?
- 20+% of students at elite U.S. universities are getting some sort of accommodation.
- Such accommodations are less common in less selective schools.
- TLP says a bunch of stuff about narcissism.
I think everything else in your comment is either anecdotal or outright speculation. I was going to ask for sources on a couple of the claims, but there were just too many. Who’s muttering about how they’ll get the wake-up call? How is failure to “fight the decline” cowardly? Why do you think TLP’s model is reasonable?
Actually, let’s go into that one. “Insecure narcissists demand omnipotence from others and detest omniscience” is vacuous. It’s a fully general argument. Any time you want me to do something, you’re demanding omnipotence, and any time I dare to disagree with you, I’m just mad about your omniscience. “They hated Him because He told the truth,” huh?
Goodhart’s law is not narcissism. It is a race to the bottom brought on by normal, familiar self-interest. People game metrics when they value the rewards more than the integrity of the system. No psychoanalysis necessary.
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Texas is freedom land
13d ago
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Texas is freedom land
13d ago
What are you talking about?
No, seriously, what number do you have in mind?
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Texas is freedom land
13d ago
Which of those things applies to bombing lifeboats, though?
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Texas is freedom land
14d ago
Social change has nothing to do with it.
When we signed the CWC, we were binding our hands with respect to chemical weapons. We’d decided that was a fair price for binding all the other signatories. Cooperate-cooperate.
We don’t bomb lifeboats so that other states don’t bomb ours. Even though narcos will never be in that position, bombing their lifeboats would set a bad precedent for our relations with other states. They might reasonably assume that we will, in fact, ignore the rules we’ve supposedly endorsed.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
14d ago
My only QCs have been for chewing the scenery over historical trivia. I cringe a bit when I look back.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
14d ago
A method isn’t a purpose.
Violence is the most important skill for armies, but it’s not the only one, and there’s no reason they can’t agree to hold back in some way.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
15d ago
I’ve had similar anecdotal experiences. I don’t know that they really tip the scale.
Forget the material benefits, forget the disability at all. Either it’s murder or it’s not. The pleasantness is incidental.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
15d ago
Man. I’ve been defending Hegseth’s position upthread, but he’s a real ghoul, isn’t he?
How exactly did he end up in this position?
netstack
Texas is freedom land
15d ago
The purpose of a military isn’t actually to kill people. It’s a tool for asserting the national interest. Sometimes that means accepting limitations—when you actually get something in return. That’s civilization for you.
I don't have reason to believe that these strikes were actually illegal. But if they somehow were, Hegseth would be undermining an equilibrium that really does benefit the U.S.. And for what? A little extra assurance that those narcos wouldn’t get rescued? There’s no reward.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
15d ago
The falling percentage of first-time buyers suggests that they’re outcompeted by people who’ve already owned a house, not just older first-timers.
More details in the report highlights, although I don’t see a chart of median age over time. But there’s nothing here suggesting the demand surge is concentrated in millenials.
The craziest stat on that page is that, since COVID, all-cash purchases have gotten much more common. It’s got to be an inflation thing, right?
netstack
Texas is freedom land
22d ago
Oh, that sounds pretty spicy.
I was able to get at the judge’s order by following these instructions. It appears the prosecution did a great job convicting the defendant’s brother. That might be good enough for some people, but it’s apparently not sufficient under MN law.
As I understand it, though, because the case can be appealed, the state gets another shot at proving it.
annnnnnnnd Rov_Scam beat me to it.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
22d ago
Biden and Obama
got shoved into Minnesotans were never asked
Wait, how do you think they got there?
The current refugee regime dates back to Carter’s presidency. It integrated the efforts of existing VOLAGs, which are probably the NGOs you have in mind. Not exactly a new invention.
Minnesota has a bunch of NGOs, including some of the VOLAGs. Global Refuge is Lutheran and USCCB Catholic; both denominations are well-represented in the state. Historically, they’ve literally volunteered to take refugees. I believe they’re ending up in the Twin Cities more than individual towns, but I don’t have a source for that.
Somalis specifically started fleeing their civil war in the early 90s. Omar got here in ‘95. There was definitely a surge around 2012 coinciding with a new push in the war; that accounts for about 6,000 Minnesotans. More stats here.
Point is, the Somali population mostly pre-dates Obama and definitely pre-dates Biden. There’s been plenty of support from native Minnesota institutions, largely downstream of a strong Christian presence. The national involvement was hashed out before there was even a Somalian civil war, and continued for decades without today’s wailing and gnashing of teeth. I don’t think you can write it off as nonconsensual Federal airdrops to random towns.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
22d ago
Inertia is definitely proportional to the size of the bureaucracy. Be glad that NATO hasn’t discovered Agile methodology.
On the other hand, the Russian MIC hasn’t covered itself in glory. They’ve got a significant head start. I would expect that to disappear within a few months of an open (non-nuclear!) conflict with Europe, if only because of massive casualties leading to rapid NATO turnover.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
22d ago
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Texas is freedom land
22d ago
Judge Cannon ruled that Jack Smith had no statutory power to bring the classified documents case. Thus, Bondi couldn’t just spawn a Special Counsel to manage the lawsuits Trump wanted. She had to slot them into an existing office.
In this case, Siebert was the lawfully appointed U.S. Attorney for Virginia. But he wouldn’t sign the indictment. Bondi fired and replaced him with Halligan, who did. Since that skipped the confirmation process, though, it ran into the same problem which got Smith.
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22d ago
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Texas is freedom land
23d ago
Has this objection been used before? Conversely, have previous administrations gotten away with repeated interim positions?
I seem to recall Trump I having a lot of trouble filling similar positions. Trump II has done a much better job on that front, so I’m a little surprised that they left the goal open. With control of the Senate, Republicans had to have the option, right?
I’m tentatively okay with this outcome. If your handpicked man resigns rather than take a case, it’s a sign that the case is weak.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
23d ago
Counterpoint: trusting your family also creates some of the most unhinged legal drama.
One branch of my family has a bit of a “trailer park slum lord” thing going in the Southeast. Buy foreclosed lots, rent them back to the former owners, clean out the ones who can’t or won’t pay.
That branch includes one brother who is very much not welcome in the family business. He’s a scammer who’s known to show up and claim property when anyone near the community dies. Sometimes he even waves a convenient will. He’d happily file a few lawsuits if he thought there was any chance of getting a payout.
There is zero chance that the family business can pull those kind of accounting tricks, because they know their brother would come ruin it. And that’s for quite literally clannish behavior!
Trusting each other works until it doesn’t. There’s a reason that bigger institutions accrue more and more guardrails.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
23d ago
A Bridge Too Far.
Kind of slow going. Still in planning phase before the drops. It’s honest, perhaps to the point of polemic, about how poorly things are about to go. I feel like that actually detracts from the experience.
Castles of Steel told a similar bureaucratic, egotistical tragedy. But I remember it held off on assigning blame. Bridge jumps right in.
And no, I haven’t seen the whole movie.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
23d ago
The few sources I saw showed closer to a 1:1 ratio on replacement. I’m not sure what effect that has on volume of fire. Sure, the HIMARS are only tossing 6 rockets each, but they’re much larger warheads than even the 155mm shells.
I agree that they’ve got to lose out on sustained fire, especially given the cost per round…but that’s a separate issue from vulnerability to counter-battery fire. Shoot and scoot should be much safer than setting up one of those monster cannons, right?
Outside of the 21M claim, I was seeing things like this House committee, claiming 8M encounters and 1.7M “gotaways.” Newsweek gives the 2023 illegal population at 14M, including any who were already present; it also cites a Cato Institute denial of the 20+M figures. And the CIS blasts Biden for somewhere between 7M and 12M.
I’m also surprised the BBC didn’t go all “no evidence.” Still, I see a general consensus against Miller’s numbers.
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