The contribution of climate breakdown to our pessimism I think is made so much worse by our collectively feeble response to it. It's hard to hear we're in an existential crisis and that we're not doing enough about it
You made say I'm pedantic
feels like I'm the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the policies will be informed
That's a strange argument, especially in connection to folks who graduated some 250 years later. You can read Franklin's proposal for Penn and there's nothing related to Quaker values. You seem instead to be going on vibes. nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/becoming...
As a Quaker from the area this claim surprised me. After all, Ben Franklin founded Penn and was not Quaker. Doing some reading it, it seems the association is from sports writers, and Penn doesn't actually have Quaker roots franklypenn.com/2018/02/28/t...
I got you fam www.youtube.com/watch?v=CX-m...
It's still selection bias if they can't enter the tested sample (4th graders) until hitting a benchmark on the tested outcome (reading proficiency). But I agree with you that the article is way more nuanced than these posts suggests
I loved the movie Fat Man and Little Boy, but Oppenheimer did nothing for me. So for me it's more "do you find that telling of the making of the atomic bomb interesting," and no, no I don't
The reason you do gifted education in kindergarten is social, not academic. It’s designed to create a stratification system that keeps well resourced families in the school system, but set apart from the majority of students. It’s resource hoarding, exclusionary, and hierarchy from day one of school
The government employee fair treatment act of 2019 apparently changed that. Now only contractors have to worry www.congress.gov/116/plaws/pu...
They get back pay though, right? My understanding is furloughed federal workers get back pay automatically now
It's a good time to avoid corporations as much as possible and cut back on spending in general, for those who can
Respectfully, this reminds me of the idea that the difference between a recession and a depression is whether your neighbor or you are out of work. I think the fight begins when we start saying "I must go on strike," not "you should go on strike "
I think we'll be truly ready to fight fascism when we stop saying things like "those people should strike!" And instead start saying "i can no longer participate in this economy." It's going to take a heap load of sacrifice from no one but ourselves
Slightly diminish a book
Upton Sinclair's The Jungle Gym
So start doing it? The movement doesn't have time for this negative energy
The absolute worst thing is telling people their creative actions won't work. We're going to have to do lots of things that aren't very effective to find what is effective, so let's encourage any action over being critical and doing nothing
I'm sure you'll notice from the screen shot that OP was not using reader view. If you share a link to wapo (even when criticizing it) you're giving them free publicity. If you view their site without paying but still see ads, you're supporting them. If you're avoiding ads and subscriptions way to go
My reporting has come to the attention of Ghislaine Maxwell’s attorney. Here’s the response I provided to the @thedailybeast.bsky.social
I'm going to express my gratitude for the chance to chat with you by taking time to percolate on your perspective. Thanks for sharing it
If I had infinite time I'd do the same. With kids, work, and life in general, I'm instead forced to choose a few articles per day. choosing across providers is very expensive, but I think there are lots of publications writing amazing useful stories that I wish to read
As they say in advertising, "we know 50% of ads work, we just don't know which half is which." Despite their important expertise, I assume the reason for boards and editors is not guaranteeing every story gets equal readership, because they can't predict that. Thus bundling reduces risk
Yes sorry for the callous language. I imagine some stories get much more readership than others, so bundling still helps reduce risk.
It may be good for society, because newspapers can have riskier articles instead of appealing to the masses. But as a consumer I pay for tons of junk and miss good stories from many publishers. So many consumers just find ways to get the stories for free
The relevant economic theory is bundling, similar to grocers bagging oranges rather than letting consumers pick and choose. this reduces risk to firms, because the story no one reads is sold along with others. It's bad for consumers who pay for junk.
I don't think the pre-smartphone era, when digital content was primarily consumed on desktop computers, is very informative for today's media. People want digital now, and the only choice is subscriptions. An a la carte approach is way more appealing now
This clay person has a BA in fine arts? If this has been "studied endlessly," can you point to any actual studies or folks with relevant expertise who share this opinion? Because I have degrees in econ and never heard such a thing
trump is good at exploiting "anchoring biases." He throws out a number that everyone knows is ludicrous, but that number becomes a reference point that influences actual decisions because it's so ludicrous
I can't tell if "school of engineering in drag" is an insult or a fabulous compliment
More commonly known as "rodents of unusual size"
