dnstat71.bsky.social
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I read it as well. And he turned around and started helping others for years before he was pardoned. Without looking up his nonprofit or any public statements about prison reform or Christian Nationalism, this could be a good pick.
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Rex Ruthor.
I now want a Scooby-Doo/Superman crossover.
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Unfortunately, no. The Court ruled that only the President can ask for a pause based on Presidential time constraints. The other party cannot.
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The defendants admitted nothing.
The Court simply ruled against the Defendant’s request to pause the case until Trump was out of office.
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Trump sued the Pulitzer Board. The Board (the Defendants) filed a motion to pause the case until Trump was out of office. The Florida Appellate Court said, “No. The case will proceed.”
That’s all.
No admissions. No findings. No trial. Simply, the case will continue.
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Exactly
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No it isn’t. However, child marriage laws are also laws which subjugate women and serve to get them legally married before they have thought through all of the potential downsides of legal marriage.
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Temporary means ownership of the plane is supposed to transfer to the Trump Library Foundation just before Trump leaves office.
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@maklelan.bsky.social
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I don’t disagree. The write up on the USTR site can’t figure out when to use a minus sign or how to talk about them.
The lack of substantiated reasoning for choosing those values makes me highly suspicious.
Calling them reciprocal is misleading at best — lying at worst.
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Engineer here. You’re not crazy.
1. epsilon & phi are constants of proportionality for price & volume of imports vs. changes in tariff rates.
2. We have to treat our exports as constant.
3. Per another source: epsilon < 0. With the negative sign, everything moves in the correct direction
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They stated they chose the values of 4 and 0.25 based a couple of cited sources I didn’t check.
However, epsilon has to be <0 for the bath to work. Therefore, they must have chosen -4 and 0.25.
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Which Senator was the recipient of the slur?
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What’s worse is the example given to Collins sounds like an *inpatient* mental health facility which is having to cancel group activities & other services — making mentally ill patients create their own support groups and activities. While *still in* the psych hospital! These aren’t lazy vets.
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Perverse ideological agendas — like expanding Medicaid coverage. SMH.
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Adults & children in the Red States that didn’t expand Medicaid are already feeling the brunt of the choices made to not expand Medicaid. We just haven’t been talking about them - people who were abandoned to remain in the gap between making too much for Medicaid but not enough to have an ACA plan.
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If we get Greenland, do we really need Alaska?
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At the same time, I don’t like Schadenfreude or rejoicing in the misfortunes of others.
As a Christian, I still want to show mercy and compassion to all - including those with whom I disagree.
We can call people out on their BS and not want their bowels to be blocked with it at the same time.
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You don’t know me & we haven’t interacted. Nevertheless …
I have mixed feelings about this. I fully appreciate the irony & inconsistency involved when people start picking & choosing when they’ll trust medical science & medical professionals vs when they won’t. 1/
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Ps: I am a Dave. And I heartily approve of your screen name. Long live Dr. Seuss. May he rest in peace.
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Peacock is paon in French, from the Latin pavo.
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Thank you for looking it up. I was also wondering about that.
In Latin, peacock is pavo. Portuguese for peacock is pavão (turkey is peru).
Why did the word pavo shift to the turkey in Spanish but not Portuguese? (And we need to remember that the Spanish introduced turkeys to Europe in the 1500s.)
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It does say “according to expats”.
And why don’t we call American expats “immigrants”? After all, they are foreigners living in other countries.
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All else being equal, over time, competition usually drives substantial innovation & improvement.
My biggest concern is that in the first 5-10 years, unfettered competition will widen current achievement gaps & produce many more 16-year-olds without the math & reading skills to thrive as adults.
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Some possible answers:
1. School board elections
2. Decades of Evangelicals choosing private Christian schools & ignoring the public school system
3. School choice advocates taking only "high performing" students - leaving "problem children" to the public schools
4. Parents micromanaging teachers
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Thank you! The fact that this is needed shows how messed up the distribution of education $$ is. My sister-in-law is a principal in a Title I school. Her school now has used book fairs since most families can't afford to buy new books from Scholastic. They can't buy classroom supplies either.
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That's a great question.
To get that answer, we must discuss & agree on answers to ?s like these:
1. Why do we educate our children? What are our goals?
2. What education should every child receive?
3. Which parts of #2 are generally best to offer in a school setting?
4. How do we best do #3?
etc.
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Which other countries in the world do not have public education? How do our educational results compare to theirs?
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Yes. Our kids (& we adults) must learn how to properly curate & evaluate all the TB of data, opinions, anecdotes, sales pitches, & misinformation that we have at our fingertips.
Teaching this to our kids also requires teaching math, reading, science, history, logic, rhetoric, critical thinking, ...
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In your view, what are the basics that we need to get back to? What are the non-basics that we need to stop doing?
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Let's look at the other nations that currently have better educational results & outcomes:
Ex: What were their largest educational gaps in the past? How did they shrink those gaps?
How many of these nations used democratization & competition to create and/or improve their educational systems?