droffas.bsky.social
Teacher and general neer do well.
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No one is suggesting this isn’t going to happen. The problem is that it will require a paradigm shift in education that other changes didn’t. It’s not as simple as “you can’t fight progress.”
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You can’t just react to something like this with “the more things change, the more they stay the same.” It is having a large negative impact on student learning even as it is accelerating a lot of professional work. It is not a simple problem.
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This goes hand in hand with the current Republican backlash to civil rights. It is a backlash to environmental conservation. Somehow, they believe that a return to coal, wasting water, wasting energy, and destroying habitats is a good thing.
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This is more like typewriters giving way to computers. Computers are not just ways of putting text on paper and they changed society markedly. It is not just a new version of an old thing.
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When I was in high school, calculators became standard and math simply stopped using tidy, pencil and paper friendly numbers. Things changed very little. This is not a faster mechanical tool.
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In related story, big men found to be pussies.
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As long as you went with bun instead of bum, you were probably ok.
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Well, thanks for keeping me posted, I guess.
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In my area, federal workers are a big part of the population. Who causes a shutdown really determines the narrative. You want to make sure you are proposing something that could avoid a shutdown.
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Isn't there an option between just no on the current proposal or approving it? Can't you propose an alternate continuation that doesn't shift money to the military? The problem is that a simple no vote without an alternative will saddle the Dems with the blame for a shutdown. That would be bad.
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If Musk has lost 100 billion from his association with Trump, he must be planning to tap the federal government for half a trillion.
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It isn't the getting of the GED. She didn't even attempt the GED until after she was elected. She is singularly incurious about the world. Also, not so much running a bar but running a bar whose whole gimmick was that you could bring a gun.
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Welcome to the world of the public school teacher. In order to fund tax cutting, conservatives aggressively defame union members, government employees, and people who need a safety net.
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George Carlin started one of his old routines with "You ever notice you don't meet a lot of Chinese guys called Rusty? I guess the name never caught on over there." Autoplayed just now.
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Love me the 3 in 1. Miss the metal can.
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And now Scotchgard is in all of our bloodstreams. Yay PFAS. What did my liver really do for me anyway?
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How about both? Republicans for supporting the insupportable and Democrats for not following through on Biden's promise to be a transitional one term president.
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Elections can't be explained rigorously because the alternative condition can't be tested. A lot of people are coming out and claiming that Harris's loss means that Biden would have been more viable. I doubt that is the case. There are a lot of indicators that Biden would have lost harder.
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Isn’t the playlist the mixtape for the youth of today? Or does it lack the all important hand-made cover art/ track listing?
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This is the moral equivalent of a fireman demanding that a person in a burning building throw down something valuable before they will put out a safety net for the victim to jump into.
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Meowminos!
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You need to be careful. You don't want to distinguish them and diminish their conclusion, but you don't want to ignore their motivations. Ignoring their motivations convinces you that you would never do what they did. It is important to remember that ordinary people became Nazis.
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Fat and sweet are generally winners. Chocolate and banana does well, peanut butter and banana does well. My guess is that a fatty cheese and banana would do ok. Maybe manchego?
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This is like the Republican problem. Hochul can remove Adams from office. She should do so. Failure to police incompetence and corruption in your own party gets you Pete Hegseth and Elon Musk in positions of power.
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Me too. I just think kids gets nuts sometimes and people then look to see if it’s a full moon or what have you.
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It has no apparent effect on high school students. I feel like this is confirmation bias.
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Why couldn't the Dems act on everything that just required a majority? What rhymes with Shmynema and Shmanchin? As to Tuberville, the workaround required hundreds of individual votes, which would have stalled all Senate business as they overrode him one by one.
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Ode to My Family -The Cranberries
Tom's Diner- Suzanne Vega
Both start with the doot doots but were early 90's. Good dooting, though. Love the doots.
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I think when he says sovereign he is looking for a cute way of saying "controlled by the executive branch." This is what we used to call a slush fund... except this could be very large and he is doing it in the public eye.
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Sort of. In the sense that they gave up nothing. He wasn't looking for something, though. He talked big, claimed a win, and now has raised his stock among his supporters for nothing. The Red staters flatter themselves to think he is brilliant and tough. That is all he wanted.
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Bernie is upset about the antivax stance, sure, but what really grinds his gears is the price. Twenty six bucks?!
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You are noticing men because they have more power and can cause more problems. Ultimately, this is another problem with disengagement from society, not a male thing. Give females that power and you would be worrying about vigilante females. People need connection to be socially constructive.
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I take it to be the dark side of unequal power balance. Granted that its unfair, but it means that men cause more problems for society when they are disenfranchised. There are two problems here.
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I learned in my youth that there was no substitute for practice and, as much as I practiced on my house, a professional had practiced much more.
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I would say the Refs are far too aware of his value to the NFL at this point.
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A post utilizing significant figures?! Be still my dorky heart.
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Then he shouldn't have made it so darn catchy.
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Jewel is not the sharpest knife in the drawer and she has a fair ego. The idea that she will have an impact on anything besides lending her fadingly famous name to the inauguration is just silly. youtube.com/shorts/v0X3R...
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if your cat falls for the finger trick, you have a lot of friends.
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I thought the framing story gave depth and poignancy to the book that the movie lacked. I love both, but I prefer the book.
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You aren't really responding to me, are you? January 6 was not Pearl Harbor. It was a stupider version of the Civil War.
The unprecedented part was that Comer and Trump were overtly threatening to prosecute Biden's family without a cause.
The rest of your post was beside the point.
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the rioters defecated in the capitol while threatening to hang the vice president and attempting to prevent the transfer of power to the duly elected president. The person who incited that treason then pardoned them. That was unprecedented.
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Apologize for a clip from a right wing piece trying to tar the left and Obama as the prolongers of racism in this country? Gimme a break. Find her clip in context before you post such things.
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Well that is an absurd take. Biden's pardons did not override convictions for attacks against the government. They merely prevented Trump from continuing to use the Biden family as a distraction and political scapegoat.
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I love this album so much, but i don’t think he has anything else i like at all.
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Shhhhh!!!! You’re blowing our cover!
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Narrowly beating out "Democracy Died in Darkness."