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They are driving the car at full speed down a road with giant potholes, damaging the wheels as they go.
No-one knows the route the wonky wheels will end up taking the car during the fight over the steering wheel.
You might avoid the ditches, but some of them are pretty deep & there's no towtruck.
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Our weekends flow a bit different trying to make the most of the time my OH has before he has to return to work on Monday.
Took him rollerskating on Friday evening after we'd been to the afternoon HE sessions previous weeks. He was pleasantly surprised how well he picked it up again after 30yrs.
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What comes after the Chaos and Dysfunction phase?
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Certainly a few holes were evident in the bucket after the first time; this time it feels like the bottom has fallen out of the bucket, rolled along the deck and dropped into the ocean.
Might need a more robust bucket design, and a preventative maintenance regime.
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This is very true, yet what can avoid a repeat of this situation?
The Biden 4yrs didn't prevent the guy who did so much damage the first time from returning to office.
Can't trust any deals previously made to be kept or info shared to be secure.
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The pretense will be that Canda has threatened US energy security so they had to do it to protect the US.
If a non-far right party wins in the next Canadian election then perhaps the Canadian government itself will be considered a threat. See flimsy pretense to Russia invading Ukraine for playbook.
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Can't remember what it's called but it's something to do with spheres of influence. China can do what it likes in Asia because it's the most powerful country in the region, US in the Americas and Russia in Europe. Rewind to pre UN international relations for the type of world that is.
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Um.... ...dunno. There's a lot of toys in that pram, it quite a big pram and no one seems quite sure where they are pushing it too or who is doing the actual pushing...
Heather Cox Richardson's Letters from an American might be useful if you want a less head spinning summary than the news deluge.
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Agreed, and that works provided they can transfer the logic of a physical example to a mental one.....
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Good point. My dyslexic OH gets frustrated at some of his colleagues for not seeing the bigger picture or making the connections between issues. That pattern recognition and holding on to a lot of information and connections in his head I think is one of the dyslexia "side effects".
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Thinking about this more, I remember stuff better if I'm doing something physical at the same time, like building a Lego model while watching a TV show, I'll remember the TV show when I come back to disassemble it.
Learning is more messy and complex than I think a lot would like to acknowledge.
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But thinking is also a skill, so looking at a problem in a different way, that thinking outside the box is also a skill, so what you say isn't just limited to physical things but can apply to mental ones too.
People aren't just information receptacles rather they're highly complex thinkers.
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Seems a very odd statement to make.
What benefit does the proclaimer gain from that statement?
Skills, knowledge and wisdom are different things, but only one of those is easy to measure in an exam?
Saying all skills are transferable might make more sense.
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I get the distinct impression that the DofE only has a handful of the interfaces on it's policy radar. Seems to miss so much nuance in so many different areas of education.
Politicians chasing the easy seen-to-be-doing-something actions rather than trying to understand and address the root causes.
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They seem to be willfully ignorant on impacts and think themselves experts so deaf to alternative voices no matter how well reasoned or numerous.
Unless you understand all the interfaces whatever you do will have unintended consequences. More complex the system, more numerous the interfaces.
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Don't know if there are any early years organisations like the parents protesting about school fines, but there are demonstrations against the CWB planned on 8th March various places around the country.
I think the more parents can work together the better.
www.londondaily.news/parents-rall...
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I hope so.