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Krazy_Kirby posted...

it's that teachers don't want to teach.
so many want to refuse in-person learning

Speaking as someone who works with several public school Florida teachers, no, this is not true. You don't get into teaching unless you really have a passion for it, since it has a reputation for low pay. Teacher want to teach. The problem is that they barely make enough to live on, are forced to equip their classrooms out of their own pocket, spend countless unpaid hours attending workshops and meetings, all while the government cuts funding over and over. Kids that need to be in special classes are lumped in with everyone else because there's no money in the budget, which hinders both parties. The majority of your time is spent doing paperwork rather than actually teaching. They pile so much extra red tape on teachers that they have no time for their families.

Maybe it's different in other states, I don't know. But in Florida, teachers are leaving left and right because it's just not a practical job to have in this economy.

papercup posted...

What exactly are they pretending this is going to accomplish?

Bring in more "teachers", since there's a teacher shortage due to the GOP sabotaging public education.

If there's one thing I learned from the Covid lockdowns, it's that people don't actually care about kids being educated. They just want state-sponsored daycare so people can go to work.

Ogurisama posted...

Gym? Whats a Gym?

That's where you battle Pokemon to get a badge

DocDelicious posted...

it's not PC to use "zulu" as the alphanumeric anymore

...it's not?

SomeUsername529 posted...

Korra...whatever. Who even remembers that show exists aside from weird freaks on Tumblr?

Um... a lot of people actually. Sure it never became as famous as The Last Airbender (largely due to Nickelodeon actively sabotaging it) but it's still a good show, popular among fans.

They're been saying they're going to eliminate DST for decades now. I'll believe it when it actually happens.

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Leave it to the GOP to portray child rape as a good thing.

BlackScythe0 posted...

I lived in Florida when I was in high school aside from the shitty governor the state is fine.

Well, except for the brutal heat for the vast majority of the year.

Carbon_Deoxxys posted...

I know you're saying this about conservatives who hold power since they make the laws but a lot of us have family who are conservative and never express this

But they keep voting for them.

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What in the kentucky fried fuck is this.

Why do the people writing pregnancy laws know nothing about how pregnancy works?

Jen0125 posted...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/6/8/5/AAAgaZAADYO1.jpg

Adding on this, now is good time to remind everyone that the "pro-life" party is also the party voting against baby formula.

They don't care about babies. Not a single bit.

Lokarin posted...

To be fair, there's always the naive hope that the individual states will still allow abortion freedom...

I wouldn't call that naive. Many states will still allow abortion. The red states won't.

Whenever a republican lawmaker gets his mistress pregnant he can afford to pay for her to get an abortion in a blue state. It's the working class people that will be forced to have the baby they can't afford.

ArvTheGreat posted...

Why do you all care about abortions none of you are having sex

I get that this is just a "lol gamefaqs virgins" joke, but it kind of subtly highlights the problem with Americans' mindset.

"If it doesn't affect me, why should I care?"

DrPrimemaster posted...

And for anyone curious. We have 3 that voted for gay marriage and 3 that voted against still left on the court.

Gorsuch, Baret, and Kavanaugh are the likely deciders.

Based on their previous decisions, Gorsuch would likely vote in favor of gay marriage with Kavanaught and Barrett* voting against. So it would likely come to a 5-4 ruling against gay marriage. However for that to happen a case would need to make its way to the supreme court, which seems kind of unlikely.

*I'm not as sure about how Barrett would vote, but based on the limited evidence I'm guessing she'd probably be against.

BeerOnTap posted...

Women are still injured today, particularly during D&E procedures. I would go into the specifics a little more but mods dont allow it. I got modded for it, they deemed it trolling. Anti-lifers desperately want to avoid and silence any discussion about whats involved in abortion procedures because they know its gruesome. So Im at a major disadvantage in this discussion.

And doing in a back alley with a coat hanger is so much better, right?

And nobody is saying that abortions are an easy procedure. It's not as if women are just stopping by the clinic for their monthly abortion on the way home. Yeah, abortion is a rough thing to go through, physically and emotionally. But women need to have the option to do it anyway, because the alternative is worse.

wwinterj25 posted...

Seems to me the world is more and more progressive these days so I doubt it.

Doesn't matter how progressive "the world" is. Only how progressive the nine people sitting on the court are.

Tutoria posted...

as a non american can someone explain to me please why the scotus has so much power, it seems nuts that they can just make and repeal laws on a whim without any checks and balances. is there any prominent call to abolish the supreme court?

In theory, the supreme court is checked by allowing the president to nominate judges. Then the Senate votes on the nomination.

Problem is, in practice this is corrupted by partisan politics. During Obama's term, Antonin Scalia died and Obama nominated Merrick Garland to fill his seat. But Mitch McConnell (Senate majority leader at the time, and also one of the most blatantly corrupt politicians this country has ever seen) refused to bring the nomination to the Senate for voting. He wouldn't even consider it, until Trump was elected, and then suddenly it was ok to nominate judges again.

And this was in spite of the fact that Garland was intentionally chosen as a compromise, a middle-of-the-road pick. But that wasn't good enough for the GOP. They stonewalled the judicial branch until their guy was in office.

And just to illustrate how hypocritical this was:
McConnell's stated reasoning for refusing the nomination was that it was Obama's last year in office and the vote should be delayed until after the 2016 election. (The nomination was in March, almost a year away from Obama's term being up.) But during Trump's term, he confirmed the nomination of Amy Coney Barret in October 2020. So Obama nominating a judge eight months away from an election was bad, but Trump nominating a judge one month away from an election was ok.

Revelation34 posted...

I think you meant to say universe and not galaxy.

No, I meant what I said. Our galaxy has over 100 billion stars. Statistically, it's nearly impossible for Earth to be the only planet in the Milky Way that has life.

Also, our galaxy is over 100,000 light-years across. If we start to consider life from another galaxy, then the distances involved would make alien content a virtual impossibility. (As if it wasn't already.)

DeSantis2024 posted...

I think there is a high chance life started here on earth by some microbe that hitched a ride on an asteroid and crashed into the ocean or something.

That theory is called panspermia, and it's dismissed by most scientists.

Yellow posted...

This is just what happens when you have a religious population, so I think the only solution is to just spread atheist thinking. Nothing else will fix it, you have to get to the root of the problem. It's very simple. None of the points they make don't make sense... when you start with the fundamental belief that the church is right.

I never even understood how abortion became a religious issue. Abortion is only mentioned once in the bible... where it gave instructions on how to do one.

It's pretty much a statistical certainty that life exists elsewhere in the galaxy.

But we're never going to meet each other.

People really underestimate how BIG space is. You may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space.
Even if the closest star system to us had life on it, and they flew here at the maximum possible speed allowed by the laws of physics, it would take four years to get here. That's a very long time for a ship to be running at maximum speed, especially consider the insane amount of energy that would be required to power the trip.

And that's assuming the closest star has life. It's far more likely that the nearest alien race is hundred or even thousands of light-years away. The alien crew would have to be put into some kind of biological stasis for the trip, and by the time they got here, eons would have passed on their home planet, making it essentially a one-way trip. They would never see their families again. Nobody on their home planet would probably even remember them. Who would be willing to make that sacrifice just to visit a comparatively primitive race like us? Hell, the human race might even be extinct when they arrived.

Everything we've learned about physics has told us that traveling faster than light is literally impossible. So unless aliens discover some technology that can break the laws of reality itself, they can't get here. Or even know we exist. It's kind of like if the entire earth was uninhabited except for one person in China and one in America. How likely is it for those two people to find the other exists, let alone travel to them?

I do believe there's alien life somewhere in the galaxy. But they've never been to Earth. And it's very unlikely they ever will.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

By that standard, would the US be the traitors of the Revolutionary War with Britain as the good guys?

Or is it only losers who are traitors, while winners get to be patriots?

The US wasn't rebelling against Britain because of slavery.

Krazy_Kirby posted...

graphics, not jraphics

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scuba
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captpackrat posted...

It's the Graphics Interchange Format, not the Giraffe Interchange Format.

The P in JPEG stands for Photographic.

That's why it's pronounced jay-feg, right?

ParanoidObsessive posted...

He's always been objectively wrong, because you don't get to change the rules of English based on your own whims. His preference isn't actually how the language works (which is why so many people refer to it the other way).

If he wanted it to be pronounced like Jif, he should have spelled it Jif. You know, the way the peanut butter does.

Exactly.

By the way, have you seen my Gentle Giant Giraffe?

This is the worst place to ask for dating advice.

They've been saying they're going to get rid of it for decades and haven't. I'll believe it when it happens.

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Adam_Savage posted...

no one eats the spirals

Spirals are the best

BUMPED2002 posted...

And America has yet to act as the liberators the country pride's itself on when someone needs help. The Ukraine needs help in dealing with the schoolyard bully but so far America is sitting it out.

I guess they're waiting on some nondescript country with WMDs before they act.

When America sends troops to an unstable country: "Why does America always have to interfere with other countries? Mind your own business!"

When America doesn't send troops to an unstable country: "I can't believe America is just going to sit back and watch while people are dying! I guess they only care about oil!"

You can't have it both ways. Either we're the world police or we aren't.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

These days we'd be better off reading Brave New World instead.

Depends on what country you're in. North Korea is 1984. America is Brave New World.

https://i.redd.it/fd419jtmgha31.jpg

"Russian warship, go fuck yourself."

Damn, that's going to be a memorable quote from this war.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/25/europe/ukraine-russia-snake-island-attack-intl-hnk-ml/index.html

Is Chernobyl even still being used? I assumed it was dismantled after that incident.

Honestly, no. I don't think this will lead to World War 3.

Ukraine is in a terrible situation right now, but the rest of the world isn't going to risk nuclear war for them. The most they'll do is sanctions. Putin will take over Ukraine, the rest of the world will shake their finger at him, and that will be it. Ukraine is screwed but WW3 isn't going to happen from this.

If there is a WW3, I think it'll be much later, when climate change has led to widespread famine and an unprecedented refugee crisis. All it will take is one desperate world leader with nothing to lose.