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HanOfTheNekos posted...

red sox 777 posted...

Ashethan posted...

https://www.wfla.com/national/survey-most-americans-say-arabic-numerals-should-not-be-taught-in-school/2012373609

56% of Americans think Arabic Numerals should not be taught in schools.

I blame the dumbing down of our education system. Instead of teaching students about the difference between a number and a numeral, and teaching them about different classes of numbers like natural numbers, whole numbers, integers, fractions, decimals, rational numbers, real numbers, complex numbers, etc., our dumbed-down schools just teach students that there are just "numbers" and they are objective, universal, and real, rather than abstract imaginary objects. I bet most students don't even know that decimals are a way of expressing sums of fractions.

Please stop pretending that you know what schools do.

I'm not pretending. I know.
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Ashethan posted...

I'd say one major problem of our education system is actually that so many people believe it's primary focus should be preparing people for the workforce. I remember so many people back in college, and even me back in school thinking "When am I ever going to use this?"

But our education system should be more than that. Schools shouldn't be job factories. The idea that knowledge is only useful if you can profit off of it is a mistake. There's an inherent benefit to knowing something, even if it provides no practical use.

I absolutely agree with this, just think that right now there are a lot of predatory schools out there who are just in it for the money and hide behind being "schools." They don't offer students a good liberal education (not politically liberal, liberal as in liberal arts) or good job prospects, they mainly offer a piece of paper.

For my proposal, I think it's important that this not be used to discriminate based on major. So I would limit it to schools that don't require students to choose a major at the time of enrollment. Also the rates can't change midway through school based on major choice.
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Ashethan posted...

https://www.wfla.com/national/survey-most-americans-say-arabic-numerals-should-not-be-taught-in-school/2012373609

56% of Americans think Arabic Numerals should not be taught in schools.

I blame the dumbing down of our education system. Instead of teaching students about the difference between a number and a numeral, and teaching them about different classes of numbers like natural numbers, whole numbers, integers, fractions, decimals, rational numbers, real numbers, complex numbers, etc., our dumbed-down schools just teach students that there are just "numbers" and they are objective, universal, and real, rather than abstract imaginary objects. I bet most students don't even know that decimals are a way of expressing sums of fractions.
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Jakyl25 posted...

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Nelson_Mandela posted...

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Nelson_Mandela posted...

red sox 777 posted...

That said, Republicans might jump on this proposal. They think that most people who pay income tax support them, which is probably true.

This is most definitely true. If people who didn't pay federal income taxes didn't vote (most don't already), the GOP would never lose a presidential election again. California would be red.

Lol, remember when the right to vote was only given to white males who owned property? Wed win every time if it went back to that.

Well yeah. I think it's pretty clear that those who contribute most to the country vote Republican and those who feed off of our labors vote Democrat. It's been that way since the 1910s.

This is literally not true. The counties that voted for Clinton far outpaced the counties that voted for Trump in GDP. The states using the most welfare are all red states.

But if you look at the counties that voted for Clinton, the majority of the GDP production in those counties is going to be coming from people who vote Republican. Remember the top 1% alone accounts for 24% of national income.

How do the numbers skew if Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos voted for Clinton?

King County, Washington is probably going to go for Democrats by a wide margin. But I think the GOP is safe nationally.
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TheRock1525 posted...

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red sox 777 posted...

That said, Republicans might jump on this proposal. They think that most people who pay income tax support them, which is probably true.

This is most definitely true. If people who didn't pay federal income taxes didn't vote (most don't already), the GOP would never lose a presidential election again. California would be red.

Lol, remember when the right to vote was only given to white males who owned property? Wed win every time if it went back to that.

Well yeah. I think it's pretty clear that those who contribute most to the country vote Republican and those who feed off of our labors vote Democrat. It's been that way since the 1910s.

This is literally not true. The counties that voted for Clinton far outpaced the counties that voted for Trump in GDP. The states using the most welfare are all red states.

But if you look at the counties that voted for Clinton, the majority of the GDP production in those counties is going to be coming from people who vote Republican. Remember the top 1% alone accounts for 24% of national income.
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It most certainly does. That's why we have all the 2nd Amendment caselaw we have. It doesn't completely eliminate the government's ability to regulate guns but it certainly limits it.
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21 was the age of majority for most of our country's history and still is for alcohol. And the government can certainly regulate what adults do - except when it comes to guns (and free speech, religion, etc.).
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Jakyl25 posted...

Whats the point though?

First we take away the cigarettes. Then we come for the lattes. Without lattes, liberals will flee the US en masse leading to permanent Republican rule.
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How about forcing schools to accept payment as a percentage of their graduates' future earnings (like the current income-based repayment plans), but with the schools bearing the risk or reward instead of the government?

That way, good schools will be able to accept a low percentage of future earnings, knowing that their grads will succeed and they'll make a lot of money. Bad schools will have to ask for a higher percentage, and if that makes students hesitant to attend, they'll be forced to lower their tuition. Ultimately, the only way the costs can go down is if tuition goes down, so that is the real goal.

No. This will pigeonhole academia into a zero sum game full of intellectual stagnation.

You mean because schools might prioritize improving their students' earning prospects at the expense of the search for truth?

That's a valid concern, but I'm not sure it's a bad thing. I'm fairly sure it won't have much effect on that though, because what makes graduates marketable is the prestige of their school, and what gives a school prestige is research output. Schools with no prestige add minimal value and now they won't be able to scam marginal students (or their parents, or the taxpayers) into forking over massive amounts of money to attend.
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Jakyl25 posted...

https://twitter.com/nbcnews/status/1130569805717807104?s=21

Senate Majority Leader McConnell: "Today I'm introducing federal legislation to make 21 the new minimum age for purchasing any tobacco product anywhere in the United States."

Any conservatives with thoughts on this?

Sounds like Cocaine Mitch doesn't want competition.
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How about forcing schools to accept payment as a percentage of their graduates' future earnings (like the current income-based repayment plans), but with the schools bearing the risk or reward instead of the government?

That way, good schools will be able to accept a low percentage of future earnings, knowing that their grads will succeed and they'll make a lot of money. Bad schools will have to ask for a higher percentage, and if that makes students hesitant to attend, they'll be forced to lower their tuition. Ultimately, the only way the costs can go down is if tuition goes down, so that is the real goal.
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There's a difference. Conservatives (or at least SephG, but he's probably representative) have been talking about working with Biden. Conservatives tried to tell you guys that Hillary was completely unacceptable but no one listened!
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That said, Republicans might jump on this proposal. They think that most people who pay income tax support them, which is probably true.
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JeffreyRaze posted...

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I'm pretty sure I've mentioned this before, but you in the US should do what we do and have a checkbox in your tax return authorizing them to use the info you give them to register you to vote. Sorta fits with the whole no taxation without representation thing too, haha.

Well, this would probably lead to lots of non-citizens checking the box by mistake.

Then the info is sent, they are recognized as not eligible, and nothing happens.

The IRS is not in the business of keeping track of who is a citizen and who isn't. The US government is actually really decentralized in the sense that different agencies (and states) do different things and they aren't very linked. For instance, officially you are supposed to report income from crimes committed on your tax return, and the IRS is not supposed to share that info with the DOJ to prosecute you (but they will collect tax on it, which you would think would make them an accomplice to the crime, but apparently not).
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JeffreyRaze posted...

I'm pretty sure I've mentioned this before, but you in the US should do what we do and have a checkbox in your tax return authorizing them to use the info you give them to register you to vote. Sorta fits with the whole no taxation without representation thing too, haha.

Well, this would probably lead to lots of non-citizens checking the box by mistake.
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Actually, the last 3 episodes felt that way. Maybe the Night King won and the people of the world are now dreaming while their bodies in the real world are reanimated zombies?
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The last two episodes felt like some kind of weird dream. Like next episode Jon will wake up and it will be the morning of the attack on King's Landing...
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She made an observant comment, that the people of Westeros will not love her so they need to fear her.
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Jakyl25 posted...

Corrik7 posted...

No, Only legal citizens should have the right to vote: Delaney, Johnson, Yang, Biden, Gabbard, Klobuchar, Gillebrand, Booker, Buttgieg

Yes: Biden, Harris

Put Romney and Hillary down for both sides too.
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Corrik7 posted...

Should Foreigners currently residing in the US be allowed to vote.

Your Answer: No

No: Donald Trump, John Kasich
No, Only legal citizens should have the right to vote: Delaney, Johnson, Yang, Biden, Gabbard, Klobuchar, Gillebrand, Booker, Buttgieg

Yes: Biden, Harris
Yes, anyone who pays taxes should have the right to vote: Warren, Beto, Castro

Yeah, I looked at the details. None of those candidates actually said non-citizens should be able to vote. That's based on their supporters' poll answers and some very loose constructions of their words.
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Isidewith attributes positions to candidates based on how other people who take the poll and say they support the candidate answer the question. So they have Warren, Sanders, Harris, and Beto as "yes" answers on that question.
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I got Andrew Yang as my #1, followed by John Kasich and then Donald Trump. A lot of the questions it felt like my actual answer wouldn't fit into any of the boxes. Like, I want college to be less expensive, which is why I DON'T want the government to commit to paying more for it. That would just cause the colleges to raise their tuitions further.

The only questions I rated "most important" were keeping the Electoral College and not allowing non-citizens to vote.
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I think my political views are fairly libertarian in the area of what government should be doing in society - I want government to stay out of regulating or running things except when there is an actual benefit to having government do it over the private sector due to the incentives lining up the right way, like with the environment or with breaking up (but NOT regulating) monopolies.

In terms of economic equality I am fairly socialist in outlook and want progressive taxes. But I want to benefit the working class and don't favor the upper middle class over the rich. I think California's "progressive" income tax system is horrible, where it gets to 9% at 52k income and stays at 9% until past 250k. The effective total tax rate on someone making 52k is going to be much higher than someone making 250k, due to 1) payroll tax, 2) sales tax, and 3) flat fees like vehicle registration.

The centrist Democrats I see as basically the worst of both worlds - they want heavy handed government involvement in things where it will do no good, they are fairly intolerant of differing viewpoints from their own and willing to use economic and maybe government power to suppress dissent, and they consistently favor the upper middle class over the working class.
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This poll probably shouldn't have the politics tag. I feel like it is political on some level, like all of my polls, but I can't articulate how.
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What's the worst grade you've gotten in an academic class?
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Structurally, nothing will change as long as the current teachers' unions and school administrators are in charge. To use Trump's words, they have experience, but it's bad experience.
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skullbone posted...

Leafeon13N posted...

Red sox is currently arguing liberal teachers are getting too much while simultaneously arguing we should pay conservative teachers more.

I think this was his actual message but it's equally stupid as an argument

Yes, that was what I said.

But more seriously, I do think we, as a country, should be incentivizing people who are not teachers right now to teach. Our school system is failing and we should be getting people from outside the system in if we want change.

Our schools are not competitive enough. Students don't compete with each other enough. That's because our schools are structured to reward minimum competence. The top student in the class gets virtually identical grades to the #2. Tests have loads of easy questions, but students are expected to get the vast majority of them right to get a decent grade.

This isn't what the real world is like. And this isn't what school is like in East Asia at least. Test questions are hard enough that the students who actually know the subject matter well will stand out. Students know they are competing with each other. Students don't get credit for turning in mountains of time-wasting homework, or even worse, extra credit.

I think a big reason for this culture is our teachers tend to do well in an environment based on minimum competence rather than outstanding performance themselves. That's because we don't pay teachers well so highly talented people choose other professions. And this is a feedback loop - the worse our teachers are, the less the public believes they deserve to be paid.
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Man sometimes I wish we could get Bernie to run as a Republican. We could keep great stuff like calling out the media for being sensationalist garbage while not doing stuff like ban charter schools.
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Conditions: All of these jobs will pay 100k per year, with regular benefits. You must be totally honest with your friends, family, and strangers about what you do for a living.

Arizona farm laborer: Seasonal fruit picking in the desert. Some seasons more active than others.

Trump coffee-fetcher: Fetch coffee for Trump and charge expensive hotel stays at Trump properties to the taxpayers.

Investment banker: 100 hours of work per week.

Welfare recipient: Stand in long lines and submit to degrading drug tests.
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Nrrr posted...

Please stop pretending red sox actually believes private schools with no unions would have higher wages lol

Not private schools. Public ones funded by big tax increases on liberals.
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The public education system is controlled by Democrats. We should defund public schools to force the teachers and their unions out. They can retire with their big pensions and then we will start over by massively raising wages and standards to attract good, intelligent, conservatives to the field. We will restore the dignity of teaching as a profession.
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Has anyone else noticed that younger people (like in college now) can't write? I've seen major papers, that had received many hours of work, from people getting good grades, that were far less coherent than the average post in this topic.
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A lot of these Democratic ideas sound terribly unconstitutional. Creating a state monopoly on education by banning the competition? Really?
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So far a majority would take the job for 250k or less.
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The job would involve fetching coffee, being a caddy as needed, playing golf and intentionally losing to the president, retweeting tweets, making social media posts, and insulting the media. Regular hours are short (10 AM to 4 PM Tuesday to Thursday) but you are required to be on-call 24/7. You would frequently be required to travel to Florida or other places and you MUST stay exclusively at a Trump hotel when traveling for work (cost will be reimbursed). Job security is very bad, and you may be fired at any time and be blamed for things that were not your fault.
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I love how 9% of Democrats think Trump's term should be extended by 2 years.
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But on second thought, that SAT proposal doesn't do much. It sounds like all they are doing is giving students a number based on their zip code. Colleges can and probably are doing that themselves already.
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Nelson_Mandela posted...

Non-abortion link:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/sat-to-give-students-adversity-score-to-capture-social-and-economic-background-11557999000

As an Ivy League graduate (with honors) who grew up in poverty, this absolutely fucking infuriates me. Weighing "adversity" in what are supposed to be the most objective assessments of ability is what will lead to the collapse of our civilization. The best should be rewarded, no matter what their background. Are we going to now give extra points to sports teams who employ the most disadvantaged players (growing up)?

This has already been gamed. Rich parents "move" the family to poor neighborhoods when their child enters high school, so that their child can easily be valedictorian and also can claim to come from a poor area.

All this kind of bad policy will do is make it harder than it already is for genuine poor kids to get into good colleges, because they will increasingly be forced to compete, during high school, with rich kids and their families who are exploiting the system.
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Xeybozn posted...

Jakyl25 posted...

red sox 777 posted...

Well, I guess it's not 100% unambiguous. Literally speaking, a person who performs an abortion on themselves is a person upon whom an abortion has been performed, but I suppose it's not out of the question a court could find that "upon whom an abortion has been performed" means "upon whom an abortion been performed by another person."

If the ultimate goal is to preserve the life of the unborn then logically youd have to punish the woman

Actually, that doesn't necessarily follow. It would be logically consistent to be against punishing women for getting abortions if you believe women are inherently incapable of making their own decisions. You know, kind of like how dogs aren't thrown in jail if their owner uses them for dogfighting. One could believe punishing a women is pointless for similar reasons but still support punishing the other people involved.

This is the logic the US Supreme Court used 100+ years ago to uphold an Oregon law setting a maximum number of hours per week women could work after striking down a New York law setting a maximum number of work hours for everyone.
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Well, I guess it's not 100% unambiguous. Literally speaking, a person who performs an abortion on themselves is a person upon whom an abortion has been performed, but I suppose it's not out of the question a court could find that "upon whom an abortion has been performed" means "upon whom an abortion been performed by another person."
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Section 5. No woman upon whom an abortion is performed or attempted to be performed shall be criminally or civilly liable. Furthermore, no physician confirming the serious health risk to the child's mother shall be criminally or civilly liable for those actions.

That is pretty unambiguous. But note that this does not exempt anyone who helps a woman obtain an abortion (like a family member who drives her to the abortion clinic) from accomplice liability.
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And we're almost at 50 votes and no votes for trust fund yet. Where are all the 1%ers?
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Technically speaking, none of these?

"Private business or organization" is poorly phrased. There's a distinction between private companies and public companies.

Anyway, I'm being pedantic. I get what you meant and that's my vote.

If you mean a publicly traded company, that's supposed to be under private business or organization. If you mean a state-owned corporation like China Central Television or Saudi Aramco.....I guess that would count as government.
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What is your primary source of income? For this question, income includes non-taxable stuff like loss-making rental properties or gifts from family.
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Xeybozn posted...

Stupid question about the abortion debate in the US: Why do so many people support allowing abortion when the pregnancy is from incest? I get why some people who oppose most abortions could be fine exceptions for the woman's health or rape, but I can't see any logic behind allowing a special exception for incest.

Presumably to protect the child from health problems resulting from incest.
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Alabama's only exception being to save the life of the mother might help it in the courts though. A life is a life is a life and if you allow any exceptions other than to save life, you are tacitly admitting that an unborn child's life is not worth as much as a human who has been born. Not that that will save it here and now.
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But if you hear the case too early, before there is a majority for overturning it, you could end up with a case upholding it, which would be very recent precedent and would make it harder to overturn it in the future.
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As far as the Alabama thing goes, I doubt the Supreme Court is ready to overturn Roe v. Wade. Maybe if you could replace one of the liberals or Roberts with another Trump appointee, but you've got 4 guaranteed no votes right now and Roberts probably makes 5. Don't think any of the other 4 are guaranteed yes votes either, except maybe Thomas.
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Nrrr posted...

Biden had some announcement bonus going on, and if you look back, basically everyone had one. It's dying down a little bit now. He is still in the lead but at this time last year Clinton was like a 50 point favorite, so it definitely is far from over. And honestly I think the polls are undersampling young people, they just don't answer phones and their percentage of the vote increased in the last two elections.

True but Bernie was an unknown quantity at that point. He isnt now.

Which means youre basically hoping for Warren/Harris/Mayor Pete to similarly catch fire and I dont think any of them have Bernies magnetism

I think Bernie is the best shot besides Biden, though still less likely. His biggest strengths are fundraising, the fact he is the second choice of most Biden voters, and his strength being greater in the early voting states than in general polling. So if he does well early, kills it in debate and wins over some Biden voters and continues being able to engage massive enthusiasm he definitely has a shot and it's more likely than it was in 2016.

His biggest weakness right now (edit: compared to 2016) are those jilted Hillary supporters who literally think him and his supporters are as sexist and toxic as Trump / the Alt-Right. I just got done reading a Twitter thread about it with thousands of likes and retweets.

From what I can tell, this groups first pick is Warren, who I would be glad to support...but their second pick is Biden, which makes no fuckin sense.

Those jilted Hillary supporters are incorrigible. They are all-in on preserving the wealth of the upper middle class, and that means their only way of distinguishing themselves from Republicans is identity politics. So they are all-in on identity politics.

They are the problem with American politics and Trump is, hopefully, the remedy. But it may take two terms, or maybe more (with another GOP president after Trump) for the medicine to have its effect.
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Nelson_Mandela posted...

red sox 777 posted...

Nelson_Mandela posted...

https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1126958896973778950

#ThisIsWhyYouLost2020

Really hope people like AOC stay home because Biden doesn't want everyone to return to subsistence farming. The centrist Dems might legitimately go to war with progressives over this.

Seph, what do you think we should do about climate change?

React to it and stop acting like the world is going to end in ten years.

Allocate money to help places like Miami prepare for rising sea levels while instituting common sense energy reform (incentivize building more nuclear power plants!).

Climate change is one of the issues I most agree with Democrats on. If I were to support a Democrat, it would be someone who can fight on the policy issues I agree with while jettisoning the baggage of the twin pillars of identity politics and neoliberal economics that has become the core of the Democratic platform.
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