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Epstein Island was sold to the US by Denmark, so there’s that parallel, as well.

One reason that people are stupid is because rich people need slave labor, so they set up a system where people don’t learn to think for themselves.

Didn’t Trump Sr just take over what he called a “narco-state,” and declare himself temporary president of that country? That would mean Donald Trump Sr. is already “temporarily” one of the world’s biggest drug kingpins.

This is like when there are two really bad gangs who decide to kill each other.

There just aren’t that many trans people compared to how often conservatives make a big issue of them. And the number of times that a trans person has actually caused a tangible problem for other people in a way that is related to their being trans is even more rare. Not that it doesn’t happen, but it might as well be a unicorn.

That’s an easy way to tell for sure that they are using the issue as a distraction.

This post is an amazing example of how we are not immune to propaganda

This post isn’t propaganda, though, so it’s not that amazing of an example.

So, ICE is scared that aggressive untrained people will use deadly force against them, and that afterwards the government will do nothing about it?

That’s pretty much how everybody else has felt about ICE for a long time.

The US began attacking non-combatant Venezuelan boats on September 1. The FIFA peace prize was given on December 5.

So Trump had already started military action three months before he received the bullshit prize.

Where do these grow? Why are insects scarce? Is it cold?

Don’t Confuse Dying for Oil with Dying for Freedom

Okay, we know it’s about oil, but hear me out, What if it was for freedom? Would that make it okay? I think the official justification for the attack is that the US doesn’t recognize Maduro as the winner of the last election and claims that he is running a “narco-state.”

Is that really justification for using military action and taking over a government ourselves? Maybe the US is right about the election and Maduro didn’t win legitimately, but the US didn’t win the election, either. The US is even less legitimate than Maduro ever was.

We all know that this conflict is about oil, but even the justification is an admission of something horrible.

I bought it because everybody said it was good. I’ve tried playing it several times, and I can completely understand that it’s good, but I always end up abandoning it before a year is up in game.

You simply apply your problem solving skills as an adult. You want students to understand how to do these things. Well, how do you do these things? Then teach the students the method that you use. That’s the simplest version. But there’s been a lot of research about how to teach things, so following the best research is the better version.

I think I gave a small example of teaching problem solving in my 3rd paragraph where I described tutoring math. But you can use any problems instead of simply math problems.

Really, I say this as a very introverted person with a strong STEM background, I think the most important skills children learn from school are their interpersonal skills, but we rarely teach them directly. So, you can work through typical problems in class, like for problem solving, say, you want to use the gaming console, but your sibling is using it. What can you do?

Similarly, how do YOU know when something is misinformation? Just teach the children to take the same steps you do. “I doubt this information because based on these previous incidents, I’ve seen that this person has a reason to lie about this.” Or, “If I think about it, there is somebody who is profiting from people acting on this information, and so I that makes me dubious about this.”

How do you know when a conspiracy theory is very unlikely? The more important it is and the more people who must participate in it, the less likely the theory is to be true. That’s why you can write off flat earth theories almost instantly with very little knowledge of science.

You can teach critical thinking via debate class, for example, but I think there are some other methods, too. Critical thinking is probably the hardest to imagine a way to teach.

If we want children to learn these things, we should teach them these things directly, instead of relying on science classes. I’m not saying we should get rid of science classes, but the people who are saying these stupid things did actually take science classes in school.

We desperately need to teach classes that are specific. I learned a lot about problem solving from math classes, but I was shocked when I tutored other kids, and they only learned the math, but had no idea how to approach problems. And I don’t mean just word problems, but literally even if you just give them multiple equations and variables.

My tutoring often went like this: “I can’t solve this!” “What information to they give you? What answer do they want? What can you do with the stuff that they’ve given you to get the answer?” And then they get the answer. Then repeat. Literally no math involved in the tutoring for math class.

So, we need required classes, early, like in elementary school, that specifically teach problem solving, critical thinking, how to detect misinformation, and what I’ll call empathy. By “empathy”, I mean the ability to imagine yourself in another person’s shoes so that you can predict why they’re doing what they’re doing. It’s essential for detecting misinformation because you need to trust somebody at some point, so you need to understand how to tell who is more likely to be trustworthy. I also think we should teach children meditation techniques.

That “parallel” diagram… what am I looking at? The voltage is on the left, and presumably the load is on the bottom and that’s supposed to be a resistor placeholder. But the wire connects all the way around bypassing the killers, so I guess killers must be some sort of capacitor and this is some sort of killer-driven filter?

You’re the traffic in the same way that a molecule of water in the ocean is the wave.

When I’m stuck in traffic, I generally am anti-traffic, meaning I drive in such a way to make the traffic behind me better than the traffic in front of me. The most basic way to do this is by increasing your follow distance. Instead of following 2 or 3 seconds behind, follow 5 or more seconds behind.

Most traffic is caused by people braking too hard. The most common reason is that they’re following close enough that they have to brake hard when the person in front of them brakes hard.

By leaving space in front of you, you reduce the number of times you have to brake hard, thereby reducing the number of times the people behind you brake hard.

You also give people the chance to switch lanes if they want to. People cutting others off because they switch lanes without room is another common reason for hard braking.

High voltage: “I am still taking the path of least resistance. If you wanted me to use a wire, then you should have given me an appropriate wire.”

This is just a spool rack. Something like this is used in every electronics lab to hold wire and soldering wire.

Nothing to hide

This is a bad way to think about people exercising their rights.

Taking the fifth doesn’t mean you have something to hide. It simply means that you don’t know if it could possibly incriminate you.

I strongly suggest everybody in America watch this video which is mostly about not talking to police, but the same reasons apply to testimony.

For example, sometimes even completely innocent seeming statements, such as your truthfully saying where you were, can be used to convict you of a crime that you didn’t commit. You had “nothing to hide”, but you should have exercised your rights anyways.

Since you don’t know ahead of time which statements may be incriminating, you have to be extremely prepared if you want to guarantee that you don’t need to take the fifth in front of a place like the House Judiciary Committee, where you are answering questions from politicians who have agendas.

Eh, no reason to discard the idea of putting a ceiling on the rich. Even if you took away all of the money people had that was over 1 billion dollars, that wouldn’t cause any of those people to suffer.

Here’s another thing that doesn’t make sense about that post:

If you play Dungeons & Dragons, this object probably stops you in your tracks.

If you just play Dungeons & Dragons, then it looks like the hundreds or thousands of other d20s you’ve seen. Barely worth a look.

On the other hand, if you just like dice, like a lot of TTRPG people do, then it might catch your attention.