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I think it is wrong for you to make an analogy to someone driving a car.

Add “yet” to the end of every counterpoint you’ve made and you can see why some people might find this objectionable

There's more to it. It really sounds like it's worked well, at least at elementary age (which I can only assume is super important). The approach is based on:

- focus on "science of reading" approach for young children: "the key idea is that teaching strategies should align with a wide body of cognitive research on how young children learn to read. That research, amassed over decades, shows that in addition to a broad vocabulary, children need to understand phonics, or the relationship between letters and the sounds of spoken language."

- "Mississippi also made other changes, like investing in pre-K, and holding back third graders who cannot read well, one of its most debated policies."

- "raised academic standards and started giving each school a letter grade, A to F."

- "Mississippi also measures how much students progress toward proficiency. Schools get credit if students show improvement — and double credit for the improvement of students in the bottom 25 percent."

- "The Mississippi Department of Education sends literacy and math coaches into low-performing elementary schools, with the goal of teaching teachers, not children. And state officials vet and approve curriculum used by the vast majority of districts, unusual in a country that prizes local control of schools."

>some poor southern states

Just for your curiosity - the remarkable progress in Mississippi really challenged my similarly held bias.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/11/us/mississippi-schools-tr...

>People will have more artificial friends than human friends within ~20-30 years.

How do you envision an "artificial friend"

>The HomePod has now been unplugged.

Mine are now unplugged after the update to 27 while i'm not home, since they've developed a mind of their own & will randomly turn on the TV or play music themselves.

>this device proves they can easily enable user profiles on iPads and iPhones

At the risk of echoing the infamous Dropbox comment...was that ever really considered a technical challenge?

I'm quite happy with OpenAudible: https://openaudible.org/

Racism towards...orange cats? Is that your contention?

>it's likely that after things cool down there will be some sort of rebellion.

Please support this statement.

>hardware vendor

Apple doesn't make software??

I'm wondering what the motion thing is even meant to address. Either a ticket is valid and used / not used or it's not a valid ticket. What about that requires a real-time motion thing?

well, no, because the individual doing the thing isn't the only factor. You may very well know what you're doing but that doesn't mean all aspects are under your control.

>so it was definitely "safe" if you knew what you were doing.

Those quotation marks doing a lot work...I guess those IBCs are 1m tall? so 8m at the top. A fall from 8m could result in severe injury if not fatality. Fucked indeed...

https://pdf.journalagent.com/travma/pdfs/UTD_19_6_529_535.pd...

>In many non-Anglo-Euro countries, drinking is seen as moderately aberrant behaviour akin to frequenting sex workers or doing drugs.

You've gotta give some examples here.

>The same can be said for their whiskey.

Fine if you're not a fan of American whiskies or bourbon but it's a strange take to generalize it all as low quality..

>the categories

In theory it should be based on the HS code, no?

I wonder if that's triggered if NYT determines that a gift link is being widely used?

Though it should be pretty obvious from this context that it's not 97 Celsius or Kelvin.

> On the left, when someone uses a racial or sexist epithet, for example, the reaction is to exert social pressure against that individual. Social media escalates that to a giant dogpile

Not sure it’s correct to characterize that as a reaction of only the “left” - case in point, the reactions to Charlie Kirk’s death.

You're projecting your own bias onto "a ton of Icelanders" and you've nothing to base this on except your own feelings.

That's pretty unreasonable!

>don’t let them trick you into imagining USSR as some sort of utopia

was there some particular risk of this?

>it seems like most people actually use the other url which always confused me when there is a toggle.

well, I for one had no idea there was a toggle until just now.

Why isn’t regulation and enforcement a solution? Why must the city be the ones to measure spaces?

How it works in plenty of other countries…

Maybe it’s different for rentals but you’d think the banks would also want accurate data on the properties they’re mortgaging…and cities for tax revenue…so strange!

Wild. In Netherlands (and I assume other European countries as well) there’s a regulatory norm for how spaces should be measured - what counts as liveable, non-liveable, etc. It’s so much fairer and clearer for everyone involved.

https://www.nen.nl/bouw/beheer-en-onderhoud/oppervlaktebepal...

>And it isn't. It's all imaginary. He doesn't have 4 billion apples compared to my 1 apple.

What isn’t imaginary is the outsize leverage that his 4 billion non-Apples afford him…

Would highly recommend the book "Salt" by Mark Kurlansky. I never realized how influential salt was to the course of human history.

For example: https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-defense-department-...

In NL the obligation to renounce is pretty arbitrary. There are a number of circumstances where it is allowed to have two nationalities, such as through marriage to a Dutch citizen.

It doesn’t make a lot of sense.