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throw9000on New method shows today’s warming ‘unprecedented’ over past 24,000 years

The jury has been in for a while. Humans are causing climate change. We're not going to do anything about it, future generations are just going to have to deal with it.

throw9000on Faced with soaring Ds and Fs, schools are ditching the old way of grading

Didn't have to wait long for union bashing to come around.

throw9000on Faced with soaring Ds and Fs, schools are ditching the old way of grading

I knew so many valedictorians that flunked out at the state school I went to (University of Missouri - Rolla). High school is a garbage indicator for how well you'll do in life or further education.

throw9000on Evergrande teeters on edge of default as $148M payment falls due

If the US intervenes, they're branded as interlopers. If they don't, they're branded as inept. Seems like they're fucked either way in the eyes of the rest of the world.

throw9000on Helion

> Possibly the US would be silly enough to get in the way but many other countries certainly wouldn't, including China.

As an American this is accurate and depressing.