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Kalcifer

@ Kalcifer @sh.itjust.works

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  • Make English 4 if not English 3 electives rather than required.

    For clarity, are you saying that you don't think that it should be mandatory that English, or any of its derivatives, be taught as a course to children?

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  • I think later high school English classes do more to beat any love of reading teenagers have out of them by force feeding them […] obsolete shit […]

    How are you defining "obsolete" in this context?

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  • Err, but each of my comments have been directly addressing things that you've stated in this thread, so wouldn't that logically infer that my comments are related to this thread? Explicitly my logic would be: If comment A directly addresses the content in comment comment B, then A is related to B; each of my comments respectively address the content in each of your comments; therefore, my comments are related to your comments [1]. Would you mind outlining exactly isn't related to the thread? Perhaps I missed something.

    1. "Modus Ponens". Wikipedia. Published: 2024-07-07T05:04Z. Accessed: 2024-12-11T02:36Z. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modus_ponens.
      • §"Explanation". ¶1.
        1. If P, then Q.
        2. P.
        3. Therefore, Q.

  • To the admins and moderators of Lemmy: How often do you encounter disturbing content? How do you cope with the things that you see?

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  • I wonder what it is that an instance may offer over others

    Here is a non-exhaustive list of things that I think are important when considering an instance:

    • Stability — eg uptime, how quickly outages are addressed, etc.
    • Speed and responsiveness — eg how quickly one can download resources from the instance, how quickly pages can load, etc.
    • Accessibility of the admin(s) — eg how easy is it to get in touch with the instance admin(s)? are they open to communication?
    • Cost sustainability — eg how is the instance funded? Is their model sustainable?
    • Infrastructure sustainability — eg how is the instance powered? Is it in a stable location?
    • Local Laws — ie what laws is the instance subject to?
    • ToS — ie what rules does the instance impose on its users?
    • Who is the instance federated and defederated with, and what is their criteria for federation?
    • Other smaller things like ability to upload media, number of local communities, number of users, front-end/appearance, etc.

  • To the admins and moderators of Lemmy: How often do you encounter disturbing content? How do you cope with the things that you see?

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  • I think that It depends on the instance, but I would argue that, generally, yes.

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  • Yes.

    In that biology course, how would you want the biology knowledge to be taught to the students? Like what form would the knowledge take? For example, would it be that you want students to simply memorize a sort of currently understood concepts in biology? Would it be something else?

  • To the admins and moderators of Lemmy: How often do you encounter disturbing content? How do you cope with the things that you see?

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  • What does your instance (I'm presuming redlemmy.com) offer that sets it apart from the rest?

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  • But, to me, that doesn't really explain why it would make sense to teach things that wouldn't be useful.

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  • Bio is like a freshman/sophomore course.

    In your opinion, should it be — ie should it be taught at all?

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  • Imo, it's more an erosion of critical thinking rather than a lacking of specific biology facts.

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  • Mainstream economics is nothing but ideologically charged excuses for the status quo.

    Would you mind defining exactly what you mean by "mainstream economics"?

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  • Instead of focusing on specific facts, what about focusing on honing the skills required to acquire and understand information?

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  • I’m unconvinced that Shakespeare is a particularly good exercise in reading comprehension given the vocabulary, phraseology, spelling and grammar is 500 years out of date.

    Hrm I'd argue that regardless of the parlance used in the work, it's still an exercise of reading comprehension, as one is still comprehending the work while reading it.

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  • What exactly would you want to remove, and what would you propose in its stead, and why?

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  • We learn certain general subjects like this in science mainly to learn critical thinking, analytical/logical reasoning skills, how to apply the scientific method (which, yes, can come in handy in many areas of life besides science).

    Given your previous claim:

    No high schooler is EVER gonna pay even the slightest bit of attention if we incorporate a “taxes and accounting” class. No shot.

    What makes you think that they'd be any more likely to pay attention to any other subject matter?

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  • […] No high schooler is EVER gonna pay even the slightest bit of attention if we incorporate a “taxes and accounting” class. No shot. […]

    Assuming that some high schoolers aren't going to pay attention to the lesson, wouldn't it still be better to at least try to teach something that has real life practical use rather than something that doesn't? At least the people who do pay attention will gain something useful — it doesn't make much sense to me to reduce the overall usefulness of what's taught simply because some may not pay attention.

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  • TIL!

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  • Could it not just sorta flex the tube? Like couldn't one part of the tube pull on or press off of the next?

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  • I wonder if a heart could still beat/function when it's unrolled in this way 🤔

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  • […] lemmy is a bunch of teenagers […]

    The average age of lemmings has actually been found to be around late 30s [1][2].

    1. "RESULTS - 2023 Instance Census for lemmy.ca". "Otter" (@otter@lemmy.ca). "Lemmy.ca's Main Community" (main@lemmy.ca). Lemmy.ca. Published: 2024-02-11T02:16:45Z. Accessed: 2024-12-01T09:09Z. https://lemmy.ca/post/15125231.
      • §"Section 2: Who are you?". §"Question 2.1: What age range do you fall into?"

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        We can see a nice curve, with a peak around 30-39. So the average age on Lemmy is likely a bit older than other social media platforms, but there's a good spread nonetheless.

    2. "RESULTS - 2024 Instance Census for lemmy.nz". "Dave" (@Dave@lemmy.nz). "Aotearoa / New Zealand" (newzealand@lemmy.nz). Lemmy.nz. Published: 2024-08-02T06:53:04Z. Accessed: 2024-12-01T09:15Z. https://lemmy.nz/post/12001861.
      • §"Where are we?". §"What age range do you fall into?".

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