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I believe that there is nothing Donald Trump wouldn't do if you paid him enough money.
The nicest thing about new year's resolutions is that nobody is forcing you to make any.
The White House previously said that Trump's hand looked that way because he shook so many hands. So, how can they explain it on his left hand? Did he get it from jerking off two horses at once or something?
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.
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"Who wants to colonize my colon?"
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What is the thing labeled with an "F"?
In the first panel, it appears to be a laptop. But in the third panel, it shows that he's closed it, so in the fourth panel, that would mean that the boss is looking at the bottom of the laptop. But that doesn't look like any laptop that I've ever seen.
Did Henderson attach this paper to the bottom of the laptop?
Or maybe is it not a laptop? Maybe it's just a manila folder, and between the 3rd and 4th panels, he opened it up to show the boss the contents of the folder. But then, I guess it could be one of those tablets that can be used like a laptop, and he's folded the keyboard around.
Or, does Henderson have multiple things labeled with "F"?
We may never know what the F this is.
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.
Surely those sorts of things could happen in any country. There's no constitution that is inherently more than just words on paper.
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I doubt anyone thought otherwise.
On a side note, do my eyes deceive me, or is she wearing a collar? It seems wrong for an elephant to wear a collar.
Of course it can be enforced, and was planned to be enforced from its inception. All three branches were designed to have a hand in enforcing it. The legislative branch in creating laws to enforce it, the judicial branch to adjudicate it, and to a lesser extent, the executive branch. It was all enforced from the beginning.
If you're saying that a conspiracy of government officials can choose to ignore the constitution, and that's the reason why it can't be enforced, then that's true for every government's constitution.
I now think that anything Congress does to cede its authority to anything should be inherently unconstitutional.
Congresspeople on the day they first walk into office have less power than most people probably expect. They don't sit on committees. It's difficult to introduce legislation. Many of the important bills they vote on are giant monsters of bills and they have no option except to vote along party lines.
So individual congresspeople are put into a this conundrum. If they want to benefit their constituents, they have to play along with their party leadership. If the executive branch has too much power over the party, as Trump does, due to his controlling all the money, then essentially, the executive branch controls Congress.
We need to get rid of all of this ceding of power not just to the executive branch but also to anything else, like political parties, or even to rules of order, like how the filibuster works today. There are all sorts of ways that Congress today has less power than specified in the constitution.
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?
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Although I don't agree with his politics at all, I remember learning about this concept from Ron Paul, of all people. He was being interviewed, and the interviewer said, "You vote 'no' on every spending bill, but then inside the spending bill, you have made all sorts of earmarks," implying that this made Paul a hypocrite.
But Ron Paul said, "It's my job to make earmarks for my constituents."
That's when I realized that there are two things in play, "The world as it is now," and "The world as in my ideals." Ron Paul's ideal world had virtually no government spending (again, I disagree with his concept), but the world that he lived in required him to spend the government's money on his constituents.
It's for this same reason that I feel like fighting against gerrymandering in America, locally, if the gerrymandering would benefit you, is a losing proposition right now.
As much as we don't like it, it's currently legal to gerrymander for a wide variety of reasons, so the good politicians will be trying to make gerrymandering, as a whole, illegal, while making sure to gerrymander as much as is legally allowed at the same time. It's not hypocritical. It's just that we live in that world. If people complain, you just say, "Look, here's the bill/amendment that I support that makes gerrymandering completely illegal. Those are the laws I want in place. What I'm doing right now is doing what my constituents think is best for them. If you don't like it, then make sure my bill/amendment passes."
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It's possible that they have the iPhone for some reason other than they bought it new. Maybe it was a gift from a parent who uses iPhones, or maybe it was a hand-me-down, for example. Point being, the guy in the second panel doesn't have enough information to say what he's saying.
Do they live next to the Addams or the Gartens?
If she thinks that depression is just an excuse for laziness, then what's her excuse for her laziness?
It is simple, if not trivial, to go look up what depression means, for example, on Wikipedia. She hasn't done this, and we know that because her understanding of depression doesn't match the actual definition, so her opinion on depression stems from her laziness.
She implies that other people's laziness is a bad thing, so why does she think it's okay for her to express such laziness and lazy opinions?
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Don't ruin the magic
Now that I'm thinking about it, Superman shouldn't have been able to see through any conductive metal.
If lead is special, that's a hint that Superman actually gives off serious doses of radiation when he's using his X-ray vision.
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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.
Since we know that RFK Jr lacks conviction as much as he lacks scruples, that seems an unlikely outcome.