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Ivanka Trump To Take Coding Class With 5-Year-Old Daughter (hollywoodlife.com)
theodp writes: Speaking about women in STEM at a Women's History Month event at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, new [unpaid] federal employee Ivanka Trump revealed she'll be taking a computer coding class with her 5-year-old daughter. "On a very personal level, as a mom I'm trying to do my part as well," Ivanka told the crowd. "My daughter Arabella and I are enrolling in a coding class this summer." Parroting supermodel Karlie Kloss (the girlfriend of Ivanka's brother-in-law), the first daughter added, "We're excited to learn this incredibly important new language together. Coding truly is the language of the future."
"We're excited to learn this incredibly important new language together. Coding truly is the language of the future."
Coding is a language like driving is a car, or carpentry is a wood.
Idiots
More self-publicity by the Whitehouse version of "Life with the Kardashians"
Code, Hardware, stuff like that.
The country's infrastructure is already a shambles and I'm pretty sure Trump didn't do that.
There are two rules for success:
1. Never tell everything you know.
Never underestimate 5-year olds.
All rites reversed 2010
That's what they'll think anyway.
With trumps, a little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
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Why are so many of you bashing her for this? She's doing something with her daughter, and it has nothing to do with you, or this country. I want you to honestly ask yourselves, if this was Michelle Obama doing this, would you be bashing her for it?
This is the GOOD kind of publicity stunt, it's promoting education. It's like promoting healthy diet or exercise... it's kind of the thing you want coming from your leaders (or their subordinates, lackeys, and hangers-on) unless your society has no such issues to address.
You can be shit sure he ain't gunna fix it. It's already worse than when he started.
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> I laugh at "black belts" in the martial arts who still need Mommy's help making cereal in the morning
Everyone knows there's a difference between a child's black belt and an adult's. Much like with this computer camp, it's not expected to get the same results as you'd want for an adult.
It's about exposing them to the concept, making them comfortable and familiar with it to improve the odds they're interested in the real thing later on.
A typical one. You do realize that the majority of the ultra rich, the ones people complain about not paying taxes, tend to vote Democrat, right? Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, Jeff Bezos, they all tend to vote Democrat (I think officially they're registered independent). It's the middle class that tends to vote Republican, and the middle class doesn't make enough to do all the tax avoidance that the rich get. Hell, stop and think, next time Warren Buffet says income tax needs to be increased, think about who that hits. I'll give you a hint, the ultra rich don't typically have traditional "income" to be taxed.
Really?
Flint Michigan's Mayer and City Council was Republican?
The EPA officials were Republican?
Who made the decision not to maintain the infrastructure for the last 40 years. Oh, yeah. Democrats.
Who signed off on the condition of the water pipes? oh yeah the EPA.
But you blame the governor. Yup. good thinking there.
If you're scared of your govt then you need to further restrict its powers
Vote 3rd Party in 2016 and beyond
Nope instead your insurance premiums will continue to cover other people's bills. You know, since that's how all insurance works.
But that's not how Obamacare works, at least not for millions of middle-class people who are self employed or run small businesses and actually have to write a check every month. Their premiums have gone up hundreds of percent, and many no longer have the cash to go visit the doctor ... but because a small family might have a deductible of $20,000 ... they get no healthcare unless it's catastrophic, and they're still wiped out. For millions of people who WERE buying insurance and able to write a check to the doctor, they no longer can. The ACA is the Healthcare Prevention Act, but it certainly does work as the Democrats intended - a massive new tax that distributes middle class income to other people to buy votes.
Don't disappoint your bird dog. Go to the range.
... Warren Buffet says income tax needs to be increased ...
No, Warren Buffet has said that it is illogical that he (making a lot of money) pays a lower tax rate than his secretary (making much less money), and has suggested that the EFFECTIVE TAX RATE on high income needs to be increased. On himself.
So how much extra does he voluntarily pay then?
Actual data shows that those "rich Republicans" tend to pay the most in income tax. The wealthiest 1% pay 40% of all income taxes even though they make just 20% of all income. We have a highly progressive tax structure with the rich paying well above "their fair share". Unless your implication is that only Democrats are rich?
Browsing at +1 - no ACs, I ignore their posts. So refreshing!
You pay taxes? Seriously? What kind of republican are you?
As Racheal Maddow showed us, in just one year Trump paid $38 *million* in income taxes, more than probably the whole of Slashdot will pay on income taxes in a lifetime.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
If understand correctly, you are both saying that since her "daddy" is rich, and you don't like her daddy, then anything she does is automatically invalid.
So she doesn't love her daughter, she doesn't really think coding is important, she doesn't really think girls should get into coding...because you don't like her daddy.
Seems to me this is pretty much the kind of thinking the Leftists accuse Republicans of all the time.
Ivanka is essentially lending support to the cause that Slashdot is constantly harping on. But because you don't like her "daddy", fuck her. Do I have that right?
You HAVE read the story on Slashdot about Trolling, right? So are you two just a couple of monkey flinging poo?
When Fascism comes to America, it will call itself Anti-Fascism, and tell you to give up your guns.