Ah yes, the old liberal mantra of maximally expending resources on those who, at best, hope to rise to mediocrity... gosh, it's so hard to figure out why public education is fucked and kids are failing to adapt to meaningful roles in the workforce.
Maybe instead if pushing STEM on kids that have no hope of competing in the field, he could've opened a trade school and actually given these kids a future... but that just wouldn't have been as buzzworthy.
Comparing a brand new, well funded school to the rest of the DISTRICT which is run down and broke is a total joke... these kids are still miles behind statewide averages and nowhere near top students across the country. Awesome effort but still totally wasted on the lowest common denominator in the name of publicity for Brondo...
This is total bullshit and a huge reach. I have four people who use my account; myself, my mother, my grandmother, and a friend... but the reality is, not one of those three people aside from myself would pay Netflix, even half price, for a subscription and without them watching I'd have probably canceled mine by now. Their permissive approach to account sharing isn't costing them $200 million a month, it's the only reason they're relevant.
Nothing too awesome... a friend of a friend was involved with the movie, they invited a few people to a screening and I was lucky enough to be someone's +1.
Saw this Saturday, it's a fun movie and doesn't suck but it's pretty bad as far as what we've come to expect. Aside from the social justice pandering, which is pretty prevalent, the special effects are much less realistic and sort of cartoonish. Captain Marvel is, visually, the worst looking superhero... I was hoping for something more vision'esque in terms of CGI but she kinda looks more like a low budget SciFi channel movie character. The 90's setting is terrifically nostalgic, the movie itself is engaging enough and decently fun to watch... but it definitely falls short of the other movies by a good margin, and the excessive sjw pandering only makes it worse. If Avengers was a 9, Captain Marvel is a 6.
Some of the most brilliant minds to ever grace the planet were entirely ambivalent about war and actively contributed to the development of some of the most lethal weaponry every conceptualized... blindly assuming intelligence is at odds with combat is flatly idiotic. If anything, most highly intelligent people recognize the issues of overpopulation and the ascendant influence of the lowest common denominator and have very little feelings about the loss of life associated with war. Only those with minimal intelligence allow their emotional reaction to the loss of life to interfere with the intellectual recognition that warfare advances the human cause and culls largely from the least intelligent among society. War is good for humanity, and the highly intelligent recognize that without the weight of emotion that binds simpler minds like yours to "war is bad".
PS - Funny that you mention sociopaths struggling to comprehend given that one of the most common traits of high functioning sociopaths is a well above average IQ.
It's so absurd to try and make sweeping assessments of things like climate based on a record that's less than 40 years old. We started tracking data in the 80's... this is just more hysteria to drive the climate change agenda. The earth has been hotter, it's been colder, seas have risen, seas have fallen. Reporting about the five hottest years out of a pool of 39 years is meaningless data to something that moves as glacially as climate.
This isn't at all surprising. We've conflated the ability to study text and memorize facts for the purposes of a degree with actual intelligence and applauded degree holding idiots for far too long. This is why every 20-something with a gender studies degree also believes they're an expert in politics, international trade, finance, science, etc. They go on youtube or some forum filled with like-minded individuals and find a litany of "facts" that are nothing but non-causal correlations, which they then proceed to repeat endlessly to anyone who'll listen as though they represent actual science; spreading ignorance on the basis of nothing but their own falsely inflated sense of intelligence and bolstered by the popular opinion that if they have some degree, any degree, they must actually be intelligent.
Generations of students being taught to remember answers instead of how to discover them coming home to roost.
Why should they be expected to foot the bill for funding a network that increasingly enables streaming services to compete with them and undermine their profitability?
Did that make sense in your head before you said it or did you know how stupid it would sound and just said it anyway?
Newsflash... I earn in the very high six figures each year and honestly couldn't care less about California tax policy because it really doesn't affect my lifestyle in any way. I live behind gates with paid security staff and work behind walls with paid security... I was able to foot the bill and develop the contacts for a concealed carry permit in one of the most restrictive places in the country. My kids go to elite private schools and I'll easily afford college tuition for them wherever they choose to go. When the Sacramento politicians come up with a new tax or can't afford to pay public school teachers or have to double classroom sizes, it doesn't impact me at all. It impacts the poor... the single mom making just above minimum wage who has to decide between having enough money to put gas in the car to get to work all week or cooking a healthy dinner tonight. When idiotic policy funds scholarships for illegal aliens and limits the places available for the poor citizens fighting for scholarships, it doesn't impact the future of my kids who'll get in wherever they want to go and I'll easily be able to afford it, it screws the kids raised by good old middle class Americans who worked their asses off to get good grades in overstuffed classrooms while learning from subpar teachers preoccupied with dumbing things down to the lowest common denominator and pushing the latest common core idiocy. My kids will have the benefit of the best education money can buy, established relationships with peers who were born to even more elitist lifestyles than our own, and the added bonus of our black skin color benefiting them through affirmative action.
Make no mistake... my life hasn't been ruined in the slightest by any of the stupidity that passes for governance in this state, quite the opposite in fact, I benefit from it in nearly every way. I was raised to compete on level playing fields though and I can recognize the absurdity of calling this fair when it's anything but. I just sit back and laugh as my life and the future for my children gets easier and easier but I also have to shake my head in sadness that folks like you are actually stupid enough to think that this is a good thing for the future of the country.
Has nothing to do with things being naturally more expensive... we accept that in California. The issue at hand is that things are ARTIFICIALLY more expensive because of unnecessary regulatory costs and exorbitant taxation, taxation which invariably fails to be used for the claimed problem that taxation was meant to address. Case in point, the gas tax which was meant to be used for roads is already being targeted by Newsome as a source of revenue to promote his healthcare for illegals program.
It's always easy to step back and make irrelevant comparisons to try and shoot down the idea that California isn't a socialist shithole that embodies and exemplifies everything that's wrong with liberalism in this country and socialism in general but once you actually start looking at the realities of living here, it's pretty obvious why this state is failing. From wasting billions on cronyism projects like the idiotic railway to pointless feel good legislation like the straw ban to freedom infringing oppressive legislation like the arbitrary CA 'assault weapons' ban to outright idiotic legislation like letting folks shit on the streets, this state is a joke to any rational human being and caters to nothing but leftist extremism and those wealthy enough to isolate themselves from it. California is everything this country should hope to never become.
The can't even get past the irony of trying to talk about not being able to fund schools while the entirety of the LA county teachers union is on strike long enough to rebut the false equivocation of economic comparison between CA and KS or your wild misrepresentation of interstate migration numbers. Keep your head in the sand buddy, CA is paradise and just gonna get even better...
Yeah... cause we never move products from one coast to the other in this country, it's not like there's railways or established commercial routes for the relocation of rocket components or anything. It's not like NASA successfully moved components to Kennedy for assembly for decades or anything like that. I'm sure he's just doing for the convenience, not the costs... Ya, you're right, that makes more sense.
That's what happens when liberals raise taxes, attack businesses, and generally fuck everything up... between anti business policy and sky high cost of living forcing wages to be artificially high, there's just no economic or business sense in staying in California, and it'll only worsen with Newsome.
First off, shit for brains... I'm posting FROM CALIFORNIA. Second off, I'm black so you can take your lily white bullshit and shove it you race baiting fuckwit. Thirdly, I've lived in Florida, Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Utah, Connecticut, and California in my lifetime and California is by far and away the dirtiest, most polluted, most overpopulated shithole I've ever lived in. Whether where I was up until last year in San Francisco or where I am now in LA, this state is corner to corner trash and I've never seen a larger homeless population than here... I've also never experienced more overt and widespread racism than I've experienced here in the supposed liberal paradise. You may love the filth but I'll take the supposedly racist south over this shithole any day of the week and can't wait for my contract to be up to get the fuck out of here.
California... where you shit in the street, find a state funded safehouse to shoot up, enter the country illegally and be protected, and knowingly give someone AIDS without any repercussions... but don't you dare use a plastic straw or a paper receipt.
There's no big mystery to it, it's all about the economy. Throughout the majority of Obama's presidency, the economy was depressed and stagnant with many people forced to work one or more part time jobs mostly close to home... they couldn't afford to drive to work so they rode bikes. As the economy has recovered and employment has surged in recent years, people have returned to taking on single, full time, career oriented work outside of their immediate area making biking to work both more challenging and less economically necessary.
Yes... nice job following along with the class. The mask wearing thugs disrupting civil society with violence and hysteria are fascists and the people wearing red hats that you fascists hate so much are just good ol fashioned Americans.
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Ah yes, the old liberal mantra of maximally expending resources on those who, at best, hope to rise to mediocrity... gosh, it's so hard to figure out why public education is fucked and kids are failing to adapt to meaningful roles in the workforce. Maybe instead if pushing STEM on kids that have no hope of competing in the field, he could've opened a trade school and actually given these kids a future... but that just wouldn't have been as buzzworthy.
Comparing a brand new, well funded school to the rest of the DISTRICT which is run down and broke is a total joke... these kids are still miles behind statewide averages and nowhere near top students across the country. Awesome effort but still totally wasted on the lowest common denominator in the name of publicity for Brondo...
Come on Slashdot... this is garbage, just a desperate reach to piggyback on the high trending GOT with some irrelevant garbage editorial.
I'll wait to be impressed when I hear he's the first pope to stop priests from chestering kids...
This is total bullshit and a huge reach. I have four people who use my account; myself, my mother, my grandmother, and a friend... but the reality is, not one of those three people aside from myself would pay Netflix, even half price, for a subscription and without them watching I'd have probably canceled mine by now. Their permissive approach to account sharing isn't costing them $200 million a month, it's the only reason they're relevant.
Seems like a lot of effort creating specific conditions to try and make leftist policies look effective... why would anyone doubt the findings.
Nothing too awesome... a friend of a friend was involved with the movie, they invited a few people to a screening and I was lucky enough to be someone's +1.
Saw this Saturday, it's a fun movie and doesn't suck but it's pretty bad as far as what we've come to expect. Aside from the social justice pandering, which is pretty prevalent, the special effects are much less realistic and sort of cartoonish. Captain Marvel is, visually, the worst looking superhero... I was hoping for something more vision'esque in terms of CGI but she kinda looks more like a low budget SciFi channel movie character. The 90's setting is terrifically nostalgic, the movie itself is engaging enough and decently fun to watch... but it definitely falls short of the other movies by a good margin, and the excessive sjw pandering only makes it worse. If Avengers was a 9, Captain Marvel is a 6.
Some of the most brilliant minds to ever grace the planet were entirely ambivalent about war and actively contributed to the development of some of the most lethal weaponry every conceptualized... blindly assuming intelligence is at odds with combat is flatly idiotic. If anything, most highly intelligent people recognize the issues of overpopulation and the ascendant influence of the lowest common denominator and have very little feelings about the loss of life associated with war. Only those with minimal intelligence allow their emotional reaction to the loss of life to interfere with the intellectual recognition that warfare advances the human cause and culls largely from the least intelligent among society. War is good for humanity, and the highly intelligent recognize that without the weight of emotion that binds simpler minds like yours to "war is bad". PS - Funny that you mention sociopaths struggling to comprehend given that one of the most common traits of high functioning sociopaths is a well above average IQ.
My bad... small screen, bad eyes. But even 140 years is nothing in terms of climate and we lack enough data to make any reasonable judgments.
It's so absurd to try and make sweeping assessments of things like climate based on a record that's less than 40 years old. We started tracking data in the 80's... this is just more hysteria to drive the climate change agenda. The earth has been hotter, it's been colder, seas have risen, seas have fallen. Reporting about the five hottest years out of a pool of 39 years is meaningless data to something that moves as glacially as climate.
This isn't at all surprising. We've conflated the ability to study text and memorize facts for the purposes of a degree with actual intelligence and applauded degree holding idiots for far too long. This is why every 20-something with a gender studies degree also believes they're an expert in politics, international trade, finance, science, etc. They go on youtube or some forum filled with like-minded individuals and find a litany of "facts" that are nothing but non-causal correlations, which they then proceed to repeat endlessly to anyone who'll listen as though they represent actual science; spreading ignorance on the basis of nothing but their own falsely inflated sense of intelligence and bolstered by the popular opinion that if they have some degree, any degree, they must actually be intelligent. Generations of students being taught to remember answers instead of how to discover them coming home to roost.
Show us on the doll where the mean orange man hurt you...
Why should they be expected to foot the bill for funding a network that increasingly enables streaming services to compete with them and undermine their profitability?
Did that make sense in your head before you said it or did you know how stupid it would sound and just said it anyway? Newsflash... I earn in the very high six figures each year and honestly couldn't care less about California tax policy because it really doesn't affect my lifestyle in any way. I live behind gates with paid security staff and work behind walls with paid security... I was able to foot the bill and develop the contacts for a concealed carry permit in one of the most restrictive places in the country. My kids go to elite private schools and I'll easily afford college tuition for them wherever they choose to go. When the Sacramento politicians come up with a new tax or can't afford to pay public school teachers or have to double classroom sizes, it doesn't impact me at all. It impacts the poor... the single mom making just above minimum wage who has to decide between having enough money to put gas in the car to get to work all week or cooking a healthy dinner tonight. When idiotic policy funds scholarships for illegal aliens and limits the places available for the poor citizens fighting for scholarships, it doesn't impact the future of my kids who'll get in wherever they want to go and I'll easily be able to afford it, it screws the kids raised by good old middle class Americans who worked their asses off to get good grades in overstuffed classrooms while learning from subpar teachers preoccupied with dumbing things down to the lowest common denominator and pushing the latest common core idiocy. My kids will have the benefit of the best education money can buy, established relationships with peers who were born to even more elitist lifestyles than our own, and the added bonus of our black skin color benefiting them through affirmative action. Make no mistake... my life hasn't been ruined in the slightest by any of the stupidity that passes for governance in this state, quite the opposite in fact, I benefit from it in nearly every way. I was raised to compete on level playing fields though and I can recognize the absurdity of calling this fair when it's anything but. I just sit back and laugh as my life and the future for my children gets easier and easier but I also have to shake my head in sadness that folks like you are actually stupid enough to think that this is a good thing for the future of the country.
Has nothing to do with things being naturally more expensive... we accept that in California. The issue at hand is that things are ARTIFICIALLY more expensive because of unnecessary regulatory costs and exorbitant taxation, taxation which invariably fails to be used for the claimed problem that taxation was meant to address. Case in point, the gas tax which was meant to be used for roads is already being targeted by Newsome as a source of revenue to promote his healthcare for illegals program. It's always easy to step back and make irrelevant comparisons to try and shoot down the idea that California isn't a socialist shithole that embodies and exemplifies everything that's wrong with liberalism in this country and socialism in general but once you actually start looking at the realities of living here, it's pretty obvious why this state is failing. From wasting billions on cronyism projects like the idiotic railway to pointless feel good legislation like the straw ban to freedom infringing oppressive legislation like the arbitrary CA 'assault weapons' ban to outright idiotic legislation like letting folks shit on the streets, this state is a joke to any rational human being and caters to nothing but leftist extremism and those wealthy enough to isolate themselves from it. California is everything this country should hope to never become.
The can't even get past the irony of trying to talk about not being able to fund schools while the entirety of the LA county teachers union is on strike long enough to rebut the false equivocation of economic comparison between CA and KS or your wild misrepresentation of interstate migration numbers. Keep your head in the sand buddy, CA is paradise and just gonna get even better...
Yeah... cause we never move products from one coast to the other in this country, it's not like there's railways or established commercial routes for the relocation of rocket components or anything. It's not like NASA successfully moved components to Kennedy for assembly for decades or anything like that. I'm sure he's just doing for the convenience, not the costs... Ya, you're right, that makes more sense.
That's what happens when liberals raise taxes, attack businesses, and generally fuck everything up... between anti business policy and sky high cost of living forcing wages to be artificially high, there's just no economic or business sense in staying in California, and it'll only worsen with Newsome.
First off, shit for brains... I'm posting FROM CALIFORNIA. Second off, I'm black so you can take your lily white bullshit and shove it you race baiting fuckwit. Thirdly, I've lived in Florida, Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Utah, Connecticut, and California in my lifetime and California is by far and away the dirtiest, most polluted, most overpopulated shithole I've ever lived in. Whether where I was up until last year in San Francisco or where I am now in LA, this state is corner to corner trash and I've never seen a larger homeless population than here... I've also never experienced more overt and widespread racism than I've experienced here in the supposed liberal paradise. You may love the filth but I'll take the supposedly racist south over this shithole any day of the week and can't wait for my contract to be up to get the fuck out of here.
California... where you shit in the street, find a state funded safehouse to shoot up, enter the country illegally and be protected, and knowingly give someone AIDS without any repercussions... but don't you dare use a plastic straw or a paper receipt.
Liberals fucking this state up so bad that even the butterflies don't want to live here anymore...
There's no big mystery to it, it's all about the economy. Throughout the majority of Obama's presidency, the economy was depressed and stagnant with many people forced to work one or more part time jobs mostly close to home... they couldn't afford to drive to work so they rode bikes. As the economy has recovered and employment has surged in recent years, people have returned to taking on single, full time, career oriented work outside of their immediate area making biking to work both more challenging and less economically necessary.
Yes... nice job following along with the class. The mask wearing thugs disrupting civil society with violence and hysteria are fascists and the people wearing red hats that you fascists hate so much are just good ol fashioned Americans.
If only it worked as well in the real world as it apparently does in tests.