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    RFK Jr. is considering Aaron Rodgers and Jesse Ventura as possible running mates Lolololololol

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    21 minutes ago, mclumber1 said:

     

    Hello!  None of what you said changes the fact that if a person applies themselves, builds up their skillset, knowledge, and/or experience, they should be passed up for a job or other opportunity because of some historical injustice that they personally didn't take part in.  

    Overcoming these barriers is extremely difficult, you can’t just hand waive them away. 
     

    and then comes the bolded word, which is an ideal, but not how things work in reality (like libertarianism)
     

    so one must overcome the structural barriers (which filters out similarly able people based on these structural factors) only then do you get to the meritocratic part, where hard work, education, etc, and a great deal of luck should win out. But then we have some guy hiring his kids, or someone with connections for a position even if they aren’t the most qualified. 

     

    It’s not that meritocracy is bad per se but it is used to gloss over and ignore the very real issues in society. 

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    RFK Jr. is considering Aaron Rodgers and Jesse Ventura as possible running mates Lolololololol

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    3 minutes ago, mclumber1 said:

     

    There is nothing wrong meritocracy. 

    Hi, it’s me, the structural inequality baked into our political economy. You may remember me from classic hits such as “redlining”, “segregation”, and “generational poverty”. Now, my roles may seem antiquated, but nothing has been done to alleviate these issues since they’ve been legally abolished, so I’m still surviving on my residuals. 

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    Algebra Returns to San Francisco 8th Grade, San Francisco backs the Blue 👮

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    16 hours ago, Jason said:

     

    Reading the article you posted, the policy initially caused drops in enrollment in AP math classes because the students who would have taken algebra 1 in 86th grade now got jammed up on taking the prereqs for the AP classes. It does say this eventually got fixed to some extent by combining algebra 2 and precalc into a single "compression course", but it still causes problems because a lot of universities don't recognize the compression course as fulfilling precalc, so students put through the SF system then have to waste a semester of college taking precalc.

     

     

    The end of the article also discusses how the policy change didn't actually fix any equity gaps in who was taking AP classes, which was supposed to be the whole point of the policy in the first place.

    If lowering the bar means an unintended consequence happens, which was then corrected or attempted to be corrected, then every experiment can be labeled as lowering the bar.

    Algebra Returns to San Francisco 8th Grade, San Francisco backs the Blue 👮

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    7 minutes ago, mclumber1 said:

     

    But how does lowering the bar help anyone?  I still think it was shortsighted for us as society to replace equality with equity.

    How was the bar lowered? They kept kids on a common math track, and the rates of kids taking advanced math either went marginally up for some groups or stayed roughly the same. There wasn’t an apparent regression. 

    State of the Union - March 7th 9pm EST

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    20 minutes ago, BasemntDweller2 said:

    It's pretty cut and dry imo. If you hop the fence you're here illegally. Over stay your visa, here illegally. Float here on a door, here illegally. 

     

    The funny thing about this post is if you “float here on a door”, you likely come from Cuba which would entitle you to legal status if you got here without the coast guard picking you up. But the large migrant crossing you hear about are largely processed through legal channels. 

     

    17 minutes ago, Biggie said:

    Honest question. How can or how do you tell the difference between the two if everyone is just flooding in across a long border?

     

    You can’t and neither can I if you’re just looking at a person already here in the US. 
     

    At the border though, most of these migrants come through a port of entry and are legally processed because they do want to be here legally. It could be faster but that would require congress to act (which Trump scuttled the deal to do just that, to increase the speed of adjudication of asylum claims by hiring more officers and immigration judges). And again this is deliberately confusing those who legally seek asylum, who enter through a port of entry and register with the border patrol and immigration authorities, and those who cross the border illegally. In fact, if you try to cross the border illegally you are presumed to not have a valid asylum claim. Because of this change there’s actually fewer CBP interactions with people attempting to enter illegally despite stepped up

    enforcement. 

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    Algebra Returns to San Francisco 8th Grade, San Francisco backs the Blue 👮

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    All the policy did was move algebra 1 from 8th grade optional to a 9th grade class. The results were mixed in terms of meeting its goals. Yall are boomering the topic 

     

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    San Francisco Insisted on Algebra in 9th Grade. Did It Improve Equity?

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    The policy change improved access to some courses. But racial inequities at the most advanced levels of math remain largely unchanged.

     

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    Supreme Court wants $19.4 million in new funds to protect the justices and their homes

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    50 minutes ago, BloodyHell said:

    but when you listen to constitutional lawyers, it was probably the right decision legally. There was nothing in the constitution that supports the original decision of Roe V Wade. Abortion should have been codified into law in 2009, but you couldn’t even get the DNC to support gay marriage back then. 

    Wrong, and it’s overturning accelerated the rollback of substantive due process, which basically meant that your rights should actually mean something and not just be a paperwork formality for injustice. 

     

    and secondly if you think codifying roe into law would have changed anything I have a bridge to sell you. This court has done nothing but make up facts, invent standing, and moved goalposts to create new case law to meet its agenda because it can and, dare I say it, is legislating that agenda from the bench. It’s why if there is a nationwide ban on abortion they would surely uphold it, and a nationwide reversal of Dobbs codifying roe would surely be repealed. 
     

    there is no right interpretation or way to interpret the constitution, and anyone who buys into the idea that there is, isn’t paying attention. 

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    State of the Union - March 7th 9pm EST

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    'Republicans made a mistake': Pollster identifies GOP's biggest blunder on Biden SOTU - Raw Story

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    Sarah Longwell, a one-time Republican pollster who has kept her distance from the party ever since the emergence of former President Donald Trump, said the GOP made a grievous error by setting...


     

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    Sarah Longwell, a one-time Republican pollster who has kept her distance from the party ever since the emergence of former President Donald Trump, said the GOP made a grievous error by setting expectations so low for President Joe Biden's State of the Union response

    "Last night, what he said was for the Democratic base," Longwell explained. "But how he said it was for swing voters who needed to see that this guy was all there, that he could do the job. And I told you yesterday when I was on the show, the Republicans have made a mistake because they set the bar at dementia.".

    "You can tell how well he did by how annoyed Republicans are this morning and last night," she said. "You could just see how upset they were."

    Finally, Longwell praised Biden's ability to come across as a happy warrior who was eager to fight with his political rivals without outright hating them.

    Lmao stay mad chuds

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    Ever wondered what 100% relative humidity looks like? Because this is what it looks like!

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    I have, actually. Back in my material engineering days we had a small room that we would crank the heat to 125F and 95% RH. Took the whole weekend to get up to temp/RH for testing the next week. We had to move material in and out for testing, putting a 75 lb oil drum to test the material under the most extreme circumstances for a week. It was so hellish doing that work that the 90F plant with 60% RH in the summer was a breath of fresh air. Just being and breathing in that space was laboring. 0/10 do not recommend this environment 

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