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You should head over to Arts & Industries for the Folklife Festival!

Most likely because of the nuclear power plant.

No Child Left Behind. If a kid failed a grade, the school got less money, which eventually leads either to the school going into a financial death spiral and closing, or just passing kids regardless of whether they understand the work. There are teachers who failed kids, only for the principal overrule them and pass the kid anyway. The next teacher inherits the kid, can’t make up the various learning deficits, and is also forced to pass the kid.

Teachers have been warning about this for like 20 years. Several years ago, college professors also started warning about it. If you read through some of the threads on /r/teachers, you’ll see some common comments: kids struggle to read and do math. They have no reading comprehension skills. They want everything spoonfed to them, and have no curiosity or drive to find things out for themselves. There’s a group in college now that has no social skills: when they show up to class, they never talk to their classmates, they just sit there staring. They want step by step instructions on how to things, but they often don’t mentally retain those instructions for subsequent exercises, and they rarely generalize that knowledge. They don’t look at manuals to follow processes or resolve issues. When they hit a roadblock on doing something, they just sit there and wait for someone to come, figure out the issue, and tell them how to proceed.

/r/teachers has been saying for a while now that they’re graduating cohorts of students that are unprepared for the world and explicitly unprepared for working independently.

It’s not every kid, of course: there’s occasional talk that they’re seeing kids move from a bell curve distribution to a K-shaped distribution: that the classes divide between kids who are curious, or have learning support at home, or whatever, who are doing fine as always; and the other half just aren’t.

I don’t know what to tell you: mentorship programs help some who are struggling, but businesses don’t want to spend money training people anymore. Questioning candidates about how they’d solve individual problems, or their approach to solving problems in general, may filter out some of the bad candidates but (as with “what’s your worst quality”) that’ll only last until they come up with a standard answer.

Caitlyn’s mfw she’s not “one of the good ones” and gets oppressed anyway …

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Psst … Hey, Tony, can you do me a favor real quick?

Fucking bullshit is what it is. I bet they’re going to use this announcement as a way to try to blame all their backroom bets on some poor Pentagon intern-equivalent.

I’m so happy for you that she got cleared!

The article only talks about the war with Iran. But Ukraine has taken out more of Russia’s processing facilities and Russia has announced that they’re no longer going to export [?gas ?petroleum? can’t remember offhand]. Whatever it is, the loss of the additional fuel is also going to drive up the cost of fuel.

It’s also going to drive to the cost of food - not only in transporting seed and fertilizer to the farm, tractors and combines on the farms, and trucks away from the farms, but also because gas and oil and their byproducts are critical components of several types of fertilizer. Food insecure nations are going to be struggling, and even nations who are comparatively food stable will see rising prices.

Yeah, there was another site I checked with a couple months ago, and it was showing one local company supplying office equipment and another one selling training munitions; neither of those are listed here.

“The point of AI is to allow the wealthy to access the benefits of the talented, while preventing the talented to access the benefit of wealth.”

What a lovely spread!

Why are you making it snow when you know Radar hates it?!

Congratulations! I know how much you love her :)

Oh no!

Bryce Canyon is gorgeous. If you get the chance (not sure if you’re local or visiting), Cedar Breaks is just stunning.

just one day after McDonough was released on bail, his family home went up in flames. Charred human remains were found in the rubble, but the police have yet to conclusively identify the body or the cause of the fire. McDonough is still classified as “unaccounted for,” the local ABC affiliate reports.

Ah. I thought he lit a fire to destroy more CSAM evidence, I guess not.

… The raised on “overly dramatic television with plot twists” part of my brain just said, "I wonder if that’s actually his body … "

Mfw knife dies in the middle of dinner prep :/

When he said “out of state” or whatever the exact words that he said, I pretty much interpreted his meaning as “liberal, Democrat, or minority”. But since that’s my interpretation of what he said, I went with what he actually said. [Well, fairly close, it’s not an exact quote.]

It’s crazy how all the things conservatives are scared of are so far away and in distant places yet as soon as they see it first hand they’re like “oh shit, I was just an asshole.”

I watched the Utah governor’s press conference and he literally says something like, “I’ve spent 33 hours praying it was someone not from here, someone who came in here, someone from out of the country”. Like dude, you have an entire echo chamber set up to make and keep your people angry, your entire political machine is geared to keep them angry, and y’all have advocated for the right to shoot people for so long that you literally can’t take their guns away, and you thought oh, it’ll be someone from out of state? He was so upset he was almost crying. Still can’t admit any of that, though.

They’re edible, but you need to cook them first.