Breazy

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by Breazy 5y ago
I saw that exact sort of thing happen numerous times. Teachers who habitually pick nemesis students year after year, to single out for uniquely harsh punishment and public derision. From what I've seen myself and heard from others, i
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by Breazy 5y ago
The communist regime being mentioned by name in this discussion is Cuba. I'm not aware of any genocides attributed to Cuba, so where do you get this talk of genocide? Answer: It's your strawman.
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by Breazy 5y ago
> Teaching the kids about the power imbalance directly instead of just decreeing "you have to share" is outstanding teaching, and certainly much more effective. Uh huh, it sounds like you agree with me now? The article isn&#
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by Breazy 5y ago
A man with a sword extolling the virtues of cooperation, empathy, and duty.
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by Breazy 5y ago
> This is article about teaching children to share Lego toys. No, it's about using lego to teach teaching kids about capitalism and power structures. > Exploring power, ownership, and equity in an early childhood classroom &g
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by Breazy 5y ago
Not going out of their way to put their kids into ethnically and culturally homogeneous environments.
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by Breazy 5y ago
When I was a kid my mother bought me and my two brothers a 5 gallon bucket of lego at a yardsale. We played with those bricks A LOT but no matter how much we built the bucket never seemed to drop below half full. There are only so many br
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by Breazy 5y ago
> " Into their coffee shops and houses, the children were building their assumptions about ownership and the social power it conveys — assumptions that mirrored those of a class-based, capitalist society — a society that we teacher
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by Breazy 5y ago
Using deltas for updates is a huge win for Fedora. On distros without delta updates, it's always a real pain in the ass when Wesnoth updates and you have to download half a gig of assets that are probably only a few kilobytes differen
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by Breazy 5y ago
> It works great if you're running a server with standard software from official distro repos that is infrequently updated. It's not frequent updates that screwed you, it's using third party repos. OpenSUSE Tumbleweed
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by Breazy 5y ago
I specifically did not quote Fauci, so I did not misquote Fauci. I did not quote Fauci because similar sentiments were being expressed by numerous people, including: > “Seriously people — STOP BUYING MASKS!” the surgeon general, Jerome
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by Breazy 5y ago
I didn't say people are good at sniffing out lies. I said that people are better at sniffing out lies than they are at sniffing out good intentions between those lies. I'll phrase it another way: When you tell a lie, some people
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by Breazy 5y ago
Maybe editorialized a bit, though I didn't attribute the quote to Fauci particularly because the fib wasn't coming from only him. A lot of people were saying similar things. And the context, of course, is fear of mask shortages
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by Breazy 5y ago
An omission really only becomes a lie of omission if somebody would feel deceived upon learning of the omission. Nobody would reasonably feel deceived by your omission of the 0.000000001% cosmic ray hypothesis.
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by Breazy 5y ago
"Stop wearing masks, they don't work."
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by Breazy 5y ago
People are better at sniffing out lies than they are at sniffing out whatever good intentions might have motivated those lies.
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by Breazy 5y ago
The wetter weather enjoyed by the past few generations of Californians was an aberration. California is usually even dryer than it is presently. > Paleoclimatological studies indicate that the last 150 years of California's hist
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by Breazy 5y ago
Early versions of Emacs didn't have lisp extension languages, which is kind of strange to think about considering the role elisp plays in GNU Emacs as we know it today. GNU Emacs with elisp is something that developed in the context
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by Breazy 5y ago
I don't think that would work in this case. In that fire, all the fuel was coming up through a well pipe, and by detonating a nuke adjacent to the pipe they were able to crimp the whole pipe closed. But with this crater fire, I don&
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by Breazy 5y ago
From what I understand (after reading the wikipedia page about it) the crater probably isn't putting out much more methane than the rest of the ground in the surrounding area. Wikipedia says the flames are seen there because the shap
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by Breazy 5y ago
The voices and apparent influence of the hyper-online (in general) has been amplified by the social isolation imposed by pandemic response. People spend less time with others "in meatspace" and a substantial portion of their onli
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by Breazy 5y ago
> They assume that each computer is used by exactly one user. It's not so much that they assume it.. they leave that feature out deliberately so they can up-sell you to 'Dropbox Family' or 'Dropbox Business'.
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by Breazy 5y ago
> minecraft worlds are NOT stored in ~/Dropbox/ folder. They certainly can be. They can be stored wherever you like, either if you are using a modding/hacking launcher (both are very popular for non-technical players, e