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by camelite 3y ago
"Many commentators have claimed that a recently-updated Cochrane Review shows that 'masks don't work', which is an inaccurate and misleading interpretation." https://www.cochrane.org/news/statem
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by camelite 3y ago
The unstated goal of the phonics test with the nonsense words is to make it impossible for teachers to cheat by having students rote-learn a bunch of high-frequency words. They can only pass by actually learning the grapheme-phoneme corresp
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by camelite 3y ago
https://www.pedagogynongrata.com/a-response-to
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by camelite 4y ago
https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2015/04/16/what-are-co... "There is a common belief that corporate directors have a legal duty to maximize corporate profits and “shareholder value” ... this be
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by camelite 4y ago
There are important differences between material and statistical facts you would be better off not glossing over. And more centrally, whiteness (in particular) and maleness are still not facts. You're in voodoo territory if you center
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by camelite 4y ago
Whiteness and maleness are not and cannot be material facts and it is a category error to insist otherwise, nevermind elevating them as the axiomatic center of your worldview.
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by camelite 4y ago
But the dei perspective is the one that is hegemonic at this point. Something off a paradox for those possessed of it, displayed in such absurdities as believing that viewpoint diversity is the (precise) aim of dei.
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by camelite 5y ago
What if the political appointee publicly states they would like Spotify to censor Joe Rogan? Perhaps 'the government' is simply too ineffably abstract an entity to attach to any individual actor commonly regarded as comprising it.
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by camelite 5y ago
Why would we "see" Piaget if his work, as you correctly note, his theories have been refuted? Educationalists, who have never personally and successfully taught anythingmarried simply wrong theories of learning, are a good 50% of
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by camelite 5y ago
This is extraordinarily vicious, and yet entirely par for the course, a good example of the basically pro forma denunciation OP is arguing should be verboten in the work place.
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by camelite 5y ago
Being unable to countenance good faith disagreement is not a persuasive argument against your ideology being a cult. As an alternative approach, you can cut the gordian knot of being against anti-racism without being in favor of racism by s
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by camelite 5y ago
Their recourse is to not do business, full stop, because Google has monopolized the ad space.
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by camelite 5y ago
The spikes coincide with blm/anti cop riots, not with the lockdowns.
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by camelite 6y ago
An interesting social science result is that one (in my mind, the primary) result of wokeness is deminished empathy for impoverished whites. I took ops comment to mean "hey, don't disregard my struggle because i happen not to be b
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by camelite 6y ago
Propaganda is not an inherently russian technique and that fact that you believe so implies you are a victim of anti russian propaganda.
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by camelite 6y ago
The fact-checker the Times hired zeroed in[1] on this claim (though there were others of import): >At one point, she sent me this assertion: “One critical reason that the colonists declared their independence from Britain was because the
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by camelite 6y ago
Your syllogism goes something like this: Shouting fire is speech. Shouting fire is illegal Violence is illegal. Therefore spec is violence. I don't even know where to begin picking it apart. It has the -form- of an argument, but... The
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by camelite 6y ago
Nobody's systematically hyper charging emotionally hooking anything. This is or rather, without the artificial suppression, would be completely 100% organically viral. It shouldn't be up to absolutely obviously partisan corporatio
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by camelite 6y ago
We live in a society where tech conference organisers, far from being biased in favor of white men, are actually desperate to shield themselves from accusations of anti-female/poc bias. Derive from that what you will.
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by camelite 6y ago
Less than 4% of Teen Vogue's readership comes from actual teenagers.
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by camelite 6y ago
Less than 4% of Teen Vogue's readership comes from actual teenagers.
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by camelite 6y ago
Does it bother you that some of the people most in favor of increased police presence in crime ridden communities are themselves black. Is it more likely that they are racist too, or that their material concerns for their safety are more le
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by camelite 6y ago
You clearly aren't familiar with the actual history of the splc. Even the name is a bit of a scam, chosen for it's adjacency to Martin Luther Kings civil rights organisation, the SCLC. The founder is a direct marketing hall of fam
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by camelite 6y ago
I think that's been pretty much debunked.
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by camelite 6y ago
You're profoundly mistaken in diagnosing the problem as economic. It was a political choice to allow the Irish to starve.
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by camelite 6y ago
> it was limited compare to what a modern government could do That's 100% irrelevant. Compare it to what the contemporary British government was capable of doing - the very same protagonists with the same means available to them, wh
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by camelite 6y ago
> Why don't most women want the software job? Amusingly, the damore memo was an attempt to address just this very question. Are we not beyond pretending responses outside the proscribed woke ideology will be engaged with in good fai
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by camelite 6y ago
> There is absolutely zero credible evidence that Evan Spiegel didn't write those misogynistic emails It's weird that the dude you're talking to never expressed skepticism as to the provenance of the emails, yet you keep r
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by camelite 6y ago
Tech bro is, by and large, an oxymoron.
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by camelite 6y ago
I take the engineering-from-a-things-first-approach bridge. You feel free to enjoy the other one. I'm sure you'll feel very validated as you spiral into the abyss

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