syops

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by syops 5y ago
It’s easy to find the answer to your question. One does not have to deliberately wallow in ignorance.
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by syops 5y ago
Shutdowns have occurred due to no appropriation bill being passed before the previous one expires. Raising the debt ceiling is a different thing. It used to be a routine thing to raise the ceiling because the monies have been appropriated
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by syops 5y ago
The virus mutates quickly so the vaccine can't be expected to be as effective at new variants compared to the variants it was designed to combat.
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by syops 5y ago
My recollection is that the showdown aspect is something new in the sense that it has happened only under a Democrat President and started in Obama's presidency.
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by syops 5y ago
This is one reason why it will be hard to get rid of the silly requirement to take shoes off. DHS has a financial interest in keeping the theater going.
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by syops 5y ago
There are lots of things stopping the DFL from doing what it wants with the police force. I suggest you look into how police forces hold cities hostage when city government acts in a way they don’t approve of.
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by syops 5y ago
Presumably the so called good apples will get hired by the newly formed police force. Though I would argue there are very few good apples. You aren’t a good cop when you allow and fail to report on your fellow officers meting out non judi
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by syops 5y ago
In Minneapolis they want to dismantle the existing police force and replace it with another. A big reason for wanting to do this is to get rid of the problem cops. Police in the U.S. do a horrible job in solving even major crimes. They c
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by syops 5y ago
I think you may have missed it a bit too. jacquesm wrote: ...I have no way of verifying it then I don't believe them. Worked pretty good so far. This can't possibly be true since one can't verify everything. If one truly
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by syops 5y ago
You missed, entirely, the point made by the person you responded to.
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by syops 5y ago
Thanks for your rant! It was wells stated. I did not know anything of these things in the sense of having any academic knowledge about this stuff. I didn't know about the counting one and am not surprised by this. In a thread on ano
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by syops 5y ago
You are the first to notice this! I wish I had been more explicit.
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by syops 5y ago
In case you don’t know this, community colleges are generally required to accept everyone who applies that has a high school diploma or a GED. We are open enrollment institutions. I understand now what you meant by fairly depressing. Than
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by syops 5y ago
Do you believe everyone can learn algebra? What evidence do you have for this belief? Have you taught in the classroom much to students with a wide range of educational backgrounds? I don’t believe everyone has equal intellectual talent i
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by syops 5y ago
Thanks for your comment. My statement has unleashed passions in some. It’s been interesting reading the comments.
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by syops 5y ago
How’s this for irony. My high school guidance counselor told me that’d never pass college and now I’m teaching at one! I don’t get to decide who has the ability to learn algebra. All I get to do in this regard is determine who knows enoug
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by syops 5y ago
Certainly not all people can learn how to teach mathematics. That is not at all disputable in my mind. I may be in the set of people who can’t learn to teach math. I’ve tried for over 20 years and appear to be just average at it. Maybe
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by syops 5y ago
I believe the universe is discrete and that everything in it is discrete. I believe that “intellignece” is not really measurable. A person might have an intelligence as it pertains to art or critiquing art and be utterly clueless in anoth
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by syops 5y ago
Here’s one reason I know you’ve don’t have much experience teaching. You’ve mentioned that the way to pass all of my students is to do my job. No one who has extensive experience in classrooms with a wide variety of student backgrounds ca
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by syops 5y ago
You don’t because I’ve never said anything about my teaching. Your conclusions are not supported by the available evidence. You’ve obviously not taught much in the classroom. Why is it so obvious? Consider the possibility that your think
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by syops 5y ago
This is what i meant.
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by syops 5y ago
Well, I’m certain cockroaches can’t learn calculus. Neither can apes or monkeys. Some humans can. Therefore I think that brain composition has something to do with learning calculus. There is variation in said brain composition amongst
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by syops 5y ago
I committed to not responding to you in a different thread. I did not commit to not responding to you in all threads. The teacher in me forced me to try to explain to you why your use of ad hominem was incorrect. My previous response h
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by syops 5y ago
It does matter in this sense. Students who are poor end up taking on debt for college and this debt is currently (mostly) unforgivable. If we had universal higher education this objection of mine goes by the wayside. But then a new objec
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by syops 5y ago
You know nothing about my teaching or what I do for my students. Did I say a good fraction of the students can’t learn algebra? I never said or implied anything of the sort. All I said is that some people can’t learn it. I gave an extrem
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by syops 5y ago
This is very nicely put. I wish I had thought of this phrasing when I posted my original comment. The point of my comment was to mention that there are heretical ideas that people won’t discuss in other areas of intellectual inquiry. Tha
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by syops 5y ago
I didn’t imply anything about the number of people who can’t learn algebra other than that I think the number of such people exceeds the number of intellectually disabled people. I used the word intelligence and put this in quotes because
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by syops 5y ago
There were no leaps of logic made by me. I never indicated or said anything about genetics. I said that it’s clear some people can’t learn algebra and gave an extreme example of such a person by saying that an intellectually disabled pers
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by syops 5y ago
You don’t know what an ad hominem is. You are incorrectly applying the definition. It is not an argumentative fallacy to ask the basis by which a person’s assertions have been formed. You’ve made lots of claims about teaching but clear
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by syops 5y ago
What is theorized to be impossible is learning a language as an adult if you did not learn a language as a child. That is, if at age 20 you know 0 languages then you’ll never be able really learn a language. For obvious reasons experimen

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