Carrolade

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[–] Carrolade@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

Ultimately, I think it's a convenient excuse to cover for how truly difficult it is to teach people important things.

The adult mostly doesn't actually remember the specific logical and/or experiential steps that contributed to whatever understanding they now have. The events are too disconnected in time, and too large in quantity to really parse that way. You need that background info to teach well, though, otherwise you can't handle questions, you can't explain, etc, which are all genuinely important parts of teaching.

So, it's easier to just handwave the problem away and focus on going to work, whatever is for dinner tonight, what's going on in the neighborhood, cleaning the house, etc etc etc, and leave the teaching to the ostensibly qualified people.

If you want to attempt to do things differently, when you learn something life-lessony, remember that to teach it to a teenager someday, it's not good enough to have just learned the thing. You're also going to have to be able to offer a decent-enough explanation and answer any questions.

[–] Carrolade@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

We need a new version of eco-tourism. If some of these small countries are more willing to take bold steps, then they need to be rewarded with extra tourist dollars being pumped into their local economies.

Someone who knows how needs to compile a list of potential vacation destinations, organized and rated by the boldness of their country's climate action, and put it on a website somewhere.

[–] Carrolade@lemmy.world 15 points 2 weeks ago

That looks like Iran employing its primary piece of leverage to try to get what it wants. It's sort of like training a dog, it does something you don't like, you punish it with strait closure. It does what you want, you reward it with strait opening.

Iran doesn't really have a huge amount of wiggle room, there's only so many ways they can inflict pain on their opponents. This is one of them, so they're using it.

I will admit it does resemble the animated shenanigans of a certain wascally wabbit.

[–] Carrolade@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Maybe.

A salt molecule is 1 sodium and 1 chlorine. If you measure by mass, the chlorine is about 50% heavier than the sodium, so salt is not 50/50, it's actually closer to something like 33.3/66.7.

Another possibility is the addition of something like potassium chloride, which is similar to table salt. It obviously won't contribute any sodium though.

[–] Carrolade@lemmy.world 93 points 3 weeks ago (12 children)

Credit where credit is due, to reddit for making them go to court over it.

[–] Carrolade@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I have a feeling that an actual martial law declaration would be enough to motivate a general strike.

This actually happened when early nationalists tried to overthrow the Weimar Republic in interwar Germany. Some old generals and their men took over the capital and declared themselves in charge of the country. A general strike was declared, and the whole country shut down. The generals were then left "in charge" of a totally shut down society. Needless to say, the coup lasted a short enough time that it's usually not even mentioned in world history lessons. This whole event pre-dated Hitler's first beer hall putsch by like a decade or something, if memory serves.

[–] Carrolade@lemmy.world 50 points 1 month ago (10 children)

This. Video games too. And porn for that matter. We're overall a little weak on the trifecta of primary internet subject matter.

At least we're solid on owls though, my enduring admiration to our dedicated owl posters.

[–] Carrolade@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

It's really just recent history.

[–] Carrolade@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Was it news to you that religious nuts were kinda uneducated?

Regardless, I'm still asking about the content of the bullshit prophecy, not whether it's bullshit or not. Discussing it's actual merits or lack thereof seems like a waste of time to me. I mean, we're talking about a literal prophecy. Those generally aren't taken seriously by your average even halfway intelligent person.

[–] Carrolade@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Sure. But it's legitimacy is irrelevant so long as they believe it, which they do.

[–] Carrolade@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (7 children)

Waitasec, I'm no expert, but I thought the whole Rapture thing required all the Jewish people to be gathered into one place first. So, they literally require every Jewish person in America to be deported to Israel for their whole process to even begin.

Did I misunderstand something?

[–] Carrolade@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

I do not envy those jurors, that sounds very hard to rule on.

 

Inspired by a comment in another thread, what was the path you took over your life, through the various online social media we've had?

By way of example, I started in Yahoo chatrooms, to a little bit of Myspace and private forums, to ICQ and IRC, to no online socials for awhile, to facebook, to 4chan, to reddit, ending up here on lemmy.

I've never used twitter, insta, tiktok, etc for any length of time.

If you'd like, your native language and a rough estimate of your age can be included for additional context.

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