And by gaslighting the kids, they’re teaching them not to trust their own ability to reason, crushing their critical thinking skills. It sets them up to submit to authoritarianism and go along with obvious lies instead of trusting their own senses and questioning authority.

I sincerely hope that was a joke…

This is bizarre. The info provided in the question was that Marty ate more than Luis, the question was how would that be possible given that Marty ate 4/6 of his while Luis ate 5/6 of his. The answer the kid wrote (Marty’s pizza was bigger than Luis’) is the only possible correct answer.

The grader is asserting that the information given in the question was wrong and that “actually it was Luis who ate more pizza”–even though it stated as a premise that “Marty ate more”. How are you supposed to give a correct answer on a test if you are expected to accept one premise (proportion of pizzas eaten) while disregarding another premise (Marty ate more than Luis)? How do you decide which part to disregard? Would they have accepted the answer, “Luis actually only ate 3/6 of his pizza, not 5/6)”? Wouldn’t that be just as valid an answer as “Marty actually didn’t eat more than Luis”?

There are so many options. If you’re looking for a free and open source wiki-style setup, a couple I haven’t seen mentioned in the thread yet are Zim Desktop Wiki and Feather wiki (hmm looks like their web certificate is expired at the moment)

I only know about the existence of villages in NY state because my brother lives in one and had to explain to me what constitutes a village vs. a town–I still don’t really get it! - which is why I said the term may have a more specific definition. So yeah, it may not be a commonly used or understood term even in the NE. In any case, I’m sure it’s used differently here than in the UK, like many things.

As a non-American, I’m very confused by this. If it’s a town, it’s not rural by definition. Because, you-know, it’s urban.

A rural town is a very small town or populated area within a large rural area. The US is a huge country, with very large swaths of rural areas throughout, especially west of the Mississippi. In these large rural areas are scattered small towns of various sizes (say, less than a hundred to less than a thousand or so people), with long stretches of unpopulated (or very sparsely populated) areas between them. That’s why they’re called rural towns–no one would call them “urban” by any stretch of the imagination. They may have the things you mentioned (a post office and bar/pub/eatery) but not much more. But even if you’re technically in a town, you are still effectively rural, since you’re nowhere near a significant population center with anything like hospitals/doctors, shopping, services, etc., and a car is required to reach them (no public transit and much too far to walk or bike). Look at online maps to get the idea.

As for the word “village”, that’s mostly used in the NE part of the country and tends to have a bit more specific definition. Elsewhere, most of us would just say “town”.

3rd panel would sound more like, “nai thace! ortha latha god, nai thace!”

It’s not like Proton mail is the only alternative. And like the article points out, you don’t get encryption anyway, since almost no one else you’d be communicating with is going to be on Proton. I use (and recommend) posteo.de but there are other good alternatives for email. But if you want encrypted communication you’ll need to use an app designed for that, not email.

Nice!

Nope, nothing will ever change their minds.

Bizarre AI photo at the top, no author byline, no link to the source of the data (if there is one), no specific report mentioned, just “the latest analysis”.

This looks to me like an AI-generated article where someone either prompted it to “summarize” a real report or else it hallucinated a report based on whatever supposedly relevant internet news it’s eaten recently.

Going to the site that comes up for a search for World Travel & Tourism Council and looking around on it, I don’t see a report on this topic.

Despite everything, Márquez Duany doesn’t blame Trump.

And this is what everyone who keeps hoping magats will turn on trump once he screws them over enough needs to understand. They’ll never turn on him. No matter what he does, no matter what kind of negative consequences they suffer. It will never be trump’s fault in their minds. They are not capable of forming that conclusion.

IOW, we (and especially Dem. politicians) are the ones who need to face reality and accept that what we need to win here is an all-out battle for power, not a debate, not a negotiation.

The reason I thought it was notable when my brother told me that is because all the articles I’ve seen, including this one, imply that the only reason bonds aren’t selling is just that people are nervous about the unstable situation and unreliability of the US to honor the debt. They don’t mention a coordinated act of retaliation by a group of governments.

My brother told me a while back that Canada and the EU were cooperating together to not buy US bonds, in retaliation for the tariffs. Back when HitlerPig suddenly put a 90-day pause on most of the tariffs it was directly because they were freaking out about what was happening in the bond market.

Whether it’s true that it’s deliberate retaliation or not, it’s a hell of a brilliant strategy against the Pig since higher interest rates on US bonds (basically like having your credit card’s rate go up, increasing your minimum payment due) could put the US in deep deep doo doo.

I want a big enough mass of freak conservative boomers to die off of old age and for the republicans to finally push everyone else hard enough that this country finally fucking snaps and swings left so hard that Reagan’s grave belches black smoke for a month.

Look at Mike Johnson’s face–he’s not dying for a long long time. Get over the idea that evil people are all old and you just need to wait for them to die, it’s not going to happen. New evil ones are born every day, they exist in every generation, they’ve been with us forever and will be with us forever.

Bullshit. He got pretty much everything he wanted, including gigantic government contracts for his businesses, while stopping all investigations into his criminal activity and negligent products. Also got to get high on swinging his dick around a lot, and still has trump offering him more favors for more money.

They don’t need that, they’re rich.

It’s the addiction of power. Once someone has acquired it, they can’t give it up. Only exceptional people have the strength to resist and step down. Take Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who had been teetering on the line between this world and the next for years, if she had retired while Obama was president, the SCOTUS wouldn’t be so out of balance now. But she just couldn’t do it.

True, look at Pelosi’s choice to succeed her, Hakeem Jeffries. I thought he seemed good at first but he’s turned out to be just another hand-wringing wimp. So it’s not simply a matter of being too old, it’s a matter of clinging to the old ways.

edit: IOW, getting younger people in is necessary but not sufficient.

Point is, their big rallying cry was that people should be able make their own decision about whether to get the vaccine (or wear a mask), and now that they’re in charge they’re controlling what people can do, the very thing they complained about using terms like “nanny state”. Some repub-controlled places are banning mask-wearing as well so expect that to go national soon.