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  • Science classes

    And [other1] philosophy, especially epistemology.

    ... And it's quite telling and daunting that

    But how do you teach those skills directly

    was asked.

    Like it was missing the question mark because it was rhetorical. Like it's beyond their conception, and as if in absence of evidence (or experience) it's presumed to be evidence of absence of possibility or means to do so.

    Looking forward to this year, and more people realising more of how much has been stolen from us.

    [ 1 Because science is just another branch of philosophy. Natural philosophy. ]

  • "That's impossible!"

    "No. It's necessary."

    -- Interstellar.

    Otherwise... doomed.

  • I hear children in France are taught philosophy from around age 5 or something.

    Imagine that...

    Starting education with a firm footing in epistemology. Learning the ability to discern the difference between what's merely a valid argument, and a sound argument. Learning the ability to discern what's true and what's not.

    Now contrast that to what's happening in various other places (especially you-know-where)... Where it's pure indoctrination, that they do not want you to have the ability to discern truth from lies... Because they're peddling almost nothing but lies.

  • SO true.

    It used to be A LOT easier to rummage through research papers online. Abstracts alone just don't cut it.

    The internet of around 2000-2005 was a very different place, back when the internet was more library than TV.

    So much more "Well! Looks like we got a reader!" added to the world, by making it even harder to access.

    So much more easement of corruption of science too. "Many eyes make all bugs shallow", Linus's Law -- ESR.

    It's like free thought has become neglected in the set of fundamental freedoms. "Freedoms forgotten are freedoms lost". Leaving group think, mass formation, and totalitarianised psyches in the wake of this loss. Where every and any atrocity gets seen as a necessary virtue to protect "the one true way" dogma in the minds of the terrorised and totalitarianised.

    Cui Bono (who benefits) from the paywalling of knowledge? Not us. Not science. The corrupt.

  • I was all in on chemistry in highschool. But then they bait-and-switched. Instead of educating on chemistry broadly, they trained us to be drones of the petrochemical industry.

    That was merely the first time (of 3 times) when the education system bait-and-switched, going from one course, promising to extend and deepen the education in the following year, only to replace it with training on some narrow specific portion that I was disinterested in.

    After renouncing formal education, I learned more in my first year alone with an internet connection and a library card than I had in the entire 14 years of formal education prior.

    Would be nice if the education system really were an education system.

  • Then surely it should be stated explicitly so.

  • I would recommend it to my mom

    Can lead a horse to water, but can't make it drink.

  • Oh.

    That's not just a cursor without a cursor theme?

  • Or cease using stuff they cannot control.

  • (Okies, since others are doing comments with their 1 command to upgrade everything, I'll do mine too...)

    pmm update ; pmm upgrade

    (... Though I generally just upgrade per stratum as needed.)

  • Doesn't ubuntu integrate the flatpaks upgrades into apt?

    Idk. I don't use ubuntu or flatpaks.

  • Heh. When I read that in the notifications, I excitedly clicked to see what that's responding to, thinking "Is it one of my "spaceships for everybody" rants? Is it one of my Linux rambles? Is it my well sourced anti-democide Carney bit I did recently?".

    n_n

    Did not expect it to be that one. Heh. Hadn't been waiting for that question at all really. n_n Just enjoyed it in the moment, and ran a mile with it.

  • I posted this as a joke,

    I meant my reply in light spirit too.

    as much as I hate America

    Love the sinner, hate the sin. And make sure not to fall into casting guilt by association and committing collective punishment.

    I don’t want its soil to be literally turned to ashes because I think holding that as a sincere sentiment would be unhealthy and unproductive and actually doing it would not be a good solution to the problems America presents and would harm many innocent people.

    Yep.

    Except maybe portions of pine forests (in moderation, as nature already provides), which appreciate the ash, and helps them grow and sprout more seeds.

    Hey! Maybe that's the "war of great justice" they mean. Maybe they're just really into pine forests. ;D

    Slammer memes

    Had to look it up.

    "The whole subway's mine for the slammin'."

    Apt.

  • It's upsetting for systemd users too, not having angry haters to go "See!?!!" back at.

  • I'm still happier without systemd. Much less confusion and consternation.

    But if systemd's the init(++) system you want to use, enjoy. The other comments here are fun for systemd users (~ if you like that kind of thing and/or are masochistic).

    Yay for init-freedom. A joy to watch everybody get what they want. Systemd users get this kind of stuff that they want. People who don't want systemd don't get this kind of stuff that they don't want. Everybody's happy. No silly init-wars. :)

  • I strongly doubt that.

    It'd just be business as usual for the big club.

    Just sacrificing another asset to be able to carry on, feeding the baying masses some placatium.

  • “turning the American soil to ashes” literally and seriously

    shouldn’t be meant literally and seriously

    Oh shit. Did my autism strike again? So hard to keep up with these elusive non-literal non-serious meanings and interpretations.

    ... But what if they originally also meant it "literally and seriously"? :O

  • "But, but... they told us they were communist. It's in the name." -- Those who learned nothing from Orwell, and probably still think the Nazis are "National Socialists".

  • We'll need to do better to find the head then.

    Don't fish rot from the eyes1 first. <-

    Also... Isn't it more the octopus of global control that's the real source of consternation and contention?

    Where do octopi rot from?

    Or is it squids? Who are the real squids?

    1 spies.