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  • If an American president fixes the healthcare, they can win every other election right? So, why does any of them not fix it?

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  • There are a couple things that others haven't pointed out. First, Erdoğan has more power in turkiye than the president has in America (for now).

    Second, individual states are not subordinate to the federal government; they have their own powers. Anything not specifically granted to the federal government is controlled at the state level. Healthcare is one of those things. There are some hooks the federal government can use to control parts of healthcare, but not the whole system.

    There are some states with much better healthcare systems than others (like Massachusetts). Massachusetts is a fun example because their health care system was established by a Republican governor, and then a watered down version was implemented at the federal level as Obamacare, to the ire of the Republicans.

  • If an American president fixes the healthcare, they can win every other election right? So, why does any of them not fix it?

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  • "Freedom from" as opposed to "freedom to" is not something the American mind can comprehend.

  • Website ideia: companies and their vices

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  • There was buycott. I dont think it's been developed for 10 years now.

  • The Transportation Death Compass

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  • Flying is not low likelihood of death. Commercial passenger aviation is.

    Private planes crash and kill their occupants fairly often.

    Commercial flight is safe just because there are so many regulations that are (were?) strictly followed. If you really wanted to reduce auto deaths, you could absolutely regulate it down to the same risk as commercial aviation, but that would nerf the purpose of a car to the point that no one would actually use them.

    Broadly speaking, the way regulations are written is according to our appetite for risk of death in that medium. Modes where you have some appearance of like cars and bikes see high acceptance of risk while modes where you are strictly "along for the ride" see low acceptance.

  • Whats you fav secret ingredient to a common dish?

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  • Soup is about just throwing in whatever you have. Generally, if there's some kind of a meat/bones, gelatin will give the broth body. If it's more of a bean or potato situation, you may need to pull a portion out, mash it up, and add it back in to give body. You could also temper some eggs and add them in.

    If you dont have gelatin or something starchy, you can add a cornstarch slurry to thicken it. If you have a really thin broth, it won't taste right even if it would otherwise be really tasty. Taste is an amalgamation of senses, and texture is part of that.

    Acidity definitely helps soups. Brothy beans are great with a little vinegar, some soups are good with lemon, etc.

  • What to do with surplus solar power in an island solution?

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  • I've asked the same question before for small scale at home surplus.

    For a small/medium grid like a whole island, it's easier. You generally know ahead of time when there is going to end up being a surplus, so you can let storage get low preemptively. This includes batteries, pumped hydro, heating water, heating/cooling homes, etc.

    If that's not enough, you can run some high energy cost things that dont have to run all the time like desalination or electrolysis.

  • Women are being abandoned by their partners on hiking trails. What’s behind ‘alpine divorce’?

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  • For context, angel's landing is one of probably the top 5 most famous hikes in the country. It's so popular that they have timed entry, and you have to book a time well in advance. It would be very, very, very hard to get lost, you can see the spot you started from pretty much the whole way, you are part of a steady stream of people, and there's cell service. There is no "alone" on that hike.

    People have died on that hike, but if you exclude suicide and people who were intentionally going off trail to get pictures closer to cliff edges, it's very unlikely. You are probably safer getting dumped there than at a restaurant in a part of town you aren't familiar with.

    I would not put that anywhere near the same category as guy who left his girlfriend on a mountaineering expedition.

  • Palantir CEO Makes Shocking Confession on Disrupting Democratic Power

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  • It "helps" by thinking life is a zero sum game. If educated females lose, obviously that's a win for uneducated males.

    Realistically it's just a lie to say that someone will be a winner other than just the guy with all the marbles.

  • Why are public school teachers so underpaid in the US?

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  • There aren't always. There are plenty of places that pay teachers well. The problem is that the qualifications for a school that pays really well are pretty much the same as the qualifications for a school that doesn't. Schools that pay well have 1,000 applications and never any vacancies, so new teachers have a hard time finding a well paying job. Public school employee salaries are public information, so you can actually look them up.

    Average teacher salaries in Massachusetts dont look bad to me. https://profiles.doe.mass.edu/statereport/teachersalaries.aspx

    Obviously, it's not universal.

  • What are your views on homeschooling?

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  • In America (and i fear this has spread to other countries), people like Mary Pride have pushed for homeschooling in addition to basically starting the quiverful movement.

    The idea is, you keep kids out of school so they are only allowed to learn your far right views, and you have as many kids as possible so you can 1) force the woman to stay at home and 2) have older kids forced to parent and teach younger kids.

    You then involve the kids in politics as early as possible so by the time they are adults, they have already made inroads to working with far right politicians.

    Some of those kids end up a certain version of smart, but the priorities are different. They might heavily focus on speech debate, both from a religious and a political point of view. On the "good" end of the spectrum, the kids end up truly charismatic and persuasive, and on the "bad" end, it's basically tiny ben shapiros who just gish gallop you at any chance they get.

    Often, but not always, girls are completely neglected since "they only need to learn how to run a home". Oftentimes kids are abused, and homeschooling is a way to hide that from authorities.

    To contrast with all of this, I think there situations where we should be more flexible with homeschooling. If a parent has expertise in a topic, they should be able to cover like a couple classes or something. I knew homeschooling kids who came to public school for a class or two, but I didn't know any kids who were homeschooling for a class or two.

    People in this thread are saying it's dumb to think you can teach better than a teacher, but if it's between 1:1 tutoring and being in a class of 30, you have a big step up.

    Personally, I found math classes trivially easy basically up until i was like 17. Math classes till then mostly just focused on teaching how to accurately and repeatably do all the things that calculators do perfectly. I could rant about how math is taught a lot, but I won't. If I had 1 on 1 teaching on a more diverse range of math topics, I could have learned way more. We should be helping parents/kids do that if they can.

  • What are your views on homeschooling?

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  • Organizations like the homeschool legal defense association basically exist to protect child abusers.

  • NYC Mayor Mamdani proposes $25 million to build a network of 500 bike lockers

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  • I've always wanted to just park an enclosed trailer on the street to use as a bike garage. I know the Dutch solution to bike storage is to just have a crappy enough bike that no one wants to steal it, and you dont care about leaving it in the elements, but I want nice bikes, lol.

    If I can park a car on the same spot indefinitely, why can't I do a trailer full of bikes?

    Those bike lockers address theft, but not protection from the elements. They want it to be translucent for safety, but you could do that with plexiglass.

  • I didn't join the revolution to read

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  • Reading theory ≠ being highly competent, though. Dunning Kruger states that people with low competence (in specific areas) overestimate themselves, and highly competent people underestimate themselves.

    Reading doesnt necessarily make you better at things (though obviously it can help). A community organizer that's been feeding the hungry for 40 years but has never read a political book will be more competent than someone who's read hundreds of books but never gone out and done stuff.

  • In language classes, did you choose your name or get assigned one? Or use your regular name?

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  • It's definitely a thing in American schools, but i think it's common in some other countries as well.

    When learning another language, the options are to: 1) use your real name with the real pronunciation, 2) real name with different pronunciation, 3) equivalent of name in other language (e.g., John to Juan), 4) just pick a name you like in the other language.

    1 doesnt flow well in speech, 2 also feels unnatural, and sometimes isnt possible, and 3 doesnt always exist. Kids also generally like the opportunity to pick a name that they think is cool. There's no expectation that you would use that name in a real life discussion with someone in that language.

    Looks like it's common in China as well. https://ans-names.pitt.edu/ans/article/view/2535

  • This brilliant campaign from Quebec shows exactly what it takes to get motorists to actually yield

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  • Crosswalks exist to limit where pedestrians are allowed to be.

  • This goes all the way to the top

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    life pro tip

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  • That's my issue. Even plants like tomatoes and hot peppers that are always on the "deer never eat these" lists will get eaten if I leave them exposed. Physical barriers are the only thing that works.

  • What Linux Distro is your Christian Denomination?

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  • Northern baptists were decentralized abolitionists, while southern baptists were centralized and pro-slavery.

  • This goes all the way to the top

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  • This may just be a language thing. Those aren't allergies to me, they are symptoms of allergies.

    To me, allergies are things like a peanut allergy, penicillin allergy, latex allergy, etc.

  • Fuck Cars @lemmy.world
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    Government services requiring car ownership

  • Solarpunk technology @slrpnk.net
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    Use for excess clean energy at home

  • Balcony Gardening @slrpnk.net
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    Dealing with plant debris

  • Woodworking @lemmy.ca
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    Woodworking CAD

  • Balcony Gardening @slrpnk.net
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    Irrigating a balcony garden

  • Cooking @lemmy.world
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    What is your Thanksgiving strategy?