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evasive_chimpanzee

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  • 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.

  • What are the most noisy electric cars that you know?

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  • YSK Your smoke detectors should be replaced every 7-10 years

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  • According to the one i just had to replace, combo carbon monoxide detectors need to be replaced. I don't know how the carbon monoxide part works, but i wonder if it's a reagent or something.

  • What tech/science communicators do you follow that you feel are unbiased?

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  • Strongly agree. Everyone has a perspective, and even exclusively presenting objective facts will still be biased due to what is included and what is excluded.

    As an example of someone who handles this well, I'd recommend Layne Norton. He's a fitness/physiology/diet communicator. He has a PhD in it (which by itself doesnt prove much), but he is very careful in every video to only make supported claims, and he clearly states when he is only giving opinion.

    For example, he will point that understanding a single mechanism doesnt tell you the whole story, so you need randomized, doubled blind, placebo controlled human trials (and preferably many), to really understand something.

    That's something that so many influencers in that field get wrong. They'll talk about a single study that looked at the effects of a plant on a certain metabolic pathway in a petri dish, and use that to recommend people take it as a supplement. This ignores the obvious possibility that in vivo results wouldn't match in vitro, and that the pathway they discovered isnt completely overshadowed by a different pathway with the opposite effect.

    He has a few biases/conflicts of interest, which are explicitly mentioned in pretty much every video: he sells supplements, he invests in a protein bar company, and his PhD research was funded by the beef and dairy industries.

  • Pushing Google maps to account for parking time

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  • To me, it seems like they think the fact that I selected the "public transit" option means that walking must be minimized at the cost of everything else.

    E.g., It will recommend I take 2 busses followed by a train, followed by another bus rather than just having me walk for 15 minutes to a bus/train line that goes directly to my destination.

  • Pushing Google maps to account for parking time

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  • How would they know that?

    The same way they do driving estimates. They have your phone's location, and they know where you are trying to go. They could have the trip "end" when your location is actually inside the place you are trying to get to, instead of ending the trip when you pass your destination at full driving speed when you dont see a parking spot out front.

    They collect so much data, it would be trivial. If you are going from your house to a Starbucks, they could absolutely just have the "end" condition be when your phone notices the Starbucks wifi.

    P.s., not that I think they should be collecting that data, but the reality is that they are

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    Why has Trump stopped talking about Greenland in the last few weeks?

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  • Yeah, this is really the answer. Over and over and over again, it's clear that the policy of his regime has always been to "flood the zone".

    Every single week, they do something unique and so heinous that it would have ended any prior administration. They can keep things from sticking by just continuing to do stuff like that and get popular focus on a new thing. The people that should be able to keep them accountable legally are similarly overwhelmed.

    Greenland was probably never a serious thing for the regime, it just had to serve a purpose of keeping their opponents busy. It's the political equivalent of a gish gallop.

  • I'm glad i grabbed this wii fit balance board from the trash a decade ago, wow!

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  • I saw a stack of like 20 of them at a thrift shop for really cheap a few years ago. I saw that there would be a big potential with those for someone who knows what they are doing. Unfortunately, I'm not one of those people, lol.

  • This goes all the way to the top

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  • It's pretty crazy how different two hives can behave, even right next to each other. You can have one that gets really angry while the other is completely calm. One thing to keep in mind is that people assume bees need flowers, but depending on where they live, some bees get the large majority of their nectar/pollen from trees. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Northern_American_nectar_sources_for_honey_bees

    One the pig/cow thing, that is definitely something people do. Pigs are really good at packing on weight, but feed costs money. They eat most things humans do, so you can feed them all sorts of kitchen scraps, wormy apples, or whatever you can get your hands on.

  • 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?