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  • US teacher put on leave after allegedly calling Palestinian child an extremist

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  • In the scenario I outlined, it's not an insult. It's just a common turn of phrase.

    For it to even possibly be an insult the teacher would have to know the students ethnic background. It wouldn't be reasonable to construe it as an insult if the student wasn't Arab. And a person's ethnic background isn't always apparent.

    No one is arguing that it's okay for teachers to insult students. Literally no one has taken that position in this conversation. People have asserted that point many times, but you keep circling back to it, so I'll emphasize. Of course it's not okay for teachers to insult students. Literally no one is arguing that, and you're not listening.

    I'm just saying a lot of common words and phrases can be loaded in certain circumstances. If I tell a child that's hoarding toys, "now now, let's not be greedy, we need to share with our friends, okay," that's fine. If it turns out that kid is Jewish though, it could taken very poorly.

    Hell, a kid could tell me about their weekend plans, and I could say, "wow, that's crazy," not knowing their mom is in an institution, and the headline could read, "teacher tells student they are mentally unwell, just like their institutionalized mother." Expecting someone to perfectly avoid all potentially charged language is impossible.

    And I'm not saying that the person in the article is blameless. I'm saying the article has very very little in the way of detail, and I'm leary of joining a pitchfork weilding mob over what could have been a simple, though deeply unfortunate, choice of words.

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  • I kinda doubt many seven year olds are asking for a seat change?

    But, so long as we're making up scenarios that support our side of the argument, what if it was an otherwise white presenting student, who's ethnic background the teacher didn't know, who told the teacher, "change my seat or I'll beat your ass"?

    Without full context, it's hard to say how deplorable the usage of the phrase truly was. It could have been horrible and racist, sure. I'm not arguing that it couldn't, or even that it wasn't. I'm just arguing that it also could also have been a completely normal and understandable turn of phrase that was not intended to be offensive, but unfortunately was.

  • US teacher put on leave after allegedly calling Palestinian child an extremist

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  • Maybe this is purely cultural/regional then. I grew up in an area without a large Muslim population. Perhaps the phrase was used pejoratively elsewhere.

  • US teacher put on leave after allegedly calling Palestinian child an extremist

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  • Have you ever heard that phrase used as an insult? I've only ever heard it used as a joking way to say "no." Especially in cases where the person is being bullheaded about something.

    I've literally never heard that phrase used in a pejorative way.

  • US teacher put on leave after allegedly calling Palestinian child an extremist

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  • I mean, I come from a place that that's a normal thing people say. And I'd think I'm as likely to say it to a child as "I'll be back," or "clever girl," or "what we have here is a failure to communicate," or any number of other referential phrases that a child is unlikely to understand the reference to.

    But maybe you're right it's an age/generational thing. It's definitely a phrase still in the zeitgeist of people my age, but maybe less so in a younger demographic? Maybe that's why there's a skew in the comments, where some of us see it as a phrase as common and normal as "we're gonna need a bigger boat," and some think it's super out of left field and weird.

    But the child not getting the reference is immaterial. Part of learning language is learning what phrases are in the zeitgeist. It's not weird for me to use any of the above phrases with a child, even if they haven't seen any of the things they're from.

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  • I think calling a black child a monkey without that being part of an established pattern or without reason would be racist, sure.

    But if a whole kindergarten class was acting crazy, and a teacher said they were acting like moneys, and that class happened to have a black child in it, I wouldn't think they were racist for calling that black child a monkey.

    And if a news story ran that had the headline, "racist teacher calls black child a monkey," and those were the facts presented, I'd call it rage bait.

    So the question of whether this child was singled out and called a terrorist with racial intent, or we just have a teacher using a normal phrase with no racial intent seems a relevant point.

  • What are some actual good sour sour candy?

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  • Do they still make Warheads? Those were the sour candy when I was growing up, lol.

  • Biden administration warns against forced surgeries on intersex children in historic report

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  • Why do they need to be able to reproduce for their sex to count?

    They keep happening, even if they don't have children. It's just a fairly common mutation.

    There are plenty of genetic conditions that aren't hereditary. Like Down's Syndrome for instance.

  • Biden administration warns against forced surgeries on intersex children in historic report

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  • See, I think you may just need a dictionary. Binary means there is one or the other, there is no "both or neither" option. If you have more than a forced "either/or" choice, then by definition it's not binary.

    True, false, and neither isn't binary by any definition you'll find in any dictionary.

  • What is the meaning of close source?

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  • In addition to the other listed reasons, going open source is an extra step.

    The code has to be compiled to run on your system (if it's written in a non-interpreted language, which a huge portion of software is).

    You can't just run the source code on your computer. And getting your customer's computer to compile the source code itself would require a massive amount of overhead.

    So, to distribute your software, you're always almost always going to distribute an already compiled version, and you'd have to choose to give the customer the uncompiled version as just a separate thing on the side. And there's no real reason to do that for most companies.

  • Thousands of Los Angeles homeowners were dropped by their insurers before the Palisades Fire

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  • It most likely would just be a significant portion. Once a place is hit by fire, it takes a couple of years to be as susceptible again. Or, if it's not been a recent hit, the odds of any individual place being hit in a given year is probably sub 25%.

    So the insurance company would probably charge something like 20-25% of the value. Which, yes, is hugely unaffordable for 99.9% of people. But if you're super rich is probably still worth it, as the reason the price is that high is that there's a pretty good chance your house burns down in the next year or two, so you would come out ahead in that scenario.

    Then again, once you're rich enough to afford that level of insurance premium, you're probably rich enough to just float the risk yourself. So yeah, probably pretty worthless across the board, even at levels fairly significantly lower than 100% of the replacement cost.

  • Math(s)

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  • Math(s)

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  • Yep. If the sun of the numbers is divisible by 3, the number is divisible by three.

    Works great for 6 too, as if it's divisible by 3 and even, the number is divisible by 6.

    And 9 is the same thing, but the sum has to be divisible by 9 (e.g. 12384 is divisible by 9 because the sum of the digits is 18, which is divisible by 9)

    There's also good rules for 4 and 8 as well. If the last 2 digits are divisible by 4, the whole number is (e.g. 127924 is divisible by 4 because 24 is) and if the last 3 numbers are divisible by 8, the whole number is (e.g. 12709832 is divisible by 8 because 832 is.)

  • Last day of the year... How are you going though this night?

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  • Platypus, my brother in Christ, do you hear how you talk out of both sides of your mouth?

    You'd be sad if you had to hang out with people, because you hate that, but you'd be sad if you are alone because you hate that.

    It's not your circumstances making you sad. It's you. It's your refusal to engage with your problems because you'd rather languish in your depression.

    There's nothing on earth that could fall into your lap that would make you happy. The world could bend to your will in every way, and you'd still be miserable because the thing making you miserable isn't external.

    You have the power to make 2025 better than 2024. It won't be easy, and you'll have to do a lot of things you don't like doing. That's life. That's being an adult. Doing the hard things you don't want to do to make life better for yourself and the people around you.

    And you can do it. But you never will so long as you keep lying to yourself by saying there's "nothing you can do about it." There is. You just have to take the first step.

  • Hope you had a great christmas

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  • I mean, we're doing better than basically every other 1st world country, and those that are beating us don't have big livestock industries.

  • Just to spite you, I'm going to continue making mistakes, forever

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  • Takes one more turn. Pawn D4.

    Bishop then takes that pawn for checkmate though, unless I'm missing something.

  • Fuck off out of it.

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  • I agree with you, but this is an "anti work" community, and there's a substantial part of the movement that is techno-utopian and is actively arguing for the dissolution of work in general.

  • Best non-coke alternative to coke zero?

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  • Sure, of course it's better with people who have a phenylalanine allergy, lol. That's like saying peanut free candy is better for people with a peanut allergy.

    The kidney thing, I'll note that your source says it "may be" better, but it's also worth noting that aspartame has had 50yrs of studies against it, and in huge volumes (largely driven by the sugar lobby in the 80s and 90s). It's the most studied food additive in the history of the FDA and has never been meaningfully linked to any sort of major negative health issues.

    The acceptable level of intake for aspartame is 50mg/kg vs 5mg/kg for sucralose, and the list of potential side effects is shorter, with sucralose including "diarrhea" and "muscle aches" in the list.

  • Best non-coke alternative to coke zero?

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  • Healthier how? Every independent study comparing sugar substitutes I've ever read puts aspartame as the healthiest/safest.

  • Texas Prevents People From Owning More Than 6 Dildos. Now Lawmakers Want to Ban Sex Toys at Walmart.

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  • I don't agree, but I've also literally never seen a sex toy for sale in Walmart. Like, is that a thing?