- breakyerselfNuclear war isn't winnable. It's stupid and dangerous to pretend otherwise.
- Unless the conspiracy is being done by malicious idiots with too much power.
- Sweden is worried about a hostile neighbor. They're freaked out enough that they joined NATO after generations of non-alignment.
Who are we afraid of? If ICBMs are incoming to the Continental United States the world is ending. Regardless of whether we prevent wind farms in any of the 12,000+ miles of coastline.
Are we expecting missiles to come from the Gulf of Mexico? People always bend over backwards to justify this administration. It's tiresome.
- Sure. We can always imagine an excuse to avoid dealing with the obvious reality. I don't think it's productive though.
- This is obviously because Donald Trump notoriously hates offshore wind turbines.
- A plurality of the people who voted went for Trump not a majority. He won 49.8% of the vote. When you include everyone who is eligible to vote he only got 31.8% of the total electorate. A large percentage of the electorate doesn't vote.
- 20,000 and a $500 monthly subscription? Am I reading that right? Or is $500 a month an alternate leasing option?
- Poorly?
- This is the opposite of what's true. Unionization is good. What's not good is using slavery adjacent labor to undercut good paying jobs in the US. US trade policy destroyed Detroit.
Nobody wants to go back to the bad old days of 16 hour days in the factory just to live with 16 other people a tenament and then die broke in a gutter when the machine takes your hand off.
- I tend to think sports is good for kids. Not football though. My kids in high school marching band so I'm at the games. It's stupid how many kids get hurt on any given Saturday and some will go on to have CTE
- When you were younger a much larger portion of the student body dropped out to work construction or drive truck, that's less of an option now.
We still rely on rote memorization to a greater degree than Finland which is consistently far more successful in their education.
I think the biggest problem with current education is that too many people like you are looking back with rose colored glasses and resisting the kinds of changes we actually need.
We have a crappy mix of outdated 1970s style education with a bunch of enshittified technology layered on top. Google classroom, we also spend too much time and money on sports. Schools shouldn't even be in the football business. CTE is bad for kids.
- Wish I could say we were moving in the right direction, but it's going to be getting worse for the foreseeable future. What part of the country is this?
- It's easy to blame culture. It's kind of a thought terminating cliche. Once you've assigned blame to a general attitude among the public there nothing much to be done.
We could examine the common differences between US education and other high performing nations and try to reform towards something more effective, but really culture is the problem so let's all pack it up and find something else to worry about.
I think the one way that American culture does prevent progress is that Americans tend to be averse to evidence based reforms. They like to atomize responsibility for everything down to the individual. Homelessness, drug addiction, poor education outcomes, poor health outcomes, it's all just individuals making bad decisions or perpetuating bad culture.
If we did anything that actually helped it would somehow be condoning/encouraging the badness of these individuals. Regardless of how effective it would be it's somehow worse than allowing the problem to fester.
- The US is practicing a mass production approach to education still. Drill students with excessive facts and expect them to remember it. 3 minute passing periods, 15 minutes for lunch, scolded for socializing. Etc. It's intensive and counter productive. Now there's an over reliance on tech that degrades rather than improves the experience. A link in Google classroom to an exercise that expires after a day, a PDF instead of a handout. Etc
- Pink was considered a masculine color until the middle of the last century and blue is universally liked among all genders. I think you're finding things that confirm your own biases.
- I can easily imagine that
- It's mostly the same for the dominant socio-political group until a moron or psychopath gets into power and then you're all fucked.
- 100%. I feel like the Mike Rowe style agitation to divert people from college into the trades is, to some extent, an effort to increase competition for these jobs to depress wages. If you work in the trades the last thing you should want is an army of people trying to join your profession.