Kalcifer
@Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works
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- Comment on Yaay 1 week ago:
What a day to have eyes.
- Comment on Anon gets corrected 1 week ago:
Accidentally Australian /j
- Comment on They fucking geoblocked blahaj.zone 1 week ago:
What are the obstacles in the way of leaving?
- Comment on Mitochondria 1 week ago:
[…] Which is why I’ll also assert that Literature classes as taught in later high school and into college aren’t really designed to be communication proficiency classes but art appreciation classes. […]
I think this is a fair point to make. I agree. Though, I would like to point out that that isn’t me downplaying “art appreciation”, but I agree that it is different than a subject targeted at improving clear communication.
- Comment on Anon's PC works 2 weeks ago:
My PC is still largely the same, in general spirit, as when I built it (c 2014-2015). But I have had to upgrade some key components over time. First was the move from a 1TB WD Blue HDD to a Samsung 860 Pro 128GB SSD (for my OS’s drive), and, related to that, at some point soon after, I moved my games drive from an HDD to an SSD. Next, I upgraded my GPU from an Nvidia GeForce GTX 760 to a Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080. This build state lasted a decently long time until I switched from Windows to Linux, so I switched my Nvidia GPU to an AMD Radeon RX 6600 (not exactly an upgrade, but more of a side-grade) to improve the user experience. The most recent change (last year, iirc?) was upgrading my RAM from 8GB DDR3, to 16GB DDR3. My CPU (Intel Core i5-4690k) is starting to really show its age, though, so I’ve been wanting to upgrade that, but that will likely entail a near rebuild of my entire system, so I’ve been avoiding it, but, unfortunately, it’s increasingly becoming more of an issue.
- Comment on It's NOG SEASON boys and girls!!!! 3 weeks ago:
What a day to have eyes.
- Comment on Mitochondria 5 weeks ago:
[…] I recommend recurring training.
For clarity, do you mean, for example, having to re-pass a drivers test to renew one’s license?
- Comment on Mitochondria 5 weeks ago:
Instead of adding it to a mandatory school curriculum, would you be satisfied with a more strict licensing process?
- Comment on Mitochondria 5 weeks ago:
More what I’m getting at, regardless of language used in Shakespeare is whether you think Shakespeare, as a whole, is obsolete. So, iiuc, you aren’t saying that you think that Shakespeare, as a whole, is obsolete, but that that the language used within it is, which makes it difficult to read?
- Comment on Mitochondria 5 weeks ago:
[…] I propose that teaching Shakespeare instead of more in depth driver’s ed isn’t entirely ethical. […]
I think you misunderstood me. To be completely fair, I was rather vague. I wasn’t arguing that one was more ethical than the other. My argument about ethics was from the perspective of further subsidizing something that already receives enormous subsidies — ie driving and cars (this is conjecture at the moment, but I can go into more detail if you’d like).
- Comment on Mitochondria 5 weeks ago:
[…] If they get something wrong behind the wheel of a car, what’s the worst that can happen? […]
Out of curiosity, do you live in an area that doesn’t require a driver’s license in order to be legally allowed to drive on a public road?
- Comment on Mitochondria 5 weeks ago:
How many hours of the average American’s life will be spent behind the wheel of a car? […]
Would it be a goal of yours to reduce the amount of time that one spends driving in their life? If so, do you think that teaching drivers ed in school will achieve that end?
- Comment on Mitochondria 5 weeks ago:
replace it with a semester of “living in the world” lessons that might just be a week of driver’s ed, that field trip to the fire department, some first aid, just cram a semester full of basic adulting skills.
We used to call this “Home Economics” but that got stigmatized as the cake baking class girls took while the boys were in shop class, and then women doing housework became a politically charged issue so we deprecated even that.
Okay, but that isn’t what you said prior — that’s shifting the goalpoasts. You specifically said
Replace them with a semester of […] fire safety […]
- Comment on Mitochondria 5 weeks ago:
[…] the reason we teach Shakespeare in high schools is because English teachers like it […]
Hm, this feels like conjecture. Do you have proof of that?
- Comment on Mitochondria 5 weeks ago:
[…] reading a Shakespeare play is an exercise in translation as much as comprehension […]
I am a little confused now — is this you agreeing that reading Shakespeare improves reading comprehension?
- Comment on Mitochondria 5 weeks ago:
Nope, that’s not how education works. Due to the Principle of Effect, lessons which are too confusing can do more harm than good. If, as some other commenters have suggested, students are arriving to 12th grade English class reading at an elementary school level, handing them a copy of Hamlet isn’t going to accomplish anything, it’ll just frustrate them, convince them that they really can’t do this and they’ll just give up. Even honors students who are reading at advanced levels might start second guessing themselves.
I wasn’t arguing that Shakespeare would make the students more interested in literature. I was only arguing that the act of reading, no matter what is being read (within reason), improves one’s reading comprehension.
- Comment on Mitochondria 5 weeks ago:
I think it’s important to define exactly how “this thead” is being used in this context. When I use “this thread”, it’s to refer to our exchange of comments; it doesn’t refer to all comments under OP’s post. I’m not sure if there’s an official definition for the term — perhaps I am not using the term in a commonly understood way.
- Comment on Mitochondria 5 weeks ago:
So, other than literature, are there some English-derived classes that you think would be good to teach?
- Comment on If billionaires and CEOs feel like they need to start paying for large security details, would that be an example of trickle down economics? 5 weeks ago:
[…] no definition on the context of economics.
Do you mean that, in your opinion, it has definitions in other contexts? If so, what would it be, and what would the contexts be?
- Comment on If billionaires and CEOs feel like they need to start paying for large security details, would that be an example of trickle down economics? 5 weeks ago:
It’s a nonsensical economical theory, with no definition on the context of economics.
Hrm, if it has no definition in the context of economics, how could you know argue that, by its definition, it is a nonsensical economic theory? That seems to fail modus ponens.
- Comment on Mitochondria 5 weeks ago:
[…] I don’t think that’s necessarily true, because 1. a lot of the vocabulary is just…not English anymore. […] Comprehending the play by reading the dialog alone is difficult because the context is missing. […]
I think you may be missing the point that I was trying to make. I agree with you that I think Shakespeare can be difficult to read, but, regardless of that, trying to comprehend it is still trying to comprehend it. If one is practicing their reading comprehension, no matter the difficulty of the material, imo it could still be said that they are improving their comprehension. Now, it could be that there is material that is more efficient at improving one’s reading comprehension ability than Shakespeare, but I think that’s a separate argument.
- Comment on Mitochondria 5 weeks ago:
Make English 4 if not English 3 electives rather than required. Replace them with a semester of […] how to safely refrigerate chicken
Imo, this is something that can be taught in a basic foods/cooking class, or a home economics class (which has at least been taught in the past ^[1]^ — I haven’t found any current data).
References
1. “Why is home economics not taught in schools anymore?”. Author: Cortney Moore. FOX Business Network. Published: 2020-06-16T17:44Z16:44Z. Accessed: 2024-12-11T05:17Z. foxbusiness.com/…/home-economics-not-taught-schoo…. - ¶2. > […] in 2013, the number of students enrolled in a home economics class was a little over 3.4 million, which were taught by more than 27,800 teachers […]
- Comment on Mitochondria 5 weeks ago:
Make English 4 if not English 3 electives rather than required. Replace them with a semester of […] fire safety
I disagree that this should be in some form of course. I think that this can be taught in a short afternoon visit by a fire department — it may even be already.
- Comment on Mitochondria 5 weeks ago:
Make English 4 if not English 3 electives rather than required. Replace them with a semester of driver’s ed […]
I disagree.
- Comment on Mitochondria 5 weeks ago:
Make English 4 if not English 3 electives rather than required.
For clarity, are you saying that you don’t think that it should be mandatory that English, or any of its derivatives, be taught as a course to children?
- Comment on Mitochondria 1 month ago:
I think later high school English classes do more to beat any love of reading teenagers have out of them by force feeding them […] obsolete shit […]
How are you defining “obsolete”?
- Comment on Mitochondria 1 month ago:
Err, but each of my comments have been directly addressing things that you’ve stated in this thread, so wouldn’t that logically infer that my comments are related to this thread? Explicitly my logic would be: If comment A directly addresses the content in comment comment B, then A is related to B; each of my comments respectively address the content in each of your comments; therefore, my comments are related to your comments ^[1]^. Would you mind outlining exactly isn’t related to the thread? Perhaps I missed something.
References
1. “Modus Ponens”. Wikipedia. Published: 2024-07-07T05:04Z. Accessed: 2024-12-11T02:36Z. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modus_ponens. - §“Explanation”. ¶1. > 1. If P, then Q. > 2. P. > 3. Therefore, Q.
- Comment on If billionaires and CEOs feel like they need to start paying for large security details, would that be an example of trickle down economics? 1 month ago:
Instead of broken windows needing replacement, we have broken CEOs needing protection.
Hm, but a possible effect, imo, is that this incentivizes those companies to start being more consumer-friendly — perhaps they make a connection that predatory policies are a risk to their safety so, to mitigate that risk, they take more consumer-friendly position. However, I think where that idea may break down and become more like the broken window fallacy is if people get the idea that policies will keep improving if CEO’s keep getting killed — I think that would just make it so that insurance companies are too scared to operate, which would shift the supply curve to the left ^[1]^.
References
1. “Change in Supply: What Causes a Shift in the Supply Curve?”. Author: “Akhilesh Ganti”. Investopedia. Published: 2023-08-31. Accessed: 2024-12-10T07:12Z. www.investopedia.com/…/change_in_supply.asp.
- Comment on Mitochondria 1 month ago:
Yes.
In that biology course, how would you want the biology knowledge to be taught to the students? Like what form would the knowledge take? For example, would it be that you want students to simply memorize a sort of currently understood concepts in biology? Would it be something else?
- Comment on If billionaires and CEOs feel like they need to start paying for large security details, would that be an example of trickle down economics? 1 month ago:
If it had a definition, it wouldn’t be nonsense, would it?
It would depend on the definition in question. The term in a vacuum is just a collection of words — what those words mean is rather important, imo.