Weirdly enough I liked having the one on one aide. I was basically out of the running for friends in most of my classes anyway so having someone on my side that I could talk to and an adult that was basically guaranteed to step in when I was bullied was a positive IMO. A lot of special ed classes can get fucked though, disrespectful and treat you like an idiot who can't even remember your own name.
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Honestly 7% is higher than I would have expected, nearly a 1/10 chance if you picked someone at random.
Anyone shocked by Hamas having stockpiles of resources is genuinely dumb af. Of course you have resources saved up when your opponents are constantly trying to target and cut off your supply lines. What the fuck do you expect them to do, use all their fuel and not be able to fight back?
Anytime people say something like this, just read it as "when I grew up I didn't pay attention to the news and other people so it all seemed awesome"
Why would an anti LGBT group want lots of support from LGBT+ members? Seems like an easy way to fall apart once you let the mask slip and you won't have any backup because all the other anti LGBT people would have left.
You say "address" as if they were able to appropriately fix the issue, rather than addressing it as a limitation of the study. Limitations are fine, I'm just trying to explain the big one here in an easier to understand way because the reporting makes it seem like it's a consistent 12% eating a shit ton of beef.
A lot of this reporting is a big misunderstanding of statistics.
As the study says
About 45% of the population had zero beef consumption on any given day, whereas the 12% of disproportionate beef consumers accounted for 50% of the total beef consumed
Now just as a thought experiment, do you think that almost half of the US never eats any beef? No, of course not. But on any given day? Sure, quite possible. People's diets vary.
A randomly selected person might have a McDonald's hamburger for lunch and a steak for dinner and be part of the 12% on the first day but then eat mushroom ravioli for lunch and pizza for dinner on the second day and be part of the 45%.
And there might be certain demographics that are more likely to make up that 12% on a given day but that doesn't mean there's a particular nonchanging group of high consumers.
I'm not going to dig into the study here but just as an example, let's say Dog Breed X is 1.5 times more likely to bark than Dog Breed Y is. You can't hear a dog bark and say "Ah it must be Breed X then!", you can only say "Ah, it's more likely from Breed X than Breed Y".
If the supernatural existed then it would just be a poorly understood natural.
Same with magic. Anything magical is pretty much defined by not existing in my view because if it did, it would just be science. Is it really a meaningful difference between pouring a bunch of "magic potion" ingredients together to cure a disease vs pouring a bunch of "science chemical" ingredients together to cure a disease?
I think that way about evolution sometimes. It's blitheringly obvious when you consider the two points
- There is a difference between parent and offspring and yet they also inherit traits
- Differences add up
Both are easily observable in the natural world. The first one can be seen with babies "oh you have your mother's eyes" while also the baby not literally being the mom. The second one is used by walking where we cross a large distance one step at a time.
And all you need is those two principles to come to the conclusion that the small yet inheritable differences between offspring will add up over a long period of time. The question to be asked isn't if it will happen but rather just what traits it happens to.
And yet, it took humanity (and for many people still they refuse) millennial to grasp it. I'm looking at the process as so simple only from the lens of someone born after it was figured out.
I think it's a good post honestly, main critique is that it feels accusatory like "I gotta teach you all to not be anti semitic because you currently are" ya know?
But I'm not sure how to get rid of such a tone so maybe it's unavoidable. I totally agree with you though that this shit is messy and you need to be hyperspecific in criticisms.
Yeah he's rich as fuck but he's not a trillionaire