11733

On the upside, “evolution” isn’t on there.

How do you ban a word anyway? If the teacher says it, they get disciplined?

11734

Then said teacher files a lawsuit on the unconstitutionality, and either settles out of court or wins a large settlement.

11735

You can tell the ones that were the real triggering words for them and the ones they had to make up and dig around on though their committee of horrible banality by just looking at the one word vs the two word phrases.

11736

Intersection

That’s amazing

11737

With reality like this, it’s a wonder The Onion is still around.

11738

Teaching geometry is going to be difficult.

11739
11740

The problem is the right sees everything as WW2 these days.

11741

Just on a different side.

11742

I’m not as strongly pro-trade as you, but more than most on this forum apparently. I tend to side with the neoliberal shills on this issue: trade liberalization is probably a net good, though I think there are many nefarious aspects to it and it needs strong regulation through treaty and embargo to mitigate human rights abuses, environmental damage, exploitation, enriching and empowering evil regimes, etc.

11743

How are you gonna be able to talk about mortgages without using the word ‘equity’? How do you teach history without the word ‘hegemony’?

And ‘free radical therapy’ seems a bit incongruous.

11744

Globalized trade has been since the 90’s one of the greatest increase in overall human prosperity since the industrial revolution. But this is underlain by a couple of premises:

  1. Outsourcing manual industrial labor overseas.
  2. Leaning into the creation of intellectual and cultural property (post-industrialization).
  3. Effectively not caring about IP / intellectual property theft in the developing world (with some exceptions like GE seeds) - ie, industrial capital flows start to look more and more one sided.
  4. Effectively not caring about your developed country’s existing population all that much. (They’re well enough off! Look at the newly cheap goods they have access to!)
  5. Shift from labor to capital as the primary driver of post-industrial economies. Not caring about those without access to capital all that much.
  6. A globalized anti-national, post-ethnic attitude by those with access to capital, while the developing world still maintains strong nationalistic or ethnocentric identities.

None of these things don’t mean that the globalized economic world isn’t better for the world overall, nor does it mean this blueprint is ever entirely realized perfectly - certain industrial exports still are best done in post-industrial countries… but ever-increasing efficiency isn’t either the raison d’être of human economic civilization either. The globalized world not only solves a lot of problems, it also creates some new ones.

11745
11746

“Abolitionist Teaching” Really? We don’t like abolitionists now? In Wisconsin?

11747

I was wondering why I’d never seen that scene and was a bit surprised to see another actress for Moneypenny, as I hadn’t remembered anyone other than Lois Maxwell playing Moneypenny during the Connery era either, until I clicked on the link to get more information on YouTube. Mystery solved.

Do you consider the movie worth watching?

11748

It’s a fun Bond flim that doesn’t take itself too seriously. It’s basically “Thunderball” rehashed. Never Say Never Again is considered outside the bond “canon” as it wasn’t made by Eon films.

11749

I like it. Connery is always watchable, and Klaus Maria Brandauer is a perfect Bond villain. And directed by Irvin Kershner, a fine director.

11750

Womp womp

11751

“Mississippi” and “Roaring Economy” haven’t existed together in my lifetime.
I’m not even sure they existed together pre-Civil War.

11752

Mississippi’s economy is currently ranked 49th in the country.