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The people who died weren't Nazis, imagine being this psyopped and deluded

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Celebrating deaths like theirs is top tier chuddery. Post hog.

I pray that countries like China and Syria have better people than you to defend them from imperialist aggression if the US decides to reassert its dominance after this.

They died trying to defend their home. You are a coward.

I mean, it's basically the definition of heroic. Just because you are a coward does not make them stupid for fighting against an invading army.

That was honestly around its height as well.

No breadtuber has the capacity to make a >10-30 min video worth its time. It's simply an obsession with length for its own sake as a marker of importance. I've not seen a single one that couldn't be cut dramatically without compromising its message.

The effect of course is that it's only influencing the thoughts of people who decide to watch such a 3 hour video, aka preaching to the Patreon choir.

Regardless of what I think of her liberal degeneration, at least early Contrapoints tried to make videos intended to be watched by new viewers.

I'm actually more disturbed by the olive oil mayo in the background.

I've made homemade mayonnaise before, and on one or two occasions I forgot how wretched it tastes with olive oil and used it. Ugh.

They have one of the most astroturfed wikipedia pages I've ever seen.

Pretty low effort, just some spacey instrumentals and repeating the same three note melody on top of some utterly generic lofi beat he probably bought off a dude for like $20.

Absolutely nothing but respect to him for managing to somehow spin being the clown prince of Youtube into being a sadboy emo rapper and succeeding wildly at it. Kinda like how Doja Cat went from a poster who made this to sitting at the top of the music industry.

That doesn't mean they're easy. I mean that there's a pretty well accepted baseline of things to cover in those courses. Less so with linear algebra, as some math purists throw tantrums about determinants and argue over how much of the course should be applied vs pure. But regardless of where you stand on that, there's a textbook or two out there that has been widely taught and vetted.

Higher level courses often require far more prep time because you don't have a bunch of existing syllabi and expectations you can draw from. There's no widely aggreed upon standard on what should be taught in a distributed systems course, for example, and it's not like you can just grab a textbook that everyone uses and pick chapters from it to cover. There will inevitably be some textbooks for it, but they're usually awful and out of date, and relying on them will make your students miserable.

A great example of an easier course that's not "basic" would be introduction to programming. There's really no standard for what to cover, and teaching it in a way that makes its topics valuable and interesting to the students requires a lot of thought and time. And of course these classes are often taught by overworked adjuncts, TAs, or profs doing 4/4 teaching load, so they just find a textbook and make students do rote exercises with completely inappropriate methods (having students mix loop practice with GUI development by having them incorporate them into boilerplate heavy Java/C# GUIs for example)

"Oh honey, time for your new Chappelle discourse"

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It never ends

Chicken has gone way up where I am. One of the local bars with decent wings used to do a basket of a dozen for $10. Now it's $16 for 10 and that's only changed as of the past 6 months or so.

Flipping the format of the classes so that lectures are pre-recorded and available for free, then class room time spent doing problems and discussions

This is basically what lectures are like with good professors at a good university. Active discussions, group work, etc., even for classes like calc that can be taught much more easily as infodump lectures.

But in general, I agree that the overall format of the college experience, with two semesters a year of 10-15 credit hours per semester, and every class graded and weighted equally (getting a C in some bullshit course required for your degree because you lost the luck of the draw and got some hardass prof with a chip on their shoulder will be considered exactly the same as the work you do to get an A in a difficult fourth year important course) is something that has just become entrenched. Like most institutions, it is removed from any historical context or genealogy of development and instead treated as though its structure is self evident. The capitalist contribution is to industrialize it, requiring things like a ton of different accreditation and qualification checklists for universities to be "real" universities. While it is important to have some method of evaluating institutions to prevent frauds, the checklists we have have the side effect of maintaining the status quo and not preventing obvious scams (SANS Technology Institute is regionally accredited and largely exists as a way to scam military dudes / taxpayers out of GI Bill dollars when they retire).

I would probably do something like 1 month “semesters” where if you failed to get it on the first pass, you would have to start that period over again, instead of the entire class.

I think MIT had a pretty good approach a while back (don't know if they still do it), in which students could opt to do many courses as pass/fail. They could choose ones to be graded that they wanted to sink a lot of time into (thing that they expected to be interesting, useful to them, etc.). There's much more room for mistakes and bad exams for a pass/fail course.

You should be able to take the test as many times as you need in order to pass.

While this is true, I think you might be underestimating the sheer volume of time it takes professors to write, grade, and proctor (if the school does that) exams.

It's possible to just phone it in with very basic things like Calculus or Linear Algebra or something, but a well taught version of those classes, and basically any version of upper level courses, requires an amount of prep and exam work from professors or lecturers (and TA, etc.) that students never realize.

A good professor will still have ways to avoid a "you pass or you don't" situation with exams by doing things like drop X many lowest grades, offering one or two retakes, being flexible in accommodating individual needs. But what you're describing requires an acceleration of the race to the bottom in instruction quality, unfortunately.

It is absolutely true that the Democrats vastly over promised and talked the talk that they never intended to back up to score quick points in 2020. When every blue city mayor is talking about police defunding in 2020 and then running on "tough on crime" again in 2021 or 2022 for re-election, the cynicism in their fake politics, while obvious to everyone here, is especially apparent to voters. All the things they brought up that are only brought up in election years (student loan forgiveness, reparations, increased social services like childcare, literally anything climate related) as well as things they only brought up post 2020 summer BLM events (defunding police, alternative justice systems, etc.) were things that resonated with left leaning voters, even left leaning libs.

But now that reaping is over and it comes time to sow, the left leaning voters are disillusioned and disappointed, and the right wing Democrats who've always whined about the need for bipartisanship are blaming the promises, and not the failure to deliver.

All of this is relevant because the squad is nothing but a media narrative created to quarantine these kinds of idealistic political goals to a single vastly outnumbered group. Because they (with various exceptions) continue to push for the more left leaning political goals while the rest of the Dems do their normal post-election pivot to the right, they are left holding the bag. So all the blame on the promises (rather than failure to deliver) goes on the squad (rather than everyone who failed to support the policies).

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The socialism merry go round is in a state of permanent revolution.

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Same :(

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What the fuck did you just say about Bill Evans (who Miles stole this song from) you little nerd

Seriously though if graduates from places like UNT and Berklee all chose to just imitate Bill Evans instead of all imitating stim addled versions of Chick Corea in his electric band, current jazz music would be a billion times more listenable and musical.