You dare try to tell me where to shit in your house? What a tankie

I would like to shit on your floor and it’s your duty as host to allow me that honor.

Genuinely. After making the switch a few years ago, I genuinely can’t fathom using chrome again

Oo I love the hypothetical game! I have one.

Let’s say in a hypothetical world, capitalism was a cancer on mankind responsible for some of the most heinous crimes against humanity imaginable. Let’s also say, hypothetically of course, that there was an alternative way to run society. One that treated human life with dignity.

Don’t take this to be me defending them; they deserve to be dunked on.

However, they didn’t make this claim. They claimed the converse.

he can have power of people in a business context, which is always morally good

What universe does this man live in?

It’s too late. I’ve already clocked you as a lib

most people do not agree with the protestors and think they are immoral for their naive propagandized beliefs.

Incredible.

I dunno I think that’d solve a lot of problems

This is a good-ass shitpost

I think the moral “dilemma” is supposed to be

1. You pull the lever and now you’ve now actively killed someone or,
2. You don’t pull the lever and 4 people died, but you weren’t the one to kill them so you’re basically clean

It’s stupid, but I think that’s the idea

What the fuck does illustrative purposes mean here?

Damn, that’s deep

Narratives acknowledged.

Now can we actually do something about the one based in reality?

After doing some searching, it appears that period life expectancy is a perfectly reasonable metric for life expectancy. It looks to be a clever way of capturing a sort of “instantaneous” life expectancy for a given year. In a given year, you can track how many people of each age range die, but that only tells you death rates, not life expectancy. And you can’t just average the ages of everyone living because you don’t know when they’ll die. So what they do is they take the death rates for age ranges within a given year and they calculate the expected value of an infant’s death age, assuming that infant would live through the same death rates that were tracked that year. In my opinion, this seems like a natural choice.

That said, there’s definitely other bullshittery going on.

How does it feel to be eating woke food?

Ah! I recently just finished Pedagogy of the Oppressed! I heard about it on a podcast and decided to pick it up. I haven’t heard of the other one, so I’ll for sure give it a read. Thanks for the recs, comrade.

I’m teaching a college class, and I mostly have freshmen. I’ve never heard of the love and logic framework (the only reason I’m teaching right now is because it’s part of my responsibilities as a graduate assistant while I’m getting a Master’s, so I know very very little about the education world).

My bosses have both said that students don’t know what they need to be able to learn and all they want to do is minimize the amount of work they gave to do (they have stereotyped the students who end up in remedial math as being generally bad students, which I hate. It’s a really toxic way of looking at the students you teach, and it’s just plain wrong. These students want to succeed. They have just been left behind by a broken system). But that’s not been my experience in the slightest. I got so much genuine constructive feedback just by being open to student concerns, and I would have never grown as an instructor if I hadn’t taken the time to listen to them. I can’t even imagine having the mentality that I just simply know better about what students need to learn than the actual students.

If a viewpoint is wrong, then it’s not bad to silence it goddamn.

We had a protest on my campus recently and the entire news coverage was about how great it is that while the protest was happening, there were also counterprotests. And there’s something so great and magical about my schools community that people who like genocide and those that don’t can make their voices heard without resorting to violence.

My school issued a statement about the protests, not responding to the actual issues, but reaffirming their commitment to protecting the right to lawful protest (ie not being disruptive in any meaningful way).