Textbooks are a racket and not just for college students.

Most of the money spent on education involves grifts for stuff like that, not for actual important shit like schools or teachers.

Everybody is different, that’s why the standard method hits the main three.

I don’t know about other people but when I read a story, if it is well written I see it as a movie playing in my mind.

The best way to explain it is picture an apple.

Some people get a phot realistic image.

Some people get a cartoony representation.

Some get the equivalent of a 3d object in a video game.

Other might not “see” anything and just think of the abstract idea of an apple. None of these people will ever assume on their own that others experience something different.

There’s an argument that it’s not an inmate ability, but something that has to be nurtured and grown. But I’m pretty sure there’s been controlled studies and what people “see” is relatively independent of time reading/imagining things.

But there is a real difference between reading/listening, it engages different parts of the brain to take in the information. As does writing it down. It’s why the century old standard for studying is listening, writing/typing notes, and then reading the notes later. It’s covering all the paths to get the information into your brain.

half of a private tutor?

That teaches everything. You think every one room schoolhouse was staffed by someone who knew every topic well enough to teach others?

If something wasn’t in the handful of textbooks, there was no way to get that information.

I don’t think he ever made it to algebra, definitely nothing like chemistry or physics. Biology would have been a joke, and astronomy likely limited to memorizing the order of planets.

It was not a good education.

On the other hand, people don’t realize how far we’ve come especially for rural areas.

I got an uncle still alive and kicking whose school had to combine grades because there were so few kids.

So for the bulk of his public education it was just him and another girl like 2 years younger than him. That was the whole class, and it was literally a one room school. Not “one classroom” it was a one room log cabin with an outhouse. One single teacher “teaching” literally everything to 1st graders and the rare person who stayed till 12th at the same time.

Oregon Trail generation really looks more like the exception than the rule every year. It seemed like a terrible education at the time, but we’re sandwiched between complete farces of an education system.

but our education system is not good either.

No Child Left Behind has fucked us for over 20 years…

People are blaming these college kids, but their entire k-12 was under No Child, they were never taught critical thinking, what the fuck are they supposed to do? No one ever taught these kids to think for themselves.

We failed an entire generation, and it’s too late to fix it for them now, the best we can do is fix it for the kids that will start public education in a few years.

But we’ll be paying the price for decades

Like waiting 6 months for them to panic over low sales and put on 50% sale?

Maybe, or maybe I’ll wait for the ultimate edition with all dlc to hit $40

What can I do?

Varies wildly.

Some people are in unions, others “at will” employment.

This is something to ask coworkers and hopefully a union rep.

Google search currently uses 1.05GWh/day. ChatGPT currently uses 621.4MWh/day

…

And oranges are orange

It doesn’t matter what the totals are when people are talking about one or the other for a single use.

Less people commute to work on private jets than buses, are you gonna say jets are fine and buses are the issue?

Because that’s where your logic ends up

This is like saying a giant truck is the same as a civic for a 2 hr commute …

AI people always want to ignore the environmental damage as well…

Like all that electricity and water are just super abundant things humans have plenty of.

Everytime some idiot asks AI instead of googling it themselves the planet gets a little more fucked

Weird, I think OP accidentally edited the title at some point

He means far right authoritarian governments are bribing him…

which are literally synonyms in the context.

From my first reply:

Indigenous is more correct because that involves the land changing someone, not just something coming from there.

You might not be aware of every pedantic difference, I didn’t assume anyone would, that’s why I explicitly stated it

Feel free to Google and check my work, but this isn’t an argument someone can win, words have meaning.

They don’t call themselves that, they call themselves by their individual tribe names…

They’re not one bulk people.

You know the only continent humans are native to is Africa, right?

Indigenous is more correct because that involves the land changing someone, not just something coming from there.

They haven’t waited for a green light since Obama left office.

He actually put his foot down. And Biden as VP wouldn’t shut up about how the only way to deal with Israel was to give them everything they want and beg for what we want.

Biden recounted in private that when he was vice president in 2014 and Israel mounted a military assault on Gaza, Obama and his staff rejected his belief, held for decades, that the best way to approach the Israelis is to hug them close but not criticize them, the people familiar with his comments said.

Instead, they said Biden has noted, Obama publicly admonished Israel’s actions and voiced concern for Palestinian civilian deaths early into the 2014 conflict. As a result, Biden has argued, Obama squandered any ability to influence the Israeli government as it invaded Gaza, said the people familiar with his comments.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/biden-obama-divide-closely-support-israel-rcna127107

Trump’s loyalty costs some bribes and nice words, but Bibi could call Biden a bitch to his face and Biden would have thanked him for his time.

But it’s been almost a decade since Israel had to ask America before doing something

Asking the same question over and over for years…

Then just JAGing off (just asking questions) till the other person gets tired of explaining.

Like, if people want to insist on rehashing something from over a decade ago despite it being settled history at this point.

They don’t want to actually discuss it, they have an opinion they agree with, and want to scream at someone for valuing facts more than their opinion

If you’re 99.99% behind far right authoritarian governments, they consider you just as against them as if you were trying to overthrow them…

Back in the day in what is modern day China, a jailor was transporting prisoners. He ran into issues, and was going to be late. The punishment for showing up late was public execution , so he freed his prisoners, who became his first followers and eventually he overthrew the whole fucking empire.

Because when any tiny sleight is treated with the same punishment as revolution, revolution starts sounding like a pretty good idea

It’s what they want more than anything too.

Like, all the tools are baked in, but kids who don’t run into limits grow up to be adults who can’t recognize limits.