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HardlyCuriouson Dark Matter Fun

I'll take a look and see if I can remember which one. Would be great if there was a way to search videos CC to skip to timestamps...

HardlyCuriouson Dark Matter Fun

Imagine how crushing it would be to, after decades of effort, learn that it was all for nothing.

HardlyCuriouson Dark Matter Fun

Interestingly, YouTuber and physicist Sabine Hossenfelder claims that same cluster is actually evidence against dark matter.

HardlyCuriouson The case for expanding rather than eliminating gifted education programs (2021)

To make a compelling case that funding matters to outcome you really need to detail how a lack of funding hurts the learning process.

Are the teachers bad teachers, and more pay will recruit better teachers? I'm not sure how many teachers enter the profession for the money to be honest. I'm sure they would like pay, but I'm not really of the mind that the curre nt crop of teachers are on average bad.

Do kids not have a suitable learning environment? Are they distracted by rodents, roaches, noisy equipment, uncomfortable temperatures, lack of seating or desks?

Do the kids not have educational material? Books, marker boards and markers for them, paper, etc?

If any of those things were lacking I would totally agree that learning could be impacted and change was needed. And I would be really curious how at current funding levels, which are not low compared to other countries, those deficits are occuring.

HardlyCuriouson Why is it traitorous to understand the people you disagree with?

The US is more akin to the EU than it is to a normal country. I don't think that is necessarily good or bad, it just is. But I don't know if I understand your bit about shared culture, language, and ideas... Would that imply that we should share a govt with the UK and Australia? Or if oceans are the breaking point, at least Canada?

HardlyCuriouson Why is it traitorous to understand the people you disagree with?

I think in general, hating people comes not from thinking they are doing something wrong, but from thinking they have some sort of bad intentionality behind their 'wrong' actions. That is where words like 'traitorous' come in, it implies bad intentions. However, the opinion piece doesn't impose any bad intentions behind the behavior he is critizing. He is just making the case that it is wrong.

It is a very different thing, and not at all comparable.