Readit NewsIf you're talking about the US, you can vote center-right (Democratic) or far right (Republican). There is no viable left wing party in the US.
You could just as well claim the Democrats are far left and the republicans center left.
As far as I understood it, the main limiting factor in education was teachers deliberately holding back knowledge. The main purpose of "problems", and especially of homework, was a show of social submission, designed to persuade the teachers to reveal the next secret. School one essentially one giant hazing ritual.
There's one memory that stands out as the greatest moment in my education. My school had Acorn Archimedes computers, which came with BBC BASIC, and we were allowed to program them during lunch breaks. One of the older students programmed a Space War clone. I very much wanted to write one myself, but I didn't know how to calculate rotations. The older student refused to tell me the secret, which made perfect sense according to my dominance hierarchy model of education.
I begged my math teacher for the secret, and to my surprise he actually explained how to rotate points using trigonometry. This felt like something incredibly subversive, where the teacher was giving me knowledge I hadn't earned. For this reason I still think of that teacher more favorably than any other, despite other teachers objectively doing more for me. I went on to write a superior Space War clone.
Of all the weird misunderstandings kids have about the world, this might be the weirdest I've ever heard.
I'm kinda fascinated, do you recall at what age you believed this? What was the context you grew up in (country, culture, school). Do you recall where the seed of this idea got planted?
Have you seen what life in Tokyo looks like for the average person today? The size of apartments, the crowds on subways, etc.
People's quality of life would be far better if the population density were lower.
I'd much rather have a world with a steady or shrinking number of people and a rising quality of life, than a world with an exponentially growing population and declining quality of life.
So it's funny how that works. You say it's hard to find a basic physician in Canada. I'm being constantly told by my doctors here in SF bay that it's also hard to find a physician here, and many specialists have months (like, half-year) wait times.
So how do our countries not even collapse like that? There are other countries, some of them are less well-off, and some even with lower life expectancy, where you can snap your fingers and get a doctor, some countries where doctors will even pay you a visit at your house for free, and some that have mandatory prophylactic mass checkups at schools, colleges and work, which I have never ever seen in the US. Yet, the US and Canada have relatively decent health and life expectancy numbers, all with a very repulsive mass healthcare system (i'm not talking about unique surgeries and tech, just basic healthcare). How does this work?
With my regular PPO health insurance from my employer, I've had no trouble getting appointments with various specialists over the years. Occasionally I call one place and get told they can't see me for 2 months, so I just call the second name on the list and get an appointment sooner.
It's my understanding that spanking isn't the optimal way to discipline children and still shouldn't be done, but conflating it with beating a child is ridiculous and offensive.
The biggest loser was the equivalent of turning drug rehab into a gameshow and putting it on TV.
It's maybe interesting in the context of addictions and disordered eating habits, but not really relevant for general weight loss, weight management or physical health for most people.
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How do you mitigate that issue? (And good news if you have a solution, that same person said they figured whoever solved that problem would be the world's first trillionaire).
It seems shocking to me that deleting the messages off the phones makes them inaccessible to prosecution, when presumably there are backups on multiple servers controlled by telecom companies and other government entities.
At this point, I don't think the NY Times needs writers, an LLM can easily cover their mandate to disparage tech and anything that rivals the American Northeast as a center of political, cultural or economic power.