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I often have a lot of sympathy for the Lame Stodgy Sensible Center-Left types, but - it is hard to maintain much of that sympathy when I see them posting sneering takes about how only an idiot could fail to support important ideas like (ahem) "teen curfew zones."
Well, to me, the minute they started supporting using the government to rein in kids rather than have their parents do it, they stopped being center-left and turned hard right.
…so, here are some nice facts about September 23, 2025, the supposed Rapture, or beginning of the End Times:
Make sure to dress finely when you ascend, because that's what you'll be wearing for all eternity.
Don't worry if you don't ascend; all those left behind get a free Frosty at Wendy's.
A big secret: The Rapture actually doesn't care what religion you are. It's estimated that more Buddhists will ascend than any other religion, followed by Muslims, then, strangely, Atheists. Christians are estimated near the bottom, between Scientologists above and Wiccans below.
Those religious experts who will be left behind will debate feverishly over which day was actually the Sabbath. Further investigation will reveal that it was actually a Tuesday.
The vehicle that will be used for the Rapture will be a large, lovingly-crafted handbasket. Don't be alarmed.
When you get to heaven, please wait patiently in the long line. St. Peter's staff will likely be swamped; they haven't had an influx this large since the Black Plague.
Muslims will get their 72 virgins on a per-case basis, as virgins are processed. After you get to the front of the line, your wait time will be approximately 1 year. Time will shorten as Marvel Rivals players start dying off.
As you step into heaven, make sure to check out God's loving frescoes of Muhammad, the Hindu Hamburger joint, the Halal hot dog stand, and the Fundie gay bar.
The music in Heaven is the only music that is not offensive to anyone, except for those who are offended by everything: John Tesh.
The Rapture counts as the end of eternity; thus, married Rapturees are free to cheat on their now ex-spouses.
Processing to enter Heaven takes 6 to 8 weeks, and your confirmation will be delivered between 2 and 8 p.m. Make sure you're home at the time.
And finally:
Those who fail to be Raptured will be condemned to live out their life on an Earth without the best of humanity for the rest of their lives, after which…they'll go to heaven anyway.
Happy Rapture!
Sadly, only one of these people is going to jail
And they're in the crowd watching.
I'll ask this as long as it takes!
With white being the tertiary counterspell colour and having "stop things from happening" in its pie (Doorkeeper Thrull/Hushbringer/Elesh Norn, MoM)
Would a stifle be possible in White?
My gut is no.
Blue counters spells.
White stops spells from even being cast.
you ever feel like you're watching someone's worldview change in real time
only problem is every content creator needs to buy one in order to dump on it
How is this even street legal?
love the way humans still eat leaves
Just remember chewing on tree bark is how we got aspirin...
Trump Supporters Wearing Dictator Themed Merch
Again, if a Democrat said that, they'd be up in arms.
God forbid if Obama had said it.
These people have to know how they look. Just have to.
The base awareness of someone who does not know they look like an evil fascist fuck wearing this is one that would require intense mental evaluation and detention.
fun thing about being on tumblr for coming up on ten years (oh fuck) is that while some people stick around, there's a considerable turnover of the userbase overall, so it's like putting on a very long play as the audience grows older and has kids and some people walk out and new people walk in and by the third or fourth (or fiftieth) act there are few people left who remember the beginning.
and conversely it's like being in the audience for a play that gradually changes plot, cast, setting, and genre
Looks like you can use wrestling's Seven-Year Rule as a guide...
(The Seven Year Rule is: After seven years, there's been enough turnover in a fan or viewer base that it's safe to recycle earlier storylines...)
For green kill spells besides fighting, how in lie is it to give a creature death touch at instant speed and possibly indestructible? To be clear, you would need a creature already there and able to block for it to work
Green can create a 1/1 green Elf token with deathouch and green can make creatures fight, but the two combine to do something green can't do. Yes, you can do it with two different cards, but I'm skeptical we'd put both on the same card (without you paying a second color of mana).
Basically, you learned your lesson with Ambush Viper...
On that note: standardized testing good. Yes, there's a ton of problems. There's also no alternative if you want to actually check if students are learning things.
The more I think about it the less this makes sense to me.
Try this:
"The only way to tell if a student is learning to play the piano is to administer a standardized test."
I don't think that's, like... true?
I think you could just, like, listen to them play a song?
Unless you expand the definition of standardized test to the point where it just means "Any heuristic whatsoever".
I'm not arguing against standardized testing so much as a kind of... implicit understanding of what certain terms are supposed to mean and be for.
It appears no record of Shakespeare's education survives, so we have no access to his test scores. Is it therefore true to say that there is no way to know whether he learned anything about English?
Or like... imagine you were trying to reach a skill to exactly one, and only one student. There would be no such thing as a "standardized" test (Standardization means testing multiple people the same way) but surely you would be able to determine if they had learned the skill.
When you say "check if students are learning things" I don't think you mean, "Evaluate if a specific, given student has learned something" but rather "Gather large amounts of data about the student body so that different students can be compared to each other."
There's plenty of worthwhile reasons to do the latter but I think you can get into a lot of mischief if you aren't clear on the difference.
You are describing a very different sort of problem to the one I am. This isn't about teaching one student a straightforwardly demonstrable skill like "playing the piano".
It's "Your school district has 10,000 students per grade level. At some point over the 13 years they will be in school, you'd like to be sure they're actually learning things, as opposed to being babysat."
How are you going to tell if a 10th grader has a firm grasp of algebra?Probably by asking them some math problems. See if they know how much it would cost to build a fence X meters long, if planks are Y meters long and cost $Z a piece.
This isn't going to be perfect: there will be some students who will be better able to handle that problem if it's front of them than they will as a problem on paper, even if it's an identical word problem.
But there just isn't another way to do that shit at scale. Sure, if you had one kid you could just talk to them for a day and get a good idea where they were. Yes, such measures can get goodhearted; It's still better than the alternative of "Just hope the teachers know what they're doing".
The flip side of the streetlamp effect is that if you don't look where the light is, you're left groping in the dark.
"How are you going to tell if a 10th grader has a firm grasp of algebra?Probably by asking them some math problems. See if they know how much it would cost to build a fence X meters long, if planks are Y meters long and cost $Z a piece."
Right, I said literally exactly that in a follow-up.
Why is it necessary to give every student the exact same questions?
If you want to know if someone has learned algebra, asking them some algebra questions is a good way to do it.
It seems to me it's a good way to do it *whether or not anybody else has heard those specific questions before*.
My point is that now you have to start unpacking what exactly it is you mean by "check if students are learning" and the definition of that phrase you've now given is something like "Check if teachers are able to teach a large number of students the exact same things."
I feel like I'm not talking out of school when I say that those are... Not the same question?
So why act like they are?
And, in addition, there's the "teach to the test" problem, where, instead of learning the things we want them to learn, we're actually teaching them how to take tests...
apparently France has been "plunged into uncertainty"; thoughts and prayers
I'd rather they be uncertain than certainly fascist...
Full data here
One of the weird things about living in the US is we'll be this incredible outlier on some metric and a lot of people will just take it as inevitable.
"No Way to Prevent This", Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens
so apparently buying alcohol at a self-checkout is a ~violation of Californian state law~, pathetic 🙄
Try the south. There are places where you can't buy alcohol on Sunday...or at all.
Why is your banner L'Oreal bottles
because I'm attracted to them
You missed the obvious response:
Because I'm worth it.
Stop saying shit like "United States of Israel". The idea that Israel is controlling the US/western politics is ridiculous and actively harmful. The US is a fully autonomous player allying with & funding genocide for it's own benefit; Israel & its military power in the Middle East is a useful extension of US empire first and foremost.
This rhetoric that US politics have somehow been co-opted by a foreign government does not only obfuscate the US's actual positioning as the most dominant colonial power in the world that literally has free reign to do whatever it wants in global politics, but also veers into "jews secretly control everything" anti-semitic conspiracy. Fuck the state of Israel. But also, the US's involvement here is not some kind of corruption of the American system. It is exactly what America is and has always been, don't get it twisted.
the Jews control the US, the Arabs control the US, the Russians control the US, the Chinese control the US, the Cuban exiles control the US, it's like a clown car in there, it's Twitch Plays Congress, it's amazing anything gets done at all
This is just a restatement of OP but the idea that the position of the US in all this is to do with anything other than the desires of the people in charge of the US is little more than an attempt to exonerate the people who are actually choosing violence every day of their lives.
turns out the US is controlled by a shadowy group of Americans!
sadly a much larger group of Americans voted them in 😮💨
...no, I'm pretty sure that shadowy group of Americans isn't foolish enough to run for office...except for one New York real estate hack...
Angel vs. Vampire who would win?
Angel.
...so, Angel would beat an angel?
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Donald Trump's new interview with Time magazine underscores the bleak consequences of what it really means to "leave abortion to the states."
Faced with questions about whether he’d enact a nationwide abortion ban, Trump has been running around claiming that he thinks abortion should be left to the states—but also criticizing state bans he considers too extreme, like those in Florida and Arizona. It’s a totally incoherent stance: Does he support states’ rights or not? He’s likely triangulating because he doesn’t want political blowback for laws that voters think are too extreme. But in a new interview, Trump blessed the most extreme effort states could take: Arresting women and pregnant people who have abortions in violation of state law.
Time magazine’s Eric Cortellessa spoke to Trump earlier this month and asked him how he’d govern if he wins the presidency in November. The reporter pressed Trump on abortion laws at both the state and federal level, given Trump’s Truth Social video where he seemed to suggest that he wouldn’t support federal legislation banning abortion, but also didn’t say he would veto such bills. Cortellessa wrote that Trump “decline[d] to commit to vetoing any additional federal restrictions if they came to his desk.” So there’s that!
There's basically no way for suggesting a process that criminalizes abortion that doesn't end with creating a process that sounds patently monstrous. Like requiring the investigation of miscarriages and such.
A 10-year-old gets raped, then gets put to death because she needed an emergency abortion to avoid dying.
That is what these fuckers want. It's not a byproduct; it's the end goal.
