If there is no pay gap than the proposed policy wouldn’t do anything, so why do they care?

Oh god they have a Bible translation?

Don’t make me call you human. Because I will if you tempt me.

You aren’t devastated?

People who use alpha/beta unironically are definitely betas

It was me. I killed the masculinity in video games. I’m sorry guys 😥

My first job was at a coffee shop and it was so impressively ass that it turned me communist

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

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?

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

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.

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.

OH MY GOSH that’s exactly it. I just looked it up. Holy hell thanks for giving me that terminology

Well I mean the question is if I’m feeling it. Agreed, if I could figure that out, the answer is easy, but it’s not an easy question to answer for me.

Occasionally it happens that I meet someone that I vibe with more than I vibe with other people, and I find myself wanting to be around them more than usual. It doesn’t happen very often, like maybe 5 times in my life, but it does happen. But every time it does happen, it feels like it might be romantic interest. But when I ask myself what I would actually want to change from how things are at that time, I can’t think of a single thing. So I’ve never actually figured out what that feeling is, because it does tangibly feel very different from my regular feelings for people. I just can’t figure out what it is.

The reason I bring up the asexuality in this context is because that part’s real easy. I just don’t have a sex drive. So I can’t even evaluate these feelings from that point of view.

So my issue is I get these feelings, like where I enjoy someone’s company a significant deal more than other people’s, but I can’t figure out for the life of me what that feeling actually is.