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Clarissa on Sudden AgingMay 21, 2026
You can have completely white hair and come off as young. It isn't the hair. Everything about him is old-man…
Clarissa on How Academics Will Write Themselves into a FutureMay 21, 2026
I'm in languages, so we don't notice AI at all. There's no place for it because any attempt to cheat…
Anonymous on Sudden AgingMay 21, 2026
His new wife is draining him. lol
cliff arroyo on Sudden AgingMay 21, 2026
"He didn’t shave" Definitely part of it. But also the baggy shirt and the slumped forward posture, very different from…
cliff arroyo on How Academics Will Write Themselves into a FutureMay 21, 2026
"Do you expect the number of Universities will shrink significantly as well? " Capital no longer wants an educated public. This…
oldcowboy3 on Hierarchies Are GoodMay 20, 2026
"It’s ok to be excluded. It’s ok to be aware that intellectual limitations exist. It’s ok to know that some…
Anonymous on Sudden AgingMay 20, 2026
He didn't shave. Could've gone gray years ago and you'd never have known it with the cue-ball look. ethyl
Demotrash on Hierarchies Are GoodMay 20, 2026
Even if you don't sort kids, they will still know how good or bad at reading they are relative to…
oldcowboy3 on Hierarchies Are GoodMay 20, 2026
Was in the same era, we had no formal grouping, students were assisted as needed. But we were sometimes allowed…
Mitch4 on Hierarchies Are GoodMay 20, 2026
In my primary years (1950s) one year we had flower names for the groups. The top was orchids, I still…
oldcowboy3 on Hierarchies Are GoodMay 20, 2026
Some of this may be IQ, part of this may be genetics. Some may be environmental, both nutrition and presence…
cliff arroyo on Hierarchies Are GoodMay 20, 2026
"When a child is put in the lowest reading group, they usually know it" I remember when, in the third…
Anonymous on Hierarchies Are GoodMay 20, 2026
I still remember my reading group in the 2nd grade. "The Condors" I was proud to be in the top…
random reader on How Academics Will Write Themselves into a FutureMay 20, 2026
Do you expect the number of Universities will shrink significantly as well? I think this is already happening, but the…
Anonymous on Hierarchies Are GoodMay 20, 2026
And what? We should sort them covertly instead? We should force everybody to read Dick and Jane forever because Andy…
Avi on Hierarchies Are GoodMay 20, 2026
"All must have prizes!". And yet the evidence is under everybody's yes, if people want to see. Who cares how…
PaulS on Book Notes: Los mitos del franquismo by Pío MoaMay 19, 2026
The apartheid state was basically a welfare state without rights. That's why Mandela acknowledged even Afrikaners were prisoners of the…
Clarissa on Book Notes: Los mitos del franquismo by Pío MoaMay 19, 2026
The welfare state without rights is the definition of a jail. These two things only work together.
PaulS on Book Notes: Los mitos del franquismo by Pío MoaMay 19, 2026
I guess the problem is people are more likely to associate the welfare state with Stalin.
Clarissa on Book Notes: Los mitos del franquismo by Pío MoaMay 19, 2026
I'm a nationalist and I have acknowledged about 3 million times that yes, at its worst extreme nationalism absolutely leads…
Clarissa on What Should Academics Write About?May 19, 2026
This is truly the big question of our times: what to do when nobody finds you valuable enough to exploit?…
PaulS on What Should Academics Write About?May 19, 2026
In SA much if the discussion during apartheid was what to do with the capitalist exploiters. The post apartheid discussion…
PaulS on Book Notes: Los mitos del franquismo by Pío MoaMay 19, 2026
Yeah, it's always been a cop out how nationalists refuse to acknowledge Hitler in the way that communists acknowledge Stalin.
PaulS on Book Notes: Los mitos del franquismo by Pío MoaMay 19, 2026
In SA, the apartheid government was predicted in advance. The surprise was actually that they weren't as extreme as expected.…
Anonymous on Just So You UnderstandMay 19, 2026
Oh, we need a room-naming game, like the infamous "Boaty McBoatface" incident. I would like to rename this classroom CLARENCE…
Anonymous on The Toilet DilemmaMay 19, 2026
The Canadian government reliably informs me that women routinely have penises. Can't argue with that. Hence the urinals.
cliff arroyo on Just So You UnderstandMay 19, 2026
"drive everybody nuts with their demands to be assigned that particular classroom" Kids with toys. My first step in such…
Demotrash on The Toilet DilemmaMay 18, 2026
There are coed bathrooms with urinals in some parts of Western Europe (my parents encountered some while traveling decades ago.)…
random reader on Just So You UnderstandMay 18, 2026
Technically, the case I’m thinking of was not a co-teaching situation either. Some people can get very creative. I really…
Clarissa on Just So You UnderstandMay 18, 2026
No, these are two completely different classes. This is not a co-teaching situation. It's more of a "people are trying…

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