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  1. Comment on School choice programs have been wildly successful under Ron DeSantis. Now Florida public schools might close. in ~life

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    Oh not at all! I should have included the fact that it was in Florida in my first comment. It makes sense that different states would do things differently.

    Oh not at all! I should have included the fact that it was in Florida in my first comment. It makes sense that different states would do things differently.

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  2. Comment on School choice programs have been wildly successful under Ron DeSantis. Now Florida public schools might close. in ~life

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    This was in Florida, so it's relevant to the OP, but as far as the broader discussion I don't have any experience and don't disagree with you at all. I do have dyscalculia, but I got my IEP before...

    This was in Florida, so it's relevant to the OP, but as far as the broader discussion I don't have any experience and don't disagree with you at all.

    I do have dyscalculia, but I got my IEP before that was diagnosed.

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  3. Comment on School choice programs have been wildly successful under Ron DeSantis. Now Florida public schools might close. in ~life

  4. Comment on School choice programs have been wildly successful under Ron DeSantis. Now Florida public schools might close. in ~life

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    This was in Florida, specifically, so it's relevant to the OP.

    This was in Florida, specifically, so it's relevant to the OP.

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  5. Comment on 'I was misidentified as shoplifter by facial recognition tech' in ~tech

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    There's a really fantastic episode of a workplace comedy called Better Off Ted from 2009 that makes it very clear how even if (though that if is still in question for AI) the technology that you...

    There's a really fantastic episode of a workplace comedy called Better Off Ted from 2009 that makes it very clear how even if (though that if is still in question for AI) the technology that you are implementing is incapable of racism and is simply limited in its capability, the choice to implement that technology anyway is racist. It's about automatic lights, not facial recognition, but it's otherwise a striking mirror of this situation.

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  6. Comment on School choice programs have been wildly successful under Ron DeSantis. Now Florida public schools might close. in ~life

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    The "them" is GOP representatives in the house and senate, and many local GOP representatives.

    The "them" is GOP representatives in the house and senate, and many local GOP representatives.

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  7. Comment on School choice programs have been wildly successful under Ron DeSantis. Now Florida public schools might close. in ~life

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    At least several of the gifted kids in my classes 20 years ago had IEPs. That was at three different elementary schools and one middle school. I'd assumed all of them had one, but it's possible...

    At least several of the gifted kids in my classes 20 years ago had IEPs. That was at three different elementary schools and one middle school. I'd assumed all of them had one, but it's possible that's not true. I just know that when I had my IEP meetings with my parents and teachers, a bunch of other gifted kids' parents were also there, waiting to have their meeting next. Maybe that's changed, but when I was in school, asking if someone had an IEP would not be a good way to determine if they had a disability.

    I generally agree with everything that you're saying about charter schools and funding, it's just these few details that clash with my experience in the Florida school system.

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  8. Comment on School choice programs have been wildly successful under Ron DeSantis. Now Florida public schools might close. in ~life

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    I was in the gifted program and definitely referred to as "special needs" pretty frequently. I had regular meetings about my IEP. They even had me on the "special needs" bus, which was in fact,...

    I was in the gifted program and definitely referred to as "special needs" pretty frequently. I had regular meetings about my IEP. They even had me on the "special needs" bus, which was in fact, shorter than all the other busses. That was like, 20 years ago, though, so it's very possible that things have changed.

    You're not wrong about what the original person meant, though.

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  9. Comment on Box office: ‘Furiosa’ just barely beats ‘The Garfield Movie’ in disastrous Memorial Day weekend — the worst in decades in ~movies

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    Anya actually does alright. She didn't bulk up or anything, but she has a stoicism and a quiet rage that serves the character well. The material she had to work with is much more of a problem then...

    Anya actually does alright. She didn't bulk up or anything, but she has a stoicism and a quiet rage that serves the character well. The material she had to work with is much more of a problem then her lack of muscle.

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  10. Comment on Box office: ‘Furiosa’ just barely beats ‘The Garfield Movie’ in disastrous Memorial Day weekend — the worst in decades in ~movies

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    Fury Road is my favorite movie, and I do not recommend this movie. It's not horrible, I suppose, but it absolutely pales in comparison to the original, and it's not because of the casting. The...

    Fury Road is my favorite movie, and I do not recommend this movie. It's not horrible, I suppose, but it absolutely pales in comparison to the original, and it's not because of the casting. The writing is absolutely the weakest link. If there hadn't been a Fury Road, I probably would have liked this movie more, because I wouldn't know how good it could have been. I still would have gone to see it because it's cool to have a female action protagonist, and I would have though it was alright. Badly paced, no real theme, but fine. But knowing this is the best we're going to get in that universe is really disappointing and has been bothering me more the more I've thought about it.

    I wouldn't spend any money on this one.

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  11. Comment on Box office: ‘Furiosa’ just barely beats ‘The Garfield Movie’ in disastrous Memorial Day weekend — the worst in decades in ~movies

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    I think Fury Road had an extremely deep, rich story, but no exposition. Everything was show, no tell. Furiosa took huge pacing-destroying breaks for exposition, but didn't give us anything close...

    I think Fury Road had an extremely deep, rich story, but no exposition. Everything was show, no tell. Furiosa took huge pacing-destroying breaks for exposition, but didn't give us anything close to as rich of a story.

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  12. Comment on Box office: ‘Furiosa’ just barely beats ‘The Garfield Movie’ in disastrous Memorial Day weekend — the worst in decades in ~movies

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    Fury Road was my favorite movie. I saw Furiosa and I would not recommend it at all. The pacing is bad, there are huge distracting plot holes She's hiding by pretending to be a boy, and when...

    Fury Road was my favorite movie. I saw Furiosa and I would not recommend it at all. The pacing is bad,

    there are huge distracting plot holes She's hiding by pretending to be a boy, and when Immortan Joe finds out, he just...lets her keep driving? Doesn't force her to be a wife. Because she's being "mentored" by his favoritist driver. That doesn't seem like the same guy who sacrificed most of his followers to retrieve his wives immediately after the events of this movie.
    , there's no coherent theme, and any questions you had from the first movie are not addressed, or are addressed in the least interesting way possible.

    My word of mouth is to skip it.

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  13. Comment on Box office: ‘Furiosa’ just barely beats ‘The Garfield Movie’ in disastrous Memorial Day weekend — the worst in decades in ~movies

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    I went in hoping for, not the same, but a deeper exploration of the same world and characters. I wanted to learn more about the Vuvalini and how their sisterhood enabled them to survive and...

    I went in hoping for, not the same, but a deeper exploration of the same world and characters. I wanted to learn more about the Vuvalini and how their sisterhood enabled them to survive and protect the green place. I wanted that same feminist spine, but stronger now that it's almost a decade later. Instead I got a shallower movie with no spine to speak of.

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  14. Comment on Box office: ‘Furiosa’ just barely beats ‘The Garfield Movie’ in disastrous Memorial Day weekend — the worst in decades in ~movies

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    One of the biggest problems with Furiosa for me is that it didn't have the same political push as Fury Road. They ditched most of the cool feminism for an incoherent moral about...revenge or...

    One of the biggest problems with Furiosa for me is that it didn't have the same political push as Fury Road. They ditched most of the cool feminism for an incoherent moral about...revenge or something? I wanted to see sisterhood and righteous violence against a patriarchy. Instead the violence felt fairly meaningless because Furiosa was the only person involved that I remotely cared about, and

    vague spoilers for a mediocre movie they made Immortan Joe kind of smart and maybe nice, and gave Furiosa a stupid boyfriend for no reason.

    If it had been a Fury Road clone I would have bought tickets for 4 more showings. The problem is that it took the momentum from Fury Road and drove it into a wall.

    Edit: thinking further, I still would have been disappointed if it was a Fury Road clone, because the appeal of Fury Road was that it was (for Hollywood) subversive and ruffled feathers, and that doesn't work the same way twice. It still would have been better than what we got.

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  15. Comment on Weighing in on "Man or Bear" - from a woman that left society to the Alaskan wilderness in ~life.women

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    I'm doing really well now. I only bring it up because I think it's very illustrative of your point. The bear and the man can both cause me to need medical treatment, but if it had been the bear,...

    I'm doing really well now. I only bring it up because I think it's very illustrative of your point. The bear and the man can both cause me to need medical treatment, but if it had been the bear, the doctor would have been a lot nicer.

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  16. Comment on Weighing in on "Man or Bear" - from a woman that left society to the Alaskan wilderness in ~life.women

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    Absolutely. The man who raped me gave me chlamydia, and when I went to get treatment, the campus doctor was first sort of shaming me about having unprotected sex, and when I said that I always use...

    Absolutely. The man who raped me gave me chlamydia, and when I went to get treatment, the campus doctor was first sort of shaming me about having unprotected sex, and when I said that I always use condoms for consensual sex, she was pretty cruel about the fact that I hadn't reported it. I don't expect cruelty and shame would be factors in treating bear-inflicted bone fractures.

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  17. Comment on Weighing in on "Man or Bear" - from a woman that left society to the Alaskan wilderness in ~life.women

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    There's also the consideration that some women believe they would rather be mauled/killed than raped, and bears don't actually rape people. I don't know that anyone who hasn't experienced both can...

    There's also the consideration that some women believe they would rather be mauled/killed than raped, and bears don't actually rape people. I don't know that anyone who hasn't experienced both can actually reasonably decide between the two, but for a long time after I was raped I definitely would have picked being mauled. Even now, after time and therapy and knowing that I can be happy and whole again despite being violated that way, it's still really hard for me to say I wouldn't pick being mauled, but I also don't have the traumatic experience of being mauled influencing that decision.

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  18. Comment on Weighing in on "Man or Bear" - from a woman that left society to the Alaskan wilderness in ~life.women

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    I don't think the women who are choosing bear are doing it because they don't think the bear could hurt/kill them, I think they're basing it on how likely the bear is to try to hurt them, and how...

    I don't think the women who are choosing bear are doing it because they don't think the bear could hurt/kill them, I think they're basing it on how likely the bear is to try to hurt them, and how effective tactics to prevent that would be. The assumption is that most bears will just leave you alone if you don't make them feel threatened or challenged and you don't seem like a good snack. You're not likely to seem like a good snack, because you're not a bear's natural prey. Unfortunately - and I agree with this sentiment - it does feel like we are natural prey for predatory men.

    Realistically, the type of bear matters. A polar bear might kill you just because you're near enough to it. A black bear might run away if you make enough noise. Men are extremely varied as well, but they aren't color-coded.

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  19. Comment on Would you walk further to a bus stop that had faster service? in ~transport

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    In Sweden we buy the tickets on our phones using an app (theoretically there's a person in the station you could buy them from if your phone dies or something, but almost no one uses it) and it...

    In Sweden we buy the tickets on our phones using an app (theoretically there's a person in the station you could buy them from if your phone dies or something, but almost no one uses it) and it gives you a QR code that you can scan on the bus. It takes almost no time, you don't really have to stop at the scanner on the way to your seat, you just walk past it slowly. If the scanner isn't working or you have trouble with it, the driver can still see your ticket and just waves you on. In my small town there's just one reader at the front of the bus, but in larger cities like Goteborg, there's one at each of the three doors, so many people can get on at once.

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  20. Comment on Weighing in on "Man or Bear" - from a woman that left society to the Alaskan wilderness in ~life.women

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    I'm curious about your motivations for asking this question, and in this way. Were you actually confused? Did you think you'd caught her in a lie? Did you believe that no one had ever accepted her...

    I'm curious about your motivations for asking this question, and in this way. Were you actually confused? Did you think you'd caught her in a lie? Did you believe that no one had ever accepted her response and you were trying to figure out if there were other factors at play? I want to read this charitably and assume that your intentions were good and also somewhat intelligent, just not phrased well. Help me out.

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