The childrens museum by me has loads of things you can't touch, the exhibits are just more generally interactive. There's a real human skeleton where you press buttons to light up various bones, and a polar bear taxidermy with a thing that shows you how the fur keeps them warm with a cold surface and a range of materials on it including a square of polar bear fur so you can see the different warmths.
I carried one of those utility cards in my wallet for years, it almost always got through airport security, 5 or 6 times it was fine, once it got taken out, looked at, and put back in, then eventually they took it. RIP card.
I was talking recently to a guy who worked rape cases. He said he hardly ever got CPS to take cases, even when he was 100% sure he had enough. It nearly made him leave policing. In the end he just left the department and went somewhere he had at least a tiny chance of getting it through.
I played Silent hill with my friend, whenever one of us got scared we threw the controller to the other one, there were times that we were playing 10 seconds each.
I used to really enjoy his stuff a few years ago. He started inviting right wing people and conspiracy theorists on and he was genuinely trying to challenge their beliefs. Then I noticed it slowly turn from a light debate to a full promotion of these people.
I'd already stopped listening by the time we got to Covid but I caught up with him early on and he was doing a whole anti mask thing which was so far from what he'd originally been supporting.
If “operant conditioning” makes you think of dog training, you’re right.
This isn't the bad part. Operant conditioning is how all behaviours are formed, if something gives a positive feeling or takes away a bad one the behaviour increases, if it adds negative feeling or takes away a positive one the behaviour decreases.
The issue with ABA is firstly trying to take a persons personhood away, teaching someone that who they are is bad, and secondly the mad schedules they impose. It might be that a person doesn't feel comfortable with eye contact, the ideal situation is we go "cool, don't do that" and everyone is just cool with it, a middle ground that is a good idea is to help the person get used to using intermittent eye contact or using little tricks like looking at someones nose or forehead. The ABA solution is we force the person to make eye contact for an hour a day, regardless of comfort, and witholding a comfort item, like a tablet, until they have completed that hour. It's treating a child (or sometimes an adult) as a non-entity, just an issue that needs to be fixed, needs to be 'normal'.
The couple knew these women. They had these women to their houses. Danny wasn't raping strangers in dark alleyways, he was raping partners when they said no. Chrissie was with him for 6 years.
After hearing the evidence. After him being convicted. They both wrote statements saying he was a great guy.
While this is factual, they're claiming that they can't pay the bill to the female employees who were being paid less than the males for decades. The request just feels like "Wah, I don't want to live with the consequences of my actions"
I had that. I put up a nice top, cost like £50 brand new, I put it on for a start of 99p with the description of -
"I'm selling clothes that have been stored in the loft, they're dusty and some have faults and staining, when this exists I've put photos on the listing"
I was pleasantly surprised when the bidding reached £28, then annoyed when the feedback was "top was dirty and stained, I put it in the washing machine and is now perfect"
Like how is that a complaint for a top I said was stained??
I was a supply teacher when planking happened. I'm a hearing impaired person but not completely deaf, I can hear most noises. I was teaching a class around 13/14, writing their work on the board, turned round and they were planking all over the classroom. desks, windowsills, cupboards, one of them was on top of the metal lockers like 6 foot high.
It's still the best thing that ever happened while I was teaching. I couldn't get it together for ages. No professionalism left at all. No idea how they managed to do it so quietly.
I'm not sure I'm with your maths there. There's 2.3 million stones, divided by 30 years that's 76,667 blocks a year, divided by 365 days that's 210, so your 30 blocks an hour estimate is only a 7 hour working day.
The largest stones used in the construction are estimated at up to 80 tonnes, definitely not hundreds or thousands. There have been plenty of practical experiments with blocks that size using their known technology and it works fine, nevermind modern technology.
It's clear that she did something awful, but she doesn't deserve a greater punishment than other people convicted of the same crime, I think that's the point being made here.
Ring doesn't 'automatically send footage to police'.