taiyang @ taiyang @lemmy.world

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It's too bad they can't just do 50% on MAGA households and non voters. Somewhere in NY there is someone who actively campaigned to prevent this and continues to protest and they're getting a 25% price hike anyway.

At least we can target businesses and billionaires more directly, although unlike the average voter they need a lot, lot more pain before they change.

Well, those three things are what a psych teacher told me in community college like, way before I sought out my degree. Not that that should be a ding against her, she taught at pretty competitive 4 years, too.

That said, yours could just be a different framework (e.g. PTSD literature). I personally don't think that works very well, as it represses the emotion (much like ignoring it would do). You could also argue physical exercise and deep breaths work, too, but again, that's another framework and one that's generally taught along with aggression literature.

So far, I've stayed in the know on every god damned thing, even going deep enough in some cases to explore the damage caused. It's stressful, but somebody has to do it and I'm someone less impacted than the targets of this insanity (although I've dated a transfem for years and am trained in education policy, so obviously the news gets to me on a personal level).

One lesson about stress: you've got three ways to cope: (1) you address the source of the stress (or at least feel like you're doing something, like protesting). (2) You ignore it with distractions, which is perfectly fine if it's out of your control, (3) you reframe it, such as "this will pass" or "there's still good in the world", etc.. All three will reduce stress.

We all do all three, and whichever one you find yourself doing is fine. For example, I feel good by trying to share my knowledge and convince my students to give a shit; I still play video games to relax; and I have told myself plenty of times that, while it's bad (very, very bad), that as long as we survive we can build back our institutions (and believe me, the DoE is both important and deeply flawed-- as someone who survived a failed k-12 education and got a PhD in spite of it, education reform has always been my dream).

As the resident education PhD in the room, I'll just reiterate that this is bad, although it's complicated and it sounds like a lot of the mandatory things (e.g FAFSA for college) would be moved to Treasury or other departments. It's not as bad as getting rid of schools entirely, and it does have the added benefit of defanging Trump's education goals. Just, you know, there won't be transgender kids playing in girls sports if there's no girl's sports anymore since schools aren't required by the feds to have it.

The biggest blow will mostly be in civil rights and in research, honestly. Civil rights because it's funding is used as leverage to get schools not to discriminate on race, class, gender, etc, in so much so that you could even say sexual abuse under Title IX prevents teachers from diddling the kids. IDEA is also under them (that's the disabilities bill for schools) so you may see less or no additional assistance for people with autism, intellectual disabilities, etc.. In about a decade or two will actually lead to more crime and incarceration as education has a direct effect on reducing poverty and giving people purpose.

As you research, the DOE is a major contributor to education research, much in the same way as CDC was for health. I got my dissertation done using their data, and it is solid. They also provide grants to thousands of projects, and you can thank a lot of advancements in education to it, like improvements in pedagogy and establishing importance of after school programs and such. The system had some flaws, like rewarding grants based on established people only and ignoring young progressive researchers, but it was still better than nothing.

I think whatever damage he does can be undone and the department can be made better than it was because even I admit there's bloat and the current system could be a lot better if it wasn't so entrenched in neolib values. Lots of bullshit accountability stuff, similar to how we require hoops to jump through with welfare. Just, in the short term, it's going to be extra hard for parents in red states and rural counties in particular because they receive the most aid from the department.

I want to add to the other good answers that DoE is also responsible for enforcing special education in schools, along with all other protections against discrimination and support for low income families. This in particular helps red states more, usually, and is a big reason Congress hasn't acted when Reagan took office and had a hate boner for the department.

Now this is a community I can get behind, like a lifted pickup truck tailgating with his LED high beams on.

Don't give them ideas, this is already five times more taxing on the environment and they'll gladly double it to avoid these memes, lol.

Plus... C'mon man, humans should know better than to think it's true. I know I'm wrong saying that, but still.

They're evil, yes, but they're also stupid.

Another tough but not impossible migration for my crew, but there isn't a good enough alternative yet. Plus they finally got around to fixing streaming on Linux, apparently, and I'm about to swap back once my new m.2 is installed.

I think it was already more direct when he flooded their fields with reserve water using a federal aquaduct that doesn't even reach LA to "put out fires" in LA a few days after a rain already did that. That water isn't going to be available come summer when it's needed, and I'd laugh if it wasn't so pathetic and sad.

Really? I nearly gave up a few months ago, especially since rebate was pretty limited when I checked. I might still hold off though, I'm still worried about... well, everything, right now.

Fairly neutral way of looking at it, and that's a nice thing to consider although I'm not sure if the U.S. is executing that correctly if you're correct. After all, making security guarantees is an even easier way to end the war, including appeasing Russia by at least allowing them to continue their occupation.

Hawks also have the possibility that Ukraine makes headway in the war itself, which was the hope of the Biden administration providing support in the first place since US-Russia relations aren't as valuable to most people as US-EU+others, even if China allies with Russia (which could still happen, as Russia hasn't proven to be trustworthy in the past, anyway).

In other words, hawks probably have it right that U.S. is better off with it's current allies, but if we give Trump the benefit it the doubt (a literal devil's advocate) then at least there's some rational, even if misguided. Plus, there is the truth that Ukraine is having difficulty taking back, although you could certainly say the US and EU haven't given them enough to push forward out if fear of nuclear retaliation.

The whole situation sucks, though, rationale or not.

I forgot the name but I did know about it! Kinda excited, Star Control III didn't have the same vibe. Hope these posts also encourage someone to check out II, there is a fan remake you can download for free.

Product of the times isn't a great way to put it, but you can certainly make the argument that most people have shades of grey morality.

Science can back you up, too, as I teach social psychology and when you dig in, you find that normative human nature is pretty complex but generally very supportive for in-group and mildly empathetic even with strangers. It's only when you dehumanize a group do you get the worst behavior, and in all four cases you see that, be it slaves or indigenous people.

When you look at those times, it's people who recognized their humanity that ended up in the just side of history.

In California I don't think I even see these so called USA #1. Maybe "I love LA" but that's mostly cause it the fires. Pretty sure the consensus here is that Finland or Sweden or some other northern European country are #1 because they actually have socialist programs, like parental leave and real healthcare and education.

I mean, in so much as a single person representing a county goes. The first colonies were a mix of religious zealots, Virginian drug dealers (well, tobacco but that's almost worse), and a little Dutch (who were quite active in slave trading at the time). Quickly got a few more from French and Spanish, too.

However, the US also includes annexed Mexican territory (which has its own mixed history of subjegation and torture) and slews of different immigrant populations (with their own mixed intentions). A section of my own family is here cause they tried for Scottish independence, although there's a good chance they were sent here for being belligerent drunks.

That said, ain't a single country on this earth without their fair share of bullshit. America is just a lovely mix of those assholes, honestly.

Hey, thanks for the 3DO shout-out, although I'm not sure it falls into the same category of failure. When my dad was getting his shit together (at least, somewhat together), he got to work with those guys before getting a more stable job. While it's certainly true about FMV gaming, their demise in particular is attributed more to business practices, like utilizing costly third parties for hardware- ironic since they all seem to do that now.

Many of their games hold up, though there aren't very many and the only solid IPs got cross platform releases or ports (e.g. Gex) especially after it was clear 3DO was tanking. I think playing Star Control II on 3DO might have defined who I am as a gamer, and I highly recommend playing subsequent rereleases (it was PC only without 3DO!)

Denyay, defwend, depwose.

0% in this economy? Interest rates are still up, it's been hard to find any 0%s after rate hikes, they really are desperate.

Maybe it is hyperbole because to them, 91k might as well be 9.1 million.