Green Eraser

you could make a lot of this mania vanish by making college free. the worst parents think they're working a new market inefficiency by making their kid out-hustle the "lazy" kids. but even chill parents are holding a psychological lotto ticket that their kid puts up numbers that end in scholarships

when Republicans are on the wrong side of a 60-40 issue they double down over and over and over, it becomes the center of political debate, and more often than not the numbers move. when Democrats are in that position they immediately give up

There’s such an easy answer to this “gotcha” question and it’s “Sports are inherently unsafe and unfair and it’s ridiculous to single out trans athletes when we allow 150 pound linebackers to go up against 260 pound linemen in freshman football on a daily basis. Let kids play with their friends.”

This Weeks Editorial Cartoon: Home Heeled Advantage https://theonion.com/home-heeled-advantage/

let's do UBI for her, she'd want us to

If we adults don't dismantle this system, the kids subjected to it will and the adults who implemented it won't like the way they do it

tech ceos love to talk like it's impossible to know what the computer will do at any given time as if that's smart and powerful and amazing. the determinism was like, the best part of the computer though. removing the determinism is the opposite of smart. it's stupid

this isn't very popular to say, but for me personally, it was good that i had unrestricted internet access when i was a minor. i was aware of what i was doing and enjoyed it. i don't look back on it and go "well that was a mistake", i look back on it and wish i could do it for the first time again

There is room in feminism to hear the perspectives of both women and men. You can't form coherent opinions about how women's experiences differ from men's if your idea of men's experiences has no basis in actually listening to men.

Aside from an apparently fixed period of time where language acquisition is supercharged, childhood learning is full of variation and fits and starts and very few losses are truly irrecoverable if you don't make kids feel like hopeless losers for being 'behind'.

"This might be unpopular but I'd like to discriminate against an entire class of people" If this is you, I hope the next 500 books you try to read are a disappointment.

I view kids reading webtoons rather than War and Peace in their free time as a sign they are overworked and exhausted at school. If you want kids to engage in more "intellectual" activities in their free time, they need more humane working conditions to have some energy left over to do so.

I do not understand the "fairness in sports" thing, in part because it isn't a thing, but also "fair to who" is always the question. People who are taller have an advantage in basketball. Does that mean we ban tall people? Why would THAT be fair?

I don't perceive any way out of our current MAGA mess unless we start addressing the roots of it -- which is the abuse and control of children into being obedient to patriarchal authority. So we will keep addressing these issues here: www.strongwilledproject.com/what-is-reli...

Thinking she's saying it's awesome Trump won is just a reading comprehension issue. Especially if you read her other posts. And if it's an intentional reading comprehension issue because you don't want to engage with the reality of what people are saying, that's sort of sad and MAGA-like.

I’m saying this as someone who’s in a 90% teaching position. Teaching vs. research is a false choice. Robust public funding of higher ed that existed without controversy until Reagan is the answer. The answer to “solving” whatever “problems” exist in higher ed is literally “throw money at it.”

Brad, a 5% tax on Elon's trillion net worth would literally pay for free college and trade school for every American. And with the market's growth, he still would be worth over a trillion dollars! You don't think that's worth it?

In addition to all the below..by design a bunch of 18 year olds are suddenly out of the family home in some form of work or tertiary education, and we keep shunting the 'here's a bunch of painful lessons you learn as you get older' further into people's lives, when they are more catastrophic.

IDK if this is what this person means, but it could be an interesting concept to have a social media platform that is only open for a few hours a day. Like how Wordle went viral by restricting players to one game a day, meaning the rest of the day was spent anticipating and talking about it.

A social media ban for kids under 16 is like banning kids from the streets because they are not safe, instead of making the streets safe.

genuinely: if 18 year old kids are allowed and encouraged to go into hundreds of thousands of dollars of debt, a 15 year old kid should be allowed to pick what puberty they want give trans kids hormones, actually

some of these new apple parental control features are borderline dystopic

I'm sure the "anybody who said anything negative about Kamala before the 2024 election has blood on their hands" people are going to have the same attitude towards anyone who says anything negative about Platner now, right?

So folks understand the problems with the New York Times didn’t just start under Trump. The Times was the top promoter of invading Iraq (far more influential than Fox News) and it forwarded smears of the Clintons and Al Gore. The Times even did PR for Adolf Hitler before WWII. The problem isn’t new.

It’s so funny how the smart people media (NYT, NPR) is so committed to making everything that happens in US elections look smart and interesting. No they’re not weighing in on “what it means to be a man,” the Republican is calling the other guy gay 50 million times a day.