There’s this docu series on netflix (unnatural selection) about genetic engineering in general but also about some people (with and without science background) who believe that anyone should be able to do genetic engineering at home (Josiah Zayner is one of them, i believe he still sells lab equipment and reagents for anyone who want to do some DIY bio-engineering). They also follow this guy who stopped taking his HIV meds and started using some kind of antibody that was developed by some shady company (it didn’t work and guess what; not a single physician was involved). I believe one of these shady guys was found dead in a sensory deprivation pod with ketamine in his blood.
The approval of a publicly funded religious school is the latest in a series of actions taken by conservative-led states that include efforts to teach the Bible in public schools, and to ban books and lessons about race, sexual orientation and gender identity, said Rachel Laser, president of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, which is among several groups representing the plaintiffs in the case.
A zoo in eastern China has denied suggestions that some of its bears were people dressed in costume after videos of a Malayan sun bear standing on its hind legs – and looking uncannily human – went viral, fueling rumors and conspiracy theories on Chinese social media.
I mean… sure? Florida can do that. There’s no law or regulation that says they can’t.
But colleges outside of Florida are also 100% free to reject that as a valid standardized test. And I think the vast majority of schools that are actually worth a damn will, in fact, not accept the test.
But the summary fails to mention by whom. The article thankfully does.
It is developed by Classic Learning Initiatives. But the company doesn't have its own wikipedia page, despite clearly having written this page. The only name listed is the "creator" of the CLT Jeremy Tate; who also doesn't have his own Wikipedia page.
Tate, the founder and CEO of CLT said the College Board has “censored the entire Christian-Catholic intellectual tradition” and other “thinkers in the history of Western thought.”.
They're hard-core Catholics trying to look generic Christian so they don't scare off the Evangelicals but also not so Christian they scare off the secular completely either.
It doesn’t test Latin? I went to a “classical education” school and Latin was a big deal. Our senior curriculum was, IIRC, AP English Literature, AP Calculus, AP Chemistry, AP French Language, AP Macroeconomics, Latin, Ethics (once? a week), Art History (twice? a week, one semester), Art (ditto). As you can see, our administration strongly approved of College Board’s testing scheme. I think the students who had enough years of Latin had the option to move on to Classical Greek, but I was personally only in third year Latin.
Most of the faculty were very progressive, so it may not have been typical of other “classical” institutions.
Looking over their concerns, I’m not sure that they have a leg to stand on. The claim they’re making is that they’ve measured an increase in hate-related tweets (I’ll take them at their word on this) and then they associate this with Musk taking over.
They present no evidence for this later claim and do not, as far as I can see, make any attempt to compare against increases in hate among other social media platforms.
Grooming, for example, is one topic they covered. But this is a topic that Republicans have been pushing increasingly as election season spins up. Musk didn’t cause that, and that kind of nonsense can be found on Facebook and reddit as well.
I’m inclined to sympathize with an underdog nonprofit, but in this case I just can’t see why they expected not to get pushback on such poorly grounded claims
“In lines 10 - 20, the author most likely uses the word ‘arduous’ in order to…”
Math Section:
“If 3x - y = 12, what is the value of 8^x / 2^y ?”
ACT (American College Testing)
English Section:
“Choose the word or set of words that, when inserted in the sentence, best fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole. Despite his desire to travel during his week off from work, Ted was __________ the prospect of spending so much money on a plane ticket.”
Math Section:
“The equation 2x + 3 = 15 has what solution for x?”
CLT (Classical Learning Test)
Verbal Reasoning:
“Choose the word that best completes the analogy. Hammer is to nail as knife is to: a) Fork, b) Spoon, c) Cut, d) Plate.”
Grammar/Writing:
“Identify the error in the following sentence: ‘Despite the rain, he decided to went out without an umbrella.’”
Quantitative Reasoning:
“In a game, if a player scores 5 points in the first round, 10 points in the second round, 15 points in the third round, what would be the total points scored after 10 rounds if the pattern continues?”
Literary Analysis:
“In Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, how does the character of Mr. Darcy evolve over the course of the novel?”
I’m not sure how demolishing renewable energy sources is going to help protect the environment during a climate crisis.
For my two cents, demolish the last fossil fuel power plants in a country, and we can then start taking a look at hydroelectric dams to tear down for environmental concerns.
As a Western European casually reading headlines on social media, it’s mind boggling what’s happening now in Florida. From my outside perspective it seems like Florida is shaping up to be a fascist Christian state, with all kinds of laws and policies specifically made to target racial and sexual minorities and liberals. What’s next: religious minorities and intellectuals? I’m sure it must feel the same for a lot of you across the ocean. How is it possible that people like DeSantis are in power? Is it because of years of extreme polarization? Surely it can’t be that the majority in Florida is this intolerant and hateful, right? Do you think there is even the slightest chance that DeSantis will be the next president?
You only really need about a 3rd of the population to control things. These far right extremists are all testing the waters on how far they can go, and unfortunately the supreme court is corrupted to the point they’re starting to tear down our legal system. There is no accountability. Lower levels of government can strong arm their opponents out, enact illegal legislation, and rig it so they’ll never lose. It’s straight up fascism. It’s gotten so extreme because they’re reaching the tipping point of either being ousted or taking over full rule of the country. I’m desperately hoping the demographics are changing fast enough, and that people are seeing the catastrophy unfettered capitalism and greed brings, but it’s a fight that’s close enough to be very scary.
He probably won't make it out of Florida. Florida is the place where east coasters go to retire so it's full of 70 year old retirees. Them combined with venezuelan and cuban migrants who are rabidly anti-communist give him a solid fat right block that supports him in all this stupidity. Good thing is that you don't see those conditions outside of Florida where the average person is mildly disgusted by most of it.
He most likely won’t, but that is only because there are other equally awful extremist GOP candidates, most notably Trump, who are more popular in the party on a national level. Imagine what Trump would have been doing had he been governor of a state all these years.
The disease is not isolated to Florida in the slightest.
this is so dumb. the solution is easy. MORE TIRES, GUYS. c’mon. so simple. there’s so many tires and we’re just wasting them. We need to get them in that ocean asap. literally no way it won’t work.
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