A “consent and pay”, or “paywall” (or even “register-wall”) website is totally fine and should be free to exist - but it shouldn’t be indexed by search engines as a response to a question, and shouldn’t be linkable on any form of social media.
No, in the sense that violating people’s privacy should be disallowed entirely and not be a matter of “consent.” If a website requires payment then it should be a payment from all users in order to receive access, not just from privacy-conscious users in order to receive privacy.
“overtourism” is such a good word. Summer in London is unbearable and the thousands of party lad homophobes coming down to Brighton every Saturday in the summer to culture clash with the natives don’t help there either.
15 years ago he promises people cars that drives themselves, other magical toys. Never builds them. People agree he is a visionary inventor
10 years ago starts talking about living on Mars. Gets into argument with astrophysicists. Now widely considered an expert on space, thanks to media. Remains wildly unqualified to even speak on the matter.
5 years ago - now he’s an AI expert and people want to know his views on the future of humanity. starts chirping on politics. Now having direct conversations with government ministers about political ideologies.
He Plays people like a fiddle. Not seen anyone this skilled at peddling tripe since Jesus.
When he’s Earth President, don’t say no one told his method.
It was really clever how NATO convinced Russia to attack Ukraine, but then get their asses handed to them, so that NATO could come in with weapons to support Ukraine and so engage in this proxy war. That was some pretty sophisticated 3D chess that was.
Who in their right mind forces their kid into the hellscape that is school at 4 years old?? How to fuck up your kids social and mental developement 101 much?
Compulsory school age is 5, but most start in reception at 4. I do agree though that it’s far too young. People will look at you with three heads though if you suggest it’s too young here though.
It is more about having a place to dump your child for the day. Especially true since no family can get by without dual incomes and extended social support has broken down completely.
Also reception isn’t anywhere near as formal as Year 1. It’s pretty much an extension of the nursery experience which many children will have given the need for both parents to work.
I myself have called it “a place to dump your child”, but in reality even nursery is early years education. The real purpose of these places was meant to be education. Many politicians do think of nursery (and school!) primarily as a place to keep kids busy with little regard for quality of learning.
The concern is over “Pandemic babies” who would be hitting 4 this year and entering Reception class at the end of the summer holidays before starting primary school the following year.
I mean if everyday things like food and rent are still too expensive then it’s not really recovering. I don’t really see how the pursuit of endless growth can possibly be good for regular people.
This is actually a very minimal change to the already existing curriculum - the (compulsory) English Language GCSE is 50% “Critical reading and comprehension”
Gov UK states all specifications must include:
“identifying bias and misuse of evidence, including distinguishing between statements that are supported by evidence and those that are not; reflecting critically and evaluatively on text”
Most people presumably… “forgot”? but this has been in the curriculum for decades
For me at least, most of that was just identifying rhetorical devices used by the writer and summarising what they wrote, not looking at the legitimacy of what’s being said (it’d be hard to do that in an exam context anyway).
Yeah, there’s definitely a difference between curricula, what’s focussed on in classrooms, and exam assessment criteria, but they’re supposed to be cohesive.
I remember one of my big pieces of coursework was “writing from the perspective of an advertiser,” and we had loads of lessons on identifying bias. I was taught in school that “red top magazines” are “less honest and more emotive” than “broadsheet newspapers.”
Presumably not everyone had the same experience though: I mentioned this offhand and my friend told me “surely that’s illegal to teach in a classroom?!”
I think a lot of what people are missing is around spoken techniques.
Recognising ad hominem attacks.
Recognising straw-man arguments.
Recognising circular reasoning.
Spotting embedded assumptions or premises in points.
Being numerically literate enough so that big numbers have context.
Yes, these things apply to texts also, but they can fly past you when somebody is speaking. You can’t take 30 seconds to notice that somebody is arguing against something which wasn’t said by the opposition. It has to be a reflexive “hang on a minute! That’s BS”.
Though I’m not British, I have an interest in your education system because I went to a school that taught, up until year 11, the British education system. Years 10 and 11 were IGCSE, which is an international variant of the GCSE.
But in years 12 and 13 I took the International Baccalaureate. Which I have a lot of praise for in general, but particularly in regards to this aspect. One of the core components of IB that everyone has to take is Theory of Knowledge. It’s essentially an introduction to epistemology, including learning about logical arguments…and logical fallacies. It’s one of the most broadly useful things you can learn, and I think it should be in every high school curriculum.
Absolutely disgusting.
Poor nurses trying to save lives and they're paid back by having these racist EDL cunts throwing rocks at them.
Should get Keir Starmer send these pieces of shit over to Rwanda instead, and see how long they last.
As @theskyisfalling said, these are the same ignorant arses that brought us Brexit, and continue to make our country look like an absolute laughing stock on the world stage.
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