I’m sorry, but this whole “it’s unfair to deny kids the use of personal technology in class” is darkly hilarious to me. I did, in fact, try coding on my TI-85 in English class because I was bored, and it was immediately taken. Why is a phone more acceptable?

It wouldn’t have been taken if left in my backpack, so any “well, what about an emergency?” arguments are disingenuous. Put your phone on silent; refrain from using it. This is not phone time. In an emergency, parents calling the school was effective with primitive '90s technology. Surely, they can still do that now.

Excuse me; I need to go yell at a cloud.

Thanks for quoting the elephant in the room. We’ve seen these sorts of polls stateside in 2016, one of which suggested 28% of U.S. residents were considering moving to Canada in the event of a Trump win.

That happened, but the exodus did not.

Pretty sure I just read the mashup of

Court Tosses Facially Absurd Case and Baliey Kicks Off Gubernatorial Campaign

and can file it in the portion of my memory reserved for things done solely for optics, which tends to get emptied every night.

Which is particularly acute in the case of Argentina.

Has there ever been a left-wing austerity programme? This is anti-labour bullshit every fucking time.

Egregious clickbait hed. I don’t care the source, “than you might think” works psychologically on, well, more levels than you might think.

Throughout this election, and honestly, past it wouldn’t be bad, wherever you are in the world, this phrase should be a red flag that you’ve run headlong into bullshit.

That aside, Nature, are you OK? Journal articles tend to have as theses shit that isn’t somehow both obvious and vacuously true then not backed up by the passive voice, the gold standard for scientific literature. “The beaker was observed …”

Bold statement of American values, Nikki. Surely, this will improve international respect for the U.S.

Dehumanization is a central pillar of several playbooks. None ends well.

Always the sign of a stable democracy.

It’s entirely possible Al Jazeera has an agenda. Arguably probable, given that NYT, WaPo, the BBC and any other “well respected” outlet each has agendas.

The missing bit here is what the alleged relevant agenda is. Proof that Al Jazeera has ulterior motives deleterious to Israel’s interests would go a long way toward making this feel less icky, but that’s apparently a bridge too far for a propaganda claim.

This is a “did you she what she was wearing” level of proof.

They don’t speak High German there, so it tracks.

1 and 2 are viable … in certain situations. Had they left resin codes off anything else, things would look different. But once you get to “other” and believe that’s going anywhere other than a landfill, that’s an education problem.

“They’re resin codes. Why would anyone associate three arrows forming a triangle with recycling? It’s not our fault consumers see any resemblance.”

Those plus Florida and Texas. Four most populous states in the country, with New York bringing up the rear.

They don’t sleep for three days.

I would remind you that you are a guest here. People do not come to Beehaw for ad hominems.

I’m not an expert in Polish politics, but Tusk is the sort of PM where, yeah. Anything left over from the old regime where there’s still some power left is going to lead directly here.

There’s a lot that needs sorted, and Duda is going to try to fuck things up as much as possible.

“Dragged by my own petard!”

Chants of Sennaar is on sale. Found out about it here.

I suspect there’s a limited target demographic, but I was a linguistics major for a time.

Pragmatically, who else is going to take the lead? France?

Main issue here is while this is fine currently, AfD’s rise has taken it to second place behind the CDU/CSU for the next federal election.

For those unfamiliar with German political parties, AfD takes as inspiration the NSDAP. That one, you’ve heard of.