Organizations like the homeschool legal defense association basically exist to protect child abusers.
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0·5 days agoI’ve always wanted to just park an enclosed trailer on the street to use as a bike garage. I know the Dutch solution to bike storage is to just have a crappy enough bike that no one wants to steal it, and you dont care about leaving it in the elements, but I want nice bikes, lol.
If I can park a car on the same spot indefinitely, why can’t I do a trailer full of bikes?
Those bike lockers address theft, but not protection from the elements. They want it to be translucent for safety, but you could do that with plexiglass.
Reading theory ≠ being highly competent, though. Dunning Kruger states that people with low competence (in specific areas) overestimate themselves, and highly competent people underestimate themselves.
Reading doesnt necessarily make you better at things (though obviously it can help). A community organizer that’s been feeding the hungry for 40 years but has never read a political book will be more competent than someone who’s read hundreds of books but never gone out and done stuff.
0·7 days agoIt’s definitely a thing in American schools, but i think it’s common in some other countries as well.
When learning another language, the options are to: 1) use your real name with the real pronunciation, 2) real name with different pronunciation, 3) equivalent of name in other language (e.g., John to Juan), 4) just pick a name you like in the other language.
1 doesnt flow well in speech, 2 also feels unnatural, and sometimes isnt possible, and 3 doesnt always exist. Kids also generally like the opportunity to pick a name that they think is cool. There’s no expectation that you would use that name in a real life discussion with someone in that language.
Looks like it’s common in China as well. https://ans-names.pitt.edu/ans/article/view/2535
Crosswalks exist to limit where pedestrians are allowed to be.
0·14 days agoThis may just be a language thing. Those aren’t allergies to me, they are symptoms of allergies.
To me, allergies are things like a peanut allergy, penicillin allergy, latex allergy, etc.
The lame answer is that there are specific legal requirements around what sound they have to make.
https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-49/subtitle-B/chapter-V/part-571/subpart-B/section-571.141
Obviously, thats in the US, but i bet other regulatory agencies have similar.
0·15 days agoAccording to the one i just had to replace, combo carbon monoxide detectors need to be replaced. I don’t know how the carbon monoxide part works, but i wonder if it’s a reagent or something.
To me, it seems like they think the fact that I selected the “public transit” option means that walking must be minimized at the cost of everything else.
E.g., It will recommend I take 2 busses followed by a train, followed by another bus rather than just having me walk for 15 minutes to a bus/train line that goes directly to my destination.
How would they know that?
The same way they do driving estimates. They have your phone’s location, and they know where you are trying to go. They could have the trip “end” when your location is actually inside the place you are trying to get to, instead of ending the trip when you pass your destination at full driving speed when you dont see a parking spot out front.
They collect so much data, it would be trivial. If you are going from your house to a Starbucks, they could absolutely just have the “end” condition be when your phone notices the Starbucks wifi.
P.s., not that I think they should be collecting that data, but the reality is that they are
The studies in that mini-review did not investigate different allergies. They each focused on different symptoms; either skin inflammation or mucosa inflammation (conjunctiva, nose, sinuses). The allergen responsible was not characterized.
The only paper that looked at a specific allergy is the one I cited.
I could also cite multiple studies showing that use of bee products can make allergies worse.
https://www.mdpi.com/1422-0067/26/24/12074
https://www.jacionline.org/article/0091-6749(79)90143-X/pdf
https://www.jabfm.org/content/jabfp/7/3/250.full.pdf
There are more, too.
Just read the paper (well, skimmed is more honest). They cite 5 human trials. The first study was not blind, and it also did not show a difference between the control group and the treatment group. The “mini-review” author made it seem like there was an improvement to the honey group over the control, but this was not the case.
The second study, I can’t access. The conditions were a bit more complicated, so I can’t fully assess, but the “mini-review” author notes that they were also treated with olive oil and corticosteroids. Also, the group sizes were tiny (11 people split into 3 groups), which makes me highly suspicious of any statistically relevant effects. There’s also no placebo.
The third study seems legit from a quick skim. They placebo controlled with flavored corn syrup. At the end of the study, the treatment group does not have a significantly different symptom score than the placebo group. The fact that both groups improve is again misinterpreted by the “mini-review” author. In their defense, the authors of that third study really wordsmith their abstract to make it read that way.
The forth and fifth study both show no improvement due to the treatment.
So 4/5 studies show no improvement over control/placebo, and the 5th study i can’t read.
I did find a randomized, controlled study on birch honey which seems good, and it shows an improvement over a regular honey control. That’s not in the minireview.
Overall, if there’s 4 studies saying no, 1 saying yes, and 1 inconclusive, I’m going to take that as a no.
The problem with parm is that “fake parm” can just be literally the exact same product, but just made outside the borders of the legally defined region, or even made within the region with the same methods, but not under the control of “big cheese”. It can still be a high quality product.
Counterfeit honey is a big problem. Honey is mostly glucose and fructose, which you can just buy. You can detect a lack of the pollen you’d expect in real honey, but that only makes it so that you can thin out real stuff. There’s other methods to detect it, but it’s on ongoing arms race. Buy honey from local beekeepers you trust, if you can. P.s., there idea that local honey helps with allergies is bunk because allergies are typically caused by windborne pollen, which bees dont collect.
Maple syrup has similar issues.
Seafood and truffles are commonly “fake”, as in substituted with cheaper stuff.
Not “counterfeit”, but a similar problem in Mexico is that the cartels have gotten into the avocado industry.
In America (and i fear this has spread to other countries), people like Mary Pride have pushed for homeschooling in addition to basically starting the quiverful movement.
The idea is, you keep kids out of school so they are only allowed to learn your far right views, and you have as many kids as possible so you can 1) force the woman to stay at home and 2) have older kids forced to parent and teach younger kids.
You then involve the kids in politics as early as possible so by the time they are adults, they have already made inroads to working with far right politicians.
Some of those kids end up a certain version of smart, but the priorities are different. They might heavily focus on speech debate, both from a religious and a political point of view. On the “good” end of the spectrum, the kids end up truly charismatic and persuasive, and on the “bad” end, it’s basically tiny ben shapiros who just gish gallop you at any chance they get.
Often, but not always, girls are completely neglected since “they only need to learn how to run a home”. Oftentimes kids are abused, and homeschooling is a way to hide that from authorities.
To contrast with all of this, I think there situations where we should be more flexible with homeschooling. If a parent has expertise in a topic, they should be able to cover like a couple classes or something. I knew homeschooling kids who came to public school for a class or two, but I didn’t know any kids who were homeschooling for a class or two.
People in this thread are saying it’s dumb to think you can teach better than a teacher, but if it’s between 1:1 tutoring and being in a class of 30, you have a big step up.
Personally, I found math classes trivially easy basically up until i was like 17. Math classes till then mostly just focused on teaching how to accurately and repeatably do all the things that calculators do perfectly. I could rant about how math is taught a lot, but I won’t. If I had 1 on 1 teaching on a more diverse range of math topics, I could have learned way more. We should be helping parents/kids do that if they can.