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Cake day: December 15th, 2024

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  • Thank you for the opportunity to teach.

    If my grandmother had wheels she’d be a tea trolley.

    Minimization.

    Right now the reality is the Donald Trump is going to take office because a lot of people didn’t vote for the alternative.

    Red herring.

    All the ‘what if…?’ games in the world isn’t going to change that.

    Minimization.

    This is a bit better than typical nonsense because there’s two tactics in a sandwich. Next is usually ad hominem. But, this one may have another trick up their sleeve.


  • OK, what else do you suggest?

    Not many ask.

    Because of idealism, they seem to ask for something that doesn’t exist and not accept anything else.

    This is my issue with almost everyone. They believe they already know what others think, that no one could possibly have an alternative that they’ve not already considered.

    My suggestions are as follows: Consider that your scope of evaluation is only one cycle. As a consequence there may be nuance in system function that you’d not considered. Then ask the same question but in good faith.
















  • I think I hear about a school shooting about once every two or three months. And, I believe underreporting at a national level paired with myself not having time to keep up means that I hear about roughly one in every hundred shootings.

    Typically there’s about 180 days of school per year.

    Crunching some vague math, my guess seems preposterous: ~340 school shootings in 2024. That’s almost two per day. But, the more I thought about it the less preposterous it seemed.

    TL;DR - My guess is a seemingly preposterous 340 school shootings in 2024, or almost 2 per school day.