Plus it would be cool if you could recommend some particular essential non-fiction books that should be taught in schools, or that people should read if they didn’t read them in school.
I feel like “A Diary of Anne Frank” would be the only non-fiction non-textbook books read in high school.
Textbooks are going to digest various sources for history class; it is usually rare that high school history requires reading primary sources.
English is generally going to require reading fiction. There may be persuasive essays like “A Modest Proposal”, but not a whole book because the analysis done in English doesn’t lend itself to non-fiction.
College is usually when more primary sources are assigned for reading.
On Tuesday, voters in Crook County passed measure 7-86, which asked voters if they support negotiations to move the Oregon/Idaho border to include Crook County in Idaho. The measure is passing with 53% of the vote, and makes Crook County the 13th county in eastern Oregon to pass a Greater Idaho measure.
There are natural resources out there that the land owners want to extract. Washington’s and Oregon’s environmental law is far more stringent than Idaho’s.
The United States formed as a group of semi-sovereign political entities that wanted to make their own laws, but needed a common defense, foreign, and trade policy to prevent recolonization.
The founding fathers knew that the country wouldn’t agree on everything, so they set up a system where a lot of decisions would be made by more local officials.
Other federations work on the same principle. It is a lot easier to get political consensus in a smaller group than a larger one, so a lot of decisions are pushed to more local entities.
I wonder if this is the harbinger of a bunch of companies breaking up after decades of consolidation.
It isn’t consolidation, per se.
A lot of these older industrial companies had R&D tied to their businesses that would come up with random new product lines that could go from consumer goods to heavy industrial purposes. At that time, these companies would create new divisions to sell the new products.
Over time, the different product lines became more specialized and R&D for one division wasn’t helping other divisions like it used to. At that point, you would have a holding company effectively manage several wildly different companies that just happened to share some base technology.
At that point, it made more sense to break up these companies since the synergy for keeping these companies under one corporate board was lost and the management issues became too high.
And most water restricted states have had laws regarding the building of new golf courses for at least a generation, including more conservative states like Arizona. There is also a legally set system for water rights based on who first developed the land.
And it isn’t like other parts of the USA don’t have ecological risks of their own.
With the lastest news of AI layoffs, I’m struggling to understand how the idea of a career still holds. If careers themselves effectively become gambles like lottery tickets, how do we maintain drive and hopes in the longterm endgame of our struggles?...
In my field, I’ve seen how computers have changed work and I expect AI to just be a continuation of it. The people who generally get replaced are the skilled labor and the unskilled professionals. I expect that trend will continue as AI gets integrated into the field. Even then, there is still going to be a lot of work regarding verification.
TL;DR: Antec is going to be selling a Steam Deck competitive device, based on the Ayaneo Slide. The device has a slide up screen that reveals a keyboard, which is good because using desktop windows is much easier with a keyboard. However the device’s lowest estimated power draw at low/no load is 15w, meaning it will use...
I get the point. The problem is that Google/Alphabet is the only company that you listed that does better with a decentralized Internet instead of walled gardens like Meta and X.
I feel like the largest threat may be C-sections over natural births. A lot of births in developed countries are C-sections, with a lot of it being because the babies are too large to fit comfortably through their mothers’ hips.
As baby size increases and has benefits post birth, there may come a day where some human populations need to rely on C-sections to propagate.
I’ve had a few of the Jones Soda holiday packs, where they would make the tastes of various winter holidays into sodas. Cranberry sauce soda was ok. Turkey soda, not so much. However, the worst was Christmas Garland, which tasted like Pine-sol.
Reddit never offered a chance for apps to pay; this became very clear during negotiations.
Mods left because a lot of moderator tools developed by moderators requires API access and Reddit was very slow to develop acceptable internal tools. At that point, a lot of mods got frustrated and left.
So in the whole anti-natalism/pro-natalism conversation (which I’m mostly agnostic/undecided on, currently), my friend who is a pro-natalist, argued that the success/stability of our world economy is dependent on procreating more children each year than the previous year, so that we not only replace the numbers of the people...
In terms of overall resources, it is probably better that we don’t expand the population.
In terms of economics, we are finding more that, while people are living longer, they aren’t living at the same quality of life, which means their economic utility drops significantly while still requiring an income. The current funding of retirement won’t work going forward. Taxes from the wealthy could pay for it, especially as productivity keeps increasing and the rich seem to gain the most. But, there is going to be a push and shove against it as retirement of that many people effectively becomes an age based universal basic income.
I’ve always wondered why the consensus seems to be that it’s 100% necessary for an economy to continue growing for society to function
You start running into issues with the economy when people are incentivized to not participate in it. People hoard money instead of investing it, industries that rely on growth stop which increases unemployment, and the economy becomes inefficient in general over time.
People generally think that no growth means the economy stays as is, but it would be more akin to a depression that never ends.
My school and high school never had us read any non-fiction books (only fiction)? Do you agree this is a problem and if so why or why not?
Plus it would be cool if you could recommend some particular essential non-fiction books that should be taught in schools, or that people should read if they didn’t read them in school.
Greater Idaho movement: 13 counties in eastern Oregon have voted to secede and join Idaho (ktvz.com)
On Tuesday, voters in Crook County passed measure 7-86, which asked voters if they support negotiations to move the Oregon/Idaho border to include Crook County in Idaho. The measure is passing with 53% of the vote, and makes Crook County the 13th county in eastern Oregon to pass a Greater Idaho measure.
Dupont is splitting into 3 organizations. (www.cnn.com)
In one of the US’s hottest deserts, utilities push gas rather than solar (www.theguardian.com)
In Fort Mohave, Arizona, even Republican voters are fighting gas power plants as utilities try to lock in fossil fuels...
X Confirms Plan to Make 'Likes' Private, Remove Likes Tab From Profiles (www.macrumors.com)
In our post-AI era, is job security strictly mythical? Or How to believe in careers as a concept worth doing?
With the lastest news of AI layoffs, I’m struggling to understand how the idea of a career still holds. If careers themselves effectively become gambles like lottery tickets, how do we maintain drive and hopes in the longterm endgame of our struggles?...
Valve has little to worry about as new Steam Deck rival arrives (www.pcguide.com)
TL;DR: Antec is going to be selling a Steam Deck competitive device, based on the Ayaneo Slide. The device has a slide up screen that reveals a keyboard, which is good because using desktop windows is much easier with a keyboard. However the device’s lowest estimated power draw at low/no load is 15w, meaning it will use...
You wanted AI, didn't you (sh.itjust.works)
Gamechanger (file.coffee)
Research (mander.xyz)
Thank you, our future 🌐 (sh.itjust.works)
cross-posted from: sh.itjust.works/post/19653721...
This is not a record to be proud of. (lemmy.world)
A bit of a weird question: Can modern medicine be a threat to humanity long-term by greatly reducing effects of natural selection?
OK, I hope my question doesn’t get misunderstood, I can see how that could happen....
What is the weirdest flavoured thing you've had?
Was it good?
Dutch woman, 29, granted euthanasia approval on grounds of mental suffering (www.theguardian.com)
Reddit Blackout was just mods choosing to be a personal army for app developer
In my opinion, the Reddit Blackout was essentially moderators acting as a personal army for app developer....
Do we need to create increasingly more children for a stable economy?
So in the whole anti-natalism/pro-natalism conversation (which I’m mostly agnostic/undecided on, currently), my friend who is a pro-natalist, argued that the success/stability of our world economy is dependent on procreating more children each year than the previous year, so that we not only replace the numbers of the people...
In what subtle (or significant) ways has your hometown changed since your childhood?
Now that google is going all in on ai what are some sites you plan on bookmarking.
Just curious since I think it is about to get a whole lot harder to search using google. hopefully this will signal the end of their monopoly.