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  • I’ve read the paper and it is indeed garbage. However, I’ve also read the rubric, and per the rubric it should not have been a zero. The student write mostly coherently and had somewhat of an argument, and was clearly responding to a prompt about a personal response to the article. I think the grader is overstepping here. But, we don’t know any further context on if this has been something ongoing and student has been warned before, or something else.

    What does strike me as very odd is that there are ZERO citations in the paper.

    This was being discussed elsewhere but it seems to warrant a low grade (or very low grade) and a conversation instead of a zero.

    Would that have avoided the entire controversy? Who knows. The culture wars are everywhere any more and neoliberalization of education turns it into a commodity of certification instead of places of learning.







  • You have summed up exactly why I hate high deductible plans. Every year at open enrollment I have this debate. And every year I do some math and always convince myself that the high deductible is cheaper and that I should just go to the doctor when I feel like it. Even knowing that, there’s still this weird mental block.

    It’s just so extra frustrating because everything involved in living here feels like some sort of dumb economic calculation. “Should we eat meat this week or save up for when it’s on sale?” Eating out for “fast food” if we’re in a hurry hurts because it’s cheaper to go to a real restaurant.

    I dunno, it’s just all mentally tiring and it’s hard to get into a mode of just enjoying life. I just want to do the side quests and have fun but end up with Lydia in my house guarding my hoard of potions I never use



  • Is that really true though? Like there’s no reason I could be president except for the massive amount of connections and funding is need that effectively means it is not possible for me to be effective. (Nussbaum or Sen would say this is not about actual capability.)

    I certainly think we could grow a new internet, but there is so much culture and forces pushing against this, that it may not be actually possible with addressing the systemic forces first.

    Not to say we should do nothing (similar to recycling — we should do what we can as individuals, but it’s somewhat moot as long as industrial processes continue as they are now). We should do what we can and work toward a better vision.

    (Edit: I think I was responding to only the first part of your comment because when I re-read it, I think I’m actually saying something similar to you)




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    I think you’re on the right track. It’s like they heard “you can’t hold and observe an electron” and just really ran with that but missed all the actual nuance behind it. Still baffling why they would print this, seeming to point to on something like only god knows how electricity works while there’s a person using a very clearly engineered device and electric socket.