Peterkin

Generalized statements such as: Slavery ended. It never did. It did change some of its forms and methods, but a whole lot of people are still owned by other people, and a lot of modern slavery is legal. In the US, it's illegal and underground - but it continues. In many places, it is nominally illegal, so they call it something else. Lots of places, it's normal. https://www.theguardian.com/news/2019/feb/25/modern-slavery-trafficking-persons-one-in-200

I suspect they're far more useful to adults refreshing their knowledge or broadening their education than for full-time students. Motivated mature learners have a much longer attention span.

Or, they could have just bought him a deeper dish. I had a problem with that beautiful couple who share everything, but that problem's been solved.

Whatever pushes the agenda, in word, deed, ban, zoning law, symbols or gestures; all part of a package.

That was kind of my take on it, too. By 19 or 20, the students should not be so impressionable that learning some statistics of their society can indoctrinate them. It seems tome, they need to know about the number of wrongful incarcerations, just as they need to know the number of highway fatalities, the rate of divorce and morbid obesity, as well as the prime lending rate and stock index. It's possible for academics and authors to be biased in favour of one kind of example and neglect of others - and it's quite natural to be annoyed about that. But I don't think the students are danger from facts. They may become inflamed by ideas or slogans or political rhetoric, it's just not likely to happen in a math course.

You had the answer right there. Food! Put it in practical context. Recipes in books and even sometimes on line come with both kind of measurement. It helps to have actual containers and weights in the classroom, but if that's not practical, the teacher can have children find a recipe for something they really like to eat, and compare quantities: What if we used two quarts of milk instead of two cups? How much flour would we need? How big would the cake be? Have them rolling in the aisles. And remembering: funny things stick better than boring things. I was lucky to be burdened with both the English and metric systems in high school (the American discrepancies were mentioned, too) because metric was required for the science and tech courses we might go on to, but the commercial measures were British. Lucky because, ten years later when Canada went officially metric, my cohort was not gob-smacked by decimals. Amazing how many people had trouble adjusting to simple, consistent 10's from those crazy irrational fractions. (To this day, I snarl every time somebody uses the word 'decimate' for wholesale destruction.)

It's Florida. The children have seen one another already in the schoolyard and on the street; they know that some of them are different colours and genders. Dick and Jane were ultra white, because that was the author's world, but Leroy and Juanita and Aaron might well have got the impression that they were not welcome On Cherry Street, or in that classroom. And they would have been correct! I'm not sure mathematically accurate facts count as sliding in indoctrination, any more than train schedules or mortgage rates do. Examples from real life - the real, daily lives of the people taking the course - seem to me fair game. The unconscious bias graph, I do have some trouble with in elementary school. But by the time they're old enough to enlist, they should be aware of the inequalities and tensions in their country. Politically charged material that's banned from the classroom tends to resolve itself on the barricades. Germany wasn't any more special then than Florida and Hungary are now. There was a terrifying Doctor Who episode about an alternative England. Humans go 'round in cycles. My SO was holding forth on the madness of our age and how it may never have been this bad before, so I looked out a documentary on the late Middle Ages. There have never been so many of us before to go mad all at once. I'd like to see the Romantics back before I die, but it ain't gonna happen.

There is no "point". Life is not for achieving but for living. If you don't know how to do that, you need a carrot to drag you through life to a death, beyond which you're hoping to find something better. That's sad, but if that's your life, it's the one you'll have to live. Nobody's asking you to give up your unreachable carrot. What are you asking of other people?

I had no idea they were prevented from participating. I do apologize. And withdraw. The field is wide open!

I get to whine my head off. I always vote. Even when it's raining. My vote counts for nothing, and I know this from the outset, because I live in an overwhelmingly conservative constituency where the incumbent sits in the same seat for six terms and then designates his heir, and he warms the same seat for the foreseeable future. I still go and vote... for the same reason Will Hunting chose the brass knuckles.

I wasn't explicitly excluded. Does this mean that henceforth, I am? All right. This was directed at me. It was not clear, no. Now I know. And, yes, some citizens do desire revolution, and they have a definite goal in mind, so it's no use trying to convince them of the stabilizing influence of democracy.

Sure sounded like it. But, all right. So you are aware that they already know about democracy, that some of them profess to have democratic system already, while the ones who don't have rejected it in favour of some other kind of government. Then why task me with trying to convince them of something they've already made up their minds about? Yes. I have not heard or read of one single regime that desired to be violently overthrown, beheaded or sent into exile. When revolution or even large-scale protest in support of structural change is attempted, they all seem to mount fairly stiff resistance.

What makes you think people from other countries "know nothing" about other forms of government than their own? All the countries you mentioned are far, far older than the United States of America, have long histories of different kinds of rule, of being conquerors and being conquered, of trade and reciprocal agreements with other nations. Two of them are republics with representative democracy as their official form of government. Are these "people" from the ruling elite, who benefit from the status quo in their country, or members of a dispossessed minority, who suffer under it? Recipients of government contracts and subsidies, or traders and bankers who thrive on lax regulation, educators fettered by censorship, women treated as second class? Who re these people? What do they want? It takes different kinds of persuasion to reach different interests. I could perhaps point out a clean democracy breeds less popular unrest than a corrupted one, and even a corrupt one is less likely to end in revolution than a dictatorship. Fewer democratically elected heads of state are assassinated than dictators. Less money drains away from the public coffers into private pockets when graft and patronage are kept in check. A contented population is also more productive than a miserable one.... But it's quite futile. They already know. They will do what they have always done. The people who are in catbird seats want to stay there and will take all necessary measures to insure their place; the people they're lording it over want to knock them down and will take whatever action they deem necessary to accomplish that end; the people who are frightened will not act - except, if they can, to run away. Like the rep from Afghanistan - he's gone already and the conference just winding up.

That's true: no particular vote is significant on its own. But how did those millions come to be, if not one at a time? That too, but considerably less important in outcome. No, that's what we call a democratic process. That is definitely not the reason for voting. And if you're a visible minority, living in one of the red states, it's damn well not weakness! I don't call "this" a phenomenon. I call it a form of government.

Presumably in goat's milk.... Okay, maybe the kid has a psychosomatic thing going on and needs treatment, or she's HIV and an autoimmune, which is more serious. Though I have to wonder, if milk fat can 'surround' the water molecules in milk, why doesn't the vaginal mucus surround the water molecules in menstrual blood? It all sounds rather bizarre. And if it's true - then what?

Since most of our internal fluids are water, I'd be very surprised if they could, or would mind if they did. This is utter, unmitigated BS. What's the point?

Like String Junky said. In the tubes lined with mucous membrane, whether respiratory or digestive in their function, viruses, bacteria and fungi are a constant danger. They have to be kept out of the vulnerable organs, such as lungs. That's what the mucus is for: to trap foreign material so it can be flushed away as snot or swallowed with the saliva.

You have no point. You have no American English. You are not communicating. It's all self-delusion, based on this single misinterpretation that you make no effort to correct but keep repeating, of a doctrine you do not understand and make no effort to understand, even when it is explained in the simplest possible terms. You have provided here no reason for anyone to waste any more time on you.

I can imagine several kinds of god, but cannot make any of them real. As none of the other people who imagined the thousands of gods that went before (in my-y-y life) could make them real for me. That takes nothing away from the enjoyment of a good fantasy or quest saga or moral object lesson. Most of us are able to find a personal, quite compelling reason. And some need external motivation.

I've had glimpses of other examples. The objectionable material seems to be in the form of illustrations to accompany arithmetic problems. The line-drawings or coloured cartoons show children of different ethnic backgrounds and sexes playing together or co-operating in some way. De Santis and his hate-full ilk are afraid Floridian children may be infected with subliminal tolerance. And there was also that one (count it - 1) example of a graph showing racial prejudice in demographic groups.

All the wild animals are under stress from habitat loss, migration route disruption, poaching, threatened food resources, contaminated water, etc, etc. https://academic.oup.com/conphys/article/8/1/coz106/5678846 and captivity, however well-meaning is one of the causes. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6892464/ Some wild animals adapt better to human companionship than others Most rodents and, ravens, crows and parrots do all right... but... as with parenthood, or any relationship, much depends on what the human means by keeping a pet. Putting the animal in a cage, attending to their needs haphazardly, or housebreaking them and teaching them to do amusing tricks, or putting them on display for other people to gawk at, or barking orders and punishing them if they fail to obey - or a friendship where the animal has a degree of autonomy and a healthy natural environment and the human takes some trouble to learn their needs and thought-process. Of course, we know that a lot of people are bitten by pet dogs and kicked by their horses , murdered by spouses and children - so I guess we can screw up even relationships that are designed for domesticity.

Well, they also need him to guide the surgeon's hand and the striker's foot, so that their prayers feel meaningful. Still no harm.

resurrection at the last day - that's when they rise, not before, not like Frankenstein's rags-and-patches monster You and I can't, because we don't believe. Them's the rules.

No, they don't. I'm going to clean the litter box now.

Is that so different from the state lotteries? They don't. I've already explained this: Jesus was not born again. He was born once in human form, killed, resurrected in that same form, then lifted up to heaven. No rebirthing, no second life. No, they don't. The ones who believe that he sacrificed his earthly life to redeem their sins are still required to renounce those sins, to dedicate their lives to christian values and hope to live in Heaven after their earthly life ends. No rebirth. Nobody was, except you. It's not unusual for people who can't be bothered to comprehend the basic principles of a doctrine before criticizing it to be hostile. It's not unusual to use bad grammar in forum posts; though phonetic representation of sloppy speech is quite unnecessary, some people do it, simply to emphasize their disrespect. What's unusual is for me to waste this much effort on them. I must really be avoiding some chore!