SCOTUS judge decisions, like all other non-Congressional branches, can be superseded by actions (either laws or Amendments, depending on the holding) from Congress.
And at the end of the end, the supreme authorities in the US governmental system are Congress Assembled and the Several States. Either one can impose Amendments onto the US Constitution that change the rules of the American legal system entirely.
Until those measures are disregarded entirely by SCOTUS, that is. A supermajority of SCOTUS disregard the 13th, 14th, & 15th amendments because they simply don't like them and due to Marbury vs. Madsen and "Judicial Supremacy", (how convenient for them) are not held to account.
They decide which way they want a given case to go and THEN come up with a rationale, even if it contradicts a prior logic they, themselves have used. It's practically unmitigated Realpolitik/Politicians-in-Robes stuff.
See:
* The 5-4 Podcast
* Strict Scrutiny Podcast
* Elie Mystal's book, "Allow Me to Retort, A Black Guy's Guide to the Constitution"
* Elie's podcast, "Contempt of Court"
* Steve Vladeck's Substack, "One First"
* This article in The National by Madiba Dennie entitled, "Originalism is a White Supremacist Scam
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* The Amicus podcast with Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph-Stern
But mostly the 5-4 podcast as they are some of the first ones to get straight to the heart of de facto Legal Realism vs originalism pretense, textualism pretense, etcetcetc. Some others above were very slow to let their idealized hopes of the legal academy melt away, but they all got their eventually since the rulings have been so gobsmackingly contradictory. In some way, hearing those transitions are extremely effective, but 5-4 starts there and stays there, accruing tomes of evidence with each new decision day.
With the above sources, I strongly recommend paying extra for their bonus content where available.
The debate at the time your pictured article was written was over illegal immigrantsâs kids, the so-called âanchor babiesâ. It is a way illegal migrants game our immigration laws to the detriment of not only prospective legal immigrants with marketable skills that America needs, but also the natural born citizens that are our governmentâs primary duty to protect and defend.
As it pertains to American minorities, the issue the article brings up is moot. The American Blacks who are the descendants of slaves have generationsâ worth of birth certificates and other documents proving they are âunder the jurisdictionâ of the US. They ARE citizens, and that status has not been in dispute for generations. Nor would it be in dispute if any such proposed measures passed.
I have heard nothing about any movement to eliminate birthright citizenship of the children of natural born citizens, from either party.
Ok. The article you cited was about Congress trying to pass an immigration law in light of the 14th Amendment. But thatâs apparently not what youâre talking about.
So how is SCOTUS biased and selectively enforcing the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments in current times?
Because Iâm trying to follow what youâre telling me.
*The Pan-American Highway is continuous.* I distinctly remember a teacher pointing to a western hemisphere map and showing that it's possible to drive from Alaska to the tip of South America. Obviously there are bridges, borders, and unsafe areas, but it always stuck with me that it would be an epic road trip.
Only last year did I discover the DariĂŠn Gap -- the intentional roadless land barrier between Panama and Colombia. It's made me wonder what other geographic features I'm unaware of.
I suppose it's still technically possible to ferry a car between Panama and Colombia, but it's astonishing that there is a mere 66-mile stretch of land between two continents that has been intentionally kept wild.
While the usefulness of the EC may have aged out, the real problem is they capped the House in 1929 which caused us to move away from equal representation. The EC numbers are based on congressional representation. Uncap the house, return us to correct equal representation in the house, and population dense areas will get a ton more House representatives. That in turn will grow the number of EC votes those states get which will return the EC to being much closer to a fair system.
I maintain that it's not the electoral college that's the problem; it's the fact that the winner takes all (in most states) and there is no ranked voting (again, in most states). Address the second two concerns and the electoral college would be just fine.
If you need to change the fundamental principles of the existing system to make it work, then it is broken.
Clearly, ranked choice would be better for everyone, but as things stand, the electoral college just gives us tyranny of the minority.
Sorry. To be clear, I don't disagree that the electoral college is problematic _as things stand_. But fixing the EC would just highlight the other two problems that would still need to be addressed. You want to change three systems or two?
Thanks to Martin Luther King Jr., who preached that racism would end if we all just stopped talking about it, and was a universally beloved figure during his lifetime.
THIS ^^
Learning that *distinguishing* race is fundamental to equity made me read the (colorblind) "I Have a dream" speech AND the 1964 Civil Rights Act with shockingly fresh, critical eyes. They didn't go nearly far enough!! (though neither may have been able to go further than they did at the time).
Well being lazy certainly doesnât lead to it. Sure some people are born lucky but I donât know a single person who grew up poor that isnât poor anymore that got there by luck alone.
You can work hard and never be successful. You can be born lucky and can stay successful through a series of lucky events. But unless you were born lucky youâll almost certainly need to work your ass off of you want to change your situation. Youâll need some lucky breaks but unless you work hard to take advantage of those breaks then youâll never get anywhere.
Telling kids that hard work doesnât matter and only luck or socioeconomic factors matter is far more damaging than telling them that hard work always pays off.
Donât see where you think I want them to be told to be lazy.
What you do is not tell children something that is wrong. There is no science to it so say nothing so you donât get generations of cynics. The only thing they can teach is that the standard view of causes for success comes from survivor bias. Of course Elon is going to say it is all hard work and he deserves it. His ego is enormous. Guy is a horrible manager and a terrible leader, and a buffoon. He had a few good ideas pop into his brain and then underpays the people that do the work. He says I want this and other people do it for him.
You fix the education system so your zip code doesnât matter. Where property tax funding does create systematic poverty.
I didnât say they you said they should be told to be laxy.
Itâs simply a comment expounding on yours. Not a personal attack.
And what does Elon have to do with anything. Stop worrying about billionaires and worry about yourself and your family. Make your own luck.
Hard work without direction is useless. You can dig random holes in a field all day, and never accomplish anything.
Deliberate work, education, connections, luck, risk taking, and a support system are the necessary ingredients for success.
I was waiting for this one.
Where and how do you get that education? How do you make those connections? How about that support system?
Born in a small town. HS degree is meaningless compared to students from bigger schools. Dad was a mechanic. How many connections am I going to make in a small town with a mechanic as my dad? Support system? Momâs on meth. Aunts and uncles have drug problems. Not much help there.
Luck. Luck is the most important factor. People donât realize it because their egos have them believe they did it on your own.
What about the hiring process? You are at the mercy of an algorithm and an HR representative that is a human. Moody, irrational. Do you truly think that they always pick the absolute best candidate? They may think it is the best but Iâd bet my shitty car that if they had the same pool of candidates a year later it would be totally different. Just read advice from HR reps and job hunting. It is all over the place. No logic, just personal preference. So, luck.
What we need is a public school system funded in full federally based on students. Property taxes paying for school sets is bs. There are people that research this. They can predict your likelihood of success by your zip code. Luck again.
Ok, i'll add that preparation and improving yourself creates more opportunities for "success".
My background is similar to what you described. Small town Oklahoma. Dirt poor, slept on bare mattress for several years, parents struggling to even feed us, food stamps, illness, smoking, drugs, alcohol.... it wasn't until 9th grade that I realized that I could be different.
Of the few people in my family that went to college, none did much with their education. Instead, I was fortunate enough to have a physics teacher who saw my potential. He advocated for me. Helped me get a scholarship in college, I qualified for full tuition at a local state university, so I didn't have to work my first two years.
Ultimately education was my way out. I worked hard, I prepared, I moved out of the cycle that most of my family was stuck in.
I feel some guilt for leaving, but I'd be in a much worse situation if I hadn't.
I can understand that.
Ask everyone that ever went bankrupt about risk taking. You need to push yourself, sure, and have confidence. But I think Itâs risk taking and getting lucky and having financial support to assist you while youâre taking risk. Risk taking is what rich people say but mean luck. It is survivor bias.
So true. You can work your life away, and still not get ahead. Luck, socio economic environment, all play as big of a role, and if you are in the upper income class, much more of a role than hard work. Personal decisions also play a role though, bad choice of life partner, bad choice of career, all of it also counts. But yea, it is very surprising to me how big of a factor dumb luck is.
You can be anything you want to be if you believe in yourself! (They neglected to include âit helps if your family is super wealthy and youâre lucky.â)
I worked in the counselorsâ office my senior year. There are âpermanentâ records. I looked at mine once. It was very sparse and seemed like a waste, but I was an above average student and didnât cause much trouble. It had all of my school pictures and some small notes of achievement. I assume those records were moved to the basement or were destroyed after graduation.
Yeah, I thought âpermanent recordsâ were more related to major disciplinary events, like school expulsions and such (like if someone damaged school property, committed a crime on school grounds, etc.), especially expulsions from public schools. I could have had a fundamental misunderstanding about what a school âpermanent recordâ was?
I think you are right. Major events would almost certainly be documented. I donât remember looking at any of the troublemakerâs records, so I cannot confirm. But definitely minor things wouldnât be documented and the threats of âpermanent recordâ made by teachers were a scare tactic loosely based in reality.
Didn't they get sued recently? I use them daily as an insurance agent, some of the shit that pulls from "insurance history" is wild. I get a lot of I haven't owned that car in 20 years or that person died like 15 years ago.
And the FBI has a file on everyone and could have listening devices anywhere.
Turns out, that's google and we carry the listening device willingly everywhere...
I honestly only ever thought that would have an effect on getting into college. I never thought it was about my whole life.
Though, maybe my mother just told me that truth and other people's parents leveraged it.
âWhen men/boys are mean to you, it means they LIKE you!â
Yeah nah, Iâve had lots of men in my life that were less than nice- and I wouldnât say any of them loved/liked me for doing it. Such a crock.
Setting the norms to little girls in primary school that this is perfectly fine simply paves the path for them to accept it as they grow up and branches out to the rest of their adult mindset, though.
We had lots of toxic advice handed down to us when I was young. Aside from this gem of âif theyâre mean that means they like youâ there are lots of other hits on the record like âif you donât watch your figure and stay trim, nobody will want youâ or âif you donât wear makeup and do your hair even for the grocery store, people will judge youâ, etc.
Iâve been fighting a lot of the toxic mindset I was force fed now as an adult, Iâm sure a lot of people feel similarly, we grew up in weird times.
Yeah itâs not right or okay at all. And Iâm not defending it by any means.
I shudder to think how many times I was hit with the belt growing up bc âthatâs what you didâ. Iâve never laid a finger on my child bc of it. Positive reinforcement works!!!
I just meant that boys are too immature to deal with their emotions at that age (most ages) so they express it through aggression.
I unfortunately did it to the girl I liked. I didnât know how to express my emotions in a healthy way so I was mean.
âListen young ladies, please lower your expectations about how youâll be treated by young men. No seriously, lower your expectations to the ground and then go lowerâŚbecause bad treatment is just how those boys show you that they like you.â
Im in IT. I had a manager tell me he would take a degree in basket weaving over someone with 5 years experience. When I took over, I would prioritize people with certifications and no degree, or even a few years experience. If you fought hard to get into IT without college you were dedicated and hungry. I turned 3 good individuals into Systems Administrators and one of them became the manager when I left.
A degree helps but it's not the only option.
I worked in tech for years. A friend and former colleague is a freaking Group Product Manager at Microsoft and he has no college degree. Your manager missed out on some exceptional non-you talent.
Our school system has a building they called the âcareer prep centerâ. You could take electives there in high school. They have classes in building trades, auto repair, health care and stuff like that. The culinary arts class runs a small restaurant there as well.
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The funky 4 and 5, and the curvy 3 and 8, on mobile keyboards kinda mess this up. The squared-off numbers on the old solar calculators made much more realistic âletters.â
That critical angle when youâre laying in bed trying to read a text or email and it keeps turning back and forth while you barely have moved your hand
Ah the 1990's - I had a friend take the PE exam - the big exam engineers take to graduate college and be licensed. At the time it was "strongly recommended" to bring a laptop. I'm sure it's required now.
He took it twice - each time there was always someone who broke down. One girl started crying and walked out because she knew she wouldn't pass, another dude screamed and tore up his exam and ran out screaming (spoiler: he didn't pass either).
Which was a weird statement even in the 80âs when the calculator watch was all the rage.
Wasnât too long to wait for the first mobile to be affordable, they all had a calculator - I remember making a big deal outta that telling everyone who would listen âremember how we were told we wouldnât always have a calculator handy?â
Kinda a weird time to grow up where the work environment drastically changed though I do still understand the importance of understanding mathematics without relying on a machineâŚthough even then plenty used the old school calculus in centuries past.
A lot of teachers grew up before even the cheap pocket calculators of the 1970's - we had ONE 1970's era calculator in my 5th grade match class that plugged into the wall.
That same year my Dad got me a Casio calculator that ran off solar power - we already had various calculators at home.
By 6th grade I had a Casio calculator watch with a database - and still teachers were "You need to do this in your head".
I imagine that most of them are now accusing smartphones of turning Gen Z gay.
>That same year my Dad got me a Casio calculator that ran off solar power -
Oh yeah, I forgot about those! You just had to make sure that the little solar panel on top was under sufficient light.
Yeah I get it, the classic office environment was much more analog and the educational system was slow to adapt/integrate. I remember having computer lessons on a super bulky Macintosh (it was fairly outdated even then) and the teacher getting annoyed at me because âI was too smartâ with it (had a PC in the house so it was a rare moment for me to shine). Got told I wonât have a computer to carry around, so not to get too smug, I would love to find that teacher!
Yeah remember that solar powered calculator well, that thing could do anything it seemed.
Had a few instances when I was told I WAS allowed to use a calculator and it confused me even moreâŚI was always like:
By the year 2000 we wouldn't be able to go outside in the raid because of the acidity it contained. Oh, and the D.A.R.E. program has us all convinced we'd be offered free drugs on a daily basis. Lies!
To be fair, laws and regulations were created in the late 80s that actually addressed the acid rain and ozone hole problems which is why they mostly arenât trying to kill us right now. (These are the ones the Supreme Court has decided to kill.)
Possible. I'm going with Occam's razor on this one. It's much more likely we were lied to. Either on purpose by climate alarmists, or incompetent "experts".
Montreal Protocol, international treaty, adopted in Montreal on September 16, 1987, that aimed to regulate the production and use of chemicals that contribute to the depletion of Earthâs ozone layer. Initially signed by 46 countries, the treaty now has nearly 200 signatories.[Montreal protocol](https://www.britannica.com/event/Montreal-Protocol)
All D.A.R.E. did was teach us what drugs were the good ones when the police would come to school with displays.
Police, "These are called Yellow Jackets."
Police, "You have a question, young man?"
Child, "What do those do?"
Police, "These are stimulants that give you energy."
Child, "Mhmm...go on."
I made the mistake once of correcting the dare cop about one of the drugs.
My mom got called to school and interrogated for two hours about where I learned whatever it was. I got grounded and belted over it.
My mom never did drugs that I knew of. Stopped drinking after I wanted to try a beer at 5.
I had friends whose parents said and did a lot. But I still never snitched.
I remember watching an episode of In Search of as a kid that claimed another ice age was just around the corner. Scared the shit out of me. I learned early on not to trust anyone and just assume I'm being lied to.
I hear ya. Old science based shows now appear dodgy at best. The cringiest part about that show was the music. That shit didn't hold up well at all.. lol.
I kind of understand the under a desk for earthquake and tornado...try to protect yourself from falling debris I guess. I don't really understand what additional protection a book offered though.
No books in Southern California. It was get under the desk and lock your fingers behind your neck (as if your hands would keep your spinal cord intact) until some âgeniusâ decided that The Big One would be so violent the desks would move so we were told to put one hand on the back of our neck and use the other to hold the desk.
This would seem like a sound plan until we all realized that a taxpayer funded desk would simply add to the materials that would invariably crush us to death while potentially leaving the back of our neck unscathed.
Reading comprehension was probably the most useful thing I learned. Everything else was pretty much learned after grade school. We wasted a lot of time on made up history and practicing mathematical things that didnât quite add up to required skills.
Yet hey must have hated us. We were just told to interlock our fingers behind our head.
Annoyingly, that drill actually caused me injury. Eighth grade. We had just come back from a parade and were in the band room with our director saying nice things while he placed the trophy on a shelf up along the ceiling. Eventually it would have been held in place with foam tape or something, but we just got it. Earthquake. Lights went out. I dove for the table by the wall. AndâŚgot beaned by the trophy.
The Internet would bring access to literature and learning to the wider populace. Therefore, consequently usher an age of prosperity.
(conspiracy theories. people waving guns at their Instagram feeds. video game addiction. social media increases suicide among teen girls. religious radicalization pipelines. white nationalist forums. flat earth societies. 4chan mass shooters. etc)
Our older teachers were not necessarily lying when they said this, from their own perspectives. There was a time where university would gateway you directly into large companies.. but it was during the 1950s and 1960s. By the 1990s it became a joke/meme.
I donât think anyone claimed a desk would protect you from the fireball. It will help protect you from flying glass and debris. Just not vaporization.
Dum dum, deedle-dum dum
There was a turtle by the name of Burt
And Burt the turtle was very alert
When danger threatened him, he never got hurt
He knew just what to do...
Plus it was told to give kids a feeling of agency. Most kids are not ready to face the realization they may die at any moment and they can do nothing about it.
I watched it again not too long ago. Yeah, the fact that it still caused a bit of anxiety pretty much solidifies the concept that it was one of my early anxiety triggers.
Kids can't panic and hurt themselves if they think they're "safe" and tucked under a desk.
Now poor kids have to do active shooter drills. That's far more horrifying.
DEVO taught me that he was a mongoloid and happier than you and me. Guy wore a hat, had a job, and brought home the bacon. Not sure about no one noticing or the title, but the rest of it is probably true.
I first heard of that when I moved to Texas and a VP interrupted a presentation updating us on our Affirmative Action Plan by saying, âBut I was taught in school that there are three races: black, white and CHAAAAAIIII-nays.â
Pluto đŁ it's a planet, no it's not, yes it is ... But not really.
If we were wrong about something like a planet, we must distrust everything.
It's still not a planet... It's a dwarf planet. Wth.
It still is a planet, but its exact classification changed to "dwarf planet".
That classification system is likely to change again soon because it currently requires that a planet orbits "the sun", meaning the same star that earth orbits, which obviously excludes all of the exoplanets we now know exist.
Pizza technically is healthy based on the four food groups: bread (dough), with dairy (cheese), and meat (pepperoni). I still remember that conversation in grade 3.
If you're going to be vaporized, you're going to be vaporized in any position. But you can absolutely be far enough from ground zero that you're only going to be hit by the shockwave, and if that's the case, being under your desk will provide a measure of protection from flying glass and other shrapnel, so that you can survive a little less injured to face the post-nuclear shitshow. If you're going to die from starvation or radiation poisoning not being all scratched up is totally worth it!
I never stopped writing cursive and trying to improve it. When my wife was my girlfriend, she was impressed by it. Iâm not saying thereâs a connection, but Iâve gotten compliments. Unfortunately, that also means people always want me to be the one who writes things down because Iâm the one with the nice handwriting. That can get tiresome.
Funny. In my town, they brought in a RN from the slums come and tell us âguys only want sex. Tell them to go rub it out in the showerâ. Very blunt, effective.
My friendâs mom used to tell us that all the time. Every time we were swimming she would bring us snacks and set a kitchen timer for 30 minutes. We would eat the snacks and watch monster movies on a little black and white TV waiting for that timer to ding. I used to think she was so nice looking out for our safety by setting that timer. Years later I realized nah, she made it all up so we would stay out of the pool long enough for her to swim laps.
Pretty much every lie of the 70s and 80s about Black History in America, and _definitely_ most of the "post racial" bs we were fed to make us "assimilate", before the much hated Dr King became the whitewashed version of "peaceful warrior".
Christopher Columbus first "discovered" America- which has since been changed to he got America on the map for Western Europeans.
First true explorers (or at least immigrants) were likely from Siberia back when there was a land bridge around 13,000 years ago when their DNA was discovered in New Mexico, I think.
Who decided he needed to have a holiday? I smell conspiracy theory to cover something else up. It's not like Columbus was around to advocate for his; super great amazing, the best amazingly, (historians came up to him crying...) discovery ever.
Cursive will be totally important and a method of how people will see your written intellectual worth.
Anyone else just printing everything in all upper case letters the size of lower case with the capital letters just being noticeably bigger?
Nah I don't do that, but my printing is much more legible and faster than my cursive. My teachers said cursive was supposed to be faster because your not taking your pen off the paper, but any time savings is nullified by all the extra flair and having to make the letter X look like a 96. That's probably not even the reason it was invented. I bet it's some super old-timey shit that wasn't even relevant when we learned it, like "it helps prevent ink splotches since you don't have to lift your quill feather pen from the papyrus as often."
I grew up in Massachusetts and was taught a lot of lies about thanksgiving, especially that everyone was dead a long time ago. I later learned that the original peoples in the area are quite alive and still fighting for their rights and consider thanksgiving a day of mourning. https://www.mayflower400uk.org/education/who-were-the-pilgrims/2019/july/the-story-of-thanksgiving-and-the-national-day-of-mourning/
That I need to know how to do high level arithmetic in my head because "you won't always have a calculator."
That the metric system "is coming."
That learning cursive was important.
That the food pyramid was healthy.
That the history of "civilization" only took place in the Mediterranean, Europe, and the US.
I remember seeing some news story about a janitor who never missed a day of work in 20 years or something, even the day his kid was born, he still came to work. The tone of the article was "upbeat" as if this was some sort of inspirational story. They interviewed the guy, he seemed completely worn out. I think the organization also gave him a watch or some lame, trivial token of "appreciation".
Iâm teaching my kids that attendance doesnât mean shit. Weâre actually going on a vacation that will have them miss the first day of school this year and I donât even care.
Fr tho, it's such a weird thing to praise. Anyone with perfect attendance, odds are at some point they went to school while contagious. Great Job! Here's the Typhoid Mary award, you clownfart.
The studio art teacher in high school taught us that ancient Greek sculptures were made without pupils or irises in their eyes, like we see them today. I only learned fairly recently that those sculptures were originally painted, including eye details. The teacher seemed quite competent, so did he lie in order to have us make blank-eyed self-sculptures for some reason?
That the puzzle-piece shapes of S America and Africa is pure coincidence. Was told that in 2nd or 3rd grade (early 70s). And never learned otherwise until Geography in college.
I watched my hillbilly 9th grade "science" teacher let the kids play with liquid mercury. In their bare hand. Rolling it around their desks. I refused to handle it. They thought I was stupid. Wonder how they're doing now?
The "Food Pyramid". How many of these are actually vegetables?
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Growing up in California, we used the desks for earthquakes. Nuclear blasts were never part of the conversation.
Of course, they still wouldn't have helped much if we had a big one hit us.
I hate to be that guy, but technically fracking doesnât cause earthquakes. Itâs the âinjection wellsâ they drill to dispose of all the super toxic wastewater. If they drill one on a fault, the wastewater basically lubricates the fault. Itâs the reason that injection wells are one of the very few public safety issues that Texas is serious about regulating.
Dinosaurs were giant reptiles and are now extinct.
Nope, there birds and birds are still here just different kinds.
Also, many different dinosaurs are the same species at different ages.
Good things come to those who are patient.
Nope.
Shitty things happen to good people seemingly at random, and itâs usually the pushy asshole that gets what they want. Just like in nature. The aggressive baby bird is the one that thrives. The quiet reserved bird in the nest rarely eats and gets kicked out. Squeeky wheel gets the grease, etc.
Iâve been burned too many times and seen too many good people get absolutely fucked over from pushy assholes and taken advantage of.
In fact, most of the people iâve seen get ahead in their careers were pushy abrasive assholes to be around but theyâre the ones getting the raises and stuff for âbeing ambitiousâ etc
Feh. If a nuke lands right on top of you, of course hiding under your desk won't save you from being vaporized. But farther from the blast, buildings will take damage, and things may fall from the ceiling. Being under a desk or table is a good idea.
I remember some joke where you have someone type in numbers as part of the ruse at the end, the punchline is 71077345.
It was during the gas crisis of the late 70s.
The one that stands out for me was my teacher in 9th grade World History teaching us that Jews, Muslims, and Christians all get along because theyâre all âpeople of the bookâ. And she even said it with a straight face
Hiding under a desk was never meant to protect you from a nuclear blast. Nukes send out shock waves which can damage buildings, very similar to earthquakes. A desk can protect you from falling debris in such a circumstance.
I can see the mountain NORAD is in from my kitchen. My first field trip was to the zoo built in that same mountain. I swear the schools here never bothered with that desk bullshit, they knew we'd be glowing ash if the nukes ever flew. Why worry the kids unnecessarily?
I don't know if it was because I grew up in Colorado, but it was understood that we would all just die in a nuclear war. lol they never tried to soften that blow.
They taught us to hide under our desks in Southern California for earthquakes and we would make an earthquake survival kit and at the end of the school year we would get them back and pig out on Vienna sausages and canned fruit
So many things: when I was little, volcanoes probabl6 killed the dinosaurs; homo Sapiens killed off the Neandeethals (we absorbed them); the next pandemic would wipe out humanity; there were 9 planets!
Who proved that neanderthals weren't killed by humans? Just because we contain some unique neanderthal DNA doesn't mean humans didn't kill them. It may also mean that we killed and raped them. We have changed our opinion about their cognitive abilities. Odd that we changed our opinion about them around the time that we discovered that white skin, red hair, and blue eyes very likely came from them.
Because you have to be alive to give birth. So "killed and raped" isn't a viable option. "Raped, took children, then killed" sure. We've changed our opinion about their cognitive abilities because of undeniable evidence to the contrary. But yes, Dr. Tyson's point is not lost on me, another brown-eyed, brown-skinned American, either.
However, it never made _any_ sense to me (even as a kid) that a people, who existed in Europe for nearly half a _million_ years, would be anything BUT light-skinned. Both the Vitamin D- and the Follate-driven evolution of hoinid melenin liss theories predict this. It's the fact that Homo Sapiens Sapiens became light-skinned _so very_ quickly that was the wonder. Seems clear to me now.
Everyone but Sub-Saharan Africans carry substantial Neanderthal DNA. We subsumed them.
Pluto being a planet. Reclassified as a dwarf planet by the IAU in 2006.
No known planets outside our solar system. The first exoplanet was confirmed in 1992. I can't be sure it wasn't taught in schools soon after that as I was already done with general schooling at that point.
The presence of three main "races" of humans. Absolute tosh.
I did some advanced physics stuff in high school, where relativistic mass was taught. This is not a favoured concept anymore.
Some intractable mathematical problems got solved, famously Fermat's Last Theorem. Not sure if this counts.
The speed of light was taught as a measured quantity, with a measurement uncertainty. That was actually already not the case even when it was taught as such because the speed of light in vacuum was *defined* as 299792458m/s, with further measurements only changing the definition of a metre. Even that was further refined in 2019, with the new SI system fixing more definitions explicitly, including Avogadro's constant, for which my scientific calculator value was no longer accurate beyond the first few places.
Noble gases were taught as being totally inert, but in my own reading, even in school, I was surprised to discover that quite a few compounds involving noble gases had been synthesised. Lots of Xenon (Xe) and some with others but none at the time with Helium (He). When I looked it up just now, a true compound of Helium had finally been synthesised in 2016.
I remember a 4th grade teacher in the mid-1980s saying that by the late 1990s everyone in the US would need to know Spanish to be able to function. I'm all for learning more languages but in hindsight that was quite hyperbolic
I took German. Never was particularly good at it, but went to Germany in 2002 and again last month and got mistaken for being French and German rather than American, so I'll accept that
I for one am shocked! Shocked I say! I am outraged that the government lied to me. Thatâs totally unprecedented and I totally believed them and didnât regularly make jokes about this silliness in school
In a public school kindergarten I was taught the dinosaurs died out because their tiny brains were too small to control their huge bodies. Just⌠WTf?
I remember telling my Dad about the nuclear drills at school, since 3rd graders normally shouldn't face an existential crisis during math class. My lovely father laughed, and said "All they need to do is tell you to bend over and kiss your ass goodbye". Such a warm man.
But nobody (who studied physics) believed the planetary model of the atom after about 1920. And even before then, it was known to be incompatible with electromagnetism (since orbital motion is acceleration, so the electrons should lose energy by emitting light).
Didn't know what to tell you, it was in the textbook too. Christian school, so a tenuous relationship with science...though I don't know why there'd be any conflict in this particular area. Maybe they just science on pause around 1920?
1, Dinosaurs were cold blooded lizards growing up. Now we know they are closer to birds.
2. Lift from and airplanes wing was created by a difference in air pressure, low pressure up top creating "lift". We know now its from the wing pushing air down, simple physics.
Recreational drugs are unnecessary and potentially addictive, so I think a simple âDonât do itâ for kids is good enough until they develop better reasoning skills.
The popular kids in school were popular for their bright personalities and ascended for their merit.
I digress, They were fucking rich. That was it, that was all. They had money, we didn't. Their parents put career before partying and as a result, their children didn't have to do homework, detention or put out to the coaches to get out of detention.
That bald eagles will be extinct before I see one. Now they are all over my area.
That the ozone layer will never recover.
That we will run out of oil by the early 80s
Same with food.
That getting married young is a good idea.
Even as a young kid.. the idea that a desk could withstand a 1megaton blast never really rung trueâŚ
I was taught I couldnât rely on a computer to write letter and notes because I wonât have one on me all the time. lol
But but hiding under the desk would help in many cases. So thatâs not great example. Anytime a building may collapse itâs better to have a metal and wooden additional structure over you. There would be a huge part of the blast radius hundreds of square miles in diameter, well outside the core, where hiding under a desk would help protect against falling debris.
It was never to protect you from a direct hit. It was to protect you from the secondary damage, just like tornadoes.
Nobody thought it would prevent you and the school from being vaporized if you were in that blast radii.
I don't ever remember my school doing the duck and cover. I do remember having students line up facing the wall...I still don't remember why we had to do that.
It will, however, keep the unknowing public calm when told to take safety precautions. If you said we are toast everyone goes running and screaming like the movies.
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