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Instead of focusing on specific facts, what about focusing on honing the skills required to acquire and understand information?

I’m unconvinced that Shakespeare is a particularly good exercise in reading comprehension given the vocabulary, phraseology, spelling and grammar is 500 years out of date.

Hrm I'd argue that regardless of the parlance used in the work, it's still an exercise of reading comprehension, as one is still comprehending the work while reading it.

What exactly would you want to remove, and what would you propose in its stead, and why?

We learn certain general subjects like this in science mainly to learn critical thinking, analytical/logical reasoning skills, how to apply the scientific method (which, yes, can come in handy in many areas of life besides science).

Given your previous claim:

No high schooler is EVER gonna pay even the slightest bit of attention if we incorporate a “taxes and accounting” class. No shot.

What makes you think that they'd be any more likely to pay attention to any other subject matter?

[…] No high schooler is EVER gonna pay even the slightest bit of attention if we incorporate a “taxes and accounting” class. No shot. […]

Assuming that some high schoolers aren't going to pay attention to the lesson, wouldn't it still be better to at least try to teach something that has real life practical use rather than something that doesn't? At least the people who do pay attention will gain something useful — it doesn't make much sense to me to reduce the overall usefulness of what's taught simply because some may not pay attention.

Imo, I think Signal is a good "normie-oriented secure messenger", but I think Simplex is more worthy of focus.

While it isn't necessarily an argument against Threema's security, I think it's important to consider that Threema is owned by a privately held company ^[1[2]] — Signal is owned by a non profit ^[3].

Matrix still needs work, but it is the future in this space.

Matrix can send encrypted events ^[1.1], but, imo, the Matrix protocol is a firehose of metadata ^[1.3][1.2]. I'd argue that metadata leakage doesn't lend itself well to anonymity; if one seeks anonymity, then I think they should seek to reduce their metadata footprint, as, logically, any information is better than no information when trying to identify someone.

I don’t trust Signal. Haven’t used it since it went down when people and capitol rioters fled WhatsApp and signed up. My understanding is it’s a brittle centralized system just like WhatsApp.

Imo, there are more components to trust than service reliability (iiuc) — eg: trust in the underlying protocol, trust in the governing body etc.

An issue that I often find is that misinformation is often spread under the guise of innocent humor. If information becomes oversimplified to the point of becoming incorrect, and it's shared as such, I think that some people may not internalize that it's incorrect and will take it at face value. I do think that people have a responsibility to be skeptical of what they read, but I think that the people sharing information also have a responsibility to ensure its accuracy to the best of their ability to, at the very least, reduce the burden on those consuming information, and to reduce the impact of the extremes of people that consume and spread information without any thought given to its accuracy.

I use KDE Plasma on my desktop and GNOME on my laptop — though, by my experience, GNOME has been mildly annoying. I just find it too "restrictive" when compared with KDE. I'm also not super fond of how some apps seem to integrate rather poorly with GNOME. I do think that GNOME's interface works well with a laptop, but the UX hasn't been the best for me. I have few, if any, complaints regarding KDE.

Element Desktop (Flatpak) on desktop, and Element X (FDroid) on Android.

I'd like to see an actual survey that asks young people with anxiety and depression what is bothering them rather than making, presumably, assumptive generalizations.

It helps to provide as many details as possible when asking for mushroom identification — subjectively, there are many mushrooms that can appear very similar. Here's a non-exhuastive list of traits that I find are helpful for aiding identification:

• Time of year
• Description of growth medium
• Description of location
• Surrounding flora
• Recent weather
• Cap characteristics
• Textures
• Smells
• Spore print characteristics
• Characteristics of the stipe (eg hollow, solid, etc.)
• Characteristics of the gills
• Cross section
• Bruising
• Color
• Examples of growth stages
• Microscopic images of the spores (specifically, for example, their shape and size can be useful)

I would encourage you to find as many characteristics as you possibly can if you want any serious attempt at an identification.

Would it be better to do less of each kind of exercising or just to fixate on one kind?

Hm, I think it's important to assess what your exercise goals are, and to analyze your full workout routine to prevent this being an XY problem. Addressing the latter, given the following:

my ideal workout means stair climbing, running-walking and stretching. It can well last 2 hours.

If you are saying that that is your full workout routine, I would say that, imo, I don't see any problem with splitting those up: Stair climbing and running are both cardio ^[3], assuming that you do them both to a high enough intensity ^[2]; they just focus different muscle groups ^[1] — depending on your goals, this could help you decide on which on to keep as a focus. As for stretching, a recommended minimum is 2-3 times per week ^[4]. Depending on your total stretching routine, you could potentially cut out some stretches if they have considerable overlap with other stretches.

I think it's important to note that any amount of exercise appears to be better than none at all ^[1][2][3].

TIL!

This meme seems to be logically flawed — essentially, it's an example of a faulty generalization: Let A be a set containing "Elites", "Oligarchs", and "Plutocrats", let B be a set of things that are considered "bad", and let C be a set of things that are considered capitalist; if A is a subset of B (ie all things in A are "bad"), and A is a subset of C (ie all things in A are capitalist) (assuming that those are correct subsumptions), that doesn't imply that C is necessarily a subset of B (ie that things that are capitalist are bad, or, more generally that capitalism is bad) — there could be elements of C not in B. C is a subset of B if and only if all elements of C are in B (ie all things that are capitalist must be bad). So, for the meme's logic to be sound A would have to equal C (ie capitalism only contains elites, oligarchs and plutocrats).

Of course, to avoid forming an argument from fallacy, I would like to clarify that this isn't to argue that the final implied claim of "capitalism is the problem" is wrong, nor the explicit claim that "socialism isn't the problem", or, rather that "socialism is the problem" is wrong, but, instead, simply that the argument used is unsound.

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Could it not just sorta flex the tube? Like couldn't one part of the tube pull on or press off of the next?