id report this to the police as a murder but unfortunately crime hasnt been made illegal yet
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id report this to the police as a murder but unfortunately crime hasnt been made illegal yet
😅 There's a second shooter!
That is definitely a thing anyway. Two from my year repeated in the Institute for the 20 extra points they needed.
Since they were mentioned, I wonder do places like the Institute count as "fee paying schools" when such stats are being done..?
Nice to see some significant positive change (the recent hiccup notwithstanding).
Good call. First CD I ever bought myself, still absolutely love it.
Racism is not 'race activism'. Unbridled, manic and violent transphobia is not 'gender activism'.
Na Spéiríní - áis do dhuine ar bith atá ag iarraidh súil a choinneáil ar na Gaeil gan bheith cráite á leanúint go léir
Great to see Veritasium pivoting towards socially- and environmentally-oriented content, like this exposé about PFAS/forever chemicals which strongly underlines the need for reinforced and transparent environmental protection agencies.
Absolutely.
I didn't understand you as arguing that the best students are only going to come from wealthy backgrounds 🙏 In terms of inequality of 3rd level access, we probably agree that the best way to address that is to ensure more even secondary-level education across the board. In Ireland as in the UK.
If this is your take though, it's not obvious how it reconciles with your arguments in favour of interview- over grades-based admission.
It's very much on the likes of Oxford and Cambridge to extend offers to more students from beyond the south of England, the home counties in particular, more students from ethnically diverse backgrounds, etc., etc. And, like I said, hopefully that's something that is changing.
Hopefully things are improving. Certainly until recent years Oxford had something crazy like 80% of its student body still coming from the top 5% in terms of wealth.
...which is great in principle, and presumably often in practice, but is also in itself the open door to abuse (e.g. if privileged kids who don't have the grades are being admitted at a higher proportion to less privileged kids).
Eurovision 2008 🦃
Potential titles certainly write themselves: The Institute The Grinder Irlande, six cents points
Pedagogy in Ireland could be improved in several ways, notably in terms of evaluation (something that's true pretty much globally), but maintaining as broad as possible a common educational baseline for as long as possible is imo a genuine strength, on the whole worth potential trade-off losses.
In my school, our English teacher didn't communicate any fixed interpretations, not for poems or plays. Class was all about finding and, above all, defending interpretations. And was a very high performing school in terms of marks (not me, I was a slacker until I went back to university in my 20s🙂)
Sound. I've a genuine interest in it from an education science perspective, not just splitting hairs.
Not surprising the marking would have some kind of heuristic quantitative dimension. But as described, even an idiosyncratic response, provided it were sufficiently culturally contextualized, would be liable to get as good a mark as a "standard" one. I.e. better practice than looking for "correct".
First time I've seen it suggested that markers of the Leaving Cert English papers are pointed to look for fixed "correct" meanings in answers. Many teachers certainly transmit fixed model answers to their students, a justifiably criticized practice, but, if true, what you claim is far worse.
The International Association of Genocide Scholars have passed a resolution describing what Israel is doing in Gaza as genocide Professor Timothy Williams from the organisation explains the reasoning behind the decision.
Das letzte... post a meme made by you
post a meme made by you
post a meme made by you
"Defund the police" isn't succinct though. What it refers to in concrete terms are, in general, all genuinely great ideas. But as a slogan it does a poor job of actually denoting those great ideas. If it were succinct, that would not be the case. As it stands, it's pithy but misleading.
I'm just going to keep noting that the owner and operator of Twitter -- the social media that too many politicians and pundits use to determine what's "normal" -- keeps on pushing the white supremacist Great Replacement Theory that has been the motivation for multiple mass shootings in this country.
Rappel inattendu, en plus, de l'encore très regrettée Helen 🙏
Je commençais donc à effectivement me dire que l'attribution devait être apocryphe. Faute de preuves du contraire, je vais donc en rester là. Merci encore.
Merci! Oui c'est ça: Kuhn dans un texte de The Essential Tension, Hacking dans Representing & Intervening. Kuhn ne donne aucune source, Hacking se contente de nous envoyer chercher toutes ses citations de Bacon dans une édition particulière des œuvres philosophiques complètes,sans plus de précision🙃
Frequently attributed to Francis Bacon, it is proving surprisingy tricky to find where in his complete works he actually uses the expression "twist the lion's tail." Any history and philosophy of science folk help out..?
Frequently attributed to Francis Bacon, it is proving surprisingy tricky to find where in his complete works he actually uses the expression "twist the lion's tail." Any history and philosophy of science folk help out..?
Typical cryptic response.
That'll need a second coat.
Keir Starmer combines the charisma and conservative politics of John Major with Tony Blair's red tie and penchant for war crimes.
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« Israël interdit à la presse l’accès libre à Gaza sans réaction des démocraties occidentales. Un silence honteux face à un blocus injustifiable, qui a facilité le franchissement de trop de limites sans que l’Etat hébreu ne soit questionné sur ce qu’il tenait tant à soustraire aux yeux du monde. »
🚨Breaking🚨 Israeli war bonds won’t be sold in Ireland from tomorrow. Israel today moved its bond prospectus approval process to Luxembourg. It has also not included Ireland as one of the member states where it will sell its war bonds.
Ever more convinced that staying on Musk's Twitter to be a torch-bearer for good, while admirable in intent, is pragmatically akin to trying to fight nazism by contributing to the letters page of Völkischer Beobachter.
Plus, as a bonus, they come with the perfect Bilbo/burglar!
Looking forward to Paddington 4: Paddington in the Shining Path 🙏
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Indeed: check and check 😅 On the bright side though, it does increase the chances that, at any given moment, somewhere up there there's a Lucy in the sky with Rumours!
Even with only carry on luggage, as a vinyl afficionado I've often flown with mini-hauls acquired while traveling. So a vinyl-selling record shop at the airport itself sounds great to me! 🙂
Ever more convinced that staying on Musk's Twitter to be a torch-bearer for good, while admirable in intent, is pragmatically akin to trying to fight nazism by contributing to the letters page of Völkischer Beobachter.
Help ! Un chercheur palestinien ayant tout perdu à Gaza cherche urgemment un directeur ou une directrice de thèse dans le domaine du FLE, de la didactique des langues ou des sciences du langage. Pour une admission dans un établissement qui puisse
En effet. A ceci près que Dewey, plus que James, détaille comme une méthodologie de l'intelligence qu'un quelconque individu, s'il y met l'effort considérable nécessaire, peut suivre pour y arriver. Enfin, c'est en tout cas ma lecture de textes comme Reconstruction..., Comment nous pensons, Logique.
C'est particulièrement la "minorité formée d'une seule personne" qui m'a interpellé, en lien avec un projet actuellement en cours impliquant sens commun de "génie" et sens deweyen d'intelligence.
Celle-ci aussi vient de Le Public et ses problèmes ?
Ireland's sovereign wealth fund has shares worth almost €100 million in 12 companies that are linked to 'occupation and genocide' in Palestine http://jrnl.ie/6801350t
They choose not to act. It's moral destitution more than weakness or cowardice.
The German police brutally assault an Irish woman protesting against Israel's genocide. The German state is a disgrace. It committed genocide against the Jewish people - far from its only genocide. It forced Palestinians to pay the price, viciously silencing anyone who objects
En France, je ne sais pas à vrai dire, mais dans le monde anglophone c'est clairement une référence bien connue. Je serais presque tenté de dire que c'est en large partie grâce, justement, à la contribution de Philip Glass qui, lui, est plus ou moins connu de tous; même référencé dans The Simpsons!
Ton "même avec la bande-son originale de Philip Glass" m'a bien fait marré 😅 j'adore ce film. les suites valent le détour aussi, même si c'est, on va dire, essentiellement le même principe.
Send me a DM and I'll send it to you: no sense giving it further public exposure!
No, literally just the right half of the very last panel where the speech bubble about South Africa is.
Ireland now has over 5000 children living through homelessness. A month ago, the Housing Minister said he was powerless to stop this. Can you imagine being a child stuck living in a hotel, telling yourself it won't be for much longer, then seeing the man with the power to stop it talking like this
If you're looking to argue about translation of philosophy between French and English, look no further than the noun "problématique"!
True three months ago. True today.
A piece by the head of Rock En Siene today. "...the Kneecap concert at Rock en Seine took place without the slightest incident. No tension, no violence. Nothing but artists, music, audience. Proof, if any were needed, that what some elected officials fear is not disorder, but freedom." 👏👏👏👏👏
For some reason, there's a version of this going around whatsapp with both the final mocking of Musk and your tag edited out 🤷♂️ I only happened to stumble upon your original version by accident.
realistic Star Trek
There’s an enormous amount of stuff in this book I’d like to highlight, but start with: “What emerges as the most elementary insight is that, since we do not now have any ways of making computers wise, we ought not now to give computers tasks that demand wisdom.”
Though IDF intel knew 100s of children were being killed in airstrikes, official Israeli social media accounts posted, in English, French, etc, to claim the body of a dead Gazan child was fake, a non-human. Months after debunking, the posts were still there (I used to check). Genuinely morally sick.
A "premeditated strike on medics and journalists" in Gaza. And far from the first. news.sky.com/story/un-tol...
😅 I for one am not grumpy or cynical. As evidence, I present to the jury the fact that I'm currently doing a Moone Boy rewatch!
I guess I'm an exception then 😅 I just didn't personally find it that funny overall though, nothing in particular to do with Chidi's character.
#BREAKING | Spontaneous protest in front of the IDF Chief house - AGAINST the GENOCIDE WATCH 👇
#Speirgorm #WHAI #NationalSchoolTeachers
Make sure to let them/their offices know.
The general point he makes stands regardless, but it has been strange and somewhat disappointing that, since this, Noah has been almost silent on what's been inflicted on Palestinians since 2023. More silent, notably, than Jon Stewart.
Must watch. Journalists trying to cover a white war.
Attending the beautiful #EPSA25 session in memory of the extraordinary Helen de Cruz, and still in disbelief that such a session needs to happen without her - what an irreparable loss for #phil #philsci
From my experience, direct and indirect, much of the "woke" in academia (at the permanent staff level, that is) is cosmetic, having little observable impact on moral habits, whereas its racism and sexism run deep and can regularly be observed in action.
Though IDF intel knew 100s of children were being killed in airstrikes, official Israeli social media accounts posted, in English, French, etc, to claim the body of a dead Gazan child was fake, a non-human. Months after debunking, the posts were still there (I used to check). Genuinely morally sick.
I'm watching a Jewish person try to explain the pain of growing up learning about the Holocaust only to watch a country waving a Star of David flag carry out a genocide and it's falling on the completely deaf ears of a bloodless Democratic politician citing ADL statistics and it's shocking.
A joint show of Christian leaders calling for an end to the IDF military operations in Gaza and opposing Netanyahu's proposed occupation of Gaza City. Notice, by the way, who's missing from this call: US white Evangelicals, who favor the violent persecution of Christians in the Middle East.
Sorry, this one is just too dumb to even engage with. I think we can end our exchange here, as it is very clear that you are just as uninterested in peace as you claim all Palestinians are. Nevertheless: shalom 🙏
As marked by misinformation and omissions as your animated video was, this is ten times worse. As well as being really, really dumb. You should take better care of your mind.
No individual Palestinian has done more to maintain Hamas in power in Gaza than Netanyahu. Even after it was well known that they were using a large portion of the funds they were receiving for military purposes, he still made sure the billions got in, even after the PA decided to choke Hamas out.
Exactly: they're an extremist terrorist group. Imagine what kind of person would actively help maintain a group like that in power!
I do too. Which is why I think Netanyahu's long-standing active intervention to maintain Hamas in power in Gaza is an absolute, and extremely well-documented, disgrace. However much hate you reserve for Hamas, you should logically apply to Bibi and his complicit cabinet also.
Meaning, even within Israel, "demonstrations" against the Bibi's government began on day one.
Some of them, perhaps. Many who had followed the geopolitics of the region for a long time, who already knew, before Oct 7 what Bibi, Smotrich, Ben Gvir, etc.'s aspirations were for Gaza knew exactly what the response would be as soon as the news of the attack was heard. Even this article was Oct 8:
The October 7th attack was already over before demonstrating against it could have achieved anything. I did write to Israeli friends that very day though, telling them my thoughts were with them and their families. It was about all I could do.
I'd be lying if I admitted that. I have demonstrated against several US and UK led military incursions.
I do. Which is why I provided one easily disputable point (Arafat did not lie down smiling with respect to Arab occupation of Palestinian land) plus one enormous omission (mention of any violent Zionist actions, whether the King David Hotel, the Haifa and Jerusalem market bombs, etc.).
This is getting tedious. Just state what you want to say, providing the appropriate context, instead of chain-posing these juvenile rhetorical questions.
That would still mean he is incorrectly depicted in the video with respect to Jordan. Do you understand?
You're demonizing the Palestinians in every post you make. You literally just said "they only cause trouble."
Well, everyone knows that. So that means it was okay for Zionist terrorists to kill 91 people?
So you admit that the video is not factual in its attempt to claim that Arafat was perfectly happy with Jordan. Good. You should question much of the rest of it too.
I'm pro-peace and pro-reality, more than anything else. I don't believe in any narrative that fully demonizes one population versus another. Humans are humans, all groups have good and bad. Now, spill the beans, what was the hotel being used for which in your opinion presumably made the attack okay?
Let me just point out one other element which perfectly underlines how full of misinformation that narrative is. It declares that Arafat never "complained" about Jordanian occupation, not even mentioning Black September: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_S...
Striking how the video doesn't mention any of the numerous instances of lethal Zionist terrorism, no? Not even the infamous 1946 King David Hotel attack which killed 91 people, incl 17 Jews. It's almost like the narrative recounted here is not so much factual as... pure one-sided jingoist propaganda
Which strategy failed? The strategy of supporting Hamas so that a 2 state solution would be rendered impossible? If it was secular centrist Palestinians (i.e. the PA) making a 2 state solution impossible, why would Netanyahu prop up Hamas? You're deep in cognitive dissonance. Reflect a little.
So you approve of this strategy then? And does that approval include the decades-long strategy of treating Hamas as an "asset" and the Palestinian Authority as a "burden"? Because if you do approve of that strategy, then you don't get to complain about Hamas now: they could have been choked yrs ago.
