Live Oak Pirate

Retired research sage. I enjoy boosting worthy signals, and muting the unworthy.

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@devanslesley @_MAGA_NEWS_ What is the burning temp of jet fuel?

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@AmmarMerhbi True.

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@haymes_joshua Demons

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@JohnHMcWhorter 2) The obvious question is “Why are blacks more violent than the whites from whom they supposedly learned ‘disrespect culture’?”

In the same situation, your typical Southern young white male, would have left when asked. Because of good manners. Why didn’t this kid?

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@JohnHMcWhorter 1) Cracker and Redneck are not interchangeable. Most people do not know this, but if you are writing from a “historical” point of view, you should know this. Crackers are a specific ethnic group. I am Cracker, on my father’s side.

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@jenteach13 So, you may be correct, but there doesn’t appear to be clear research to support you. Just delete that assertion from your post.

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@jenteach13 I read the paper and skimmed through relative citations looking for evidence of a “clear” body of research connecting teacher autonomy to some outcome.

1) this paper is not really research. 2) it states there is no body of research in this area. 3) clock the sponsor 👀

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“…then did the precise opposite.”

So, your govt. is also actually run by 25 year olds, with polisci degrees, who know nothing about nothing, writing policy while the elected politicians pose for cameras.

Sorry about that. Really.

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Dartmoor's hill ponies have grazed those commons for longer than there has been a country called England. Fewer than a thousand are left, down from six thousand a generation ago. The United Nations listed them as endangered in 2023. So, naturally, the body charged with protecting nature has decided to get rid of nine in ten of the survivors.

There is a process, obviously.

Natural England's new grazing contracts now count the ponies in the same bucket as the cattle and sheep. A commoner with a fixed quota has a choice: keep a semi-wild pony worth nothing at market, or use the slot for a lamb he can sell. Guess which one survives the spreadsheet. The rest are gathered in the autumn drifts, and with nowhere to put thousands of unhandled moorland ponies, the next stop is the abattoir.

Natural England would like it noted that it has not ordered a cull. It has merely built a machine whose only output is a cull, switched it on, and handed the bolt gun to a farmer so the fingerprints land elsewhere. Very tidy.

And now the funny part. The pony is the best tool on the entire moor for eating Molinia, the coarse purple grass strangling Dartmoor into a brown monoculture. Cattle and sheep won't touch it. The ponies hoover it down and clear the ground for the orchids, the wildflowers and the insects behind them. Remove the ponies and the moor chokes into precisely the lifeless scrubland the contract was meant to prevent.

So the conservation strategy, in full: protect the habitat by deleting the animal that maintains the habitat. A masterclass.

Better still, Natural England's own Fursdon review looked at this exact question and told them, in plain English, not to lump ponies in with cattle and not to cut pony numbers. They read it, praised it, said they fully supported it, then did the precise opposite.

Four thousand years these animals have run Dartmoor with no committee and no contract. They could be gone within one, and the people who did it will write it up as a win for nature.

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@JustineBateman Yes, please. Nothing so sad as witnessing people incapable of original creative work.

Sigh.

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@HelenWebberley @JDHaltigan Yuck.

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@PO3SMITH @EthanLevins2 Jet fuel burns at a much lower point than the melting point of steel. …..there should be SOMETHING left of the plane.

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@NoMoreMrNiceGI @AChen50474715 @j_divis Coining a term for an existing idea, and coming up with the idea, are two different things.

Read original documents, not chatbot product.

Sorry, but I’m not going to continue this conversation. Good luck.

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@james_xond First W2 job at 16, but lots of other paid work before that.

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@MartinCothran True.

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@NoMoreMrNiceGI @AChen50474715 @j_divis The Trinity wasn’t invented in the second century.

A meeting was called to lay out what Christianity is.

They said here’s what we believe. If you don’t believe this, you’re not one of us.

They didnt make up anything new. They just made it super explicit.

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@spiderking232 Humans cannot do this. God can.

We are different.

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@iainmacwhirter What have you learned from this?

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@AdamTozser1776 @Andercot He had nothing to do with Pluto. He says he did. But: No.

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@techxutkarsh What kind of summer child thinks they just started doing this? Hello.