@hankgreen Gamified learning has always felt very arrogant to me. Like if we can trick kids we can somehow teach them math, when like I think learning itself is almost inherently somewhat uncomfortable and you do really have to have something intrinsic to motivate you.
I feel like this whole Platner situation could’ve been avoided if a bunch of upper middle class leftists hadn’t seen the most obvious red flags imaginable and thought, “that’s just what rough, salty, Ohio Waffle House type working class people are like”
The Legal Aid Society on Friday took Mayor Zohran Mamdani's NYPD to task, charging that it has maintained the same "aggressive enforcement" of fare evasion carried out by the previous mayoral administration of Eric Adams. https://t.co/gEmTYBl95f
Law and order will make or break the Mamdani project. Social democracy should also mean good public order.
So far he’s done really well at deterring major crimes. And the below suggests he’s also confronting lifestyle criminality.
I hope he doesn’t listen to these morons.