Climate change could mean the extinction of our species

[trish]

Everyone likes their strippers glistening with glitter, right? I never even asked myself the question what the fuck glitter is made of. Since it goes back a long way I assumed it was flakes of naturally occurring minerals that naturally cleave in sheets or planes like mica or feldspar. Turns out most glitter today is manufactured from non-degradable plastics. According to an article in National Geographic...

"...an outright ban on glitter is premature, given the lack of science on the subject. ... the continuing accumulation of microplastics in the seas can only cause more harm to marine life, ... more effective remedies could be regulatory measures or manufacturers acting on their own." -- https://news.nationalgeographic.com/...vironment-spd/

Not exactly about climate change, but it is related to the environment and certainly relevant to guys attracted to girls who wear glitter.

[broncofan]

Not exactly about climate change, but it is related to the environment and certainly relevant to guys attracted to girls who wear glitter.

Hmm, so I should feel guilty when I go to a strip club but not bc of the naked ladies I'm paying to watch dance? I refuse. But it is interesting

I'm gonna ask them if they know how bad glitter is for the environment and whether they've considered any biodegradable substitutes. Probably worth a slap.

[Ts RedVeX]

Hey commies! Knock yourself off and gizza name of a crappy private school or two... Oh sorry. You are advocating censorshit..ekhm correctness political. Or maybe you just do not have any schools in mind cos you are just writing bullshit as usual, trying to enlarge your penises that way... I do have one shit school that I took a course at here in the UK - Mango Spice. I would advise any interpreters who wish to obtain the DPSI to spend their money and time elsewhere... Now, I do admit there are flaws in private sector. There will always be some shit schools, and companies of other type, but in contrast to shit public schools, the shit private schools close down as nobody wants to send their kids to those schools. I actually tried to google Mango spice briefly, and it does not seem to exist any more (maybe there is hope for the UK). So in general, it still seems like private schools are better than public ones on average. I am wondering if you guys ever went to a school at all or were you just union-schooled socially in the brilliance of the mighty hammer and the razor-sharp sickle.

[broncofan]

I am wondering if you guys ever went to a school at all or were you just union-schooled under the brilliance of the hammer and the sickle.

I went to public elementary, middle and high school. I went to a private college and then private grad school. There are tons of good public universities and graduate schools. It was not something I even based my decision on. There are probably great private academies and whatever where people can get secondary school education (what we call high school) but it's not gonna be a choice for everybody. Remember, we're talking about privatization as a way of evaluating market systems and what kinds of regulations can prevent climate change so that's a much longer conversation and sort of its own topic.

Would I seem like Joseph Stalin if I asked what connection you're making to the environment or do I have to read your entire conversation?

[Stavros]

Hey commies! Knock yourself off and gizza name of a crappy private school or two... Oh sorry. You are advocating censorshit..ekhm correctness political. Or maybe you just do not have any schools in mind cos you are just writing bullshit as usual, trying to enlarge your penises that way... I do have one shit school that I took a course at here in the UK - Mango Spice. I would advise any interpreters who wish to obtain the DPSI to spend their money and time elsewhere... Now, I do admit there are flaws in private sector. There will always be some shit schools, and companies of other type, but in contrast to shit public schools, the shit private schools close down as nobody wants to send their kids to those schools. I actually tried to google Mango spice briefly, and it does not seem to exist any more (maybe there is hope for the UK). So in general, it still seems like private schools are better than public ones on average. I am wondering if you guys ever went to a school at all or were you just union-schooled socially in the brilliance of the mighty hammer and the razor-sharp sickle.

You should be able to find out for yourself the schools that fail OFSTED inspections, those that are top-rated, be they in the state or the private sector. It is not that difficult, just as it took me about five seconds to find the Mango Spice website.
https://www.mslanguagesolutions.com/linguist-academy

Learning about the environment, in my opinion, is crucial to understanding a wide range of issues in politics, the economy and society, it can be approached with sufficient scientific content to enable students to make up their own minds on what the most pressing issues are -water, de-forestation, resource management, population growth and control, climate change etc.

And it seems that all that glitters is not gold. So we can stop mining the stuff.

[filghy2]

Hey commies! Knock yourself off and gizza name of a crappy private school or two... Oh sorry. You are advocating censorshit..ekhm correctness political. Or maybe you just do not have any schools in mind cos you are just writing bullshit as usual, trying to enlarge your penises that way... I do have one shit school that I took a course at here in the UK - Mango Spice. I would advise any interpreters who wish to obtain the DPSI to spend their money and time elsewhere... Now, I do admit there are flaws in private sector. There will always be some shit schools, and companies of other type, but in contrast to shit public schools, the shit private schools close down as nobody wants to send their kids to those schools. I actually tried to google Mango spice briefly, and it does not seem to exist any more (maybe there is hope for the UK). So in general, it still seems like private schools are better than public ones on average. I am wondering if you guys ever went to a school at all or were you just union-schooled socially in the brilliance of the mighty hammer and the razor-sharp sickle.

Lol, does this incoherent stream of consciousness (even by your usual standards) have any connection to this thread?
Were you under the influence of alcohol or drugs when you wrote this? Your inability to do a simple google search (which also took me seconds) seems to point in that direction.

[broncofan]

Your inability to do a simple google search (which also took me seconds) seems to point in that direction.

In fairness I got a bunch of Indian restaurants until I happened upon the genius idea to add the word language or the city it's in or the fact that it's a school or the certification it offers or just about anything related to it. Probably my public school education. I wasn't sure where the discussion of education came up; I assumed it had to do with a discussion of whether an unregulated market provides better services than one that includes subsidies by the state. If she is implying that you cannot get a good education in public schools and universities or that they're propaganda mills, I think Stavros had her covered.

If she has any concern about the state of public universities in the states she can maybe go through this list. With some diligence, she might find some of the best scholars in this country. I can't even imagine someone complaining about the quality of education from UCLA, UC Berkeley, or U Virginia. And look at the in-state tuition fees, which for people who do not come from super wealthy families provides a fantastic opportunity to get a great education at a manageable cost. https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges...ies/top-public

As for the connection to this thread...well she could probably take courses on climate change and related disciplines at the above schools and would learn more than she would at this private school. https://www.bju.edu/

[Stavros]

I wasn't sure where the discussion of education came up; I assumed it had to do with a discussion of whether an unregulated market provides better services than one that includes subsidies by the state./

I offered a link to a survey published in the Huffington Post which argued that some private schools in the US are using materials from education boards that replace ideas based on science with ideas taken from scripture, and used an example relating to the environment. Comrade Vex, as usual, slotted the question of what is taught in schools into her ideological straight-jacket in which there is a simple either/or choice between the State and the Free Market, which had nothing to do with the environment or climate change as her posts reveal. Note also that we tend in the UK to use the words 'school' and 'University'/'College' separately, so my intention was to refer to schooling up to your highest level in the High School sector not in further or higher education, ie college and university.

[Ts RedVeX]

Public schools are shit because they teach pretty much the same stuff to everybody. You may say that this is good because it helps kids determine whether they have more talent for mathematics, biology, or other sciences... That is unnecessary. If someone is a genius then it will prolly show at some point in their life by means relativity theory of some sort - even if they end up working as clerk at a patent office. Also, if someone finds it necessary to learn to read or write, then they will most likely learn that too regardless of whether or not they attend a school.


How does public schooling affect global warming? - If you teach to kids the same bullshit, i.e. that breathing and burning things causes global warming, then most of them will believe it. - That's how. Stavros and his fellow comrades like the idea cos it will be easier to convince the kids, once they grow up, to pay breathing tax or make the give money to Stavros's nephew's windfarm project.


I am disappointed that mango-spice still exists.. Truly a waste of time and money my course was. Quite sociable peeps though. I actually passed the written part, which I had previously failed, recently (after not taking any of mango-spice's courses for two years). Maybe if I could retake the remaining part I had failed, after another year of recovering from the mango spice's course I would eventually pass it!
Oh, I must have been under influence of "Internet Neutrality" that I couldn't find their website. Looks like broncofan also was, before he was allowed to see what he was looking for.


As to big universities in the U.S. I hear that if you take all the professors from a single one of them you are likely to have more communists than in the whole Soviet Union. My university days are over and I am not interested in any courses at the moment, especially at a commie den in the USA, that puts gender equality before maintaining the "high" level of education: I actually had a glimpse at the list of US unis you provided. Most of the students, at least throughout the first three unis from the list, are female which indicates the level of education there must be average. Universities may only be available for the intelligent few percent of the society who are actually capable of understanding what is being taught there and using it later to develop new technologies, or make connections with people who can help with that etc. - There is nothing wrong with that. What is the point of making taxpayers of a given state to pay yearly the 30k USD for each idiot who wants to have use the MA by his name? Like I said earlier, if there is someone worthy amongst the poor, they will probably not even need a diploma to become successful in life and they will get sponsorship once they do - e.g. from the company that spots and employs them.

[Stavros]

[QUOTE=Ts RedVeX;1809769]

How does public schooling affect global warming? - If you teach to kids the same bullshit, i.e. that breathing and burning things causes global warming, then most of them will believe it. - That's how. Stavros and his fellow comrades like the idea cos it will be easier to convince the kids, once they grow up, to pay breathing tax or make the give money to Stavros's nephew's windfarm project.

-But this is what I actually wrote, with a new emphasis in bold letters:
"Learning about the environment, in my opinion, is crucial to understanding a wide range of issues in politics, the economy and society, it can be approached with sufficient scientific content to enable students to make up their own minds on what the most pressing issues are -water, de-forestation, resource management, population growth and control, climate change etc."

As to big universities in the U.S. I hear that if you take all the professors from a single one of them you are likely to have more communists than in the whole Soviet Union.
-This is quite simply incredible. Over the last 30 years the Koch brothers alone have funded over 300 research units, lectureships and departments in US universities to create a distinct 'conservative' voice and agenda, and that is before you take into account the influence of Evangelical Christians and the Moral Majority who began infiltrating US academia in the 1970s. As usual, you assume a handful of academics who study history, literature and 'media studies' are all on the left, and while some are, many are not. This is just ignorance masquerading as fact.

The planet is our home, we should respect it. As I said above, we should as a basic right give students of all ages the tools to make their own decisions. You have not educated any of us in the science that proves the human element in climate change and global warming is a fraud. Education is not just a word, it is also a process.