Stuart Safford
@droffas.bsky.social
Teacher and general neer do well.
No one is suggesting this isn’t going to happen. The problem is that it will require a paradigm shift in education that other changes didn’t. It’s not as simple as “you can’t fight progress.”
May 23, 2025 at 5:55 PM
No one is suggesting this isn’t going to happen. The problem is that it will require a paradigm shift in education that other changes didn’t. It’s not as simple as “you can’t fight progress.”
You can’t just react to something like this with “the more things change, the more they stay the same.” It is having a large negative impact on student learning even as it is accelerating a lot of professional work. It is not a simple problem.
May 21, 2025 at 11:14 PM
You can’t just react to something like this with “the more things change, the more they stay the same.” It is having a large negative impact on student learning even as it is accelerating a lot of professional work. It is not a simple problem.
This goes hand in hand with the current Republican backlash to civil rights. It is a backlash to environmental conservation. Somehow, they believe that a return to coal, wasting water, wasting energy, and destroying habitats is a good thing.
May 19, 2025 at 8:07 AM
This goes hand in hand with the current Republican backlash to civil rights. It is a backlash to environmental conservation. Somehow, they believe that a return to coal, wasting water, wasting energy, and destroying habitats is a good thing.
This is more like typewriters giving way to computers. Computers are not just ways of putting text on paper and they changed society markedly. It is not just a new version of an old thing.
May 19, 2025 at 8:04 AM
This is more like typewriters giving way to computers. Computers are not just ways of putting text on paper and they changed society markedly. It is not just a new version of an old thing.
When I was in high school, calculators became standard and math simply stopped using tidy, pencil and paper friendly numbers. Things changed very little. This is not a faster mechanical tool.
May 14, 2025 at 10:31 PM
When I was in high school, calculators became standard and math simply stopped using tidy, pencil and paper friendly numbers. Things changed very little. This is not a faster mechanical tool.
In related story, big men found to be pussies.
April 5, 2025 at 11:32 AM
In related story, big men found to be pussies.
As long as you went with bun instead of bum, you were probably ok.
March 28, 2025 at 2:31 AM
As long as you went with bun instead of bum, you were probably ok.
Well, thanks for keeping me posted, I guess.
March 14, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Well, thanks for keeping me posted, I guess.
In my area, federal workers are a big part of the population. Who causes a shutdown really determines the narrative. You want to make sure you are proposing something that could avoid a shutdown.
March 13, 2025 at 8:11 PM
In my area, federal workers are a big part of the population. Who causes a shutdown really determines the narrative. You want to make sure you are proposing something that could avoid a shutdown.
Isn't there an option between just no on the current proposal or approving it? Can't you propose an alternate continuation that doesn't shift money to the military? The problem is that a simple no vote without an alternative will saddle the Dems with the blame for a shutdown. That would be bad.
March 13, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Isn't there an option between just no on the current proposal or approving it? Can't you propose an alternate continuation that doesn't shift money to the military? The problem is that a simple no vote without an alternative will saddle the Dems with the blame for a shutdown. That would be bad.
If Musk has lost 100 billion from his association with Trump, he must be planning to tap the federal government for half a trillion.
March 10, 2025 at 6:21 PM
If Musk has lost 100 billion from his association with Trump, he must be planning to tap the federal government for half a trillion.
It isn't the getting of the GED. She didn't even attempt the GED until after she was elected. She is singularly incurious about the world. Also, not so much running a bar but running a bar whose whole gimmick was that you could bring a gun.
March 10, 2025 at 10:14 AM
It isn't the getting of the GED. She didn't even attempt the GED until after she was elected. She is singularly incurious about the world. Also, not so much running a bar but running a bar whose whole gimmick was that you could bring a gun.
Welcome to the world of the public school teacher. In order to fund tax cutting, conservatives aggressively defame union members, government employees, and people who need a safety net.
March 8, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Welcome to the world of the public school teacher. In order to fund tax cutting, conservatives aggressively defame union members, government employees, and people who need a safety net.
George Carlin started one of his old routines with "You ever notice you don't meet a lot of Chinese guys called Rusty? I guess the name never caught on over there." Autoplayed just now.
February 24, 2025 at 9:20 AM
George Carlin started one of his old routines with "You ever notice you don't meet a lot of Chinese guys called Rusty? I guess the name never caught on over there." Autoplayed just now.
Love me the 3 in 1. Miss the metal can.
February 24, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Love me the 3 in 1. Miss the metal can.
And now Scotchgard is in all of our bloodstreams. Yay PFAS. What did my liver really do for me anyway?
February 24, 2025 at 9:09 AM
And now Scotchgard is in all of our bloodstreams. Yay PFAS. What did my liver really do for me anyway?
How about both? Republicans for supporting the insupportable and Democrats for not following through on Biden's promise to be a transitional one term president.
February 23, 2025 at 4:10 PM
How about both? Republicans for supporting the insupportable and Democrats for not following through on Biden's promise to be a transitional one term president.
Elections can't be explained rigorously because the alternative condition can't be tested. A lot of people are coming out and claiming that Harris's loss means that Biden would have been more viable. I doubt that is the case. There are a lot of indicators that Biden would have lost harder.
February 23, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Elections can't be explained rigorously because the alternative condition can't be tested. A lot of people are coming out and claiming that Harris's loss means that Biden would have been more viable. I doubt that is the case. There are a lot of indicators that Biden would have lost harder.
Isn’t the playlist the mixtape for the youth of today? Or does it lack the all important hand-made cover art/ track listing?
February 22, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Isn’t the playlist the mixtape for the youth of today? Or does it lack the all important hand-made cover art/ track listing?
This is the moral equivalent of a fireman demanding that a person in a burning building throw down something valuable before they will put out a safety net for the victim to jump into.
February 22, 2025 at 2:41 AM
This is the moral equivalent of a fireman demanding that a person in a burning building throw down something valuable before they will put out a safety net for the victim to jump into.
You need to be careful. You don't want to distinguish them and diminish their conclusion, but you don't want to ignore their motivations. Ignoring their motivations convinces you that you would never do what they did. It is important to remember that ordinary people became Nazis.
February 18, 2025 at 1:26 AM
You need to be careful. You don't want to distinguish them and diminish their conclusion, but you don't want to ignore their motivations. Ignoring their motivations convinces you that you would never do what they did. It is important to remember that ordinary people became Nazis.
Fat and sweet are generally winners. Chocolate and banana does well, peanut butter and banana does well. My guess is that a fatty cheese and banana would do ok. Maybe manchego?
February 16, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Fat and sweet are generally winners. Chocolate and banana does well, peanut butter and banana does well. My guess is that a fatty cheese and banana would do ok. Maybe manchego?
This is like the Republican problem. Hochul can remove Adams from office. She should do so. Failure to police incompetence and corruption in your own party gets you Pete Hegseth and Elon Musk in positions of power.
February 14, 2025 at 11:24 AM
This is like the Republican problem. Hochul can remove Adams from office. She should do so. Failure to police incompetence and corruption in your own party gets you Pete Hegseth and Elon Musk in positions of power.