It seems that learning styles are actually a myth, and that in fact it's the educational-industrial complex which continues to promote them. https://onlineteaching.umich.edu/articles/the-myth-of-learning-styles/ https://www.educationnext.org/stubborn-myth-learning-styles-state-teacher-license-prep-m...

I can sell back to the extent of my usage. I cannot turn it into a money making operation. But not fully understanding your message. I had a conversation with a solar sales guy one time. He said that the rules had recently changed and I could indeed sell power back to the electric company beyond wh...

Are you looking to buy, Vinny? A specific brand or model in mind? I've had four Honda Accords in a row. Currently on a 2004. Bought it in December 2013 with 123,000 miles on it. Currently, has about 169,000. So, only 46,000 miles over nearly 11 years. Just over 4,000 a year. It's in great condition...

dualstow wrote: ↑Tue Sep 10, 2024 1:54 pm Don’t take this as support for the Jan 6 people — not at all — but I find this John Strand guy very interesting to listen to

Overcharging in order to get a plea deal is a HUGE problem (in general, not just this case) and I'm not sure how to solve it. I'm thinking there should be no plea deals.

As it became clear that this would be a Biden/Trump rematch without something weird happening, I was pretty convinced that whichever party could jettison one of them would win. And here we are.

Even if I were a member of the cult, it's pretty clear that this guy is going to lose badly. That's my prediction right now, unless something big and unexpected happens between now and the election.

(The election which should be a *day*, not an "early voting season")

It's too late for the Republicans to pull a switcheroo too, right?

A dollar went from being redeemable for 1/35 oz of gold to being redeemable for... nothing. That's a default.

I understand that perspective but don't necessarily agree. The last time the U.S. defaulted on its debt was 1971, and the time previous to that was 1933. We often paint this narrative that these were simply changes or repudiation to the gold standard, but in reality, they were simply defaults. Thos...

U.S. Treasuries not the safe bet they once were, research says They found that investors did not, as they had during previous episodes of global financial stress, pile into Treasuries and drive up their value. Instead, investors marked down Treasury securities, much as they did for bonds from other...

After Biden dropping out of the race it looks like Trump's chances of winning have diminished. It further means that Ulbricht's chances of seeing the light of day outside of incarceration have diminished. Imagine your entire existence hinging on whether one man is going to win the election like tha...

Smith1776 wrote: ↑Sun Jul 28, 2024 8:04 am Why are miniguns called miniguns when they are far from being mini?

A minicomputer "usually took up one or a few 19-inch rack cabinets".

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minicomputer

dualstow wrote: ↑Thu Aug 01, 2024 11:48 am Happy for Paul Whelan and Even Gershkovich

Definitely!

I just hope this doesn't encourage Russia to kidnap more "spies" as a way to get their own out of jail.

{ sigh } It's only step 1 of Biden being out. He needs to take step 2 of resigning. Logically it follows. Now that he knows there is a definite end to his presidency that makes it more likely he will resign. That'll never happen. He was barely convinced to drop out, meaning he at long last agreed t...

The reason I asked is because I have a relative who was very anti-Bush but who voted for Ralph Nader in the 2000 election. And I always think, How did that work out for you . If every voter could be swayed to think along the lines of Jack, Vinny- er, Yankees60, and you, then we would see real chang...

A protest vote to any of the non-major-two is far better than not voting, IMHO. … By ‘better’, do you mean more moral on an individual level or do you also mean leading to a better (I guess long-term) outcome for the country? I mean that it expresses dissatisfaction with the main two options more f...

A protest vote to any of the non-major-two is far better than not voting, IMHO.

Vinny, how do you know anything about the Michigan secretary of state?

PredictIt.org currently gives Tulsi Gabbard a 7% chance of being Trump's VP pick. So maybe you'll get a chance to vote for her again.

It is cool, but the markup is something like 100%...

Yeah, I kind of wrote that off as no big deal until it happened to me. Turns out it's kind of a pain.

. Have no idea what the terrible musical video has to do with this. 😂 Thank you for not letting me down. Vinny shall always remain Vinny! 😂 (Sigh) it just doesn’t have the same punch now that autoplay has been deprecated. I am incapable of listening to terrible music so if there was some message in...

JM Bullion is located in Irving, TX so I wasn't about to fly down there. That's actually not a bad option if you can make it work. That's less than 15 minutes away from the second-busiest, and very centrally-located, airport in the country. If you're really dealing in quantity the trip could easily...

And, i mean this in a sincere way, not flippantly: if I lose my taste and smell, I’m going to eat raw garlic just to see if it burns. Tried it just now. Zero flavor or smell, but it still burns. Had allergies last month even though my allergies generally start in September. It went away after a few...

I think I could guarantee you that an extreme high percentage of people who consider themselves "gay" wish that they had born with the same inclinations as you and me. Perhaps that was true at one point. But look: https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/25/us/gen-z-adults-lgbtq-identity-reaj/index.ht...

:D There’s a Congressional baseball game on C-Span now. I’ve seen Army-Navy football before, but I’d forgotten about this. (Of course, as soon as they mentioned Steve Scalise, I thought, oh, right . I just re-skimmed this really informative article about the events of that day: https://www.buzzfeed...