UofM stated that they had several complaints about the video before the open letter, and they made a statement that it was taken down because it was inflammatory and divisive—neither of which says anything about the accuracy or truth of the statements.
That said, the way CBC framed this with the article headline definitely implies that it was his complaint that mattered most. CBC also makes clickbait headlines, unfortunately.
I use Real Debrid with Stremio + Torrentio. I just need to figure out how to add the manual torrent search & download plugin for Real Debrid since I watch a lot of obscure British TV, not everything is hosted already.
For mainstream stuff, it just works. For obscure stuff, it's about 50-50 if it's on there.
Manually downloading torrents is just for stuff I'll be transferring to a mobile device, like audiobooks. And cracked software, I suppose. I needed Adobe Acrobat for something and torrented it.
I sincerely hope you're right, but Biden is polling a lot lower now than he was in 2020, and it was a shockingly close race.
Regardless, it shouldn't be this close. Democrats need to shift to capture Gen Z and Millennial voters. Alienating young voters will be what loses them the next election, if they lose, and it's causing increasingly bigger problems for them as Gen Z ages into voting and Millennials aren't shifting right as they age. Democrats need to pivot to get young voters politically engaged.
Or, at least, that's my take as a non-American watching this trainwreck happen.
Similar for me, recently. When I'm really into reading, I can read more than a book a day. $15+ for an audiobook that I'll crush in a day just isn't possible for me. That could easily balloon to $5000/year for me and another $3000/yr for my daughter, and $2000/year for my wife. (I've read a 6-book series, a 3-book series, and almost half a 4-book series in the last week... And didn't sleep, lol!)
We can't afford a used car in audiobook costs each year.
I actually mostly switched to text-to-speech with Kindle Unlimited so authors get paid for most of my reading, but audiobooks I still pirate when I read them. By my napkin math, authors get about 20-30 times what I pay in KU fees based on our voracious reading.
I mean... That's literally why the Democrats lost in 2016 and why they're likely to lose in 2024. The Democrats can't even compete against a would-be fascist dictator. That's how out of touch they are.
But then you need to know enough about the topic already to know what is stable and what changes with newer versions.
Like, the "web dev boot camp" course I got from UDemy a few years ago as a guide for building a web dev high school course: I recently went back to to look something up, and the whole thing has been completely redone start to finish. Makes sense, considering that it's updated to the newest versions of Bootstrap and other libraries (and who knows what else).
I know nothing about Rust, but I would assume there are at least some libraries that have major new versions in the last couple of years which might change best practices somehow? idk. But the harder part is not knowing what you don't know.
BC is doing a lot of work toward truth and reconciliation. This year is the first year that all high school graduates are required to complete a First Peoples course as part of their graduation requirements. (Usually as an English First Peoples course or as a grade 12 social studies course that meets another grad requirement, so it doesn't remove any elective choices.)
This is disheartening. I wonder how many of my former students were at these protests.
It's shameful that Canadian universities can't disentangle anti-Semitism from anti-Zionism. It is not racist to peacefully protest against the genocide being committed by the state of Israel.
I am feeling increasingly confused by the world and the direction it's going. I live in a different reality, it seems.
The falling PISA scores are likely caused by smart phones and social media, neither of which are really in the control of schools. The data and argument are laid out on The Anxious Generation by Haidt. It's on my to-read list, but I've heard a summary of the main argument from a technology leader in education. The data is compelling.
The Fraser Institute, a conservative think tank, pushing for privatization in education through any means necessary isn't newsworthy. Can we stop giving propagandists air time? "Choice in education" is code for charter schools, which are a failed US experiment.
The real story about equity in education comes from Finland. Decades back, they set an educational mandate to increase equity in their system. They were trying to help the most disadvantaged students in their system succeed academically. The result? Finland rocketed to the top of the PISA scoreboard. Everyone did better.
I'm getting tired of conservatives trying to destroy our world-class education system. Yes, it has problems. Yes, it needs changes. But Canadian teachers are generally doing a very good job, and lots of places in Canada are on the cutting edge of implementing a variety of research-informed change that should make things even better.
If only we could only get conservative governments from cutting more and more funding from education...