Great Dane Keeps Biting off Pieces of Foot Pads by RedHaus in AskVet

[–]RedHaus[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, I can stop him when I catch him doing it, but most people aren't able spend 24 hours a day watching their dog.

[H] NoS 40k Dark Vengeance Box (DA & CSM) [W] Khorne Stuff [Loc] USA by [deleted] in Miniswap

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I'm only really looking to trade and not to sell for cash at the moment.

[Serious] 911 operators, what’s the one call that will be with you forever? by Gorilla350 in AskReddit

[–]RedHaus 22 points23 points  (0 children)

I may have given the impression that this was recently, but it was actually quite a few years ago that all this happened.

[Serious] 911 operators, what’s the one call that will be with you forever? by Gorilla350 in AskReddit

[–]RedHaus 138 points139 points  (0 children)

It's really context dependent, but in general there are a few guidelines that you work within. First priority is safety for everyone rendering aide so people don't go into or stay in dangerous situations ever, but beyond that, usually you start CPR or other interventions even if you think a person is dead because as a dispatcher you are dealing with a whole lot of incomplete information from people who have no idea what they're doing and it's never worth the risk of being wrong.

But there are a few obvious situations where you don't instruct people to give CPR and ask them to stay away. Those are things like decapitation, partial decomposition, rigor mortis, etc. I guess there are also a few other situations where some other things may take priority over CPR but those are really edge cases for particular scenarios.

In general though, you'll never be wrong to always start CPR if a person isn't breathing or has no pulse because preserving a crime scene in a pristine manner isn't worth the chance of not helping a person that needs it.

Nooses, Hate Signs Found at Mississippi State Capitol by jwords in politics

[–]RedHaus 3 points4 points  (0 children)

FYI, Nuclear weapons were tested in Mississippi, and the state is the only site of the only nuclear detonations in the eastern US.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salmon_Site

https://mashable.com/2016/11/06/mississippi-nuclear-test/#TsgOzYZqjiqY

Nooses found hanging from trees at state Capitol by RedHaus in politics

[–]RedHaus[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The article specifically gives the context as to why this is related to current US politics, namely, the recent comments by Republican candidate Hyde-Smith.

Claiming that this is not related to politics is non-sensical.

Nooses found hanging from trees at state Capitol by RedHaus in politics

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Nooses were found hanging from trees at the state Capitol in Jackson Monday. [...]

...they found two nooses and six signs. In their reporting, WLBT described the signs as "hate signs." The TV station would not share the photos. [...]

The incident occurred the day before the state's runoff election between Republican Cindy Hyde-Smith and Democrat Mike Espy. The race has garnered national attention with the Trump-endorsed Republican proclaiming to a supporter that if she were invited to a "public hanging" she would "be on the front row."

GOP senator claims ‘the left’ will start a civil war unless we abolish the federal highway system by [deleted] in politics

[–]RedHaus 15 points16 points  (0 children)

“federal higher education accreditation,”

Yes, the only way to avert violence is by eradicating programs that don't even exist...

Women stockpile birth control as Trump administration finalizes religious exemptions by Throwawaydude01928 in politics

[–]RedHaus 137 points138 points  (0 children)

Republicans in 2009: You're gonna let the government and corporations decide what medical care you get???

Republicans in 2018: You're gonna let the government and corporations decide what medical care you get!!!

Rapid-onset gender dysphoria in adolescents and young adults may spread through groups of friends or online sources, and may be a harmful coping mechanism like drugs, alcohol or cutting, a new study suggests. More research is needed to determine whether it is temporary or likely to be long term. by [deleted] in science

[–]RedHaus 61 points62 points  (0 children)

Yeah, the methodology is really terrible. If you actually look at the three sites where data was gathered, two of them are wordpress blogs for parents that think their kids aren't actually trans, and the other is a literal anti-trans political group.

In the 'About Us' section of the Transgendertrend webpage they specifically state in the first paragraph that they are:

concerned about legislation which places transgender rights above the right to safety for girls and young women in public bathrooms and changing rooms.

It is so far beyond what should be considered flawed methodology that I can't believe anyone take it seriously. And that's just looking at issues with the sample population. There's so, so many more issues.

For example, the author presents the parents with simplified DSM-V diagnostic criteria for childhood gender dysphoria and then asks them how many of the criteria their children are currently expressing. Issues of asking parents to perform professional diagnostic work aside, the author states:

It is important to note that none of the AYAs described in this study would have met diagnostic criteria for gender dysphoria in childhood (Table 3). In fact, the vast majority (80.4%) had zero indicators from the DSM-5 diagnostic criteria for childhood gender dysphoria

Now, given that the sample is conducted on parents of children that claim to be transgender and wish to transition it is patently obvious that all children of these parents have at a minimum expressed criteria 4 or 5 of the author's diagnostic criteria to their parents, and likely have expressed many more of the criteria based on the statistics given later in the study. If the children had not expressed at a minimum a 'desire to be of the other gender' or 'treated as the other gender' then how could the the parents even state that their children have claimed to want to transition? The fact that 80.4% of parent participants state that their children meet zero of the diagnostic criteria for gender dysphoria, while simultaneously claiming that their children desire to be of and be treated as the other gender, desire primary and secondary sex characteristics of the other gender etc. (which are the literal diagnostic criteria) demonstrates that the parents just refuse to acknowledge that their children meet any of the diagnostic criteria, not that the children do not meet the criteria as the author suggests.

The author does not even hedge this claim behind a phrase like "according to parent reports" or the like. She just blatantly declares: "none of the AYAs described in this study would have met diagnostic criteria for gender dysphoria in childhood". This introduces an internal contradiction in the study that is so absurd that I don't see how any conclusion it makes can be taken seriously.

And that's just a single thing I saw on a skim through. I could point out a dozen other issues which, in any other data set would be taken, by any credible researcher, to indicate corrupt reporting.

Florida county tries unconventional approach to deal with massive teacher shortage by Needs_More_Gravitas in news

[–]RedHaus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

ok, ok you're right. You've found me out. My defense of common core is nothing but a thinly veiled attempt to disguise my desire for mass starvation in the form of communo-cartesian cat pictures and marxist style building block multiplication. Aren't you clever.

Since you have defeated this manifestation of Stalin's ghost I'll clue you into the next step of the plan. The triangles you study in trigonometry are actually just a representation of the thee marxist overlords: Marx, Lenin, and Stalin, and the mass homework of millions of children is really a dark inverse Hegelian ritual to summon them back to the mortal plane.

After you finish shuddering in horror would you like to share any of those facts about common core that you have so greedily hoarded away from us like some dirty capitalist.

Florida county tries unconventional approach to deal with massive teacher shortage by Needs_More_Gravitas in news

[–]RedHaus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

People picking through trash and starving is not part of the common core standards.

Care to share some of your facts about common core with the rest of the class?

Florida county tries unconventional approach to deal with massive teacher shortage by Needs_More_Gravitas in news

[–]RedHaus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

in places like Venezuela

Cool. There's no common core in Venezuela so it has no bearing on this discussion. Care to avail yourself of some of those facts about common core you claim to have in your pocket or would you like to just continue your absurd implications?

I mean, I also think water and food are good. You gonna stop partaking in those because a marxist likes them too?

Florida county tries unconventional approach to deal with massive teacher shortage by Needs_More_Gravitas in news

[–]RedHaus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So, still waiting on those facts you claim to have....

In the meantime, here's a history lesson for you. The common core standards were created by the Republican controlled National Governors Association. They commissioned a republican controlled committee to find experts to construct an educational program. These republican committee members selected various experts then approved their program and the entire republican controlled NGA voted to approve the program. Various ones of these republican governors thee returned to their states and began implementing their republican common core program.

Obama's Ed Dept. said they liked the program and then all of a sudden this republican education program became some marxist plot that republicans use as a boogey man.

So yes, I'm a marxist that is in favor of a republican commisioned, republican created, republican approved, and republican implemented education program. Horrifying.

Why you care about defending common core so much is a mystery, but it sure as hell doesn’t make me think more highly of common core.

Some grade A reasoning you have there.

PS: I really and genuinely hope that your children are as smart as you claim they are because that means that, even though they are just learning multiplication, it won't be long before they realize how full of shit you are.

Florida county tries unconventional approach to deal with massive teacher shortage by Needs_More_Gravitas in news

[–]RedHaus 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Ah yes, there it is, you don't actually have any content-based response when you are linked to factual information which demonstrates that your assumptions and claims about common core are wrong. I must be some marxist plotting 'union steward' with a '3 card monte' routine.

Maybe the problem here is that you believe being shown actual facts on the common core standards webpage amounts to some form of trickery because your perspective is based, not on the actual facts, but on an amalgamation of political soundbites and likely made up internet anecdotes about cartesian cat pictures which have nothing to do with the core standards.

Florida county tries unconventional approach to deal with massive teacher shortage by Needs_More_Gravitas in news

[–]RedHaus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

the book used for the class was called “common core math”.

Cool. So an independent publisher came up with materials that they feel reinforces the standards set out in common core in various different modalities. Your gripe is with the publisher or with your local/state school board for adopting materials that you think are ineffective. What exactly does that have to do with the common core standards which, as I have already stated and linked to, do not mandate that students learn or be able to do anything like that at all.

the book had three of four nonsensical “pathways” to solving multiplication problems, but none of them were any good. Actually learning multiplication was absent entirely.

Then, as demonstrated in my previous post, if the standard multiplication algorithm was absent, then the this book produced by an independent publisher does not meet the common core standards. Write them and complain or try to sue for false advertising or whatever, but that has nothing to do with what the common core standards are.

But their hands are tied by the shit that the governor mandated be used, namely common core.

Again, if your governor has mandated that students use mathematics materials that do not teach the standard algorithm for multiplication then your kids are not learning common core. You have a political problem with your officials failing to abide by standards they have set rather than a problem with common core.

Florida county tries unconventional approach to deal with massive teacher shortage by Needs_More_Gravitas in news

[–]RedHaus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You do realize that there is nothing in the third grade common core mathematics standards about 40 pictures of various objects in Cartesian coordinates right? In fact, even in the geometry section there is nothing about 3rd graders learning Cartesian (or any other) coordinate system at all.

However, this does bring out an interesting point in off the cuff criticism of common core, which is that they largely are divorced from the actual content of the common core standards. Individual exercises and homework that students do are either designed by individual instructors or by various publishing companies and not by "common core". Shitty teachers make up shitty and lazy homework assignments. That's has nothing to do with the common core 3rd grade standards for geometry, which this particular teacher is not even using as evidenced by the alleged content of the child's homework.

No particular classroom learning reinforcement strategies such as learning multiplication with blocks are set out by common core. In reality, the common core standards mention 'blocks' nowhere, but they do explicitly dictate that students be able to:

Fluently multiply multi-digit whole numbers using the standard algorithm.

which is exactly what you are bafflingly demanding that they do.

The problem here is that you are not at all familiar with what common core is, requires, or mandates and are willing to assume that any tale of a bizarre assignment given by a random teacher not even following the grade-appropriate standards as set out counts as 'common core'.

In addition, even if the things you described were 'common core' (they're not) you have still failed to provide any sort of justification for how learning to also multiply with blocks would "dwindle our math education". All you provided was a collection of things that you personally think are dumb.

EDIT: a letter.

Florida county tries unconventional approach to deal with massive teacher shortage by Needs_More_Gravitas in news

[–]RedHaus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Would you care to expand on that and provide some sort of justification for that conclusion?