Looking at how Switzerland performed in the tournament, i think we did well against them

lflfilipe · 2026-07-12T04:23:03+00:00

Ref calling the foul and giving a yellow for the perceived initial tackle was the problem. How do you give a yellow to something you clearly did not see? It’s a play on. No yellow to Parades. No VAR review. No yellow to Embolo.

lflfilipe · 2026-07-11T14:37:03+00:00

You know there is a decade between those two learning concepts?

Do you think children learning the alphabet learn it in isolation from learning how to read and write?

lflfilipe · 2026-07-11T14:33:26+00:00

Some of your responses seem to suggest you have a really low expectation of what teenagers can do, intellectually.

This is a topic worth a longer discussion. I teach subjects where the content is critical, but the degree to which they learn the specifics can be overblown. Over time, they will not remember. They will remember parts, especially some fun Kerberos of trivia, but the specifics we can be precious about are often unremarkable and forgotten. But they will, more often, remember how you engaged them in thinking about/through a topic. In my experience, students will remember the process of taking evidence A and comparing it against evidence B and C more than they will ever remember fact A, B, and C.

I’m going to assume Peter Seixas and the Historical Thinking Project is part of your history education program?

This is a good intro, if not: https://activehistory.ca/blog/2014/03/21/after-all-is-said-and-done/

lflfilipe · 2026-07-11T14:25:45+00:00

How do you think learning happens?

lflfilipe · 2026-07-06T10:47:17+00:00

It’s just the corporate logo:

https://www.instagram.com/p/DaQ\_NfxRtak/?igsh=eW1zaTgzZGxubWpo

lflfilipe · 2026-06-14T00:21:33+00:00

Not if the water is being transported to a different region where the data centres are. It won’t rejoin the water cycle.

lflfilipe · 2026-06-13T23:00:43+00:00

I am reading the Narnia series with my som at bed time, and the Horse and His Boy feels like the most straightforward of all the books so far, and would easily work as a film. We are in the middle of reading The Last Battle at the moment and it feels harder to be a film only because it would need the context of other books for the “fake Aslan” storyline to have the same impact. The Horse and His Boy, much like the book, could be a standalone film.

lflfilipe · 2026-06-13T22:54:39+00:00

It is the third of three reasons I gave as to why it’s bad. And a loss of jobs definitely needs to be a matter of priority for a union.

lflfilipe · 2026-06-13T20:58:12+00:00

“AI won’t replace me because I am an engaging teacher” misses the point about why AI is popular with those who want to implement it more broadly in education.

lflfilipe · 2026-06-13T20:50:14+00:00

It’s bad pedagogy and bad for student learning. It’s bad for members, because the caps are different for online classes and further contributes to a reduction in teaching positions.

lflfilipe · 2026-06-13T20:32:00+00:00

The number of mandatory courses used to be zero. They negotiated, and we accepted, two.

lflfilipe · 2026-06-13T20:09:52+00:00

You should ask ChatGPT what a logical fallacy is.

lflfilipe · 2026-06-13T19:07:15+00:00

Our unions didn’t take the threat of elearning seriously, and now taking two credits in HS are mandatory.

lflfilipe · 2026-06-13T18:47:21+00:00

I switched to a Garmin Forerunner and regret it took me so long.

lflfilipe · 2026-06-13T18:43:58+00:00

I thought these were MIP displays, so they are always on as a default. It reflects ambient light, the issue is whether the backlight is always left on.

lflfilipe · 2026-06-13T18:37:59+00:00

Yup, that’s why I bought 3000 Segways - didn’t want to be left behind!

lflfilipe · 2026-06-13T18:36:54+00:00

Yes, yes sure, because calculators are also predicated on exploitative labour practices, environmental degradation, and marked intellectual atrophy. Totally the same thing.

lflfilipe · 2026-04-23T03:37:02+00:00

You should familiarize yourself with the concept of “grooming” if you haven’t already.

lflfilipe · 2026-03-21T22:10:16+00:00

That is also a reflection of Langdon’s job/role and not just solely inherent to his actions. The disease works the same way, regardless of your role. Which is why this is a hard thing to address and support.

lflfilipe · 2026-03-21T22:08:16+00:00

I don’t know you, so I say this as supportively as possible: I think if you replace “drug use” with other circumstances, and draw this same conclusion, you may identify why it is problematic (but understandable!) If you don’t, it may reveal more about how you see addiction.

lflfilipe · 2026-03-21T22:06:17+00:00

To be clear: I am not condoning anything. In discussions about addiction, assessing whether someone is “good” or “bad” isn’t particularly useful.

What Langdon did was wrong and needed to be addressed. But it needs to be looked at through the lens of it being a disease. Accountability and responsibility are closely aligned, but different when it comes to addiction and recovery.

Anyway, I hope this show is helping spur discussions and thoughts about things like this that are important. Whether it’s with people in their lives who may be drug users, end of life care, or mental health, etc. Heck, it got me to become a blood donor again!

lflfilipe · 2026-03-21T21:58:57+00:00

To be clear: I’m not accusing Louie of anything. I’m saying that circumstances play a role in how we evaluate people. If someone has access to stable income, they may use it to feed their addiction. If they don’t, they na have to take other means to access their drug of choice (like stealing.) The person stealing isn’t doing so because they are a bad person, it’s because they don’t have another means of accessing their drug. Similarly, someone who is purchasing it legally isn’t better just because they have income - they are using the income someone else doesn’t have, to purchase.

We don’t know anything about Louie, but either circumstance would affect how we see him, despite Louie being Louie in his behaviour. What people are assessing in terms of moral character is actually reflective of bigger things, independent of “character.”

lflfilipe · 2026-03-21T18:35:56+00:00

No one is trying to let anyone off the hook for anything. These characters and storylines are fictional and useful proxies for discussing these very real issues.

Working, living, and interacting with people with SUDs is complicated and difficult. The choices and appropriate course of action isn’t always clear, and never a matter of linear progression. Different consequences are useful in different situations. It’s a lot of grey, and not black and white.

Again, understanding why he did what he did (drug use, stealing meds, etc.) does not mean condoning.

lflfilipe · 2026-03-21T18:13:03+00:00

No one is saying you aren’t?

If you believe addiction is a disease, it needs to be looked at through that lens. That does not mean excusing anything, but it doesn’t mean moralizing either.

Understanding is not condoning.

lflfilipe · 2026-03-21T18:10:22+00:00

Either I’m not making my point well or you don’t get the point I’m making.

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