BRFR Cake Stop 'breaking news' miscellany

[icowden]

I deliberately added a link from the BBC to cater for this sort of reaction, but you seem to have missed that.

Nope. Your line was "I didn't know the BBC was a comic". As you well know, I was referring to the torygraph.

And Just because you think that something isnt relevant doesn't mean it isn't. We have finite finances and need to strengthening them, not spashing even more.

Which in the short term has nothing to do with net contributions - as has been pointed out to you.

As a sovereign country we can (or at least should be able to) choose how many and what type of person we admit.

Yes, we can. And we do. That's why people have to apply for asylum or to migrate here, and why we don't accept all comers.

And judging by the public mood, people like yourself who seem to think we should take anyone and everyone are in the minority, with good reason.

Literally no-one thinks that.

What quite a few people think is that we shouldn't just throw people out because we don't like the colour of their skin or because xenophobic racist pricks say so.

 

[icowden]

Has Zuckerberg lost the plot? Must admit I never did really get what the 'Metaverse' was supposed to be.

He thought the future of social interactions online would be a 3d world where you can interact with other people in vivid 3d.

He seems to have failed to realise that there are a limited number of people willing to shell out between £250 and £500 for a VR headset which can access it.

 

[Ian H]

He thought the future of social interactions online would be a 3d world where you can interact with other people in vivid 3d.

He seems to have failed to realise that there are a limited number of people willing to shell out between £250 and £500 for a VR headset which can access it.

Perhaps Zuck himself prefers interacting with other humans at a remove and thinks everyone else wants the same.

 

[briantrumpet]

Perhaps Zuck himself prefers interacting with other humans at a remove and thinks everyone else wants the same.

I think that both he and Musk have a very strange grasp of what it is to be human - I suspect that they've both been radicalised by their own platforms in different ways.

 

[briantrumpet]

A case of "You didn't answer the question", it seems. I think that, given the febrile atmosphere, I might have returned it ungraded, pointing that out and asking for a rewrite with the (RTFQ!) guidance on how to get a passable grade, given that the essay was only 650 words.

https://www.comicsands.com/university-oklahoma-gender-fulnecky#Echobox=1764881627

 

[Pblakeney]

A case of "You didn't answer the question", it seems. I think that, given the febrile atmosphere, I might have returned it ungraded, pointing that out and asking for a rewrite with the (RTFQ!) guidance on how to get a passable grade, given that the essay was only 650 words.

https://www.comicsands.com/university-oklahoma-gender-fulnecky#Echobox=1764881627

I thought the right were against cancel culture and snowflakes. When it suits, apparently.

 

[AuroraSaab]

Other reports say the assignment was to write a personal reaction to a research article, a task set many times before, and that such 'reaction essays' have never previously required citation of outside sources.

I presume you guys have read the question, the essay, and the guidelines given, but to me this sounds like a tutor (who is a trans identifying male) asking for a personal opinion on a research article that covered contentious issues and not liking the response from a conservative student. Both entitled to their views of course, but the tutor is not entitled to override course conventions and fail a student because they read something he disagreed with if students were being asked for a personal view in the first place.

The essay instructions:

Giving a student zero based on not meeting those guidelines seems deliberately to be punishing their personal views in my opinion.

 

[Rusty Nails]

I have read the instructions (which were far longer than the small exerpt you posted produced by TPUSA (OA) who have their own agenda, and are shown below), the tutor's comments and the essay itself.

The essay is not exactly rigorous in an academic approch to meeting the instructions and probably reflects the standards of students and tutors at one of America's low ranking universities. The essay itself had little or no critical comment other than reference to God and the Bible's teachings on the role of men and women.

The tutor probably could have found a way of giving it say 5 out of 25 possible marks and may well have been influenced by accusations that her beliefs are 'demonic'.

As usual with any foray into the topic of trans ideology very few people will look at this one through anything but their biased views, probably me included, but let's hope this foray isn't used as a proxy war for the trans debate.

 

[C R]

I have read the instructions (which were far longer than the small exerpt you posted produced by TPUSA (OA) who have their own agenda, and are shown below), the tutor's comments and the essay itself.

The essay is not exactly rigorous in an academic approch to meeting the instructions and probably reflects the standards of students and tutors at one of America's low ranking universities. The essay itself had little or no critical comment other than reference to God and the Bible's teachings on the role of men and women.

The tutor probably could have found a way of giving it say 5 out of 25 possible marks and may well have been influenced by accusations that her beliefs are 'demonic'.

As usual with any foray into the topic of trans ideology very few people will look at this one through anything but their biased views, probably me included.



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Knowing that the student in question is the daughter of a lawyer that acted for some 6th of January insurrectiinists might add a bit of context.

 

[Pblakeney]

Knowing that the student in question is the daughter of a lawyer that acted for some 6th of January insurrectiinists might add a bit of context.

Basically means that the teacher is fooked. Doubly so if they are correct.