thornt25
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@tracewoodgrains @arctotherium42 Obviously slavery was a big mistake and inherently unstable long term, but it does not follow from this that integration was correct. In fact, I would say it was equally obvious integration was going to be virtually impossible to achieve with a high degree of success.
Kevin O’Leary says Gen Z is financially cooked when people making $70K a year are spending $28 on lunch
Kevin O’Leary says Gen Z is financially cooked when people making $70K a year are spending $28 on lunch
The irony is that your “threshold plus lottery” proposal quietly admits the central point you keep resisting: once applicants clear a certain academic threshold, test scores alone are not sufficient to determine who becomes the best physician. Which is precisely why admissions committees exist. And legally, you continue overstating the Supreme Court ruling. The 2023 decisions restricted explicit race-based preferences. They did NOT abolish holistic admissions, require lottery systems, or mandate pure numerical ranking by MCAT and GPA. Schools still evaluate leadership, adversity, service, communication, resilience, life experience, institutional mission, and how applicants’ experiences shaped them. You keep trying to turn a complicated legal and educational framework into a cartoonishly simple morality play because nuance is inconvenient to the argument you want to make.
This was one of the craziest modern-era stories/scandals. I still think there's at least a 20-30% chance Ford was telling the truth - 80s-90s HS and college parties were WILD. But remember the other allegations about rape gangs and fights on boats and such? These scum threw the whole chamber pot at the boy, missed, and just yelled "BELIEVE ALL WOMEN" and moved on.
So far as I can tell, every major complaint about data centers would apply equally to any heavy industrial or manufacturing facility. They use land. There is noise. They use water and electricity. There are some environmental effects. But there are rarely widespread protests.
