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  • sandandglass:

    Last Week Tonight s02e29 

    “But
    if we’re going to constantly use mentally ill people to dodge conversations
    about gun control, then the very least we owe them is a fucking plan.”

  • allthecanadianpolitics:

    acreppylittlehand:

    allthecanadianpolitics:

    It was announced today that before the Syrian refugee crisis exploded in the media (due to the drowning of a syrian boy), Stephen Harper had completely frozen refugee claims into Canada.

    This commentary is so important. Harper has been playing defensive the whole time because he didn’t want this story to come out (though he had been preparing for it), and now it has. 

    Please read this, please share this, this needs to be known. This is what our Prime Minister has been doing. This is what the man who is likely to be reelected has been doing. 

    There’s no doubt no my mind that he froze the system to stop Muslim refugees. The man is a paranoid, xenophobic racist and the fact that he had been getting away with this is just disgusting.

    Please get out and vote on October 19, just please don’t vote for this man.

    Its worse than that.

    As CTV’s Robert Fife uncovered, this freezing of refugees was done deliberately not only to screen out Muslims, but to favour other non-muslim religious minorities with the goal of politicizing them for this election:

    Sources tell CTV News that a temporary halt to the processing of some Syrian refugees was ordered earlier this year to make sure the types favoured by the Prime Minister’s Office were being prioritized.

    Department of Citizenship and Immigration insiders told CTV’s Ottawa Bureau Chief Robert Fife that PMO staff went through the files to ensure that persecuted religious minorities with established communities already in Canada – ones that Conservative Leader Stephen Harper could court for votes – were being accepted. Insiders say PMO actively discouraged the department from accepting applications from Shia and Sunni Muslims.

  • What one college discovered when it stopped accepting SAT/ACT scores

    What one college discovered when it stopped accepting SAT/ACT scores

    shadesofmauve:

    daniellemertina:

    ctron164:

    The key quote:

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    Our yield, the percentage of students who accepted our invitation to enroll, rose in a single year from 18% to 26%, an amazing turnaround.

    • The quantity of applications went down, but the quality went up, likely because we made it harder to apply, asking for more essays. Our applicants collectively were more motivated, mature, disciplined and consistent in their high school years than past applicants.

    • Class diversity increased to 31% students of color, the most diverse in our history, up from 21% two years ago.

    • The percentage of students who are the first-generation from their family to attend college rose from 10% to 18% in this year’s class.

    Our “No SAT/ACT policy” has also changed us in ways deeper than data and demographics: Not once did we sit in an Admissions committee meeting and “wish we had a test score.” Without the scores, every other detail of the student’s application became more vivid. Their academic record over four years, letters of recommendation, essays, in-person interviews, and the optional creative supplements gave us a more complete portrait than we had seen before. Applicants gave more attention to their applications, including the optional components, putting us in a much better position to predict their likelihood of success here.

    I’ve literally never seen any proof that standardized testing is useful for assessing students or for institutions finding quality candidates.

    Personally, I just think they exist because the industry is worth billions of dollars. Not to mention how much the test prep industry is worth.

    AND these tests maintain classism and racism (which was actually their original purpose–to make sure Jewish kids couldn’t get into colleges).

    Now these tests severely marginalize low income 1st gen students and Black Americans and Latinos.

    Bear in mind, I say this as someone who is a good tester. I rock standardized tests. I’m brilliant at it.

    THEY’RE BULLSHIT.

    Beyond the whole “Base huge sections of your life on how you are doing on one morning”, we are seriously talking about a test where a huge element of doing well is understanding standardized tests. That’s not a useful life skill! I remember marking answers that I knew were right for the test and I knew were wrong, or could be argued to be wrong, based on real life knowledge. I missed a single question on the vocab/reading half, and the whole time I knew it was bullshit. My math score would’ve been higher than it was, but even for good test-takers like me, the timed sections can be brutal. There’s a difference between being good at math and being good at math fast.

    But that’s just the SAT. You wanna know what’s really screwed, take a look at the GREs.

    When I took the GREs, there were two testing facilities that administered them that I could conceivably get to. Both had highly limited hours. NEITHER of them were accessible via public transportation. There were NO facilities in either the city where I was attending university OR my home town (which also has a masters-granting university). I had to bus down two hours, spend the night on my cousin’s floor in Seattle, and then have her drive me up to a freakin’ stripmall in Mountlake Terrace (i.e, there wasn’t even one in Seattle proper). For a test that is REQUIRED for grad school admissions! When you add in that plus the testing fees, the damn thing is a gate to keep people out even before you look at the content of the test.

    I was also a hundred points worse on the GRE than the SAT. I didn’t get stupider; I just hadn’t taken a standardized test in four years, so the standardized testing skill had atrophied (because it is actually freakin’ useless).

    TL;DR: STANDARDIZED TESTS? BURN THEM. BURN THEM WITH FIRE.

  • Bar Ettiquette

    overachieversloth:

    carazelaya:

    spaggel:

    Not many of my followers know, but I’m a bartender and after this weekend (and for the last 5 years) I thought I’d make a quick a simple list of bar manners to mind.

    • If you use a lime after a shot do not stick your gross ass chewed up lime on the bar. Put it back into the shot glass, on a napkin or find a trash can for the love of god. 
    • If you don’t want a straw in your drink, either say so when you order or put in on a napkin or throw it away. Again, do not stick it in your mouth, suck on it and leave your spit straw on the counter. Have you no manners?
    • Don’t yell. Use your manners.
    • I know it looks like I will never look into your beautiful, drink starved eyes, but I can see you even if I’m not looking at you. Trust me. 
    • If I am not looking at you, I’m not taking your order.

      If I look at your eyes, that’s a sign that I’m ready to take your order. Which I am not, so don’t wave your hand in front of my face to make me look at you. I might forget what I’m doing an take even longer. You’re only hurting yourself.

    • If you are ordering multiple drinks, order them all at once. Not one at a time. You get your drinks faster and everyone around you can get served faster as well. It’s a win-win.
    • I don’t care what you drink, honestly. Like, drink a long island. Or a lemon drop. It makes my gut hurt because sugar. But I Don’t Care. And neither should you, so don’t make shitty comments the person next to you when they order. 
    • Unless you’re putting red bull in grey goose. Save yourself some cash and just get well vodka. 
    • I take it back, there was one time someone ordered a pint glass of half & half and a shot of malibu rum in it and I thought i was going to die.
    • If I ask you if you want a back/chaser for your shot I’m not questioning your masculinity or giving you a test. I just want to know. It’s easier to do it all at once.
    • I don’t know that one special drink at another bar, but tell me what you like about it and I’ll try to find you an alternative. 
    • Please. Please don’t ask me to just pour you whatever. Especially when it’s busy. I have to hold back the urge to pour you a shot of grape pucker and call it a day.
    • If you ask me for a “girly” or “pussy” drink I will pour you fernet branca because I am both girly, in possession of a vagina and that’s all I drink. You’ll regret it.
    • If you order something gay I will pour you whiskey because that’s what all my gay male friends drink. They also drink fernet as well. It’s a toss up there. 
    • In fact. I serve women, gay men/women and straight dudes all about the same when it comes to whiskey. It’s strange how gender and sexuality have nothing to do with the types of alcohol you drink.
    • The correct terminology you are looking for is “fruity” or “mixed” 
    • Anyway. Someone once asked for both. After I responded with fernet to his “pussy” shot request, he ordered a “gay” shot.
    • So I told him I’d make him a gay shot called a dick in his mouth.
    • I did. 
    • He told me it was “a little stiff”
    • I told him if there’s a dick in his mouth, you better hope it’s stiff.

    this is the post i’ve been waiting for

    #but if it’s not busy#always learn your bartender’s name#always tip#always look them in the eyes#and always know what the fuck you want before you’re up there

  • actuallykylekallgren:

    curiouslyhigh:

    iambettyjean:

    Science fiction, double feature.

    The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)

    THIS is the montage I’ve been waiting my life for.

    I have never, ever heard this song’s lyrics without hearing a theater full of people yelling “TWAT!” over it so… this is cathartic for me.

  • rate-my-reptile:

    kaijutegu:

       raspberry beret

    helo yese using the Mystiq Helme to vision the futures. futures says gonna be having some smunch foods. 10/10 Tip Top Hatberrier

    Surely its a RaspBeret…

  • Four stages of learning sketchup

    shadesofmauve:

    Step 1: This doesn’t work lik I expect it to…

    Step 2: But it totally works! OMG, this is awesome! I’ll have drawn my dreamhouse by lunchtime! I’m gonna make SO MANY COOL THINGS!

    Step 3: Oops, a small problem! I’m sure I’ll be able to fix it easily with my new knowledge of this marvelous software!

    Step 4: EVERYTHING IS BROKEN FOR EVER AND EVERY STEP I THOUGHT WAS FORWARD WAS A STEP TOWARD THE FLAMING ABYSS AND ALL MISTAKES MUST BE CORRECTED BY STARTING FROM SCRATCH, GOD DAMNIT WHERE IS THE TUTORIAL ON ROOSTER SACRIFICE SO I CAN MAKE MY DAMN MODEL WORK

    Ah, I see you’ve reached a similar stage to me…

  • Anti-Vaxxers Accidentally Fund a Study Showing No Link Between Autism and Vaccines

    Anti-Vaxxers Accidentally Fund a Study Showing No Link Between Autism and Vaccines

    werpiper:

    pettyartist:

    memecucker:

    So an anti-vax group spent $250k to fund a ten year long study trying to prove vaccines cause autism only for the study to conclude there is no link hahahaha

    when you try your best but you don’t succeed

    LOVE THY DATA.  LOVE NOT THY HYPOTHESIS.  FOR THIS IS THE WAY AND THE MEANS AND THE PATH TO THE TRUTH!