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Quote: Did that come across as bitter?
Yes, but understandably so.
The quandary is this: who is listening in to your response? The news certainly, the mother in your example, yes, but who else? Does your response embolden others to think their own thoughts, to stop deriding themselves for thinking such "hateful" things? Do your words make anyone think? How important is that?
We change the world one mind at a time by politely, concisely, and audibly dissenting.
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Thank you, that is sound advice.
I think those teachable moments are found in personal relationships and probably less so on social media where things are shouted down by morons.
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Required standardized testing is a major factor in eliminating critical thinking from schools. A couple science teachers I know lament how "teaching to the test" ties their hands. The focus is on memorizing predigested facts, and not on understanding how things work.
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Clearly speculation to draw attention away from time travelers lurking around.
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I taught my own kids, so they got training in critical thinking with every conversation, in every lesson, from before they could talk until they moved out.
When I was a kid, my own mother taught me these skills, and because of that, I learned better in schools and recognized when teachers were actually trying to impart the skills for actually learning as opposed to just memorizing for exams.
I think I learned more about English grammar from my French teacher than from my very capable Comp and Grammar teacher in high school, because the comparison required critical thinking, whereas diagramming a huge sentence only needed a memorization of the parts of speech, complex as they are.
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So, I have two NVMe SSDs in my machine: One for the system and applications (C:\), and one that holds only data (D:\). Both were 1 TB drives, but the D:\ drive was rapidly running out of capacity. So I bought a 2 TB Samsung to replace the D:\ drive.
This left me with a spare 1 TB Samsung 850 PRO drive with an integral heatsink - A very good drive. I decided to move the contents of the system drive to the spare 850 with a view to replace the existing C: drive. Now, I suppose the usual approach would be to clone the system to the replacement SSD, but I tried a different approach:
Using Powershell / Diskpart I ran the "Clean" command on the 850. Then I used Diskpart to convert the drive to gpt. That was all the preparation I did. I did not create any partitions on the drive. It was totally bare bones. Then I took the last Macrium Reflect image of the old C:\ drive and restored it to the blank 850. Macrium created and formatted all necessary partitions. I was up and running with the 850 as the new C:\ drive in a manner of 5 or 6 minutes. Nice!
One word of caution: Don't mess with Diskpart unless you know what you are doing. It is very potent. It can wipe the entire content of a disk in a flash with a single command: All data and even all partitions!
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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@KornfeldEliyahuPeter
Where's the CCC? 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Doesn't look like he's gonna make it today
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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If it gets to 13:00 and he hasn't posted, we'll send him hate mail and roll back to the previous setter - which was you, I think!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Evil that is EEEEEvil 
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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What, the hate mail? 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Dat's da one !!!
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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I think you are up tomorrow!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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That means you are up on Monday
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Erm ... you aren't thinking of a deliberate default, now are you? 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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No - I thought we would have heard from Kornfeld by now ( things are getting a bit lively where he lives )
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Wordle 642 6/6
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Wordle 642 3/6
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Wordle 642 2/6
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OK, make me feel bad to have nearly failed! 
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Not at all, I was trying to point out I have never gotten in 2 before...but you wouldn't believe...(see today's)  (643)
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Wordle 642 2/6
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Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Wordle 642 4/6*
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"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have. -Anon
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