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Wooahhh!
thanks.
When I said, I need only basic html/css is that graphic design (page layout look and feel) is not my strong point.
I will revisit that.
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CI/CD = Continuous Impediment/Continuous Despair
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Forgot to mention, during the CSS part, you should also familiarize yourself with Sass with SCSS syntax. Despite the stupidity of politicizing their home page like the rest of the sheeple who don't think, Sass is a great pre-processor for stylesheets.
Jeremy Falcon
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yeah, I've seen SASS popping up once or twice now.
CI/CD = Continuous Impediment/Continuous Despair
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Could an alien mothership be hovering around the solar system, sending out tiny probes to explore planets? According to a Harvard scientist and a Pentagon official, it’s possible.
In a draft paper, the pair said it is feasible an extraterrestrial spaceship could be in our galactic neighborhood, exploring the region by the means of "dandelion seeds" — small spacecraft that can gather and send back information, similar to the way humans send out spacecraft to explore planets.
Avi Loeb, an astronomer at Harvard University, and Sean M. Kirkpatrick, director of the Pentagon’s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) — established in July 2022 by the Department of Defense (DoD) to detect and study "objects of interest" — released the draft, Physical Constraints on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena, on March 7. It is not an official Pentagon document, but was carried out in partnership with the DoD. It has not been peer-reviewed.
This was posted in a forum I haunt by somebody - it comes from LiveScience.
I responded:
Quote: > According to a Harvard scientist and a Pentagon official, it’s possible.
> In a draft paper, the pair said it is feasible an extraterrestrial spaceship could be in our galactic neighborhood
On its face, the two statements above aren't really saying anything except "maybe there are aliens". That's the History Channel game.
> It has not been peer-reviewed.
This is very important. It's not science without peer-review. It may as well be astrology.
This is just a fluff piece on some junk science.
I used to blame the journos for their ignorance about science and their rush to get clicks and attention for perpetuating this kind of thing.
But eventually I realized that really, it's our responsibility to be mindful of what we take into our minds in the same way that it applies with our bodies.
The reason this stuff gets spread around - the reason journos keep getting clicks for it in the first place - is a dearth of critical thinking skills.
Is it any surprise then, that conspiracy theories abound on the Internet, and that that bleeds over into our reality? QAnon, et al.
In some western European countries they teach critical thinking in the classroom while kids are still young. It floors me that we don't do that in school where I live. It seems so fundamental to thinking.
Otherwise you just glom onto whatever affirms you or makes you feel good.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
modified 24-Mar-23 6:49am.
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My post was about critical thinking. I won't apologize for taking the position I have on it.
If it's boring, maybe skip my posts. I'm not sure you've considered that, so maybe the suggestion will be helpful.
Edit: Adding, your post reeks of self-affirmation. It sounds to me like you really want to believe you're especially clever or insightful in that you're hip to special knowledge most people aren't privy to. They're following an "approved narrative" and don't question authority, but you do  . That's how people get hooked on conspiracies. It makes them feel important and smart.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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honey the codewitch wrote: In some western European countries they teach critical thinking in the classroom while kids are still young.
They seem more fixated on teaching gender theory these days.
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Whatever they're doing, Western Europe's schools perform far better than the ones in my country.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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Do not worry... they are trying very hard to get to the same level...  
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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What level? Have you seen the bio of the leading edge researchers/engineers/technologists? They're not of American ancestry even if they attended American colleges. Head of Microsoft? Indian. Head of Ubuntu? South African. Head of Linux? Finnish. Raspberry Pi? UK. Our typical American hubris needs to be checked. From what I've seen is that schools are more about rote and memorization to do enough to pass the standardized exams than problem solving. I think we've watched too many movies where we somehow come up with a magic way to deliver us from a superior foe (looking at you Independance Day ) that we've come to believe that will actually happen instead of prepping for it ahead of time.
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It's almost like if you critically think about it, not only is the evidence for it present in all cultures dating back thousands of years, but it affects literally everyone. As if the current reactionary climate surrounding the topic is due primarily to ignorance, which can be solved by... teaching.
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people don't want facts they want sensationalism.
facts are boring and require logical thoughtful deliberation.
Who wants to use their brains in our current society? I can't think of too many people who do.
To err is human to really elephant it up you need a computer
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> Who wants to use their brains in our current society?
I think of the response among people to the "Spanish" Flu Pandemic in the early 20th century, as well as the response to smallpox vaccinations among some of the adult population and I think there's always been an undercurrent of intellectual laziness among a population of any size. Maybe the Internet made it worse. I don't know.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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honey the codewitch wrote: Maybe the Internet made it worse. I don't know.
It certainly allows it to travel broader and faster than ever before. 
TTFN - Kent
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Which kind of end confirming Einstein's quote...
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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People don't want facts; they want both sensationalism and confirmation of their own beliefs and desires.
ed
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I think they're more in interested in Hoth. They already know there's no intelligent live here.
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: no intelligent live here.
Hey what about @OriginalGriff?
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honey the codewitch wrote: it is feasible an extraterrestrial spaceship could be in our galactic neighborhood, exploring the region by the means of "dandelion seeds"
It is feasible that a dragon in another dimension is using small pixies to explore our solar system.
I actually give that a higher probability that the prior one because the prior one is limited by the physics (and economics) of this universe while mine is not.
But I certainly will not be spending time looking or even thinking about either.
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Quote: But I certainly will not be spending time looking or even thinking about either.
I will... just in case.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Been wondering where these danged pixies are coming from...
It all makes sense now.
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Given enough time, anything is possible. Oscillating, expanding; take your choice.
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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They do not want the gen-pop thinking critically, it would make it harder for them to control the masses with FUD.
As for the Harvard scientist and Pentagon official's conjecture, it sounds to me like nothing more than they're trying to justify their grants/budget.
There are no solutions, only trade-offs. - Thomas Sowell
A day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do.
- Calvin (Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes)
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Who's the "they" you refer to? Some unknown, anonymous (therefore not disprovable) group that are 'controlling' everything in true conspiracy theory form? If you know who 'they' are why not not share the name with us together with your hard evidence. If not, admit you are talking BS.
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Well, aren't you the sweet talker? Of course I'm talking BS and speculation, I thought that was evident.
Is it a conspiracy? Did a bunch of people with power and influence get together one day to plan, hatch and implement a plot to dumb down our children? Not likely. Is it the result of decisions made by educators who share ideas through networking both professional and personal, and the DoE and government agencies that partially fund public schools and often dictate through that funding what is or isn't taught? Obviously. Was the decision not to teach logic and critical thinking made for non-nefarious purposes, like to make room for other subjects deemed more important? Who knows? Whatever the reason it was made I suspect no one who has something to sell (politicians, businesses, media companies, etc.) is trying to convince our educators to do anything differently.
The second "they" is the scientist and the Pentagon official. Surely that much of my intent was evident.
There are no solutions, only trade-offs. - Thomas Sowell
A day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do.
- Calvin (Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes)
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