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My first piece on Jill Biden\u2019s dissertation was just me getting warmed up. This gets into the substance and contains lots of direct quotation of her shockingly bad writing. https://t.co/VeA67VVhIf
— Kyle Smith (@rkylesmith) December 17, 2020
The main allegations of his post are that Dr. Biden isn't a great writer and that she didn't do what Smith considers an adequate amount of work to justify her degree. It isn't shocking that he'd avoid substantive critique, as he lacks the expertise to make it.
In the paragraph below 👇, Smith takes Biden's citation pattern – for a potted, perfunctory history of community colleges (which isn't intended to be anything else) – as evidence that she couldn't be bothered to do the reading.
Did he bother to look at the books? At least check their tables of contents? One can find some basic information online. Cohen & Brawer (2003) appears to be a standard textbook on community colleges (cited 5400+ times). The page ranges reflect... relevant parts of the text.
I couldn't find a TOC with pagination for Witt et al., but here's a summary of the contents 👇. Again, given the substance the page ranges aren't terribly surprising, especially since she cites a different source for her *two sentences* on the pre-crash 1920s.
You seek only to outrage; not to inform. While I cannot hope to do so with @barristersecret’s finesse I will attempt to add balance.
"Is it ok for me to be used as a punchbag?"
— Police Federation (@PFEW_HQ) December 5, 2020
PC David Young's faith in courts left shattered after a man who fractured his nose & cheekbone walked free with a suspended sentence. #ProtectTheProtectors
Full story \u2b07\ufe0fhttps://t.co/wT9IR6XS4v@NYPFJBB @pritipatel @RobertBuckland pic.twitter.com/tKCUexn0Mt
2. The law requires the sentencing judge to adhere to the Sentencing Guidelines. This is an exercise in balancing a multitude of relevant factors.
Immediately, therefore, this means that your claim the offender escaped custody “thanks to glowing character references” is false.
3. The exercise begins, therefore, with the Guideline for the offence that has resulted in a conviction. If that offence is not serious enough for the facts then that is the fault of the CPS, not the judge, who cannot sentence more severely than for what is before him/her.
4. Offences have a max. sentence in law, and the Guidelines indicate a starting point, and range. While it is the law that judges must have regard to the Guidelines, they may go outside of the range (at either end) where circumstances so justify, but if they do they must say why.
5. PC Young’s attacker was convicted of ABH. For that offence, there are 9 stages to the sentencing process, beginning, as always, with determining the offence category which is a combination of offender culpability, and the harm caused.
"A history of systemic racism has led to too few Black Americans working in the sciences. Autism research is not immune to this problem & the dearth of Black scientists & clinicians likely has contributed to health disparities among Black autistic people.\u201dhttps://t.co/6YBMKgEJh1
— Thinking Person's Guide To Autism (@thinkingautism) December 11, 2020
See: More than Tuskegee: Understanding Mistrust about Research Participation
Scharff, Mathews, Jackson, Hoffsuemmer, Martin, and Edwards 2/
Our community collectively witnesses racial disparities in health research and care and are collectively re-traumatized by them. As we speak, we see the contrast between #COVID19 outcomes like this 3/:
And #COVID19 outcomes like this 4/:
Gaining the trust of our community requires more than racial parity in medical and research personnel and increasing opportunities for African American researchers. The misdiagnoses, the lack of support, and harm to Black autistic people and their families are lifelong. 5/
Part 3 of 3 focuses on what happens to people after they turn away from the church.
Most said they were shunned, excommunicated, and defamed by their former friends, even by some of their family members when they left.
Former members of a #ygk church say its leader, known as "Apostle,\u201d promised them miracles, but instead they were traumatized.
— Global Kingston (@CKWS_TV) December 17, 2020
As faith communities like these grow, the former members are calling for oversight of independent, charismatic churches.https://t.co/eVnG52dBcm
In part 1, I described how people’s whole lives played out at the church.
https://t.co/TiqrkjJONI
After leaving, they had to relearn how to live.
They never listened “secular” music or watched certain movies, some were even told to boycott Starbucks, because it supports Pride
Going back into the "real world" made one former member feel like she was "losing her mind."
Also, part 3 shows the extreme fear that some people had after leaving.
One person said she worried she would literally be struck by lighting if she spoke badly about the church. #ygk
2/10 Recovery: The RTPI's #PlantheWorldWeNeed campaign demonstrates how planning will play a key role in supporting @theCCCuk recommendations, ensuring a sustainable, inclusive and green recovery from the pandemic https://t.co/b7NX25m30j
3/10 Investment: @theCCCuk recommends additional investment of ÂŁ50bn annually. The RTPI proposes Green Growth Boards to guide investment needed for zero carbon at a strategic scale https://t.co/9GLui8Ll0q
4/10 Transport: @theCCCuk recommends switch to electric vehicles by 2030. Planning will be key in rolling out charging infrastructure but first we must reduce travel demand and increase sustainable travel. Look out for RTPI paper in January on planning for zero carbon transport
5/10 Energy: @theCCCuk recommends #netzero electricity by 2035. Planning is key to guide development of low carbon infrastructure. Technological solutions must be coupled with ambitious measures to reduce energy demand @UWEBristol @TLPblog @Regen_insight
https://t.co/uBZoz77MxF
So, are we all ready for "2020: The Sequel"?
— Mugi Padoru (@AusMoogle) December 27, 2020
What fresh hell awaits the world next year?
Speculate.. it amuses me lol. pic.twitter.com/AOhuqfWT2Y
You guys know I'm part of Collapse Gang and 2020 has certainly been a year of the kind of vindication I really didn't want to see this early.
I've been expecting something along the lines of the "Descending staircase" of the Tainter Model and 2020 seems like one of those periods where the step down is happening.
Eventually, things will hit a point where they'll stabilise and a sort of normalcy will return.
Only there'll be a bunch of stuff that just can't be done any more and we all just have to get used to that.
We're already seeing ham-handed attempts to set public expectations.
The "Great Reset" isn't so much a conspiracy theory as a pisspoor exercise in expectations management to get people to accept "Yeah we lost the capability to do these things you grew up with and we're NEVER getting it back, at least not this side of a new dark age"