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    Quote Originally Posted by LDAHL View Post
    Why is that? Granted, the College Board corporation doesn’t have to pay the taxes potential competitors might, but why should it be so costly to create a course?
    There are currently 38 AP courses. You'd have to hire a whole lot of subject experts to put a program comparably broad together, and then hire a ton of marketing people to get universities and colleges to agree to offer credit for successfully passing the tests, then you'd have to have those marketing people go to all the school districts that currently offer AP classes to get administrators and school boards to sign off on teaching those classes. After all those years of expenses would you need to put together the administrative capacity to administer the tests and finally have any hope of generating income. And the whole task would be made more challenging because, as I mentioned before, only Ron Desantis seems to think that there's a problem with the current vendor used for AP classes, so a whole lot of universities and school boards would probably not be interested in even meeting with representatives of this new company.

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    Found the groomer! (Hint, it's not an LGBTQ person...)

    https://www.justice.gov/usao-mn/pr/f...ing-conspiracy

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    I see the Canadians finally decided what to do with the trans groomer with gigantic fake breasts. Apparently her fetish involves displaying herself to children.

    I’m disappointed. For a while there it was speculated that she was staging a protest about ridiculous acquiescence to demands of the trans community. But apparently not, she’s the real thing, a trans person asking for ridiculous accommodation In her workplace.


    https://nypost.com/2023/03/02/kayla-...on-paid-leave/

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    Quote Originally Posted by iris lilies View Post
    I see the Canadians finally decided what to do with the trans groomer with gigantic fake breasts. Apparently her fetish involves displaying herself to children.

    I’m disappointed. For a while there it was speculated that she was staging a protest about ridiculous acquiescence to demands of the trans community. But apparently not, she’s the real thing, a trans person asking for ridiculous accommodation In her workplace.


    https://nypost.com/2023/03/02/kayla-...on-paid-leave/
    I'm curious what a real news website has to say about this story. The NYPost is perhaps one of the few websites that has even less credibility than fox "news". I'm not going to bother looking up stories about this and will leave it to you to confirm that this is actually a real story vs. you confirming your hatred of trans people by using a sad sack rupert murdoch fake news channel comparable to fox.

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    A reasonable estimate at the number of trans-identifying people in the USA is ~1.6 million (1).

    I'm not particularly interested in arguments that seem based on picking out the actions of a single member (or small numbers of members) of this large population, and slyly implying the entire population is similar. Or in arguments that don't examine also the rate of that behaviour within the general population of the USA.

    Within 1.6 million people, I'm pretty sure you could find almost any human behaviour.




    (1) https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.e...united-states/
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    Quote Originally Posted by jp1 View Post
    I'm curious what a real news website has to say about this story. The NYPost is perhaps one of the few websites that has even less credibility than fox "news". I'm not going to bother looking up stories about this and will leave it to you to confirm that this is actually a real story vs. you confirming your hatred of trans people by using a sad sack rupert murdoch fake news channel comparable to fox.
    I would like to know if this is the real story too. Why don’t you find out? I guess if you don’t like the story, you can always malign the source and you do.

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    Quote Originally Posted by bae View Post
    A reasonable estimate at the number of people in the USA is ~1.6 million (1).

    I'm not particularly interested in arguments that seem based on picking out the actions of a single member (or small numbers of members) of this large population, and slyly implying the entire population is similar. Or in arguments that don't examine also the rate of that behaviour within the general population of the USA.

    Within 1.6 million people, I'm pretty sure you could find almost any human behaviour.




    (1) https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.e...united-states/
    There are a lot more than 1 million people in the US. Fake math.

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    Quote Originally Posted by bae View Post
    A reasonable estimate at the number of people in the USA is ~1.6 million (1).

    I'm not particularly interested in arguments that seem based on picking out the actions of a single member (or small numbers of members) of this large population, and slyly implying the entire population is similar. Or in arguments that don't examine also the rate of that behaviour within the general population of the USA.

    Within 1.6 million people, I'm pretty sure you could find almost any human behaviour.




    (1) https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.e...united-states/
    Any sly implication is your interpretation.

    I will help you out here, bae, because I like you. My argument fallacy is “whataboutism.” Lord knows I’ve been told that enough times. You are welcome!

    Now I think I will skip along over to other threads add more whataboutisms. They are so easy.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Yppej View Post
    There are a lot more than 1 million people in the US. Fake math.
    Gosh, I made a typo on my phone and lost the word “trans” in my post, in the sentence "A reasonable estimate at the number of people in the USA is ~1.6 million (1).", though of course the study in my footnote directly referred to them in title and content, and the context was clear.

    Good catch…

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    Quote Originally Posted by iris lilies View Post
    Any sly implication is your interpretation.
    Dog whistles are pretty easy to hear these days.

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