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The spade phrase is from ancient greece with 500 years of use in the english language. Don't know how it could be racist. The spade is question is a digging tool.
It could be mistaken for a racist expression by somebody who knows 'spade' as a racial slur for black people.
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I'm an Indian abroad. Do it. Come here to Europe. The baseline level of self-awareness in people here is off the scale when you compare it to the typical Indian. People actually queue, instead of creating a melee at every counter. You're never worrying about people cutting you in lines. Cars stop at zebra crossings to let pedestrians cross. No one honks! They nod and smile "bonjour!" as they cross you on the street.…
You could also consider coming to America, but I’m not exactly sure why. It might be our strip malls, fetish with our slave owning past, white supremest president, anti-science pro-gun culture, or our vast obesity and narcissism. But somehow in all of that, I still love living here. The Ultimate Frisbee is great, lots of creative people, and we are starting to decriminalize psychedelics.
> The Global Slavery Index estimates that on any given day in 2016 there were nearly 8 million people living in modern slavery in India. In terms of prevalence of modern slavery in India, there were 6.1 victims for every thousand people.
https://www.globalslaveryindex.org/2018/findings/country-stu...
The court has now barred him from speaking. And WhiteHat has sued another guy. Found this publication is covering the cases -- INC42 Second lawsuit against another critic: https://inc42.com/buzz/after-poonia-whitehat-jr-files-1-9-mn... Court bars critic from talking about WhiteHat in first lawsuit: https://inc42.com/buzz/breaking-whitehat-jr-vs-poonia-hc-res... This is just ridiculous.
Lol they claim hacking of slack conversations which in fact is something their internal employees have shared to blow the lid on their fake claims of kids making apps & doing 'coding'.
I had reached out to white hat junior as a volunteer to teach kids and share the knowledge I acquired through my education and work experience. I explicitly mentioned to them that I'm not looking for a salary. I have a stable job and free time to help upskill children who cannot afford a fee. A little background : I used to teach in India (for about 8 years along with my core job) but having moved to a new country, c…
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There are well designed, carefully planned and high quality textbooks by NCERT, which is part of the school board. But many students and parents don't prefer them. There is a proliferation of 'cut-to-the-chase' guidebooks (similar to Cliffnotes but much much worse) that they use to cram before the exam. What you describe is very likely one of these.
OT, so briefly: I'm interested in the possibility of applying much greater than usual domain expertise to create science education content which is more correct and insightful, focused on integrated transferable understanding. An unresolved challenge is how to make such available in a form and setting that actually gets it used. A quick check of the NCERT science textbooks turns up error and opportunity for improveme…
If you are earnest, you can contact people in the math and science community in India. This will mean substantially thorough vetting, because the corrections will themselves have to be checked across multiple sources for consistency. (The worst examples are in Chemistry. As you keep digging, you will start finding that B.Sc. material contradicts High School material, and M.Sc. material confirms the High School material. None of these are "incorrect", it is a matter of how deep one wants to go.)
A good place to start will be to look at the list of editors listed inside the textbook, look up their webpages and try them one after the other.
(1) https://ncert.nic.in/pdf/shikshak-parv/TwoDaysConclaveDetail...
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National, no. But four teens getting stabbed in a single incident might very well be news in most of Texas, which is only about half the population of the entire UK, and well over half the population of England proper. America's a big place.
Four teens getting shot but not killed in gang-related activity would possibly make the eleven o’clock news but probably not make the front page of the large urban papers in Texas, certainly not national news. For a stabbing? No chance.
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Four teens getting shot but not killed in gang-related activity would possibly make the eleven o’clock news but probably not make the front page of the large urban papers in Texas, certainly not national news. For a stabbing? No chance.
Honestly I think it might make the news (in the state) just because stabbing is so uncommon in the US.
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You could also consider coming to America, but I’m not exactly sure why. It might be our strip malls, fetish with our slave owning past, white supremest president, anti-science pro-gun culture, or our vast obesity and narcissism. But somehow in all of that, I still love living here. The Ultimate Frisbee is great, lots of creative people, and we are starting to decriminalize psychedelics.
India has strip malls, a Hindu-supremiscist Prime Minister, a huge and powerful anti-science culture, and, last but not least, around eight million people living in modern slavery. > The Global Slavery Index estimates that on any given day in 2016 there were nearly 8 million people living in modern slavery in India. In terms of prevalence of modern slavery in India, there were 6.1 victims for every thousand people. h…
Also, Here’s a good short 8 min doc about Ultimate in the “Slums” of India.
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yup, BYJU is getting CRAZY amounts of support in India and no major newspaper questions their claims. there are a lot of conspiracy theories about why it is so - some people say it is coz they have political support
Isn't Shah Rukh Khan an investor too in Byju's? Edit: just a brand ambassador. He's still complicit in misleading millions of Indian kids. Edit2: the techcrunch article shows a picture of Karan Bajaj (WhiteHatJr founder) with Baba Ramdev, so it's very possible that they have political backing. I'll take the Chinese Baijiu over Byju's any day.