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simmol t1_jegx2xm wrote

Reply to Do you think AI will fundamentally change the education system by barbariell

Imo, the emphasis on education should be less on details on more on grasping the big picture. Right now, the system is such that students put a lot of emphasis on knowing all the details in college and then building upon that knowledge to grasp the big picture when they are employed for at least 5-10 years in the same industry. Given that the AI will handle a lot of these details, the current education system that emphasizes gaining knowledge at this refined level is obsolete and useless. And if you de-emphasize the details, then you can spend a lot more time, looking more at the big pictures and as such accelerate the student's understanding and progression towards essentially managerial roles.

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cjw_5110 t1_jegx29h wrote

Reply to Hot take: bus rapid transit on the boulevard would be better than a subway by avo_cado

For it to be legit BRT, it would be a pretty significant investment. You would need a protected bus lane. That lane would need to be legitimately protected, meaning concrete barriers between it and lanes. It would need to be in the inner drive right lane since the southern portion has housing. There would need to be stations, not little bus stops; those stations would require metro-like fare gates (unless the city decides to go proof of purchase, which I can't imagine happening) so that passengers can enter and exit freely from all doors. To get the stations set up without further restricting traffic flow, and to handle passenger volumes, you'd probably need elevated stations with stairs and elevators on each corner of each stop.

You would need to reconfigure every intersection so that the BRT lane either bypasses the intersection above or below, or so that the buses automatically trigger a barrier, like how trains trigger barriers. You'd further need to create barriers to prevent other vehicles from the possibility of entering the lane.

All of that is probably doable...on the boulevard. Where you run into trouble is at Broad. If you terminate the line at the BSL, you fail to create a one seat ride to center city, which would eliminate a ton of ridership (you can already take a two seat ride as is: virtually every cross street on the boulevard in the neast runs a bus to FTC, so this would only be slightly faster, if at all).

If you want to take it into center city, how do you do it? Running down Broad is one option, but you don't have the space to do the same kind of things you can do on the boulevard, plus you have engineering concerns with the BSL underneath. You might buy some advantage with signal priority, but traffic will slow it down. Can't do lane protection unless you use the innermost lane, do away with parking, and ban loading and unloading, but even then that only works if you express all the way to center city, bypassing Temple.

Aside from Broad, there's no road that even makes it feasible unless you run the bus down the Roosevelt Expressway and the Schuylkill, but that, again, bypasses Temple.

Yes, a boulevard subway is hard, and no, it doesn't solve issues north of Cottman, where everything was built to support car based living, but it could have a to transformative effect to join North Philly with the greater Northeast. A one seat ride, protected from traffic, from the city line all the way to Temple and City Hall? That's massive.

Then, to make it more meaningful, you go further, and it doesn't have to be crazy! Create two shuttles between the boulevard subway and the FTC: one at Oxford Circle, and one at Bustleton Ave/Levick St. The shuttle would be free.

Last, create an express bus on Cottman, with stops at Bustleton, Castor, Algon, Five Points, and ending at Ryers. Keep the same rolling stock on the Fox Chase line, but convert the fare structure to transit vs RR. Now you have linked the entire lower northeast to center city, north Philly, and itself in a way that has never been possible. The far northeast gets the short end, but there really isn't the kind of density you need to support additional rail transit West of the boulevard by the time you hit Pennypack.

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Key-Significance-630 t1_jegx29d wrote

Reply to Some of the best gridiron football video games of all-time by jd2385

This just makes me feel really sad. Madden 04 was my first introduction into NFL and I loved it. Franchise mode and then Madden 05 with the hit stick was just dope too.

NFL street was also just an amazing game to play when your in the mood for an arcade/chill/MP session.

Now you just have literally trash NFL games. Franchise mode hasn't come along in nearly 20 years, it's still the same! The focus on UT and microtransactions has killed it. I would honestly buy an NFL street game tomorrow if they remastered it.

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SomeMockodile OP t1_jegx27a wrote

Reply to comment by DrRexMorman in The Lost World: Jurassic Park; a great film dampened by it's third act? by SomeMockodile

JP3’s actually my third favorite, I just didn’t share that opinion in this post. The pteranodon and raptor sequences are great and a spinosaurus is really important to this series because every Jurassic film after jp3 has had a new “big bad dino” when lost world had the 2 trexes. I think I would argue that it’s the most influential Jurassic film aside from the first to the franchise as a whole.

Also, yeah. Imo Van Owen should have died for his actions in the second act of Lost World.

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Jmm1272 t1_jegx24r wrote

Reply to comment by ihavesomequestionz1 in I (F 42) have to leave my husband (M 44) but I don't know how. by ihavesomequestionz1

He has “a” say. You are giving him the only say. You have a day too! Again I’m not in the UK but in the US you can say you don’t have enough money for alimony, they court determines that. Some states determine fault for divorce and that impacts the amount, other states have community property and alimony is based on your income. In both examples there is a mathematical formula and they don’t just let someone say “I can’t afford it” you daughter may need child support or school expenses or braces or glasses ….all of those expenses would be determined in your divorce.

Here I found this

Spousal maintenance is an amount awarded by the Courts to be paid by the spouse with the higher income to the spouse with the lower income when a couple divorces. It is only awarded if one party cannot support themselves without payments from the other. It can be awarded for a specified term or for life in some cases.

https://www.family-lawfirm.co.uk/divorce-settlements/spousal-maintenance/

This next one has quite a bit of information

https://www.gov.uk/child-maintenance-service

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GMonet4Eva t1_jegx1zk wrote

Reply to LPT: Distancing yourself from people can be one of the healthiest choices you can make. by incredibleinkpen

I had a childhood best friend become increasingly mean/condescending/ dismissive to me and always in front of our shared group of friends. Would only hear from her via a text on my bday and I’d she needed a ride somewhere. I started distancing myself and was so full of anger/hurt confusion because I would still see her a group gatherings. Then the COVID lockdown hit and it was such a relief not to be run into her. The break gave me time to not be so worked up about it and I ended up reaching out to her to basically let her know why I was distancing and ti ask why she was treating me so terribly. Hard convo but I think necessary in my case because I was still going to see her as alert of our friend group and she was apologetic and acknowledged her behavior which is as much as I can ask. This was a massive weight off my heart and mind and I feel better about telling her how I felt out of respect for a 15+ friendship. For folks who I don’t know that long- I have always been quick to not stick around in part because of the hard time I endured with my ex bestie.

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TinyBurbz t1_jegx1b7 wrote

Reply to The Luddites by scarlettforever

Imagine thinking eliminating labor and thus the bargaining power of the lower classes would somehow HARM the status quo.

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