"I am very intentional about having individualized interaction with all of my students as early as possible,"
great. during that individualized interaction that you want to have anyway, your first assessment will be if they are a real person who really wants to study, and if they're not then you drop them. which is the "agonizing problem" here?
you probably miss the experience of actually having some handicap and trying to use the web or these devices.
aria is a good concept but has several problems. first, it's a very low priority for most developments, often only honored by institutional front ends that are bound by regulations to be accessible. second, even if the effort is put in to implement it you still need adequate client support, which is not easy and imo hasn't evolved much lately. it was a long battle to get browsers to provide more or less consistent support, and screen readers for example are good solutions but there aren't that many around, they tend to be expensive, complicated and hard to get going, require a lot of tweaking and are far from perfect.
one big hurdle for aria is obviously that there is little incentive to support it because people with accessibility needs aren't really a big enough market segment to make the effort profitable, and the effort usually isn't trivial at all in terms of design and consistent implementation, qa and maintenance. the other hurdle is the very nature of current interfaces, as the web transitioned more and more to mobile devices and from a document centered concept to shiny interfaces full of buttons, sliders and eye candy that are simply hard to convey.
from what i see this material 3 update goes decidedly in that direction, merely adding (pointless and imo questionable) aesthetics. paradoxically it appears to me the typical the product update you would expect from a working team that has run out of ideas and goals and just needs to deliver something to try and remain relevant.
btw, sorry, wrong quote. it's late, i'm tired and i had a few beers. about nationalism in europe. i don't think there was a deliberate effort by russia to undermine europe (note "was", this might have changed now). there could have been alliances and relations, and even interests, but this is normal in democracy and in international politics. otoh there is lots of evidence of russia trying to appease the west (they even floated the idea of joining nato, twice) but they mostly hit stonewalls. and ofc russia has its own philonazis which would very much like to intermingle with their european counterparts.
otoh the eu (which i voted for, yes i'm that old) has garnered indeed a lot of dissapointment. while good on paper and with some clear advantages, the truth is that it is a very undemocratic institution. we vote the european parliament but the real power is the commission which is basically appointed by the elite, and it shows. the natural result of that is a surge in people wanting to reclaim national sovereignty (to the extent national governments in europe are truly democratic, i have serious doubts about that) and that has a very obvious connection with extreme nationalism. this doesn't mean that every euroskeptic, not even the majority of them, is an extremist, although that is a slogan that european elites ofc love to float. again, blame brexit on the enemy
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Nationalism has always been there, it rose in the 1930s through lies and propaganda by frightening gullible people with bullshit and the same is happening now. And bullshit to your claim "is basically disenfranchisement from the eu which has finally managed to disappoint most of the populations", a proportion to any population will be disappointed with any governance and extremists like fascists are just louder than anyone else
boris johnson was the key figure in brexit and is a consumate russophobe (and was a key figure in biden's nato push overdrive in 2021, and in breaking the russia-ukraine deal that would have stopped the war in 2022, a month after the invasion). another one was nigel farage who has been targeted as a russophile, but there are actually no links or personal interests that i know of (please educate me if i'm wrong), it seemed all based on his critical views on nato expansion and relations with russia in general. then again, you might of course agree, but these are legitimate opinions, russia will be europe's (or what's left of europe after this plays out) neighbour for the foreseeable future and i would say any european leader who doesn't work for good relations with them is doing a disservice to his/her people.
other than that, brexit was a catastrophe for the uk whose effects haven't really ended to play out. of course blaming it now on russia is very convenient for some. then again all that noise frome the "coalition of the willing" is maybe an attempt under the hood to undo brexit to some extent, now that the us seems fed up with old europe? we'll see
Sorry that is just completely unbelievable.
then wait and see. russia is one of the most resource rich countries on the planet, they don't need more territory. they aren't even aiming at the whole of ukraine, they learned in afghanistan what it means to occuppy a territory where you're not welcome, not to mention western ukraine where they visceraly hate their guts. it would be no end of trouble for nothing. and again, the european narrative of russian expansion into europe is just fearmongering, and of the most absurd sort. they would need several (2 digits) million troops to do that, and for what?
they might have a problem in the north, namely kaliningrad and the baltic sea, because it is a strategic liability. this one is tricky, specially in the context of western hostility. but don't expect anything to happen there except as a reacion to western hostility.
the other critical area is the caucasus but that's stable, specially now that the threat in ukraine is being solved by brute force, since diplomacy failed and not for lack of trying.
Putin remembers what he thinks were the glory soviet days.
that's a very weak and unsubstantiated argument.
He's said before he wants all of Ukraine. That is his goal.
you're referring to that article he wrote in 2022 and likely haven't actually read except from excerpts in western media.
He might settle for areas he now occupies, but he wants it all.
"he" has clearly spelled out for what he is ready to settle.
what "he" wants and what "he" can and what is strategically rational are different things. your opinion appears shaped on guessing the intentions of a single person to whom you attribute absolute power for some reason. imo that isn't a very rational line of thinking.
Saying they he just wants what is really russian is very dangerous.
fearmongering and warmongering is even more dangerous. i do not see that russian threat and you really would need more substantive arguments here.
And Gaza.
trump doesn't want gaza, that was just a ruse to appease his zionist donnors and put netanyahu in his place by publicly shaming him, appearing to take control and removing him from any decision making. but that boutade served his purpose and was really shortlived, he hasn't done anything about it and in fact hasn't said a single word about it since. just a twitter storm. however, he continued discretely pleasing his zionist donnors by allowing netanyahu to continue the genocide after breaking his own (witkoff's) deal just before phase 2, which he knew israelis would never accept.
Calling someone a comrade is not ad hominem. It's like calling them a friend, or a partner.
so you were implying i'm your partner or your friend? nice to hear.
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(before you start moaning about soviet propablablabla
They broke away at gunpoint from Strelkov, and you know it.
the whole population? what a guy! how many guns did he have?
their soldiers forward on motorcycles and scooters then.
they're fast and can disperse quickly, in case drones rain from the sky.
Ukraine production has surpassed Russia's, not just in drones. Prepare for defeat, comrade.
i asume this adhominem (to a total stranger you know nothing about) is the end of your argument?
Do you realize that what you are describing is the worst type of nationalism? "They speak the same language as us so we will invade their country and steal their land." That is what Hitler did, and you are supporting the same. The sad thing is you will pretend not to recognize it.
those territories broke away from ukraine before the invasion because of the russian culture/language/religion discrimination carried out by the ukranian government (both the puppet government and zelensky's cabinet, heavily driven by ukranian nationalists. this led to a civil war. you are confused about who the extremists are here.
Btw, Ukraine + Europe is now outproducing Russia in war materials,
in drones, yes.
and Russia has largely run out of soviet equipment.
russia vastly outproduces all nato AND the us in tanks. they're not even sending them to the front line. in manpower they have record conscripion (those are volunteers) and only a small part of the army is on the front, rotating about every 6 months. they have 600.000 troops in reserve. they don't have any hurry to seize territory, their primary goal is to destroy the ukrainian army with minimal losses. btw the ukranian army is helping by constantly conducting stunt operations for political reasons with no strategic value on the ground, like the incursions in kursk (which was a ukrainian bloodbath), belgorod and all around the eastern front, notably pokrovsk amd toretsk.
russia's military is huge and growing, and they are gaining experience. and they're not using most of it in ukraine. given late european war rhetorics they likely predict that other hotspots may break out soon (baltic states, baltic sea, artic) where it will be needed.
So by the end of the year, Ukraine will have won pushed Russia out,
this is delusional. 2 or even 1 year ago we might have argued, but this changed drastically a while ago (it started before, but kursk was sort of an inflection point), the ukrainians are being slowly crushed, if nothing changes they will eventually collapse. territorially they're losing ground at a steady pace, only 3 important strongholds are left. you have not been keeping up.
and Putler will have the unpleasant choice of whether to use a tactical nuke and lose, or lose without using a tactical nuke.
since this is an existential threat i don't rule out they would (more likely oreshniks without warhead which have similar destructive capability, are unavoidable as of today and are much less of a liability) IF they were in dire straits. but they aren't, and it doesn't appear they will be any time soon. your prediction doesn't seem serious to me.
so no evidence beyond sporadic contacts between elected officials (which aren't only legitimate, but what expected officials are expected to do in any civilized system) and insinuations and could and could nots. and you talk about popaganda! dude, that site reeks hard
hilarious that it hosts another article that in the effort of colorizing the supposed humanitarian catastrophe caused by usaid funds getting cut off
Perhaps more importantly, the Ukrainian government has received more than $30 billion in direct budget support from USAID. As Ukraine’s economy shrank and budgets were redirected to the country’s defense, USAID essentially allowed the government to sustain its operations, helping pay state workers salaries and provide state services.
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weren't there no more noble humanitarian goals for usaid than to sustain an extremist nationalist regime so it could continue the proxy war? i wonder how "lawfare" is getting funded now that the well has run dry
Sorry if I ignore
whatever.
US demise is Putin's long wrought plan, and the doofus in the POTUS right now is a useful idiot
is that so?
You can see Putin's fingerprints all over the nationalistic movements across Europe, and it all designed to fragment the West and allow Russia to reclaim territory
the rise of nationalisms in europe has been growing for decades and is basically disenfranchisement from the eu which has finally managed to disappoint most of the populations. on top of that it is surging lately (and i expect it to get much worse) as people slowly realize what a clusterfuck project ukraine really has been. ukraine has paid in blood, but germany, the workhorse of europe, has paid with economic disaster and the ripples are being felt throughout. this is only going to go downhill as trump threatens to walk away and our panicked and autistic "leaders" double down on all the lies that have already started to fall apart. the us is in demise, but europe is about to become a shithole.
funny you say that this is all putin's doing when putin has been trying to accomodate the west for decades, to no avail. was brexit his doing too? do you have any proof? there is actually evidence of organizations like usaid and national endowment for democracy funding not only propaganda but nationalistic extremist groups (the us (trump himself) has even been arming them) in eastern europe.
btw, russia doesn't want more territory except the culturally russian territories in ukraine, which had in big part seceeded from ukraine before the war and are already part of the russian federation by their own choosing and by russian law. they have been proposing end of hostilities several times since 2022 if, and only if, these regions are recognized and there is a deal for the comprehensive security architecture on the continent. as ukrainians and european elites refuse to accept this they'll have to press on, probably all the way to odessa. the idea that russia would want to expand deeper into europe is just infantile, even if it could which it can not.
trump might indeed make matters worse or, better said, accelerate them, but he's not the problem. he's a symptom. he came to power because a whole lot of americans are angry. explain that anger and you'll find that enemy you're looking for.
us demise is of its own making. it's no wonder when a country is swamped with corporate greed, drowned in debt and political corruption, controlled by an unchecked and ruthless elite that has been growing inequality for decades, and tries to offset all that by bullying other countries and igniting wars all over the planet. nobody trusts the us anymore.
china is just doing its thing, and it's mostly the right thing: thinking strategically, working hard, being diplomatic and expanding friendly relations, thus prospering and helping others to prosper. china is bound not only to be the next superpower but actually respected as a world leader.
us demise is no plan and nobody's goal, it's simply the result of mismanagent and lack of long term strategy, and nobody would give a shit if it wasn't indeed a superpower with the biggest military the world has seen and about 750 military bases around the world. these are indeed dangerous times. if anything, i count on china being clearheaded enough to handle this transition gracefully.
MB: Americans are frightened by China not because of what China does, or even its more efficient SUVs, or its infrastructure. United States is frightened of China because it exists. It's the purest example of existential anxiety, the word for which is dread. In other words, it's China by its very success and existence which challenges this sort of foundational assumption of american collective identity that we're superior, exceptional. We're born to be number one and always will be, and the notion of being in any sense ordinary is anathema.
PL: This is an interesting thought: the one thing that the US narrative and its entire political system can not accept is being normal.
Michael Brenner and Pascal Lottaz
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