What have been working for me is some Social Sciences or Humanities courses on Coursera.

"Many of the victims are well-educated, sometimes coming from professional jobs or with graduate or even post-graduate degrees, computer-literate and multi-lingual." (from the report)

Note that there was about 9 centuries between the Umayyad conquest of Iberia (8th century) and the explulsion of Moriscos (17th century). So the analogy with North American natives would be something like - if somehow the Native Americans win political/military control in the 23th century (9 centuries after the arrival of the Europeans) and then decide that all non-native Americans will have to leave the country to wherever their ancestors came from - do you feel that would be justified?

From the native perspective that would absolutely be justified. At the same time from the European perspective they should resist being expelled (just as the equivalent people in Spain should have and probably did resist being expelled in their time).

As a side note, I feel a lot of people have a hard time processing conflicting perspectives and instead project their own moral views as a uniform perspective onto everyone at once, which does not produce a useable model of reality IMO.

> I feel a lot of people have a hard time processing conflicting perspectives and instead project their own moral views as a uniform perspective onto everyone at once

Thanks for putting into words something I've been feeling for a long time! It's like people think that conflict is unnatural, when really it is one of the most fundamental aspects of nature.

Why is it ironic? Maybe you think too highly of the British empire?

this is mentioned in the linked article

Yeah.. another thing is there is a lot of published games in Scratch (from other users), many are very tempting to play/try out and often the Scratch session just turns into playing those games without educational/learning activity. Anyone figured out how to avoid this?

can you explain more about social skills? And how old is your child?

After scratch, we tried this:

- https://www.codemonkey.com/ (mix of block programming and python) . Step by step guidance. A lot of kid-oriented UI/fun stuff.

- https://codecombat.com/ (python or JS). Still have levels, hint etc but the solution is less straightforward (sometimes I'm even stuck trying to help my kid!)

- If your kid is advanced enough, try https://open.kattis.com/

One common problem that kids encountered that's not straightforward is debugging simple coding issue (e.g. missing colon, mixing variable names, etc.) Even with great guidance from the platform, it's very common for kids to run into this and the compiler error is not helpful. A parent/teacher with programmer experience is needed to unblock.

Maybe your question is a joke but I assume "impacted" means laid off in this context.

Kind of like when people say someone "passed away" to mean they died

Can we please just use "fired", "let go" or even "we separated with"? Impacted is just soft wording taken to a comedic level.

“As of today, we are no longer buying labor from 17 people we previously bought labor from”.

Fired implies with cause. In the US, it would be "laid off" and in the UK it's often "made redundant", which is itself more ambiguous than need be.

Whoosh.

How does this "special assessment on banks" work? Does the FDIC charge all US banks to cover the missing amount? How are the charges distributed? And what law is this?

Also if this option was available, why did they just bring it up now?

Poor people will get no interest on deposits to bail out the rich.

Revenue comes from a fee banks pay based on insured deposits. It’s been around 8 cents per $100 insured: https://www.fdic.gov/analysis/quarterly-banking-profile/fdic...