Oops lol, was very sleepy and missed that hint, totally see that now lol. 50% above the average, but also 50% below lol

Islamic militias have repeatedly removed/genocided Jewish people from that same disputed land for centuries. Arguably the land was stolen prior to and subsequently returned to Israeli people after WWII. What the people of Israel are doing to Palestinians now is egregious and tragic, but there has been a prolonged effort to rid the Middle East of other Religions/ethnicities by the majority Muslim population of the Middle East — Hamas is and has been founded on principles that support that effort. Otherwise they would have agreed to and abided by the treatises and two-state solutions proposals of the past.

Hamas is not a resistance force, they oppress and use the Palestinian people as it suits them in their pursuit of conquest. The people of Palestine suffer both at Hamas’s hands and the hands of Israel’s excessive and careless attempts at wiping out Hamas.

I encourage you to read about Hamas, even Wikipedia will do, and educate yourself about how they formed, who they split off from, and what their founding and current principles are.

I’m aware that the situation isn’t black and white, it’s certainly grey, and I have more than identified exactly how it is grey. I think once you educate yourself a bit more you will understand. Have a good one.

If it’s the average shouldn’t it be 100? I have no clue, my iq might be room temp lol.

And posted here by a tankie from lemmy.ml lol.

The only reason why Hamas has NOT been declared a terrorist group by international authorities is because of a 2018 UN vote that would have succeeded if not for the following countries voting against the very appropriate label: Russia, China, Iran, Islamic State regimes, and a few South American countries.

For all intents and purposes, at least by the Western world, Hamas should be regarded as a terrorist organization. They did kick off this most recent large-scale conflict by attacking Israeli citizens at a music festival unprompted, killing many, and kidnapping/raping the rest.

Hamas is a terrorist organization. Israel is illegally slaughtering innocent people and children with their wonton method of trying to eliminate the terrorist fighters. Both can be true.

Anyone calling Hamas a “resistance group” or anything other than a terrorist organization with religious motivations is working in the interest of longstanding dictatorships pushing propaganda (i.e. China, Russia, Iran, etc.). Israel is WAY out of line, but Hamas is absolutely a terrorist org.

Interesting you say that. So explain to me why the women must wear hijabs/burkhas/coverings over their hair and not the men. Why don’t the men wear head-coverings? Oh and what is oft the punishment for Muslim women found without their head-covers in public to be seen by men?

Beyond that, shall we discuss the Islamic States and their implementation of Sharia Law? How is punishment of death for apostates not depriving someone of their rights? Specifically the right to life?

Shhhhhhut the hell up dude.

Insane that people are downvoting you especially considering that the post is literally about a woman being unfairly jailed due to Islam’s core values and principles.

So tired of such an oppressive religion getting babied by wayward leftists, and encouraged by alt-right fascists.

Thank god ‘bout you shut up.

Hardly a luxury. Don’t have kids if you’re not going to plan around having kids. And if you have kids and plan poorly don’t start going “woe is me” to strangers on the internet about how hard your life is based off your own life choices. Get out of my dm’s you stalker lol.

Sounds like you should rethink your place of residence lmao.

I appreciate the acknowledgement that I’m the only one thinking rationally here — but, pray tell, if you can’t call the school after a disaster, I’m fairly certain that the cell towers will be damaged and thus your lil’ ray of sunshine will also not be able to communicate with you… so what good does your kid having a non-functional phone do?

Furthermore, if they need medical attention, I’m sure the adults at the school will do their best to ensure that they receive it within a reasonable amount of time, or at least sooner than their parent who apparently works 1.5 hours away could.

And yes, Karen, I’ve got kids. But since I’m not some neurotic hoverparent with uncontrolled anxiety who would rather try to control and know everything all the time than just, y’know, go to therapy and clear up issues — I’m perfectly comfortable trusting the adults at the schools we looked into (a comfortable 10-15 minute drive away from home and 30 from work) to handle time-sensitive emergencies or otherwise contact me or my wife.

Besides, it says the phones are banned in the classrooms. Are you really so delusional that you think teachers won’t permit their child to access their phones in an emergency? Get a grip and take your Xanax already. Parents like you are a fuckin’ nightmare.

Okay bro. Ignore every other bit of the comment that challenges the validity of your point lol.

Personally, I’d rather raise a blunt (though seen as rude by those who are willfully ignorant), intelligent kid than some nitwit who cherrypicks findings to support their previously held beliefs 🫵😂😉. But good luck with that ig!

Reconciliation of results was challenging, and findings should be treated with caution given differences in methods and measures, and discrepancies in operational definitions of the bans themselves. For example, the results of two studies supporting bans for improved academic outcomes were restricted to low-achieving students from low socioeconomic (SES) backgrounds… That is, they found that high-achieving and economically advantaged students were less likely to benefit academically from mobile phones use in class, as compared to their disadvantaged peers

Beland and Murphy (2016) examined exam scores in secondary school students and found that in schools which imposed a mobile phone ban, exam scores improved by an average 0.07 standard deviation, pre- to post-ban. Importantly, this effect was driven by the finding that students in the lowest quintile of prior academic achievement made a gain of approximately 14.23% of a standard deviation in test scores, while for students in the top quintile, test scores were unrelated to the ban.

Despite the variability of findings, it seems that in some circumstances there are some negative, although small, impacts of mobile phone use on academic outcomes. This suggests that restrictions on mobile phones in schools might be beneficial for some students’ academic achievement but make no difference to others.

Considering the ban largely concerns itself with CLASSROOMS in South Korea — a place where students are SUPPOSED TO LEARN, y’know, where the principle concern is academics — I’d say that their findings support the ban more than anything else.

Furthermore, TWO studies showed increases in bullying/cyberbullying while the MAJORITY showed decreases in such harassment — but the study still postures itself in a way that hypothesizes why it increases and further hypothesizes that phones shouldn’t be banned to prevent that POSSIBILITY.

The answer is simple if you read your own linked study and actually use your brain while doing so. It’s clear the authors entered into this metastudy with preconceived biases from their “narrative” and highly suggestive “findings” which you cherry-picked your own conclusions from to support your odd, logically questionable comment. And again, you don’t need a study by some rando people to conclude that phones are just not needed and possibly harmful at school for children.

Again, put your iPad down dude, you probably got a kid to go parent. Otherwise, go touch grass :)

God I hate tiny screen. I truly find myself so much happier without tiny screen.

I grew up in the 00’s/10’s so I’m grateful to remember a time before the iPhone lol. Even the early iPhone/Androids were okay.

But now, it’d just an addiction propagating (gambling, gaming, porn, doomscrolling) and parasocial relationship creating metal+glass brick with the added bonus of corporate and government surveillance and a duty to respond to emails and work calls lol.

You make great points by the way. You comment on tiny screen addiction is what got me thinking about how much I hate smartphones these days.

Younger children (ages 6-11) shouldn’t have more than a basic “Ladybug-esque” phone, their parents should largely be coordinating playdates between friends and supervising them during anyways — so there’s no need to text.

Tweens, IMO, can start getting a real phone but parents need to step up and lock that shit down. No social media, no adult sites, no ability to contact strangers.

Then, as the kids learn and become more responsible, the parents should start unlocking features as privileges upon a showing that child understands the internet, its permanency, and how it can be a useful tool but also a possible addiction/source for harm.

I’d say when the children are in their teens, social media should start to be unlocked BUT monitored. I really think the big social media companies are just evil and don’y care about protecting children at all, so it’s up to the parents to ensure that.

Then when the kid becomes an adult, their parents have no say and hopefully the parents prepared them well for the real world!

I say this as an adult who had technologically illiterate parents as a child and thus I had free access to the internet and the birth of modern social media around the age of 11 or 12 lol. I saw shit that definitely left impressions on my brain (r/watchpeopledie on reddit) and was also almost groomed by a stranger lol. I imagine the internet would be even worse for my younger self’s brain nowadays.

Overall, I think more in-person socialization would be better for everyone of all ages.

Ah yes, if [unnamed vague concept] of German “educational” “experts” say so then it MUST both be an 1) honest report of findings, and 2) objectively correct facts. Opinion changed. Boom done.

Just kidding.

Thats stupid, and even if they are real and think so, I think they are stupid then lol.

Banning phones means banning phones. It’s hard for kids to sneak a brick of bright light when they’re in a classroom of their peers facing the teacher, so noone will be missing out on anything so long as the teachers properly enforce the new rule.

I think it likely that there will be more positive outcomes by forcing children to socialize face-to-face which is natural and especially important at that age.

Your comment essentially boils down to: Some people think we should just let kids do whatever they want and don’t worry about discipline, rules, or things needing a “right place and the right time.” You reek of “millennial/ipad-kid parent” lol.

What?? What absurd scenario are you referring to? What situation could they create that would require the kids to have phones to “handle it themselves” instead of finding the nearest adult teacher/admin and getting help?

If there’s an earthquake — I hope people/children are more concerned about getting to safety rather than calling mommy and telling her that they are about to die because rather than get to safety they got distracted by their phone calling her.

After the earthquake, if it’s catastrophic, the parents know where the kids are. Hint: AT THE FUCKIN’ SCHOOL. And they will likely need to go pick them up anyways.

What kind of stupid thought process led you to believe you’re making some sort of intelligent point here? Get real, touch grass.

Good, I’d probably have done way better in high school if my phone hadn’t been there (and if I’d gotten my ADHD dX and Adderall rX back then). No reason to have them on you if you’re a student. Parents and family can call the school if there’s an emergency.

Oh you’re telling me a nearly 100% culturally and ethnically homogenous country is gasp not meshing well with government sponsored immigration programs? Color me surprised.

Japan is notoriously “xenophobic” (I don’t necessarily think xenophobia is a bad thing but that’s a different discussion) towards even tourists sometimes despite their economy relying heavily, in part, on tourism.

I can’t imagine they already worked-to-the-bone crowded populations of Japanese cities would be too excited to have an influx of people willing to work for the cold, soulless corporations for less money.

Imo, slow trickle immigration is ideal, it lets immigrants assimilate/integrate into the culture/country they have decided to move to. Personally, I would never think about visiting a country, let alone immigrating, without becoming intimately familiar with cultural norms, their language, and the interests/hobbies/pasttimes of the “native population”.

Sounds like a mess.