So, you said something you knew to be untrue.
I didn't read "heterosexual propaganda" to be about school curriculums, but television, movies, music, and other media that surrounds us all. And obviously it's not restricted to any particular state or region.
Depends on how it is presented, I should think.
Yup. A simple example of the problem:
This really isn't that hard to find;
journals.lww.com
www.zmescience.com
thehill.com
That sort of "reasoning" seems common in the right wing. I remember right-wingers calling Barack Obama the food-stamp president.
Or stopping testing was going to stop the spread of Covid.
Not to mention how Texas, that uses abstinence only as the way to combat teen pregnancy manages to lead the country in Repeat teen pregancyThis really isn't that hard to find;
Comprehensive Sex Education Reduces Teen Pregnancies : AJN The American Journal of Nursing
New research shows abstinence-only programs are less effective.
Comprehensive Sex Education Might Reduce Teen Pregnancies, Study Suggests
New research suggests that comprehensive sex education might lead to less teen pregnancy, and there are no indications that it boosts the levels of sexual intercourse or sexually transmitted diseases. "It is not harmful to teach teens about birth control in addition to abstinence," said the...www.sciencedaily.com
Teenage pregnancy is a big problem. Sex education can help fight it
The evidence showing the benefits of sex ed is stronger and stronger.
Comprehensive sex education programs can lower teen pregnancy, study says
“Our analysis provides evidence that funding for more comprehensive sex education led to an overall reduction in the teen birth rate at the county level of more than 3 percent.”
www.texastribune.org
Don’t expect Ollie to respond to these facts. Ignorance is bliss, and careful cultivation is key.
notingThis is a story about Elon Musk's now-successful attempt to steer U.S. cities away from proven transportation solutions — but it's also a story about the desperation of elected officials who will try anything to fix their city's problems.
Musk's promise was never *one* tunnel. His promise was *infinite* tunnels.
From 2018: “No matter how much demand there is, you can satisfy it with a network of 3D tunnels. If you have 20, 30, 40 tunnels, eventually you run out of people to use them”.
Of course, Musk conveniently doesn't believe in induced demand.
But you don't have to believe in that concept to understand why "infinite tunnels" won't work. The best explanation I've read is from @MichaelManvill6's 2021 paper on congestion pricing.
Congestion pricing is hard! High speed rail is hard! Which is why we saw elected officials falling over themselves to associate with Musk's holes *and* his promise to pay up to $1 billion per project to "end traffic".
In 2018 I saw Musk tell a room of hundreds of city officials they shouldn't build rail anymore. The mayor of LA, who was onstage with him, didn't even push back!
This was a clear and concerted effort, says @parismarx (read their new book on this topic!)
Musk not only pays, he assumes all the risk, former LA Metro exec @joshuaschank, told me. So the Boring Company submits free or low bids for transportation projects, then raises money from investors convinced the tunneling technology is cheaper and faster (sound familiar?)
Which brings us to the Boring Company's new strategy: Going to city officials directly and telling them to casually suggest tunnels as solutions to their problems.
After this email to the Kyle, Texas city manager, a tunnel was approved nine months later.
Those city officials come to Vegas, see the tunnels under the convention center, and return home convinced they've seen the future of transportation. Fort Lauderdale just gave the Boring Company $375,000 for a study to tunnel under an intracoastal waterway.
Watch Mayor Dean Trantalis get defensive when a local tunneling expert pokes holes in the proposal, saying $10 million per mile is too low to tunnel under saltwater. Trantalis claimed he rode in Vegas tunnels that were "all underwater" (??) and go to the airport (they don't!).
The answer came not from the Boring Company, but from the city of Vegas's infrastructure director, who said he'd been working closely with the Boring Company. And guess what he said?
Don't worry, if the tunnels get congested, the Boring Company can just add more tunnels
And yes, you may have noticed the name of the item before the city council: "Agreement between the city of Las Vegas and The Boring Company to install and operate a monorail".
The way the tunnels are classified by Nevada state law, Elon Musk is now officially building a monorail.
The fact that the head of the Boring Company was brought in to “cut costs” for Twitter and ended up eliminating critical safety operations should be sounding alarms for city officials who hired this person to build underground transportation infrastructure.
You may wonder how this person even has time to work at Twitter when he's so busy supervising the $50 million Tesla valet system he built under the Las Vegas convention center.
I'm sure the 29 miles of car tunnels in the Las Vegas area that are being fully funded, built, and operated by a company run by someone advising Elon Musk to not pay vendors or comply with federal regulations will be totally fine! Nothing to worry about.
As @NoelKing and I discussed on @today_explained earlier this month, a key part of the Boring Company's strategy is significantly underbidding projects and getting developers to pay for the stations so we don't know the true costs of anything they do
It's true that the Boring Company (which got $675 million in funding this year and is valued at *$5.7 billion*) has bailed on many cities but continues to sell tunnels to other cities like Fort Lauderdale which just gave them $375,000 in public money.
You might not hear as much about their new clients due to their new approach. When Kyle, TX paid the Boring Company $50,000 for this project, officials had to sign an NDA (the project was eventually canceled) .
For people saying new cities aren't signing up for Elon's car holes: Here's Louisville, KY one month ago!
I think promising city officials they can "end traffic" is just too tantalizing, and the Boring Company knows it .
Also Road to Nowhere
Of course he does, LMAO!
