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  • deranger@sh.itjust.workstomemes@lemmy.worldFinally, a win
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    7 days ago

    And yet the states with the highest scores are blue states that teach common core, and Alabama is consistently in the lowest 10-15 states.

    The metric referenced in OPs meme is improvement, not raw scores. Alabama improved from really bad to below average. They’re not scoring better than NY or CA.

    Alabama’s 8th grade math scores are literally 50th of the 50 states. The only lower grades are DC and PR.




  • I believe you’re mistaking my criticism of the article for support of Israel or the United States.

    When I asked where you’re getting your info, that was a rhetorical question. The point of that was to show that the article that is linked in this thread is poorly written. I’ve read better OSINT analysis on Twitter threads.

    Yes, radars were destroyed. No, there’s no analysis in the article to indicate that destroying these radars changed the course of war as they claim in the headline. This makes it a shitty article imo.






  • The article’s headline isn’t supported by the text in the article.

    The more worrisome reality is that gaps in Israel’s air defenses may be detection (rather than interception) failures resulting from damage to the radars and sensors that underlie the integrated air defense network shared by the United States, Israel, and Gulf partners. If true, the implications would be dire.

    “May” and “if true” do not mean the radars that have been destroyed have changed the course of war as they claim in the headline.

    I find it much more plausible that we’re simply seeing the effect of increased Iranian missile volume. Even if a system is successful 90% of the time, that’s still going to let through a lot of projectiles if the volume ramps up.