hydroacetylene
No bio...
User ID: 128
hydroacetylene
8hr ago
I mean thé obvious counter argument is the history of China, which is nothing but peasant rebellions.
hydroacetylene
8hr ago
Isn’t getting into med school in the US actually quite selective and requires a rat race ahead of time?
Of course you don’t have to be a doctor to be successful.
hydroacetylene
23hr ago
95 is well within the European average, it's higher than the Iberian peninsula for example.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Reform schools totally exist in the US, but due to incentives of the US system(that is, very high parental say) they're basically only for kids who would otherwise be in Juvie.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Korea has a higher IQ than most of Europe. So does Japan.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
The peak homeschooling demographics do not think that their sons getting laid is very important. They may later be distressed at a lack of progress towards marriage, but it's kinda too late to change education strategies by then.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
I'm seconding this for equivalents in the US. I don't know about conditions for bright working class Indians, I have no idea if they have a decent shot of making it into the middle class and having a decent life. I do know that truckers, nurses, teachers, tradesmen, cops, restaurant managers, accountants, paralegals, is not even scratching the surface of ways Americans can make a decent living with no rat race involved, and without exceptional talent. 'Meritocracy' in the US context mostly just makes childhoods worse.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
But everyone, including the PMC, earns more in purchasing power than they did in all but the very recent past. And 'recent past' here means like, 2014, not 1800. There is no downward pressure on salaries anywhere, it isn't redistribution of jobs driving salary increases- it's prosperity.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Pretty big tribal difference here. Of course, the tribe which genuinely does see becoming an electrician as disappointing compared to the lower pink collar jobs which absorb excess college graduates controls the schools. Red tribe parents don't mind the idea, electrician and HVAC tech and plumber are ordinary jobs like teacher or accountant or cop, and income and personal behavior are what counts for success, not education.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
You could own a warship in 1790, you just couldn't use it for war.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
I'm not sure how marijuana is supposed to be less harmful than alcohol? It's not like driving stoned is safer than driving drunk, and marijuana is also very bad for the teen brain.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
I've been around homeschoolers a lot. Rad trads might have a slight IQ advantage over the general population, but it's not huge if it even is there to begin with, and getting away with a couple of hours every other day sounds about right.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
I went to Catholic schools.
Everyone went to the same campus. Discipline was uniformly strict- although we didn't have corporal punishment at all after the sex abuse crisis and it was definitely on the way out beforehand, suspension was a real possibility that happened regularly and there was the occasional expulsion. Flip side of that, no hallpasses, and in high school you didn't even need to ask permission to go to the bathroom, because if you abused the privilege you got in trouble. There were honors and regulars classes for every core class except religious ed, with real tracking for math in the secondary grades. Starting around 10th grade finals declined in importance, I think when I graduated there was one final exam(Latin) and that's it, we had essays and projects and whatnot for everything else. It was by no means unheard of for a particular student to be on, say, the honors English/basics math track, or vice versa. Very importantly, your parents could not get you moved to a more rigorous/prestigious class, although sometimes teachers could, and you could transfer credits in from community college if you wanted. Electives existed and were unsegregated, although a few of them had pre-reqs which kept it to kids in honors in related classes. It's probably as close to what you describe as could reasonably exist.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
The Supreme Court did not solve segregation, multiple presidents bringing the full force of the federal government to bear on southern states did. The supreme court merely provided political cover.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
The previous 'dogs trained to rape people' claims were 1) a canard repeated against Pinochet by actual literal communists who made up quite a lot of other things, although they probably were tortured in conventional ways and 2) the confessions of an insane serial killer who also definitely tortured and raped people but also claimed lots of other improbable falsehoods. So my priors from this are 'Israel is torturing prisoners but not with trained rape dogs'.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
And indeed, dogs trained to bite the groin are a thing that are widely used.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
You don't have to go back to Obama to find democrats making a big show of how Christian they are- Joe Biden's mass attendance was a regular slow news day story.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Well yes, differences in school performance are almost all down to what percentage of the student body's biological parents are still married to each other. This is why both the Army and the RCC run better schools than states. Any state, including Massachusetts and Mississippi. Percentage of kids living with married biological parents edges out average household income as a predictor, edges out race as a predictor, everything else.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
You will, of course, find out that everyone gets put into college tracks, because it's easier than listening to parents complain.
Technically, you can get a non-college track high school diploma in the modern US. From a public school, of course- parents that pay for private school expect as a matter of course access to college. Admins don't want to do it, of course, but you can get one.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
I mean, the supreme court also fails to stop Colorado from bringing masterpiece cakeshop in every few years. It's not a 'gun control' issue, it's a 'stopping blue states from treading on people is very hard' problem.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
This isn't really a thing the supreme court can solve. When states really want to make life harder for people, they succeed. Masterpiece cakeshop just keeps winning court cases, but it's probably cold comfort at this point.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
The soviet ability to keep up with the US technologically despite ideological suppression indicates that their education system was good, yes. But modern US leftists are already rejecting everything else about the soviet system(because the system as a whole did not work).
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Yeah, but actual communist countries have very little in common with US Marxist’s recommendations. Props to them for figuring out the Soviet system didn’t work, I guess, even if they’re wrong about the whys and wherefores.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
-
fighting tards is a very bad idea, regardless of the rules in place. They’re unpredictable, have hysterical strength, etc.
-
thats not how it works, your kid goes to suspension for wailing on the LCD kid
Epistemic status- schizopost
There are western legends and folk tales which follow the following pattern- uncommonly beautiful, but poor, girl meets a mysterious, tall, and wealthy man, who marries her and as she moves into his house, there are some commonalities: it’s a mansion located someplace that can’t be accessed by means comprehensible to premodern societies(walking, boats, horseback, climbing ladders etc are all insufficient to get there), often said to be vaguely in the air or involve flight. The mansion is full of invisible servants and has uncommonly rich foods easily available every night, but it’s isolating and lonely; her only company is her husband, who’s often described as a bit of a weirdo or maybe a pervert once they’re isolated. Sometimes she begs to go back home, having aged supernaturally little despite remembering years, and sometimes she is visited by sisters or friends from back home(arranged by her husband- he’s usually not a bad person, he isn’t violent or cruel or anything. Just odd or strongly implied to have unusual sexual preferences)- but there’s always an explanation of how we’re finding out about it.
This is an indication that the ancient aliens theorists are wrong. It’s time travelers, not aliens, these are the accounts of time traveling mail order brides who divorced or failed to adapt. Do you think a medieval peasant woman would describe suburban McMansions as something other than ‘an manour house with unseene servants and a grayte feaste every night’?
Now, data on integrating primitive societies into modern, urbanized wealthy societies actually does tell us what peasant women as mail order brides experience- they tend to be amazed at appliances, take to the housewife role very readily, and find suburban western societies lonely and isolating. There’s some interesting ethnographic work I once read but can’t find right now on Eskimo women who married US military personnel- they learned to bake and already knew how to sew and loved thé western homemaker role, they thought it was the best thing ever, but wanted to get to know their neighbors and have denser social connections. Eskimo men given job training did not integrate nearly so well.
More options
Context Copy link