AvocadoPanic
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AvocadoPanic
11mo ago
I think we're doing a poorer job of engaging the the children of smart people.
We have 4 children. They're all smart, but my middle son has tested as > 99.9% in math and taught himself to read somewhere between ages 3 and 4. Despite being in one of the more affluent districts in our state in the Northeast there are no services for gifted children. As long as children are performing at grade level asking for more academic rigor is met with shrugs. This is partially why we're homeschooling now.
In 80's California our class sizes were bigger but there was a GATE program and divided start to better group the class into reading groups by ability / level. I'm sure there are lots of 'studies' but the couple I've dug into seem like bullshit.
AvocadoPanic
11mo ago
How is your sysadmin recruiting going?
Having been in this space for nearly 30 years, the quality of the candidates seems lower now than in the 90's.
I recall working with people enthusiastic and curious about the technology we were administering. They'd have hobbies or intrests in adjacent but relevant areas.
Many now need more supervision than they receive. I also suspect the poor performers drag down the pay scales.
AvocadoPanic
11mo ago
Impossible to know, or impossible to say?
AvocadoPanic
11mo ago
You're predicting Trump loses Alaska?
AvocadoPanic
11mo ago
Trust a New York City jury?
New York City couldn't be trusted to make picante sauce.
AvocadoPanic
11mo ago
I think Stewart Rhodes was overcharged and over sentenced but I wouldn't describe his actions as civil disobedience either. Is he being prevented from writing letters to newspapers?
Weren't the Oath Keepers infiltrated by informants and under cover agents?
AvocadoPanic
11mo ago
@SSCReader inserted Thoreau, I was agreeing as an example of peaceful civil disobedience. I find him a better example than the mobs blocking traffic. Compared to Gandhi he's a poser, but still a better example of civil disobedience than the BLM rioters / looters / demonstrators.
AvocadoPanic
11mo ago
Thoreau, MLK, Gandhi all went to prison / jail. The demonstrations today are not civil disobedience, I understand the demonstrators of today want to inherit the legacy of civil disobedience, at best they're wearing it as a skin suit.
As you correctly point out the demonstrators are in collusion with factions in the government. Where did historic civil disobedience collude with the nominal opposition to effect change by breaking laws orthogonal to their demands?
Can any crime be newspeak civil disobedience, bank robbery, murder?
AvocadoPanic
11mo ago
Thoreau, yes. Gandhi and MLK also. All examples of peaceful civil disobedience. Equating their work and the the BLM lawlessness is grotesque.
Blocking roads and harassing motorists is not spinning cotton or mining salt. There's no nexus between the 'demands' and the disobedience.
Much of the effect of civil disobedience is forcing the state to arrest and prosecute you for your violations. The greater the nexus of the violation to your complaint the better. Frequently leading them to appear petty and vindictive, rallying others to your cause.
AvocadoPanic
11mo ago
Or if they're not being arrested, they may be shot / run over.
AvocadoPanic
11mo ago
Mobs blocking streets and harassing motorists is civil? If they were more civil he'd probably still be alive.
AvocadoPanic
1yr ago
Not to answer for @VinoVeritas I suspect he's referring to Romans 11.
What are branches? Some are broken off, others grafted on.
Christ denying jews being outside the covenant is news to you?
AvocadoPanic
1yr ago
OP doesn't sound like he's only looking for a shag.
OP may have to die before the truth is revealed. Cyrano as a service.
AvocadoPanic
1yr ago
Yes, but they deserved it this year.
AvocadoPanic
1yr ago
An audio file that plays on launch like 'It really whips the llama' s ass! '
instead it's JKR saying 'You will never be a woman!'
AvocadoPanic
1yr ago
Fixed
AvocadoPanic
1yr ago
Preemptively drive them away through support of some culture war topic?
AvocadoPanic
1yr ago
Cyrano as a service. I don't hate the idea.
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/israeli-official-expelled-over-use-of-fake-passports-1.678818
https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-20424935.html
I was living in Ireland for this. It was well reported but didn't really persist.
AvocadoPanic
1yr ago
Booth was hugely popular and successful, perhaps the most popular and successful of his day.
AvocadoPanic
1yr ago
not so gay song
Not gay at all. He's engaged to a woman, Padre Pio and the Apostle Paul are his spiritual role models.
The video is fun too https://youtube.com/watch?v=kmg8EAD-Kjw?si=igvoPTcj2GAdBn9i
AvocadoPanic
1yr ago
6
AvocadoPanic
1yr ago
UK - A gay guy sings while buff male backing dancers gyrate on eachother
Nul Points from tele voting
AvocadoPanic
1yr ago
Maybe they're still salty over Isreal's use of fraudulent Irish passports / identities for their intelligence agencies wet work.
Even at 6 figures the quality is poorer than I recall.
I suspect it's the increased size of the industry that we're failing to produce the quality candidates at scale or there is insufficient human capital as a starting point.
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