hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
4d ago
I tried to read the book review before making a top level response, I really did. But I couldn't make it past this part without going on a rant:
In practice “deep” just meant “un‑measured.”
It should certainly raise our hackles when an organization claims its strengths are unmeasurable. Like maybe these people are lying.
But more to the point, there seems to be this mentality of the educational institution being what matters. Not results, not the kids. The system. Spending more money on public schools is automatically better, even if it's spent on buying cigarettes to pass out to the kids it's better than spending the money on some not-public-school-related thing. Iron law I suppose.
None of this is casting shade on individual teachers, who mostly care about how the kids are doing, would like to be paid more but wouldn't everybody, and are simply very conformist women who've been taught that people pulling ideas out of their assholes are 'experts' who should be listened to. Union heads and admins, on the other hand...
I think we see this mentality on wild display with the principle in this first section- she is, by virtue of her position, entitled to deference and respect and obviously knows best, correspondence to reality be damned.
hydroacetylene
4d ago
Sure, but photos of a topless woman will only ever be enforced against pornsites or LGBT stuff.
hydroacetylene
4d ago
Unskilled labor has never been enough to support a family- that's why poverty was abject well into living memory. A teenage breadwinner requires supplementation by welfare.
It's certainly possible for a teenager to pay for groceries, diapers, and a room in a flophouse. But not wanting to do that is the reason we don't marry as teens.
hydroacetylene
4d ago
I mean, I think it's worth noting that part and parcel of the traditional system is Unsubtle Hints to Put a Ring on it Already from the woman's male relatives before this comes up. Of course people in the past didn't date for years and live together without having sex- because they dated for a couple of months and then got married. Some of them had sex first, of course, but it's a lot easier to wait two months than two years. Shotgun weddings preserved the woman's honor because courtships were just short enough that it came out in the wash anyways.
hydroacetylene
4d ago
This was the original meaning of citizenship, incidentally- it would be recognizable to an Athenian that one of the perks of citizenship status is the right to make citizen babies.
hydroacetylene
4d ago
So they have to get rid of the porn?
Whatever you think of porn on an individual level, it has ruinous effects on society. A chilling effect on porn is clearly 'good', even if a determined actor can still get it. 'Not having porn on hobbyist sites' seems well worth whatever inconvenience it causes to people with the weirdest hobbies ever.
hydroacetylene
4d ago
I mean, masturbation pretty clearly does feel really, really good. It, uh, results in an orgasm.
hydroacetylene
4d ago
Last I checked a majority of what PP does is not-social-conservative-approved-but-uncontroversially-healthcare stuff like STD treatments. That being said, this is still the equivalent of the state of New York not sending federal gun safety program money to the NRA, despite being the nationwide leader in elementary school gun safety training and range safety training. They kinda made their bed and now must lie in it.
hydroacetylene
4d ago
Mindgeek has already pulled out of Texas, supposedly. A coworker told me that pornhub comes up as a form asking him to contact his state rep and a link to a VPN. I'm unwilling to check this myself but I remember reading news articles about it.
hydroacetylene
4d ago
I have a genuine question- most of continental Europe uses a three tier education system with kids destined for college, trade school, and unskilled labour literally in different schools. Do European countries administer the PISA test to all levels of school or only the gymnasia? If the latter, it would have much the same effect as only testing middle class white kids in the US.
hydroacetylene
4d ago
You're much better taking a conventional Spanish class with grammar and homework and taking field trips to the taqueria.
hydroacetylene
4d ago
I've noticed this blue tribe insane striver culture, like white orientals. I feel bad for their children and strongly believe the striving doesn't actually do anything. But at the end of the day, it is the default response to a hyper-credentialist culture with overproduced elites(see also, oriental countries). I... don't actually know what we can do about it, other than to let the blue tribe shrivel up and die from the low fertility this produces.
hydroacetylene
4d ago
Yes, you could, but you also won't learn much from reading them, which is the entire point of school.
hydroacetylene
4d ago
On one side I have the family tree, supported by Catholic church records, going back to 1200 AD. I'm confident it's provable that I qualify.
hydroacetylene
4d ago
Not much of a comment on the rest of your post- I broadly pretty much agree and appreciate the exponentiation on my point- but I think a huge supermajority of Finnish immigrants are very recent, so all of them are first or second gen.
I suppose it's possible that there was some large Sami-Finn fertility differential that opened up exactly the right time ago, but my guess is that the Sami don't have scores that much lower than the Finnish majority anyways. My guess would be changing teaching practices with bad results, but I don't think we have the data to really tell.
hydroacetylene
5d ago
I think high spending high performance blue states throw the correlation into something too crazy to be a correlation.
hydroacetylene
5d ago
But then again, we have sealed food order bags for the delivery apps for 'peace of mind', so its likely that this type of thing is common, even for low value goods.
I suspect tamper proofing is less about drivers stealing and more about liability for the order coming through wrong.
hydroacetylene
5d ago
Pathetic, disgusting. Using your child as a shield and making them do bad things. I have heard that some places like SF dont have felony charges unless you dont strike a threshold amount, meaning that you can legally send kids to steal a lot of stuff regularly and not face any consequences legally either.
The use of minors to commit crimes is quite common; the main reason in the US that dads don't do this more often is that the criminal class are, uh, not very involved fathers. They do like to befriend fatherless adolescents(even ghetto mommas don't like their kids kids hanging around criminals much) to recruit them into being patsies though.
hydroacetylene
5d ago
NFP is overwhelmingly a method used by hardcore Catholics and not the underclass; actual lower class people use condoms.
hydroacetylene
5d ago
Normal people do not use NFP to refer to anything other than using it as birth control, unfortunately.
hydroacetylene
5d ago
Just curious- other than one great grandfather, all of my ancestors were in the continental US before 1776(many were in then-Spanish Louisiana, but the rest were in the thirteen colonies). Do I count?
hydroacetylene
5d ago
The one who banned the abortion pill?
hydroacetylene
5d ago
This is about teenagers, not homeless people. It is, specifically, an age verification law- yes, getting around it is probably very doable for a motivated young lad, but we can reasonably assume that the people the law is explicitly targeted at are the ones most affected.
hydroacetylene
5d ago
For comparison, the average Catholic(best ranked school system in the US) high school tuition nationwide is around $10k, public high schools in the US average around $19k in per student spending, no correlation between spending and outcomes.
For common denominator education, I'd guess $10k a kid is pretty close to the minimum.
I guess I like orgasms more than you. Or maybe you get much more enjoyment out of videogames than I ever have.
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