hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
1hr ago
Not in American usage. Rural town means it's not part of a larger metro, or at least not connected to it/too far for reasonable commuting. America would use the term 'farm town' for what you're envisioning(which may not be a town), a 'rural town' might be supported by tourism, mining, a single large employer, etc. A major city is something with suburbs and a suburb is attached to a major city(but may or may not have a population that commutes there for work; some suburbs have more people commuting in from the city than out to the city) and an exurb is a town detached from the major city but economically dependent on a large portion of its population commuting there. A 'village' sounds like something thirdworlders live in.
hydroacetylene
3hr ago
To be clear I don’t quite understand the job-qualification reasons for elementary school teachers to need high school diplomas, let alone masters degrees, and would would replace elementary school teachers with the top x% of 11th grade girls if made supreme dictator. But what I remember from middle/high school was turning in homework, the teacher passing it out again in a random order, and having to Mark answers with a differently coloured pen as the teacher called them out. Tests were mostly scantron and graded by machine. The teacher had to grade essays, but not day to day assignments.
hydroacetylene
5hr ago
What I remember from school was having to grade each other's papers.
hydroacetylene
8hr ago
Pretty normal striver parenting- her kid being average is just not a comprehensible idea. But normie blacks use corporal punishment up and down the class ladder much more heavily than whites do; support for corporal punishment in institutional settings is mostly blacks and white southerners, and this includes fairly up-middle class people.
hydroacetylene
20hr ago
I'm used to apple cider being the default there and plenty of parents just letting their kid have a small quantity of wine or champagne, with sparkling grape juice being used as a punch, served out of a bowl?
hydroacetylene
20hr ago
The south became roughly as republican as the national average in the late seventies and was more republican by the nineties. Your timelines don't match up.
hydroacetylene
20hr ago
Yeah, the confederacy would have been better served by a more aggressive strategy, because they were going to lose a war of attrition and needed a decisive victory early.
hydroacetylene
20hr ago
Latin America is full of dumb regulations, rent seeking, and corruption. I wouldn't doubt that Brazil has the same thing, and just relies on income inequality to make up for it.
hydroacetylene
20hr ago
It's like a gun shop, but for black dudes.
hydroacetylene
20hr ago
Barbers are like that. Or they're altchicks. Have to be into heavy metal to do barbering.
hydroacetylene
20hr ago
In certain neighborhoods in Dallas ISD, part of the benefit of accepting a housekeeping job is your employer lying to the schools about where your kids live- the school doesn’t care, these are mostly well behaved Hispanics whose parents believe in the Chancla, and if they show up to school, they get $9k on top of the property taxes from the sorts of houses that have full time housekeepers in Dallas. The kids get a better education. The employers get to throw in a fringe benefit practically for free. Their kids, of course, go to private schools, mostly Catholic or episcopal.
hydroacetylene
20hr ago
Socially, however, this is not good, you’d have to concentrate the genii anyways.
hydroacetylene
20hr ago
A good teacher would have said ‘put it back in the bag, under your jockstrap and gym socks, I didn’t see anything this time’.
hydroacetylene
20hr ago
And then get lynched? The gods of copybook heading will return, one way or another.
hydroacetylene
20hr ago
UBI, but only for the deeply involved in church or subcultural scenes. UBI, for those who forswear politics and vow to embrace lowest common denominator slop. UBI, for those who pledge to do too many drugs to seek societal change
hydroacetylene
22hr ago
Does Germany have mandatory voting?
hydroacetylene
22hr ago
Correct me if I’m wrong but these migration background voters are mostly German citizens. That may be a bad idea but the law probably says ‘citizen of Germany’ not ‘person with light enough skin’.
hydroacetylene
22hr ago
Lots of credentialed women will just stubbornly believe institutions over their own lying eyes.
hydroacetylene
23hr ago
It’s worth noting that actual normie black parents are usually the first in line to demand schools bring back paddling. They believe in discipline but have trouble enforcing it without external assistance.
hydroacetylene
23hr ago
For the former I have to say that, as a third worlder, I just find it despicable (Susan Wolf didn't have to work hard to convince me sainthood wasn't necessarily an unalloyed good). You send your kid to the best school you can and damn everyone else. I
This scenario just wouldn’t be plausible in countries where misbehaving children are beaten instead of given the run of the place- no matter the parent’s resources, schools in Africa do not have this specific problem. The instructional quality at this school was almost certainly fine to good- this particular girl just couldn’t take advantage of it due to the other students’ behavior.
I suspect this is part of the Mississippi miracle- in the Deep South, disciplining children is broadly popular, including among the black population. The average person thinks schools should use harsher methods, not more empathetic ones, even if there’s a race difference in outcome. One or two particularly bad kids would simply be removed from the class, and everyone else quiets down a bit.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
The confederacy fought because they believed the planter class was owed a veto right over federal policy, and they had pre-abolitionist dust ups over this regularly. They seceded after losing control of the senate and then the presidency in quick succession, not in response to any specific policies.
In the 1860’s, this was specifically manifested as slavery. But they’d previously gotten into it with pro-slavery presidents. The non-slavery parts of the CSA constitution are also revealing- all about Plutocracy and the natural rights of large landholders to govern.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
The civil war wasn’t really about slavery- I mean sûre, slavery is how I’d explain it to children, it was the proximal issue, so it’s not totally unfair to call it that. The civil war was about whether southern elites should have a veto over US policy on the whole. This is, in the minds of liberals(and perhaps nowhere else), a live issue again. You should just read liberal propaganda and connect the threads.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Youth sports on Sunday morning are considered a shocking and recent intrusion of degeneracy in my area- but Sunday afternoons were never as sacred.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
There’s tons of haircutting places in suburban strip malls. Single men go to them because their wife cant very well give them a hair cut(she, after all, doesn’t exist).
This is America, and there are neighborhoods in the city center which are exurban in most metros.
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