Americans also don't have testing for schools. The magnet and private schools do, but most American public schools just let you in. They may hold a student back, but not for long because a horny 13 year old is a big problem in grade school. Grade school was the traditional out point for students, so most left after that and went to work on the farm or factory.
Schools after that were more exclusive and demanded more from students. If you could prove yourself, you could make it to higher education, and even university. Both of my grandparents started at low levels and worked to the top. So a dirt farmer in Argentina became a dentist in Germany and the US, or a train worker went on to work in a chemistry lab studying radioactive materials and oil from shale. The US government paid for all of that in one way or another, but it made sense since so few did that. I won't go on and on, but things changed even when my Dad was getting his doctorate, and was a pyramid scheme by the time I got in.
However, schools can be different. In Germany, if you showed an aptitude for building and working with your hands they got you an apprenticeship style education. There have been some very smart people that came out of that. Many of the first real rocket engineers, the ones fought over near the end of World War II, didn't have a university education. The first terrorist bomber in Europe could rewire a pa system to communicate with his girlfriend in another cell. That's the official story anyway.
Education in England had two types, the geeky clerics and the world traveling rich. Private school was the teacher who took the students as they travelled to explain history and numbers. This was a very educated clerk. The term doctor and master came from the clerks. Rich people paid for their children to study and pass tests at monasteries and libraries for a better understanding.
The public school was the monastery and the private one was the traveling clerk. Since both got popular they separated and became their own thing after a long time. We still wear the clerical robes to show off how smart we are. The president of the school looks like he should be fighting crime.
The American school system was clerks only, and often paid for by public money and care. That's why it feels so different.
The Chinese had a similar thing with grand tests to move up to the next great rank. You knew the health of the dynasty based on how many applied for the test. If it was too many, the entire thing was about to collapse. There's a book about the Hell of this testing, but I can't remember the name and can't find it on Amazon.
Much of the testing we have in Europe came from those ideas, because it was such an important country to us at the time. The Americans basically got rid of that except for a few tests.
Sorry, I'm now thinking about it too much.
He's capable of realizing how ass is huge when confronted with it. Most politicians today are way past that. I wonder which ones set 1234 for their luggage though?
Yeah, I am stuck at a part I think is near the beginning. It was building up, and suddenly I am being swarmed and need to clear the area before I can move on. Death Knights are transporting in, and the button moves are really awkward to use.
They've been working on it for a while. I'm guessing they're too cheap to make it DEI.
I look forward to more complaining about 1980's consumerism.
I've been enjoying Boltgun, and Space Marines 2 has a new trailer.
I just realized Yasuke is a modern Donderklau. There was a guy named Mae who would research and then write adventure stories about other cultures. If he didn't know an aspect, it became very eastern European with a skin change.
Donderklau or Thunder Hand was a white guy who joined the Navajos and became blood brothers with the great chiefs. It's a matriarchal society that doesn't like blood.
Characters like this show up all the time in literature. Jon Smith and Pocahontas probably never met, but he wrote a tell all story in his 80's to pay rent. Guess what we believe today?
Most of AC is inserted figures. This is just taking it to the absurd.
I wish I could act surprised.
Lovecraft's Monsters is a short story collection of fan fiction for Lovecraft's world. I enjoyed most of them.
Clockwork Elf by Alfred Haus. It's a horror adventure mix set in Victorian England while an elf and an engineer hunt monsters.
Yes, I watched the animated movie.
Superman is still a good man, but what he defends is evil. It's an interesting look.
This is fun to watch.
I had a weird revelation on this subject the other day. Most guys grow up with stories of bear attacks. It's a well known thing, and the more country you get, the more it becomes real.
It's also dependent on the type of bear. The black bears in Florida would just as soon leave. A grizzly bear in the northwest will attack for the fun of it.
So a very sheltered person has no real idea how dangerous a bear is. They've literally never been taught.
Now think about every decision and maneuver in the last few years. Does it seem like a very sheltered group with no real world experience is making choices based on what they want things to be? Do they even understand what their choices actually are?
Seeing as that's how they get their hands in the purse...
I can understand if it's JK Simmons, but most voice actors are trying to sound like so one else anyway.
The soft sciences as well. I had a class on business anthropology and was told it was evil to even consider.
It's at very least a pyramid scheme. We graduate 100-200 history majors a year per university, and have 5,000 universities with history departments of 10-20 people. That's each university, every year. It's expected that the cream of the crop rise to the top, but we've churned so many out we wouldn't know good if it bit us. Heck, we might actually punish good.
The best part is we don't aim History majors at jobs outside of academia. The ability to research at that level would be amazing for businesses. This should be a great job making degree. No one is taught how to promote it or even apply outside of academia. Then if someone comes from the outside with research, we then say that person isn't good enough because they haven't worked in the pyramid scheme.
It's a perfect system to exploit if you knew how and wanted power or money.
The comic and movie Surrogates sort of covers this.
Is it because they're Flaming?
This gets promised every few years and nothing happens. I would love to have the Blues in Idaho, but I highly doubt it would happen.
I wonder what would happen if Spokane or Yakima joined Idaho?
Snohomish has tried breaking away from King, and still gets ruled over. It took forever for them to get a snow plow of their own. SNO is in the name!
AMD used to be my go to choice. They had the cheaper but no less powerful options for everything. I remember when they bought ati.
NVidia has made AI research basically require one of their cards. It's really annoying, but also why they are so rich. When every console uses their cards, and AI needs them as well, they've won.
I want AMD to win, but I see no chance.
But can I pet the cat?
I personally want all of these people who pro ote these ideas to go back to San Francisco and rot. If they built a giant wall around the city and tossed in guns in San Fran, so many actual native PNWs would pay to watch it unfold.
Proud Boys are the big rival sports team in the minds of Portlanders. It's disgusting to watch, but very true.
So the Germans are banned from singing a French song by a woman that is partially Italian because it might be used to kick out non Europeans? Not all of Germany, just Bavaria.
I was just thinking about how my wife began singing Du Hast at me when she found out I was German.