warpus
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You say that as if any of this is organized or planned around the needs of the employees.
Student takeover at Evergreen State College
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You say that as if any of this is organized or planned around the needs of the employees.
Farm Boy
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There is no particular reason regional cities shouldn't be viable. Considering all concentrations of humanity require space to feed and dispose of their waste, pocketing them around so they use at least vaguely local resources isn't a bad plan, much as we've gotten used to being supplied internationally on everything from steel to fresh fish. Massive sprawl is pretty wasteful, but jamming most things into megalopolis is likewise redonk. Massive lifestyle changes are massive lifestyle changes. And they certainly aren't adroitly copeable with, and neither is the evidence particularly strong that it's a goodness to cope with them in this manner.
warpus
Sommerswerd asked me to change this
I don't disagree, but again.. you say all this as if the needs of the employees and potential homeowners are kept in mind in some sort of a master plan.
Berzerker
Deity
The guy under attack is Jewish
Hygro
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Programmer starting wages were pushing 100k three years ago. Now pushing 120k. Rents have been leveling out the past two.
Berzerker
Deity
Public speaking takes talent but did you hear the one student outside reading the message at a mic? It got so bad even the speaker laughed and apologized for screwing up. A woman said we had civilization before you to the head administrator. Now I understand she's angry about racism, but she used the same argument racists use - we're superior, you're primitive. I'm not so sure primitive isn't superior. There's a theory about why we haven't heard from alien civilizations - they killed themselves off with their superiority.
sophie
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I think I'd agree. At the very least it'd be nice if we implemented a system akin to Germany's/Belgium's/The Netherland's: at age-13 or 14 you get placed in a high school corresponding to a track your parents and teachers feel you have an aptitude for, whether that be a university or a trade school or an apprenticeship or whatever. Americans tend to retch anytime the possibility of an individual's future is decided for them rather than by them. But that system more or less exists de facto now, between school advisers railroading kids into lanes (high-performing kids get placed in accelerated math tracks and AP classes, essentially pre-requisites for admission into 4-year unis now), the cost of applications, how essential strong letters of recommendation are, how classist SAT/ACT results can be at times. At least in Germany if you aren't going to make it into a uni they set you up with a career track you can pursue post-compulsory education rather than shoulder-shrugging and saying "sorry, bud".
I've always rather liked the idea of the government issuing what essentially amounts to an entrance-exam, and that dictating what universities you can go to, rather than this wishy-washy "well you got a 4.0, but you didn't take any APs and your school has low STAR test scores, but you do have some extra-curriculars, but they're all random and you didn't stay in any for very long" bullcrap.
I always loved this concept but the execution is problematic. It's like the US college exams (ACT, SAT) There's always claims that they are designed to favor white kids. It's difficult to design a test that is totally neutral in bias. Even straight math exams have been subject to that claim. Can it really be that difficult? But yeah, a test that predicts you path, but gives the person a method to challenge the results because no test is perfect.
