

Sweet. Now all we have to do is find the Stargate and we can time travel.
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Sweet. Now all we have to do is find the Stargate and we can time travel.
If every student needed the same amount of support, that would be correct. But that is not the case.
Public school districts are required by law to provide whatever is needed for a student’s education. That even includes some students beyond the age of 18.
That includes everything from academically gifted students to English language learners to special needs students who require full time, 1x1 caregivers. I’ve personally worked as a substitute teacher in some of those special needs classes.
All of those specially educators and the facilities needed all cost more than an average general education kindergarten teacher.
When parents of kids who are average of slightly above average and don’t have a lot of special needs (read: often the more affluent families) pull their kids out, the ratio of kids with more meds changes.
Again, that extra support is required by laws passed by this same Tennessee legislature.
And you also ignored the issue of voluntary parent fundraising they is the lifeblood of many schools. That’s a massive gap that is made worse when affluent families pull their kids out.
Educational funding in most of the USA works a bit like insurance and/or a healthy social system. Everyone pays in based on their means - creates a pool of resources - then kids get assistance/education based on needs.
The trick here is that a lot of the kids with the most need are from families with the least means. So if the ratio of kids who need extra help/resources goes up because rich families all pull their kids out, then the schools won’t have enough funding to cover the needs of the kids that are left.
That’s exacerbated by the fact that schools in most of the USA (and definitely TN: I live in Nashville) are woefully underfunded, and rely in fundraisers and parent support groups to fill the gap in funding so teachers can have even basic supplies. Again, if most of the affluent families leave, there will be fewer parents of means there to help fill the gap.
It’s another example of rich families wanting to be able to opt out of helping poor ones.
But 1) I sincerely don’t think he sees it that way and 2) it doesn’t weaken Putin’s position. I don’t honestly believe Trump is a direct asset, but I 100% believe Putin has people closer enough to pull strings and plant ideas with a man who is very clearly open to any suggestions if they are pitched with a populist and/or 1%er bent.
I live in Nashville (and my sister lives in Germany). You should be fine. It’s a great place to visit.
Any place in the world has the small chance of a drunken idiot making a fool of themselves by revealing themselves to be racist. We’re no different. But you’re not going to be harassed by police officers or anything like that (unless you’re doing something worthy of their attention anyway).
The only places where I’d be the slightest bit concerned would be in the small town rural areas between Nashville and the national park. Even then you should be fine, but the odds of running into a racist idiot will go up from like 1% to 3%. And even if you do, it’s not like you’ll be in danger. They’ll just do their best to make you uncomfortable by saying something nasty. They won’t refuse you service or anything crazy like that.
Honestly, even in those areas you’re likely to be looked at suspiciously because of your foreign accent more than the color of your skin.
Subtle Doppler effect if you want it to be really accurate. Raise the pitch slightly and gradually add it gets ‘closer’. If understand if it’s music and that would mess with things though
You might know this and I’m missing the sarcasm, but Musk can’t be president (or VP). He’s not a native born citizen. President is one of the few places where being a naturalized citizen isn’t enough.
Which is why I said “environment and quality of life” - they don’t want their cities dominated by cars (making life dangerous for pedestrians) and for cars to become a requirement for living. So taxes are added to discourage (not eliminate) driving and car ownership
But also, the mess of smog from exhaust and other impacts beyond climate change have been known since the first automobiles. Concerns about the ‘environment’ is more than greenhouse gasses.
The fuel tax isn’t enough to cover the damage to the environment and quality of life, though. That’s why taxes are that high in many other places. Same way cigarettes are taxed to help discourage use and to help cover the increased healthcare costs it puts on everyone
I mean, he is 78 years old, apparently never exercises, and eats McDonald’s on a regular basis…
Being kind and giving extra resources to those with disabilities, and to some degree even those of lower status. In theory, pure evolution should operate selfishly (more for me less for you) most of the time and even a more complex evolutionary pressure that seeks the benefit of the species vs the individual. There’s no benefit to caring for and giving resources to those who can’t or objectively (again, to from a pure genetics perspective l shouldn’t be allowed to breed. But morally, as a society, we care extra for them, not less. Anyone who wants to be rid of or take from those unfortunates are (rightly) considered sociopaths.
That side is definitely the most interesting, but the reverse side of the Problem of Evil is interesting too: if there is no god/God, then why do we call things evil. How can we apply some objective morality if everything is random and subjective?
There are good and interesting arguments related to evolution creating a sense of common morality, like an instinct, to drive behavior that is beneficial to the continuation of the species and a bloodline. But some of what we consider moral is uniquely against a ‘survival of the fittest’ framework.
Like I said, at the very least it is interesting
One you’ve seen before and enjoy.
Probably better if it is dialog-heavy vs one that’s mostly visual and action
Cool story, but not where that comes from and not how that phrase is used.
“Just under the wire” means “just in time”, “at the last second”, etc.
It comes from horse racing and the wire they would strong across the finish line. Same as “down to the wire”
Guidehouse is the firm. Saved you a click.
Meta gave the donation, not Zuck personally? Somehow that seems extra sleezy. Not only a payoff, but using someone else’s money to do it.
When in doubt, bricklink.com will have anything, just a matter of what the price will be
Fair point. Even music has been turned into a continuous revenue model.
I don’t know a single investor that would not like a game studio that said “we have a massive back catalog of IP that is raking in cash with nearly no additional development or maintenance cost. We’ll try to keep making new games to keep the IP fresh and see if we hit it big again, but in the meantime, enjoy the money printing machine back catalog”.
It’s basically what Disney does at this point.
And, for that matter, record/music labels. Most records labels lose money on the majority of new artists they sign. It’s the 1-in-10 that break even and 1-1000 that go big and the 1-in-10,000 that fill out huge back catalog they just keep milking.
A viable protest of decent size in my city that I can join. Even a few hundred people would be enough. Organized enough that I hear about it a week out and can shift my plans to be there.