And for those who have kids that don’t. That’s fine too. Not everyone is born exceptional or super interested in this kinda shit. That’s fine too. Most of what makes a person themselves is genetic anyway.
Parenting can try to dull or hone those edges to something wicked or calmer if needed though. Even then, brains are different. Don’t be surprised when they are.
This wouldn’t stop my imaginary cat. It would speed him up.
Same.
They took our not-assault weapons and made people think they’re for pussies! I’m not a pussy! And it’s not an assault weapon! I pinky promise I don’t have the $1 pin to make it full auto or a bevvy of large capacity magazines because the NRA’s two year pump and dump was looking out for us!
Where’s the fun in killing bla deer with a 30ot6?
Thanks for the chuckle!
Just so we’re clear for anybody else reading since they chose to ignore the easy refutation lol.
That the money is still present in the economy and provides jobs to hundreds of thousands of people in the supply chain both through sales, materials production, assembly, and labor, entertainment, and local economy boons from festivals.
I also wouldn’t mind the 💩 talk lol.
Hard agree.
I think a good start is more funding for the IRS and hitting the rich harder with taxes.
Depends on if you’re a Chinese balloon… in which case… have fun eating AIM-9X Sidewinder missiles fired from a U.S. Air Force F-22 Raptor lol.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Chinese_balloon_incident
https://www.faa.gov/aircraft/air_cert/design_approvals/balloons
Gotcha. I misunderstood a bit and thought you were talking about your local council or government representatives vs people like your District Superintendent.
It’s been a while since I’ve taken a look at a local school district’s organizational chart so I used the one here.
FWIW I pulled up a 2011 study that shows consolidation of most school districts has already been done to the point of maximum efficiency. It’s also extremely detrimental to poor and impoverished districts.
Research also suggests that impoverished regions in particular often benefit from smaller schools and districts, and they can suffer irreversible damage if consolidation occurs. For these reasons, decisions to deconsolidate or consolidate districts are best made on a case-by-case basis. While state-level consolidation proposals may serve a public relations purpose in times of crisis, they are unlikely to be a reliable way to obtain substantive fiscal or educational improvement.
https://nepc.colorado.edu/publication/consolidation-schools-districts
We should just nationalize the schools and their funding,
Yes… through increasing taxes.
ridding us of thousands of inefficient and expensive local and regional administrations
I’m really not sure how you imagine making that work. Maybe you’re just not all that familiar with what local government does? Because it’s usually a lot. For very little pay.
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y u trying to axe me questions?
Wow, that wasn’t hard to bait the racist lol.
2.7 billion dollars gone in a cloud of smoke.
… you know that’s not how money works right?
Sure I’m paying for a pencil and paper, but you don’t need massive investment into means of production to create that.
… now that’s a silly take. A nearly $300 billion industry.
Paper creation is one of the worst sources of pollution and water drains on the planet. Far, far, far more than anything dealing with AI lol. Orders of magnitude higher.
Worldwide, the pulp and paper industry is the fifth largest consumer of energy, accounting for four percent of all the world’s energy use.
Pulp and paper generates the third largest amount of industrial air, water, and land emissions in Canada and the sixth largest in the United States.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulp_and_paper_industry
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1073451/global-market-value-pulp-and-paper/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_effects_of_paper
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2468584419300479
Writing instruments are a $17 billion industry… Get off the internet for a bit. Doomerism is getting to you.
https://www.grandviewresearch.com/industry-analysis/writing-instruments-market
Now… how to actually get suburban people to vote yes on the referendum to raise their own property taxes to get the school repaired…
Right? Like who the fuck doesn’t know language evolves? It’s literally conservative to not create new words and refine semantics.
I get it. Grammar Nazis were one of the few things poor and middle class racists had to feel superior to them.
It’s literally racist old man yells at cloud meme half the time.
I’d fap to that.
It’s a ‘made up’ conversation with a coworker.
1: Why do you always have to be right?
2: You were literally bitching about getting a raise and losing money. That’s not how that works!
1: Anecdote lawyer politicians taxes useless idiot not even a Republican talking point drivel.
2: Stare and say nothing.
1: Implodes a month later by sending out emails to everyone across the company about work being work and gets fired.
2: Goes back to work short staffed.
To be honest a big part of this was that it was a quasi-loot game. You had to do the rpg type mechanic where you plugged a bunch of items together that you get dropped after playing and do a ton of items synthesis. It kept you playing for ages to try new unlocks.
I’m sure the game wasn’t balanced well for characters either but for the average little shitass it was great.
S’mores is where it’s at now anyway.