I have to admit I agree with everything you wrote. This was my school time as well.

The one I work at now is much smaller (120 kids max) and has a relatively high educator-to-kid ratio (more than 1 to 10, but not all work full time), but there’s something inherently counterproductive in the system itself: the division into classes by age, the idea that older is better, but then mixing all these kids up again. Not all kids are bound to do stupid shit, but most kids are bound to look up to those slightly older ones, and most of those take advantage of that… and that’s all before puberty hits. Take that into the mix - 💣

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Some people just cannot wrap their head around the difference between totalitarianism and socialism.

But I will say this: viewing political opinion on a straight line never really made much sense. At the very least one should think of it as a field (2 dimensions instead of 1). And of course this does NOT mean that I approve of the horseshit theory.

I’m guessing it was made by someone who identifies as a Liberal, seeing as according to the diagram it’s the only correct choice, as everything else is closer to Fascism.

Yep. Some people really think lack of opinion is some form of enlightenment, that they stand above things because they say “I can see both sides” to everything.

There used to be a group of people that believed in both universal health care and understood risk pools, and would not directly vote to restrict personal rights.

You mean social democrats (or just slightly left leaning Democrats for USians)? TIL they are a mixture of extreme right and extreme left.

Thr horshoe no longer exists today in any meaningful way

Never did. Because it’s a theory.

You mean social media?

Youtube fucking around again.

I heard this is a bigger one?

Well at least they didn’t send you out to look for the kids!

While materially things are better at my school, the emotional aspect of it sounds familiar. Nevertheless, your bosses do the guilt tripping? I would think it’s typically the parents, sometimes better-than-thou coworkers.

I’m beginning to think that working at a school, the days you go home with a knot in your stomach and a lump in your throat will always outweigh those when you feel things went well and you’re appreciated.

I used to work in a kindergarten before that and never realized how much I appreciated the smaller and tighter, more exclusive environment. I know how to deal with kids that age. We spend the whole day together. They might be mean, too, but never as mean as a school kid can be, and I just know my way around their emotions, usually.

In school, they are under so many people’s responsibility during one day, no wonder they start rebelling.

Oh yeah, “The Smaller Of Two Evils” - they said in 2016. A few years later I asked: “how did that work out for you?” - embarrassed silence. One of the best I-told-you-so-moments I ever had.

Liberalism is enlightenment?

yes but aren’t you itching to do something?

I work with kids in Northern Europe and I don’t even know how to relate to this.

My pay is shitty (I’m not an actual teacher) and I never made it a secret that I’m not paying for anything myself. I buy, collect receipts, and get the money back from my employer with my paycheck. And I collect all the receipts. This has never been a problem, but some coworkers seem to feel morally superior because they buy it from their own money and just wave it off, kinda. I find that baffling. It has nothing to do with having actual dedication to your job.

The situation is very different from yours I guess.

The rally aspect / 24h endurance is new to me, but trash car races have existed for times immemorial. Or maybe I’m not quite grasping the concept here?

It certainly looks fun though!

The AUR used to have a version of Android’s TTS.

Then there’s flitevox or just flite (should be in most distro’s main repositories) which imho is much better than espeak(-ng), but not as good as datamining-funded Google’s TTS.

In any case, you should check out voices that are often available as separate downloads, they might sound much better than the default.

They’ve been doing this since 2001 at least. Not to speak of gerrymandering and making voting hard for poor people.

They will question everything if there isn’t a clear win.

Why the sane half of the country just accepted defeat in '24 - nobody wanted to sound like a deranged MAGAt I guess.

What can you do? The whole system is a swiss cheese with more holes than cheese.

Is that per year?

Considering what I heard how underequipped most schools over there are, it doesn’t sound like much.

It’s a vicious circle.

Court ordered - return when?

Political arsonist’s dream:

Considering recent election results in Texas there’s hope still.

AFAIU: local elections, overwhelmingly pro-education, pro-social services candidates, practically no MAGA at all. Correct me if I’m off.