There are a couple cases a year in the States. It’s treatable now, that’s the difference

Worked with a guy who hasn’t had a seizure in years and had stopped taking his meds. He never disclosed any of this beforehand. Was a fun surprise when he started to get loopy staring at a rotating motor shaft then trying to touch then hug said shaft spinning at several hundred rpm. Pulled him back from trying to bear hug it for him to start convulsing. Trying to carefully lay him down and support his skull to prevent it from cracking on the concrete and metal flooring was an adventure I’d rather never go on again

I think the issue lies in that the corporations have an incentive to keep the increased carbon footprint and the average person composting or sorting trash for recycling (typical footprint reduction suggestions) does nothing to reduce this incentive. Moving the markets desires away from items with high carbon footprints is a monumental task and one we should strive for but a faster method of reduction would be direct pressure to the corporations exploiting cheap labor that has a higher carbon footprint cost

Those are all true statements but I was referring to the degradation from the top levels (fed/state) pushing for private schooling and further ignoring public education despite the fact that it would be an investment into the country as a whole to improve education. Similar to how universal healthcare would relieve the already overburdened system by allowing people to take care of their problems before they become expensive and complicated problems.

While most money comes from local taxes and people hate to pay them (a different discussion on percentage of taxes for different socioeconomic groups), this could have been offset by federal or state funds to make up the difference to a certain level.

Ideally, we’d have a system that looked at the metrics such as test scores, higher education or trade pipeline, and other necessary data to find the weak spots to focus on for improvement instead of the current “if you don’t have x amount of y score, you lose funding” punishment method that only incentivises people to massage the numbers or is otherwise advantageous to more prosperous areas that can afford to meet the metric.

With all that, you also have to get the buy-in of the average taxpayer who only knows “gubment raised muh taxes!” instead of looking at it looking term.

I think I’ve rambled enough on it for the moment. Hope it made sense

May I introduce you to the phrase: bovine spongiform encephalopathy.

It bounces when you say it

If you ever had need to wonder why the US public education system has been methodically erroded and underfunded, an uneducated populous is an easily led populous

Obscure maybe but the theme is a banger

I preferred Jessica rabbit but you do you boo

It’s like Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century on cocaine by description alone

As the it department, I agree. Along with being unable to add local user accounts without using a backdoor process

So the ai has already won?

Love through trauma bond is a tale as old as time

The world would be a better place if they were

That’s how I read it and kinda how I see it. If my kid came out as gay, I’d have about the same reaction. Who we love is who we love and as long as the person isn’t a complete tool or something, if they make my kid happy, that’s what matters. I just hope I’ve instilled enough self respect into them to pick a good person irrespective of the state or lack thereof of dangly bits

The way I always saw it was “ok? If we are shifting names or pronouns, just let me know. If you need ideas I’ve got a few you can reject but other than that, it changes literally nothing. You are still you and if this makes you happy that’s all I can ask for.” At least that’s what I generally mean. Usually I’ll just say ok and ask if they’re hungry or something

Been listening to Altay and other Otyken songs as of late. They scratch a deep itch in the brain

Now I want to see a Cajun and a French Canadian try to order something in Paris

Bloodywoods whole catalog slaps

I love songs either using ancient languages or otherwise ancestral. Such as the spring awakening chant buried in Shum by Go A https://youtu.be/sDeMfL8Ib9A

I’m also partial to throat singing and mixing old and contemporary instruments like what Otyken does https://youtu.be/aXsLlOPwe48

Hashbrowns covered in chili, cheese, and sausage gravy. Aka the waffle House smothered hashbrowns