MyBrainHurts

It’s never Lupus!

I think you might mean quite a bit earlier than the bronze age? I’m not an expert by any means but my understanding is that the Egyptian bureaucracy and a tax system meant that slaves could build the pyramids in the bronze age.

Yeah, I was thinking maybe the Luddites/weavers might be the first job loss victims but you’re probably right.

Holy hell, nicely done. I vaguely remembered having seen something like this on a tv show but more than a decade ago.

These have been great, I’ve never heard most of them which is fairly rare.

Thanks!

As usual, the best jokes are in the comments. (Though goddamn I chuckled at the meme.)

Yeah, that sounds wild. Ours were opt in programs with some testing etc. Coursework was hard but I still hardly had any for homework etc.

Got to skip a few university classes as ours counted for them though which was useful. And yeah, the more I think about that grad class (decades ago now) the more impressed I am with what some of those folks went on to do.

Wild, maybe Canada does ours differently? I was in 2 different programs over the years but we still had lunch, free blocks and still shot the shit a bunch in class. And then sports and other extra curriculars too.

Ehhh, to each their own. I was in those classes, fully separated streams. No idea why you’d assume having a more interesting class would nix social development. (You can’t learn to socialize if the teacher doesn’t have to slow down?)

Fully wide range of outcomes but a lot of the kids with the potential went and realized it. Sure, not all of us did but from my small circle one’s on the second highest court in Canada, one’s set up a reasonably famous company, one’s a cardiac surgeon etc.

This was an unexpectedly fascinating technical read. Admittedly, I’m “watching” baseball so take my definition of fascinating with a grain of salt.

About as convincing as Ray on trailer park boys getting busted for solicitation. “What? Prostitution? That money wasn’t for sex! It was for… This is illegal!”