True of virtually every celebrity and professionally managed account at this point.

Hell, I’ve got a few hundred followers on Bluesky and would be shocked if one in ten is a real person

Documentary serial killer:

Actual serial killer:

The typical class size in US public schools is 16-23 students. In the academic year 2020-2021, the mean class size was 18.3 students, a slight decrease from the 2017-2018 average of 19.6 students. These figures represent the mean across both primary and secondary education.

https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/education/class-size

In the United States, average class sizes vary widely, with national averages indicating 21.2 students in elementary schools and up to 26.8 in secondary schools.

COVID exacerbated the situation over the last five years.

Gandhi beat his wife

Mother Teresa withheld food from children

Everyone sucks

Okay, but this is only two people.

Don’t discriminate. Everyone sucks.

Real Read Settlers Hour

We’re already seeing them pop up wherever real estate prices go vertical.

But dense housing builders are constantly at war with suburban city planners. Getting permits is an increasingly Kafka-esque endeavor, unless you can buy yourself an exemption through municipal corruption.

I think I would have felt resentful if I were forced into a particular living situation rather than being able to choose it.

I mean, we’re all forced into a living situation that our budgets and our work-life demands. The illusion of choice is going to a real estate agent and seeing twenty different near-identical overpriced units, then making a dubiously informed decision that’ll lock you into 30 years of debt.

I’d love to live in a crystal palace on a tropical island next to a rail station that’s thirty minutes east of midtown Manhattan and an hour west of the Vail chairlifts which runs me $99.50/mo for the note. No amount of resentfulness will give it to me.

the -ism on display in the second photo is racism.

You can definitely go into the deep history of Levittowns, Master Planned Country Club communities, and Red Lining in the big metro areas. But I think the advent of the modern suburb speaks more heavily to the mix of “Free Real Estate” and enormous state subsidies for rural development following the S&L crash of the 1980s.

Like, there’s no reason these can’t be high rise condos with racist building managers, rather than cookie cutter ranch homes with racist HOAs. The suburb isn’t merely about racial segregation, it is about individualist alienation. Breaking up the extended family unit into the nuclear family cluster, subdividing the working class into thinner and thinner economic tranches, and fencing people into gilded cages complete with 30 year golden handcuff mortgage notes.

You can debate over the exact degree to which civic planners intended to separate and capture individual specimens of human labor. Or how deliberately the 1950s architectural model of personalized kitchens, TVs, and car ports manufactured an increasingly pliable working class subject. But the subdivision doesn’t end at the color line. We are a fully balkanized society.

I studied things without technology. I take notes on pen and paper

It’s weird that we don’t consider the mass production of cheap paper and quality pens/pencils a technology.

analog classrooms work better than this chromebook hellhole

I’m not going to become an Evangelical for Ctrl+F because I don’t think it’s worth the fight.

But I will say an analog classroom with 8 students taught by a professional teacher five days a week is vastly superior to an analog classroom with 40 students taught by a TA three days a week.

Do with that what you will.

Teachers are a cost-center

Technology is a profit-center

What are you, some kind of socialist? Your system will never work. We’ll all run out of money!

• Correlation

• Causation

Hey, Computer, what’s been happening to

• Average Class size
• Average teacher years of experience
• Average annual hours in school

Had it been?

• Up
• Down
• Down

But sure, also, they’ve replaced a stack of 5 lb textbooks nobody reads with a tablet computer nobody uses.

The final frontier

Isn’t it incredible that “AI” is sold as a product that is ‘PhD level smart’ (lol), but if it doesn’t do the straightforward thing you asked of it then it’s your fault.

Have you ever tried to get a PhD to do anything?

You all need to fight for universal health care

We’ve been fighting for over a century. It’s a horrifying monster that’s only grown bigger and stronger over time.

Closest anyone has come to slaying the beast is Luigi Mangione and look what happened to him.

The necking was comcensual.

Idk about the scamming them out of their retirement savings part

Very fortunate

NICUs are capital and professional labor intensive. I got to meet the team of doctors and nurses who kept my son alive and thriving for the three months between birth and due date. Idk what the magic number to care for him should have been, but I don’t think six figures is an unfair estimate in any socio-economic system.

The question after that is “Who paid for it?” And, in my case, it was Medicaid, which was a huge relief. These poor bastards clearly didn’t have the option.

My son was born at 24 weeks. Modern NICUs are an absolute marvel. They took this tiny little guy at the cusp of viability to a healthy, happy, normal baby boy over the next three months.

The pricetag for this treatment was half a million dollars. But, fortunately, we were eligible for Medicaid. A sum that would have bankrupted us was neatly covered by the state.

The joke of it was how he came out ahead on several of them. Trump discovered you can borrow other people’s money for a project and, if it doesn’t pan out, just keep a chunk for yourself and don’t pay them back.

He’s an IRL Max Bialystock, vacuuming up dumb money and leaving legions of broke dowagers in his wake.

Philadelphia officials grease city light poles, often with Crisco or hydraulic fluid, to prevent fans from climbing them during major sports celebrations, notably for the Philadelphia Eagles.