@brianluidog adversity can cause tension and issues based on how it’s approached but for the most part handling the everyday challenges together does feed the relationship, especially when things get progressively easier and you get to look back and say “remember how hard we had it”
@mbateman@academicpook 5 seems to me to actually improve on this theme vs the prior entries by marking play *with friends* as the pinnacle experience
which is still not true, but gets closer
@shagbark_hick the people you really want to spend your time with scorn no one and enjoy all kinds of experiences without fussing about class connotations one way or the other
@shagbark_hick can’t take stock of any of it
the self-identifying upper class closes ranks if they catch a whiff of underclass on you
likewise lower class does a crab bucket act if you travel or read too fancy a book
none of it matters, as long as it reminds you not to do the same
@MarmotRespecter if you’re gonna run a fan anyway at least make a swamp cooler
they call this embarrassingly poverty-tier but any American redneck would have this figured out by now
there’s just no sense of innovation or anything, I don’t get it
@Empty_America if you can stick to engineering, specialized health services, finance at a state flagship, do that vs. a marginal top 50 private/oos
top 20 is a pretty safe bet in any circumstance though, those still pay off (and you’ll get aid unless money is truly no object to your family)
@TownsUsa how is no one picking H
I’m from the east, I love the east very much (and the mountain west too)
but H is probably one of the top 5 natural environments on earth
@Empty_America perk of A — many of the others are close to things that would make it disappointing to never leave the bubble
E cuts off before Amherst, fun pretty college town
C is just north of lake placid, winter sports mecca
D gets you one of the worst parts of the jersey shore
@PatrickHeizer because they represent the thinking leading to the invention of these concepts — they take you into the world and mindset of the discoverers
and this can be done even at a younger age than high school. kids are great at stepping into new mindsets
@PatrickHeizer it’s certainly not the best way to teach the ideas contained in them
because these ideas were so seminal, they were synthesized, improved upon, and made more teachable following immediately from their discovery
but the primary sources are still worth reading
@shagbark_hick part of this may be that the proponents most often are themselves the system
so drawbacks of the system can be taken as a personal indictment
now, if you undertake homeschooling you gotta grow some thicker skin — but it’s easy to get why it hits closer to home, so to speak
@ohitsstuart bullying is tautologically done without permission
bit of a knock on your bullying credentials that you wish you’d been Allowed to do more of it
@AlexGodofsky worse is otorhinolaryngologist, a word I frequently have to use for work and have multiple times embarrassed myself by attempting, only to bail midway and say ENT instead