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Just a dude wondering where his car went.

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@fitzr1189 @captgouda24 @NataliaHEmanuel Rich people both disproportionately like starbucks and patent things.

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@Ed_Realist Is it just the older kids that are doing "flips and complicated routines" at cheer class? Backflips are level 5 gymnastics, even handsprings are level 3. This seems really advanced for a class which reaches down to five year olds.

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@meepbobeep @vbspurs "The Wrong Box", Robert Louis Stevenson. Also a movie.

There's a Cambodian round-robin lending system that shares the name, but has an entirely different structure.

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@jacobincambodia @realtalkstruth @CashApp It's unbelievable. Quite literally.

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@blightersort Harkness method dates back officially to 1930:

https://t.co/necnNm8GIa

I do think it's not suitable for some kids, for a variety of reasons, e.g. my problem was keeping my yap shut, classes based on learning how to talk in front of people would have been wasted on me.

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@blightersort Conventional also would have people with laptops in front of them, which is not a great idea if you are trying to get people to pay attention to anything.

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@blightersort I send kids to a similar school. Difference between the 7th grade -- when they're just starting out, and getting them to talk about anything is pulling teeth, and ~11th, is staggering.

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@blightersort They would almost certainly know a lot more about Beowulf from a class more driven by teacher lectures, but they wouldn't get the same oral practice.

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@dennisw5 @ScottSpacek Discriminating against Chinese nationals in that way would likely be illegal.

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@OneFineJay I think plenty do believe this, though, and things are structured to make it easier to believe.

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@whatiskimchi @pemilo123 Neurotypicals are much better able to pass these tests, friend, that's why it helps with diagnosis.

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@SeanTrende @katrosenfield Was the problem the AI ruleset or your appearance?When I visited the countries in Europe from which I have significant ancestry, I stuck out like a sore thumb in all of them, and I don't think it's my small fraction of non-euro that did it.

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@jamb_hq Hopefully you will have one in the USA soon!

I have a lot of respect for your exams. Our sclerotic college entrance tests could do with the competition.

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@Bkally1 @jamb_hq Exam security is a major problem for this.

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@UpdatingOnRome If you actually start consistently winning money on internet gambling sites, they'll ban your account.

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@larissaphillip I have heard that the French are very, very good at keeping their main tourist attractions protected.

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@grahamscheper @theo_nash AP Latin doesn't even cover half the book.

In ye olden dayes, I feel like we were required to do more for the AP Vergil track, but it still wasn't the whole thing.

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@grahamscheper @theo_nash Virgil is an author listed for their 3rd/4th year Latin.

I suspect they want to teach it earlier in translation; lines up well with the Odyssey (also in 9th), is foundational. Also they want to do a lot of Latin authors; probably not enough time for the whole Aeneid.