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I made it through 6-8 years of untreated major depressive disorder and came out the other side without even attempting to kill myself once. I might be fucking miserable, but I'm not depressed. I remember what depression was like, the lack of physiological or mental energy, the lack of desire...

More like Antarius's posts. That guy's post make me want to kill myself pretty much every single time. He's sadder than I am and he doesn't even know it.

Actually they prefer to fail to overdose on sleeping pills, because it actually takes more than you'd think. The LD50 on most common kill-yourself medications is way higher than what most people assume it is. People who really want to be sure still use guns. Woman have less access to guns...

Time is a flat top.

If I had to guess? Rape.

lol Wow.

They should have just called it Windows MOAR.

Can you also make the start menu gigantic and basically the whole desktop?

Does ANYONE play NS? Public games are so hit or miss.

I admitted to being no fun to be around, not to being toxic. I have almost no personality. I rarely speak when not directly spoken to. When I do, it is awkward, and people find that frustrating to be around. I make jokes about how boring I am, to disguise the amount of emotional pain I'm in...

Case studies aren't summarized data. They're extremely long-form anecdotes. It's also not JUST about charter schools, students are bused out of poor schools and into better schools as part of other kinds of programs as well. It would be hard to collect and summaries all the anecdotes into...

I don't see how I am being a jerk to people by disagreeing with them.

Those are statistical overviews of charter school performance. I'm talking about case studies of students. When students are taken out of poorly performing schools and placed in merely average charter schools, they almost always perform better. Your point was that there was something wrong...

It doesn't have to be though. There's absolutely no reason why states couldn't make schools with the same standards as these charter schools. And conservatives aren't always 100% wrong on everything (just usually.) Most charter schools are not tracked btw.

Literally hundreds of case studies, and over a dozen documentaries on the topic.

We don't know they will fail. There's nothing innately wrong with these kids. When they are placed in charter schools, they usually succeed. It's the schools.

Right, there isn't. See my point about every district being its own little fiefdom when it comes to education. That absolutely must change if we want anything that produces the results of the German system. The reason tracking works in Germany is because a) they have less inequality than we...

No, the absolute smartest kids would be shuttled to districts large enough to actually make full gifted programs. ALL of the other college bound kids, from the average to the fairly smart, would be given a much more rigorous education than our average kids are given now. I think this is...

This is pretty much the opposite of what happened to me. My parents told me they weren't saving a dime for me to go to college, and if I wanted to go I'd better get scholarships, so I did. I went to the cheapest school possible and lived at home, because my parents made it clear that if I...

In other first world counties it has been changed, but they do not have the level of inequality we do. So given the current economic makeup of America, no, it can't. What we CAN do is raise standards across the board and raise both the minimum and median tracks up to something more acceptable...

Exactly, you would have to raise the standards up to around what we currently expect of the 75th+ percentile in order to prevent the scenario in your second line. You still have the oldest measure in the book, grades, to incentivize and differentiate the 90th percentile kids from the 50th...

The single strongest correlation to future economic success in America is the average income of the town you went to high school in. This is a scientific fact. It dwarfs everything else.

Quality of education, number of years of education. Even then, there's huge degrees of variance. For ~100 years scientists have been studying kids and trying to predict future workforce performance. That's the entire reason why the original IQ tests were developed. Behaviorists found the...

Academic performance is actually not very well correlated to performance in the marketplace. The correlation is actually shockingly poor. The other problem with your logic is that the tracks start when kids are really young, where it's hard to measure actual performance, and instead kids get...

Not so much Japan, because Japan's education system is basically just a better, fairer version of our own, because we set it up for them post WW2. But China for sure. Another good argument for why tracking doesn't really fit in the American workplace is that most of one's working life, as...

It works great because their minimum standard of education is higher than our average standard of education. Ditto for Japan. It's also not even slightly comparable because of the amount of inequality in our society versus theirs. The root causes for the tracks we in the US put most kids on...

Not sure how flushing 1000-1400 dollars a month rent down the toilet would improve the quality of my life any. There still wouldn't be anyone around to take care of my mother, so I'd still have to show up here every day to do that. I haven't seen or talked to my stepfather in many months at...

It's probably in my top 25 movies period.

I added more info.

There's not going to be a shortage of that card in the long term, get rid of them now.

I'm gonna go with an all around no on that one. I've never even met my biological father, even though he lives less than 25 minutes from me. My stepdad is a fucking asshole, with only two moods: comically mean and completely psychopathic. And I'm really starting to hate my mother. I was...

It's kinda like WoW arena or any ladder system in any current competitive game: Top 10% means you still suck. Only the top 0.5% of WoW arena players even got the Gladiator title, they were clearly a cut above the Duelists, which went down to 3%, and having a Duelist title meant you were bad...

Most of the top 10% still aren't really that far from the mean in terms of actual innate ability. Top 2% are where you start getting far from the mean, that's where you start seeing kids with ability that is obviously in a different class from everyone else. The 90th percentile is just not...

They were lots of effective and synergistic trait builds. The different between someone with a good build and a haphazardly selected one was night and day. I don't really understand what problem people have with that system in particular. It needed a bit of a polish pass, but what talent...

I don't understand what people are saying about GW2 having fucked up the classes. Just because there aren't trinity classes? The loot is bland but at least they succeeded in making every stat potentially useful for every class.

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It's not exactly what I'm talking about, no. If we're going to have a discussion about education reform, let's all take a break and watchWaiting for 'Superman' (2010) - IMDband then come back. It's been praised by conservatives and by some on the left. It is anti-teacher union, but it also...

Yeah, it really is terrible if someone has their chances for the rest of their life degraded because of an arbitrary decision someone made about them in the 4th grade, because they didn't like the color of their skin or whatever other idiotic reason kids get put into troughs. It's also...

You can't remake perfection.