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Gonna hard disagree that the purpose is useless, the problem is the advice we give kids. I work at a scholarship competition that has an essay requirement. We're p vague with what we ask for in the essay, the prompt just asks student's to share a meaningful story about themselves or someone who has inspired them. Thousands of kids every year write in with their "oh woe is me, I faced such adversity" essays, and pretty much all of them get ignored because they all look the same. I'm still young enough to remember high school, so I know that they're getting coached to write this drivel, because I remember getting coached the same way.

The kids who end up receiving scholarships are always the ones who use the essay for it's actual purpose; to give us an insight into who they are. Usually they write about something they're passionate about, like the research they're doing. Some students write a beautiful work of metaphorical prose. Once, we received a poem, and I wish we got more like those. These students ended up having far more unique and interesting essays, essays that ended up earning them scholarships, and they completely broke the "rules" of a good essay.

It seems that what the author of this article really has a problem with is the image that American high schools teach of what a "good college essay" ought to be, rather than the essay's purpose as a tool that ultimately allows students an opportunity to define themselves outside of the standardized methods of measuring intelligence we employ. I agree that it's an issue and schools should probably focus more on telling kids to highlight what they've done rather than lament their circumstances, but it's also not even in the top 25 greatest issues with American high schools.

too out there?

Not even a little bit. I've seen a lot of children's names at my job. At the very least, I can pronounce Zenith, and it would fit our database's size limitations, so I think it's a better name than some of the wilder ones.

Could I wear this around? Would people find it strange if I had a large velvet shawl? It looks like great fantasy traveler clothing.

It's been my experience as an American for my entire life. Things really predictably only seem to get worse and worse.

Things have always gotten worse with Republicans America.

Feels like the old Russian mantra applies to us more and more these days. "And then things got worse."

Going to guess America, since all of those rules apply for dealing with U.S. police. If you call them, you have to expect someone to die.

Even if it is over a decade late, we should pour one out for old 4chan. It was never a great place, but what happened to it is a huge shame. If this really is the death knell, I wanna remember it as the weird anarchic slice of the Internet it was, rather than the Nazi bar it got turned into.

Look I don't have a bone to pick with the idea of multigenerational living. It's a system that works great for some families. For me though, the most peaceful day of my life is going to be the day after my mother dies. I sometimes dream about how incredible it will feel to know that vile crone will never be able to hurt me again. There is no amount of money you could pay me to live with her again, I've chosen homelessness over it before. No banker's conspiracy did that.

We should absolutely destigmatize the idea of living with your parents, but it is not a solution to our housing crisis. If anything, this rhetoric is similar to that employed by corporations regarding recycling. It pushes the responsibility onto individuals not doing enough, rather than looking at the large levels of corporate property ownership that is the root cause of our crisis.

Hopefully Last Epoch's latest patch. I recently migrated to Linux though, so getting it running has proven to be a bit of a bugbear.

What's the CCP's stance on femboys? Are we allowed to corrupt fragile heterosexuality?

Who fucking cares?

I'm so sick of this performative bullshit. None of these Nazi fucks care if you call out their dress or their stupid group chats, or actually anything. They don't care, because they're currently kidnapping dissidents and sending them to a death camp where we CANNOT VERIFY IF THEY ARE STILL ALIVE.

Anyone who is more mad about a stupid dress than ICE being turned into masked Gestapo can frankly get fucked. The priorities in America are completely fucking backwards, it's like you're hoping if you just embarass the fascists enough, they'll leave. Newsflash, they have no shame, they want to kill you.

I mean, I see it a positive that China is telling us to go fuck ourselves, which will greatly increase the economic hardship that the average white moderate faces, which might wake them up to the horrors that are happening around them. As for the trade war as a whole, idk I think the world will generally be better off cutting out America.

Only own pastel fit atm, but feeling like a hot goth summer. need fishnets

Honestly, not true? ICE is a bunch of fatass fascist sympathizers that get their rocks off abusing their authority. If they try to kidnap you, they are not going to expect you to be armed and dangerous. They are not going to be prepared for you to fight back.

You'll have to flee immediately after, because they'll send more agents when the first turn up dead, but it at least gives you a chance.

cock

What normal? The only thing that's really changed is that the U.S. isn't masking their crimes in flowery language. It wasn't that long ago that we were shooting student protestors in campus and segregating our population based on race. We have plenty of experience in illegally removing migrants and have already used concentration camps.

The U.S. might put the mask back on someday, but they've been an evil empire for basically their entire existence. It's unlikely it will change in our lifetimes.

Maybe development in the sense that it is easier for programmers to put together the logic of the game, but game budgets are in the hundreds of millions now they have not gotten cheaper. You're forgetting that artists are needed to create all the high quality textures and objects needed to populate the gameworld. As gamers have called for more and more unrealistic standards of graphical fidelity, more and more budgets have gone to the legions of graphical artists necessary.

They're still underpaying them, but indies can get away with having maybe one guy as their whole art team. Check the credits for how many studios helped the art for the next AAA game you play.

Any destructive device is categorized as a WMD in the U.S., and rightly so. One drone strapped with a pipe bomb can cause a lot of damage very quickly with very high precision.

The problem is that we have reached late stage capitalism where the economy does not work for 99% of Americans regardless of which party is in charge.

The real question you should be asking is "Why do the rich and powerful keep supporting Republicans if they consistently crash the economies that the rich and powerful participate in?" There's a pretty obvious answer that helps to explain what's happening right now.

The problem with your theory is that with the removal of the Fairness Doctrine, the creationist and the faith healer weren't deplatformed. Instead, they stopped needing to have a doctor or a paleontologist on the air to fact check them. That's what led to "my faith being as important as your reason," a bunch of far-right religious programming that no longer needed to host experts that would rightfully tear their ideas to shreds.

Also there wasn't any internet and broadcasting over the airwaves counted for most TV networks of the time.