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Off Topic / Re: Stephen Hawking dead at 76
« on: March 14, 2018, 12:06:42 AM »
^

They are children with no empathy.
It's rampant anti-intellectualism. They are so terrified of "authority" figures telling them things they can't understand that rather than attempt to better themselves to understand these concepts themselves they try and decry these figures as phonies who haven't really accomplished anything. They do so because it's simply the easiest course of action.

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Off Topic / Re: Stephen Hawking dead at 76
« on: March 13, 2018, 11:42:11 PM »
at the very least mczealot made it sound like he cares somewhat so thats at least a step above the rest of the virtue signaling in this thread
How the forget is admiring the work of one of the world's greatest scientists in the face of a literal lifetime of one of the most crippling illnesses virtue signalling? I'd like to see you accomplish just one percent of his incredible impact on the world--especially given your ability to freely walk, speak, and type stuffty posts on the Internet.

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Off Topic / Re: Stephen Hawking dead at 76
« on: March 13, 2018, 11:38:05 PM »

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Off Topic / Re: Stephen Hawking dead at 76
« on: March 13, 2018, 11:36:42 PM »
This is really awful. I think this goes down as one of the most devastating deaths of the last decade. Leonard Nimoy really hit me harder than anyone, but Robin Williams and Carrie Fisher (with Debbie Reynolds to pack on the punch) were devastating as well.

I don't think anyone has ever battled ALS as successfully as him. He was diagnosed with two years to live in 1963. It's incredible to think of the amount of research and progress he accomplished despite his paralysis--only able to speak with an article voice controlled by a single cheek muscle.

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Off Topic / Re: Oklahoma Teacher Strike
« on: March 13, 2018, 10:53:18 AM »
Private schools get no funding from the government. They are privately owned.
They pay for vouchers, which go to the school. So, yea they actually do.

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Off Topic / Re: Oklahoma Teacher Strike
« on: March 12, 2018, 11:33:35 PM »

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Off Topic / Re: Oklahoma Teacher Strike
« on: March 12, 2018, 11:13:26 PM »
Since about a dozen of our teachers get arrested annually, I don't think that's a very good idea...

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Off Topic / Oklahoma Teacher Strike
« on: March 12, 2018, 11:09:24 PM »
The Oklahoma Teacher's Union is organizing an indefinite strike on April 2nd in which teachers will not return to work until public education spending is increased. As someone who has personally watched this state's education dissolve into garbage despite going to some of the nicest schools in the state, I'm really proud of their actions.

Write-up I posted on Reddit:
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Oklahoma teachers are paid almost twenty thousand dollars below the national average, and they spend about twice as many hours working as they are paid for (because of after school programs, proffesional development, grading, and more.)

Oklahoma has recently surpassed Mississipi as the lowest funded state for education. It's really bad here. Every day my teachers have to beg students for basic things like paper and notecards because they either have to purchase them out of pocket or go without. A massive portion of our school's supplies come from student and parent donations.

They constantly call homes to ask for donations, and at the end of each year, they send home surveys asking what programs and services parents would prefer they cut next year to save money, as the budget drops each year. Our teachers haven't gotten a raise in ten years. Two weeks ago, they eliminated gradual pay increases for teachers, so a 30 year teacher would be paid the same as someone fresh out of college.

Our state issues almost two thousand "emergency teaching certificates" a year because our educators are fleeing to Texas and other states for better pay. The 2017 Teacher of the Year left for Arkansas. These new teachers are wildly under-qualified. Several of our temporary teachers have been arrested for extorting money from students, coming to school drunk and on the influence of narcotics, and having schizophrenic breakdowns in class (including one guy who threw a computer across the room). February, one of our teachers was charged as a love offender for sending nude photographs of themselves to freshmen.

The situation here is desperate. It's far worse than the US in general and you can genuinely sense the collapse of our education every year. With all this said, I go to one of the ten best-funded schools in the state, which illustrates just how terrible things are getting for rural schools as well.

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I used to go on server as lcygamma (Lcygamma) and impersonate him. Was pretty funny

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General Discussion / Re: older blockland user check-in.
« on: March 11, 2018, 07:07:39 PM »
2009 user here

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Off Topic / Re: #TriggerAConservativeIn2Words
« on: March 04, 2018, 11:18:29 PM »
this isn't as much triggering as it is incredibly stupid
I triggered a conservative in 2 words

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Off Topic / Re: #TriggerAConservativeIn2Words
« on: March 04, 2018, 10:54:02 PM »
Human Rights

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Off Topic / Re: The Oscars
« on: March 04, 2018, 10:51:41 PM »
Sorry that I didn't update, I was busy having a ten minute long climax after The Shape of Water miraculously beat out Three Billboards for the Oscar. So happy. This almost makes up for Star Trek Beyond getting it's award stolen by Self Delete Squad.

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Off Topic / Re: The Oscars
« on: March 04, 2018, 09:50:03 PM »
Blade Runner blew both of those films out of the water.

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Off Topic / Re: The Oscars
« on: March 04, 2018, 09:43:27 PM »
BLADE RUNNER WON BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY OVER DUNKIRK. I'M SO HAPPY I AM TURNING THE OSCARS OFF RIGHT NOW.

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