Are we really in so much of a hurry? I get that it is annoying when someone pays slowly and you're in a line, but this is crazy.

I still can’t fathom the steps someone had to take to discover yogurt.

It's a shame that the young don't use Facebook, because this is a perfect rebuttal to most meme posts complaining about younger generations.

It's almost like both political parties are in collusion to only help companies and the rich. The US government believes that corporations are people, and people are entitled parasites.

Ah, yes, using fear to get people afraid of other people who’s fears are also exploited.

I heard that only Champagne comes from France. Is that the same idea?

The ladies in the schools themselves aren't as large of a problem as the ones who run the districts. I worked IT in a school district for awhile and the amount of wasted time and money in the Administration office was staggering. I got to spend a lot of time in the schools and the Admin building and, generally, all the people who work in the school buildings are just doing the best they can with what they are given to work with.

No, I was left with the impression that great teachers couldn't be dragged from the classroom for buckets of cash. That's not why they do it. The bad teachers, many of whom really did become teachers because they had nowhere else to go, want out of the classroom as quick as humanly possible. The only place for them to go is Administration.

At least in the districts I worked in, a promotion out of a school meant your starting salary was now higher than any teacher salary in the district. A large district will spend millions a year on Admin salaries that only occasionally step foot in a school.

While I can't say for scientific certainty, I've worked in enough Education environments to see a trend. I know correlation isn't causation, but...I found that workplace politics were the number one determining factor in anything getting done in Admin. They left IT alone, but forget that IT sees all.

So, you have failed teachers who are know in charge of how students are taught. Since they couldn't handle the classroom, they don't understand how to educate children. When you factor in Common Core and No Child Left Behind, even a team of the most competent people would have trouble making that work. We don't have competent people working in schools. They either get marginalized, or pushed out.

These people also tend to branch out into the private industry that caters to schools: Curriculum, technology, etc. These are ALSO the people that interface with government. So the entire power structure of the education system are failed teachers who exploit the system for their own benefit.

This is a bit of hyperbole because there ARE good Administrators out there. They are just the minority and have to struggle with a corrupt system to get anything done.

Don't even get me started on School Boards!

Sadly, when a human gets transformed into a ferret, they lose the ability to read. He may recognize the symbol vaguely, knowing that something similar turned him into a critter. He's just trying to turn back into a human so he can finish his quest!

Get rid of half of the administrators and pay teachers more.

I don't think we as a society put enough stock into the long-term negative effects of stress on a human.

They'll try again with a slightly less awful plan and see if there is backlash to that. Rinse and repeat until no one cares and they get their way. There will probably be a couple of price increases in there too.

I'm sorry, I just used guns as an example. How we are still so quick to dismiss mental illness when it is tied to something that gets us emotional.

Just adopt a stuffy British accent and call him Lord Earl Grey Fuzzbutt

I agree, but then you go to places like Reddit where no one gives a crap about mental illness when guns may be involved. Like, I get the guns part, but the conversation always goes to the guns. And then when pro-gun people bring up mental illness, they're downvoted into oblivion and mocked. It is already difficult enough for people with mental illness to talk about it with others, if they even recognize it in the first place, so where is there a safe space for people to get help or talk? Nowhere. They go to a medical professional, they risk being committed, so they may reach out to online groups first. How many people have come to reddit for help, only to get blasted and yelled at over semantics or something equally as petty, only to withdraw into themselves even more? The reasonable answers are supposed to rise to the top, but instead the hive mind is just as cruel as anyone.

I feel this is more and more true every day

If that's what you take from it, sure. Again, another thing Evangelicals do is make a statement that is only possible by willfully ignoring the content of the entire argument. Maybe you're a troll, and that's cool, but if you are being honest with your responses, then yes, you argue in a dishonest way that is very similar to that of pro-lifers. I am not trying to insult you. I am just saying that you may share a certain "logic" that is not open-minded nor fully rational. If you want to help the world, being dogmatic and obtuse isn't helpful.

That's literally what pro-lifers say. It is a dishonest response from them, and is from you too. Not thinking backup cameras are the bees knees does not make someone pro-child death. Crappy emotional logic to deflect the point is exactly what Evangelicals do.

Oh Christ, you sound like an Evangelical

I guess that makes weird sense if you don't want to be observant, but it isn't like there was an epidemic of child squishing before backup cameras. Before I had a car with one, I would see around me if there were someone nearby that could possibly be near my car when I backed out. If there were, I'd tell them to stay back, and then I'd watch them in my mirrors. Somehow, I managed to not run over any kids or bikes or anything.

The unintended consequence with tech like this is that it will only lead to people paying even less attention to their surroundings while operating a 2 ton machine that can go 100 mph.

People and things are still getting backed into even with cars with backup cameras because people are allowing themselves to be too distracted. There is no fix for willful obliviousness.

Jeez, people just latch onto the backup camera thing like lemmings, eh? I agree with you, but I had to buy a car last year when there weren't a lot of options. So I had to get one with a backup cam and all the bells and whistles. My car has remote start, but it only works with the app. People who are saying modern cars aren't IoT aren't paying attention.

What did you expect? Prostitution was still legal there until frighteningly recently and it was started as an illegal mining town that existed to exploit all the gold from the miners. Sounds to me that it's just staying true to its disgusting roots!

I think so. Right now they're my top for hot food. It's not all microwaved or warmed up in buckets of water like a lot of Wawa food is now. Royal Farms has amazing chicken too.