This is the inevitable result of “No Child Left Behind” linking school funding to how students performed on standardized tests. American schools haven’t been about education for the last 20+ years. They are about getting as much funding as possible.

What do you think testing is for? It’s to show what you know/have learned

This is the future that libertarians have been fighting for for the past century. Congrats Ayn Rand, you won i guess

The Ohio HoR just overwhelming voted to remove all state funding from any city that implements ranked choice voting. It threatens the parties in power, so they are both eager to stomp it out

They just pulled that in the Ohio House this week. They have been calling it “One Person, One Vote” and are going to withhold state funds to any municipality that uses ranked choice voting. It passed our house 22-5 iirc

The meme police, they live inside of your head

I’ll pay you to check my prostate for cancer as well

Those “luxury” apartments are just plywood and sheetrock byult as fast and cheap as possible. They look good at first glance but start to come apart after just a couple years.

It’s coming for me in a couple months. I was out dancing Friday night, and then did some disc golf wand walking all over town yesterday and my legs are absolutely killing me today

One thing that is important to note is that King Arthur was sorta used as a template for story telling in medieval England, Wales, and France. There are dozens of conflicting stories and accounts because some tales are from the 7th century, and some are from the 14th. King Arthur and The knights of the round table are essentially a folk hero tale for the nobility of the middle ages.

Thomas Malory’s Le Morte D’Arthur is the first compilation of Arthurian tales that were collected, but it was written in the 15th century and can be a real bear to read if you want something more casual.

Very interesting that everyone tried to pin Kurt Cobain’s suicide on her after that.

I’ve never been one to party on acid, but I’ve had some amazing times tripping on a camping trip. No hangover and some of the best hiking if your life

I like a beer when i am peaking. It would be horrible on the come up, but drinking a beer and listening to an album is a great time tripping. Fortunately i am always hungover when i do psychedelics, so I don’t want to drink much anyway. A bit of weed on my cigarette breaks really brings out my experience.

My cats decided that the drying rack is a playhouse and knock it over. I used to air dry my clothes outside in the summer, but then i lost that apartment and have nowhere to dry outside

Thry guy who finds himself on top determines the hierarchy until someone supplants him ny whatever means.

Only officially. The US effectivly dropped the gold standard in 1933 because it was making the Great Depression worse. Money was completely stagnant, and the federal worl projects FDR championed to get the economy moving again couldn’t be funded when the government couldn’t get access to more gold.

Dogs are fully genetically compatible with wolves, but are clearly domesticated.

Cats are plenty domesticated, same as pigs and farm ducks. The difference is that they are quicker to go ferral than dogs, cows, or horses. Cats do great around human civilization, towns, and cities, but once they don’t have humans keeping away predators, they quickly struggle. In North America, cats are now a staple in the diet of coytoes in urban and rural areas. Humans not only protect cats directly and indirectly, but we attract swarms of their favorite prey species.

Yeah, they oaved iver their income inequality fore the past 50 years by just letting everyone take on more debt. Our debt based economy is about to crash in on itself

Restaurants are the backstop for a lot of people that have nowhere else to work. They aren’t worried about a spotty background check, they won’t run a drug screening, they just care that you show up on time.