You can buy a pardon from the president for pretty cheap. I’m surprised he’s not already pardoned.

I honestly don’t think there’s enough traffic for a lot of sub-communities. I’d try one of the more general, busier communities first.

Seems like every war I’ve been alive for has multiple war crimes and aside from a select few exceptions, nothing happens. We, the US, can’t hold our people accountable for domestic crimes, so I’m not holding out much hope for any consequences here either.

I’ll blow your mind even more, that short is actually a shirt!

I hate that I started to smile at the picture, knowing, fucking knowing, what a huge, colossal, grade-a asshole he was.

It’s crazy that a group can’t have a celebration saying something along the lines of “we like who we are!” without another group saying “no, you shouldn’t exist!” and seeing the confrontation covered in media as if they are just two different sides of a coin.

Someone did something horrific. I know what my response is going to be. I’m going light a bunch of shit on fire! Yeah, that’ll show 'em. Oh, and it’ll help me justify my racist window on the world.

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Fuck Metallica. I went to a handful of their shows back in time, but have refused to even listen to a song on the radio since the Napster bullshit.

Unless you drive a lot every day, you probably don’t need to install a special charger. I was about to have one installed, but then I figured I’d see how the plug already in the garage worked out. That was about 10 years ago. I get the not wanting another payment though. Shit’s just brutal. I boughtt a 2 year old used EV for $11k. Never had a moment of buyers’ remorse.

Slow down and don’t tailgate. I don’t see how riding someone’s ass, someone who is oblivious for whatever reason, is going to help anything out.

Seems like the sane type who should be in charge of…something.

Sorry. Offered proof in a different part of the same thread. Inability to read through threads. A tale as old as time.

Well, hey. Thanks for the trump-level clarity.

Which one is that? I don’t see it.

There have been studies done since before I became a teacher. And now that I’m retired, I’m talking about decades of research:

Jimerson looked at 20 studies published between 1990 and 1999, and concluded that they “fail to demonstrate that grade retention provides greater benefits to students with academic or adjustment difficulties than does promotion to the next grade.” In many studies, students who were retained had worse academic achievement and social-emotional outcomes than students who were not.

Another research review from Jimerson and his colleagues, this one published in 2002, found that grade retention was also linked strongly to dropping out of high school. -source

The source also brings up the racist underpinnings that too often support holding kids back. I said before, but just to reiterate, there is a problem that needs to be addressed, but retention is demonstrably not the answer.

Glad to hear you got it working.

I never said there’s not a problem, just saying that’s not the answer. Like, factually.

All of the schools around where I live had SSR (Sustained Silent Reading). It’s pretty beneficial for students. You always get the morons who do everything they can to not read, but it helps most other people.