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Cake day: December 15th, 2023

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  • I don’t know your teachers or situation and I am going to wildly generalise here, but having worked with teachers, they were probably just their best.

    They are teaching a syllabus they didn’t write (you can only put so much make up on that pig) to a group of largely disengaged students, for generally insufficient pay.

    They probably just wanted to make it through the day without contemplating self harm.

    A spirited contrarian student who fancies themselves an intellectual can be dealt with the ideal way, engaging them, acknowledging the short comings of teaching content to a wide range of intellects/engagement levels.

    Or the less ideal way, draconian authority. Sounds like you ran up against the former. Sorry that was your experience.





  • I imagine that a society that votes in a wannabe fascist dictator will continue to be a bastion of safety for people of different racial backgrounds. I know if I was fleeing violence and gangs I look for somewhere with a nice welcoming camp just waiting for me.

    For clarification I am Australian so I have a bit of experience with a national bias of racism leading to poor outcomes for asylum seekers.

    I am taking a more positive view than I was about what’s happening over there though. I think that the Trump presidency may well serve as an unambiguous demonstration of the end results of allowing democracy to become necrotic. I really hope Australians heed this lesson before our next election, although I won’t be at all surprised if they don’t.