I need to branch out and find new food. Suggestions? I'm cool with anything but spicy because my stomach's not in a condition for that right now
Legacy admissions exist, so noAnyone shocked that a bunch of rich people cheated to help their kids get into good schools?
Anyone shocked that a bunch of rich people cheated to help their kids get into good schools?
They cheat to get their kids out of crime, drafts, etc. so why not.Anyone shocked that a bunch of rich people cheated to help their kids get into good schools?
Well, what have you eaten before?
You talking about home cooking?I need to branch out and find new food. Suggestions? I'm cool with anything but spicy because my stomach's not in a condition for that right now
In general. Most of my home cooked stuff is southern
That's the type of person that wakes up in the middle of the night with the detox sweats and lights one up.I just watched my coworker take a dip, then not 30 seconds later, he lit a cigarette. He is blowing out smoke, then spitting tobacco juice. Wow.
These fucks know their kids are of substandard stock and think they have to keep up with the rest of their peers without realizing that the entire gene pool of their socioeconomic class is substandard garbage too. Which is contrary to how they view themselves because they get high off their own farts. They think they're better than everyone else.Anyone shocked that a bunch of rich people cheated to help their kids get into good schools?
Well, what have you eaten before?
I'm actually super surprised that there were consequences for getting caught for once though!
Ricer or rice rocket is fine to me if it's an Asian (or honorary Asian) using it.
I grew up only associating with other Asians, and that's what we all called the souped up imports. Mostly to make fun of them :p.
Kind of like how we called the wannabe gangsters "wangsters." You know, soft ass upper middle class boys in their daddy's bmv blasting rap pretending like they're lil Triads. haha
(Obviously I hung with the nerd Asian group [despite being an awful student] so we didn't really have too many rice rockets or wangsters in our midst. I think it was pretty normal high school ribbing on certain stereotypes. Like "Jesus freak," etc, just adapted for the Asian American flavor.)
I have no idea what they called us. No one ever said anything to our faces. Maybe losers? Four eyes? I think 90% of my group had glasses.
I honestly think the standard Asian-American response is gonna be never, because culturally it was ingrained in me to never, ever, complain about anything.
It's worth noting that we all understand "being an awful student" means "I might have gotten a B every semester". :-p
Gotcha. Gimme a few and I'll post with some advice and guidelines.
Right. Let's see if that happens.Not yet. None of the kids have been dropped from their schools IIRC.
Revoke their admission. Force them to leave their schools. That's what would happen if any one of us were found to have falsified our admission package.
Gotcha. Gimme a few and I'll post with some advice and guidelines.
Rules and laws don't apply to white peopleHere's the thing about that cheating scandal going on right now -- it mirrors what I feel about the Chinese cheater article posted here from earlier last month. Rich, mostly white people, do everything in their power to game the system and basically do exactly what those parents were doing. Nobody expects anything different, in fact, most people just assumed it was happening anyways. On the other hand, if a Chinese student does it though, then all Chinese students have to suffer, because when they get into a University then staff, other students, professors assume they are liars and cheats.
I'm not saying that people who cheat should get a pass, name and shame all those kids and parents IMO. But, I'd like people to think about it a little bit more as well.
Thankfully Berkeley hasn't been caught up in it yet, but I wouldn't be surprised if eventually, it does.
Here's the thing about that cheating scandal going on right now -- it mirrors what I feel about the Chinese cheater article posted here from earlier last month. Rich, mostly white people, do everything in their power to game the system and basically do exactly what those parents were doing. Nobody expects anything different, in fact, most people just assumed it was happening anyways. On the other hand, if a Chinese student does it though, then all Chinese students have to suffer, because when they get into a University then staff, other students, professors assume they are liars and cheats.
I'm not saying that people who cheat should get a pass, name and shame all those kids and parents IMO. But, I'd like people to think about it a little bit more as well.
Thankfully Berkeley hasn't been caught up in it yet, but I wouldn't be surprised if eventually, it does.
Tried Jamaican. Afgani would be new thoughIf you haven't tried Afghani or Jamaican food, they're both dope cuisines with killer rice plates.
I specifically chose that word because of how dirty it sounds.
I'm still dying at those parents who paid someone 15k to take their daughter's SAT... and got a 1420
Now I feel like those douches who post images and don't source. :PCan we please stop mentioning threads without links to these actual threads?
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College should be available to everyone and the prestige associated with graduating from college needs to become a thing of the past
From what I can tell, the outrage was made from how it was framed by both that article and the OP. Most of the responses to her were pretty standard in calling her out, but they made it look like people were calling for blood. There was no mass outrage, that's just what happens when you say something stupid in front of hundreds of thousands of people. You get hundreds of thousands of replies back.Now I feel like those douches who post images and don't source. :P
Johnny Depp thread, cue ERA's fetish for dogpiling without the full facts.
Follow-up thread here, though the facts came out in the last thread and many posters doubled-down on doubting Depp and saying he's the offender here. Keep in mind, I believe people were handed 2-week bans in the first thread for daring to say we need to wait and see how the evidence and process works out, mods said were victim blaming.
The Alyssa Milano thread was a trip because it started off with Milano sticking her foot in her mouth for a really clumsy "I'm an ally" tweet; then she later went all white fragility in her response. Thread is like 12 pages strong of exactly the flame wars you'd expect, lol
This is meaningless, because there is no way to infinitely scale up the number of students that can be accommodated at top programs.
Selectiveness becomes a necessary and emergent property response to the impossible scale of demand, which also causes prestige to be attached to being selected as an unintended consequence. College could be made more widely available, but public funding tends to be slashed when states run deficits, so public schools are at the mercy of politics. Just demanding the market ramp up supply to meet demand is how you get an explosion of for-profit schools that exist solely to leech money from federal aid programs at the expense of their student body.
There's not enough political will to pay for public schools in a way that would make them affordable and more broadly available.
The very idea of "top programs" is the issue. All programs should be quality and should be widely available.This is meaningless, because there is no way to infinitely scale up the number of students that can be accommodated at top programs.
Selectiveness becomes a necessary and emergent property response to the impossible scale of demand, which also causes prestige to be attached to being selected as an unintended consequence. College could be made more widely available, but public funding tends to be slashed when states run deficits, so public schools are at the mercy of politics. Just demanding the market ramp up supply to meet demand is how you get an explosion of for-profit schools that exist solely to leech money from federal aid programs at the expense of their student body.
There's not enough political will to pay for public schools in a way that would make them affordable and more broadly available.
I remember about 5 years ago when people really thought the MOOC thing was gonna take off and provide low cost, high-quality education to the world. And then, we all realized that learning is hard and that online learning isn't nearly as effective for most types of people, especially when the perceived reward for learning is so far away.
But, we're still making progress. People are still experimenting and seeing what works. ASU has this earned credit thing that seems to have promising results. Other campuses are trying hybrid models, where freshmen can take required classes online and only pay board for the last two years (not super impressive, but some cost savings). Community colleges are undergoing major expansions in states like California, Washington, and Oregon.
Maybe I should ask Andrew Yang what he thinks about higher education.
The very idea of "top programs" is the issue. All programs should be quality and should be widely available.
You don't need an Ivy League PhD to do 99.999999999999999999999999999% of the jobs on this planet at a high level.
And yes, politics fuck everything up, but fixing politics is kinda implied when I talk about this stuff :P
For-profit schools won't exist because it will be illegal.
Seems like a good director choice.So how do you guys feel about the Shang Chi movie coming together? The director choice gives me a bit more confidence, but I'm still a bit apprehensive with the potential stereotyping and tropes with the son of Fu Manchu.
So how do you guys feel about the Shang Chi movie coming together? The director choice gives me a bit more confidence, but I'm still a bit apprehensive with the potential stereotyping and tropes with the son of Fu Manchu.
So how do you guys feel about the Shang Chi movie coming together? The director choice gives me a bit more confidence, but I'm still a bit apprehensive with the potential stereotyping and tropes with the son of Fu Manchu.
I've always been apprehensive at the prospect of a Shang Chi movie because of this. I don't think they should touch the Fu Manchu stuff at all and just give him a different origin. As much as people complain about characters getting changed when it involves changing their race, no one ends up giving a shit if a character has a different origin story. Personally, I find Iron Fist's origin and mythology a lot more compelling, and I wouldn't be surprised if they steal a bit from that.So how do you guys feel about the Shang Chi movie coming together? The director choice gives me a bit more confidence, but I'm still a bit apprehensive with the potential stereotyping and tropes with the son of Fu Manchu.