History is a circle.

First we had bicycles. These then got helper motors. Then we got motorcycles and the two stroke engines had helper pedals to start. Then the pedals were removed.

Now we still have bicycles. These then got electric helper motors. Then we got electric bikes, that still have pedals, but people hack them to run entirely on the motor.

Make up your minds already. Everyone of these changes upsets the elderly.

Depends on the cause.

If you’re protesting against anchovies on pizzas, sure, it might be a bad idea to block the roads.

If you’re protesting against unidentified terrorists abducting and killing your neighbors, then you should obstruct the roads to stop them from proceeding with their genocide.

You won’t be rewarded for being obedient. They’ll come for you next whether or not you followed their law.

But whatever…now we know why the Germans didn’t stop the concentration camps in WW2 even if they knew about them: They had to go to work and didn’t want to obstruct traffic.

Don’t be a gramour Nazi.

Remember to say toodle-oo like an old lady while waving.

He goes on a rant, saying out loud what everyone is thinking.

This is unusual for him.

Personally I liked the start of it more, where he clearly and simply explains some basic facts that a lot of people need to understand.

Just like many other good distros, Friends ended when the larger one ate the smaller ones.

That song was written in 1963 in New York.

They used to be.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haymarket_affair

When was the last time you ate more or less of something because someone in the government told you to?

This is an old Mandela effect.

The issue is that they don’t actually remember what the sun looked like, because you can’t really look at the sun.

Their memories are of the crayon drawings that they made in school.

Go to the small concert venues and see them play.

Pro tip: Cut the baguette in a 45° angle.

It makes the first bite easier, and it looks better.

Look at a population pyramid.

This site has done nice animated options: https://chartingtheglobe.com/demographics/population-pyramid

If you want to see more regional overviews, then the CIA also has some nice selections here:

https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/references/population-pyramids-by-region/

The main issue is that the population is getting older. Not enough new borns to pay taxes to care for the old people in twenty years. This can only be solved by immigration from countries with higher birthrates.

That looks like the Emerica G6 Wino slip-ons.

I wore those out in about a year just from walking. The bottom isn’t very good, which is a shame, because they’re otherwise very comfortable and durable.

Ideas can spread but also get corrected when people interact.

It used to be that people talked to each other and set the dumbasses straight whenever they spit out this kind of “politics”.

These days everyone is just angry online and they’d rather change their online network than to change their minds.

Someone should have told off Trump long ago. They didn’t, and since he chose to communicate official statements on Twitter, instead of passing it through advisers and secretaries who could advise him better, it’s only gotten worse.

Fascism is an idea that needs to die, but it’s really difficult to confront the idea when the fascists hide in their online safe spaces, like X and Truth Social, where they only interact with bootlickers and block everyone else.

I think the best way to kill fascism is to talk openly about it with other people offline.

On every single skateboard post or short video, somebody will mention Mullen too.

But anyway, outside of skateboarding, millennials also know of Bam, Sheckler and maybe Dyrdek.

Gen-z probably knows of the YouTubers that show up in their feeds. SkateIQ (Mitchie Brusco), SkateNomad (Mike Boisvert) and probably Andy Anderson because he’s everywhere.

I think it’s safe to say that skateboarding isn’t as mainstream as it used to be when MTV was the main youth cultural feed, but it also allows for a lot more unknown people to rise up. Nobody cares about what young dude Thrasher and the industry wants to portrait as a professional. The skate scene these days basically consists of old men and young women watching footage on YouTube.

That’s a valid point.

What I’m addressing is that after the EU mandated schools to include everyone in the same classes, things just don’t work.

It used to be one class with “normal” students and one class with *special " students, each with their own teachers. This was highly ostracizing to a lot of pupils who had a mild ADD diagnosis, and that number keeps increasing as parents become more accepting and take their kids for diagnosis.

The current strategy is include everyone in one class and then use supplemental teachers where it’s necessary. Big unsurprising shock is that it’s necessary to have a speciel teacher attached to every single class and they can’t find neither funding or qualified teachers. Surprised Pikachu!

It would be easy to say that we should go back to the old system, but that is also wrong. What they need is to educate every teacher to be able to include the “special” students.

I’m not saying there shouldn’t be a “special” class, but it should be reserved for the pupils who are further out on the spectrum.

When I was a kid myself, the special class was for kids with Downs. That hardly exists anymore, because of the option to abort after the chromosome test, and because these kids are funneled into special institutions to begin with. Kids with ADHD or autism would be in normal classes and failing because nobody recognized it as a handicap. They do now, but prior to the EU decision it was the opposite problem. The special classes were full of kids with mild diagnoses. The EU decision addressed this issue, but it wasn’t the right way, because there was no money given to update the qualifications of the teachers.

What I am suggesting is that we accept the inclusion, but also that we to ensure that all teachers are capable of handling it. We shouldn’t ostracize kids with mild diagnoses by putting then in special class or having special teachers. If we want to include them, which we should, we need to go all in on making the mainstream education include them.

I’ve come to the conclusion that everyone is somewhere on the spectrum.

The question of whether to get a diagnosis is more about handling any issues that come from it. Some people need medication, some people needs extra help with certain things and some people just needs to know about it - in order to function in the way that makes sense to them.

If you need those things to function, it will help to get a diagnosis, because it can make it a lot easier to get that help, especially if it’s medical.

But, make no mistake. Everyone has something. It’s only a question of whether you need to treat it.

In a perfect world where there was no prejudice, we could be screening all school children and hand out paperwork along the grades, so you’d get an 8 in Math class and a 4 in ADHD. You know, just to get a full picture of the person.

But joking aside, there’s no reason why teaching can’t be more inclusive of these issues and just teach everyone as if they have autism and ADHD, even if they do not have a diagnosis. More often than not it’s only a matter of being allowed extra time for certain tasks or a slightly more pedagogical approach. Everyone can benefit from that, so it’s completely wrong to place diagnosed kids in special classes, when what is really needed is better educated teachers.

“Nippon” isn’t hard to pronounce for Germans, either.

I don’t know about that. Even if Germans are not shy of pronouncing letters wrongly (using V as F for instance), the P in Nippon makes no sense in German. It would have to be spelled with an H to make the right sound.