Fired for passing failing students. At this point in North America teachers have to pass failing students! I’m not US American so I am not sure if “No Child Left Behind” means no failing, though I remember it was a Bush jr policy that lowered standards.

Sounds like you went to very “active” middle and high schools!

That’s because he’s a Marcos and a US toady. Easy fix: get rid of Marcos. Have a sovereign foreign and domestic policy.

Yes, that’s pretty much what I meant. In theory, the best brands would rise to the top under capitalism. So the US brands have failed without state intervention.

Which model of redmi did you have? I currently use the Redmi Note 12. It’s… okay. I had a previous Xiaomi (can’t remember which model) that I thought was an excellent price for high quality.

Definitely Chinese phones have better specs for their prices, as compared to US/Korean brands. Still, I’m looking for that special deal of a mid-tier-priced phone with flagship specs. Considering getting the Oneplus 13.

WTAF? The cope of failing at capitalism is real.

They cost waaaaay too much. Most flagship phones do.

Still using my two year old Xiaomi Redmi Note 12. It was super cheap, relatively. Like about 12 times cheaper than the Huawei tri-fold.

Propaganda is when you punch someone in the face and then quote them saying “I’ll kill you” instead of mentioning the face punch.

The strange thing here is that Marty McFly is using the slang “heavy” and Doc Brown doesn’t understand it. Yet the use of heavy to mean “profound, serious” started in Jazz in 1937. So Doc would have grown up with the word, and by the 80’s I wonder if it was really all that popular anymore. McFly is using 50’s slang in the '50s but the guy from the '50s doesn’t get the slang. Maybe because he’s not hip.

“Knee high to a grasshopper” (short)

“Beyond the pale” (outside social norms, I think. Maybe just strange)

“Dance maven”

“I’ll just do that in my copious free time…” (sarcastically, because you are too busy)

“Copacetic” (it’s all good)

“Heavy” (meaning important, grave)

I learned all of these thirty years ago from a man in his fifties. He was full of interesting expressions.

Just curious, how would someone do that? Pardon my noobiness.

This is the flaw in the hybrid socialist-capitalist system. Billionaires will sell out national interests.

We’ll see if the government is able to rein in Hutchison.

When I get five levels deep in a cascade of UI errors I terminate the mission and mark it as failed.

Dissociating - so she’s dissolving into ions in the bath.

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• Pew!
• Pew!
• Bang! (Switched guns at the end there)

This is utterly ridiculous and also rather interesting. You could buy a house for $80k USD in some parts of the world. That this head-chopper wears it on his wrist shows that he is actually a civilized statesman, apparently.

Egg in a cup Several plates Sitting on pork n beans

“Battle for Pokrovsk: The Ukraine that city could be the most important of the war” Do they check their titles for grammar?

10 seconds to explosion. Time enough to watch the pressure wave and sip the Folgers.

Rules based international order, indeed!

Tariffs can be paid by the export country, indirectly. They usually have to lower the price of the commodity to make it competitive under tariffs.

Under Fordist economics the domestic industrial boost would lead to increased wages and buying power.

Under neoliberalism the domestic industrial capitalists gain a larger market share and then don’t pay their workers more. Then they are faced with the problem of what to do with products that are unaffordable.