Oh, yeah. I remember other posters here like The Bodyguard talking about it way before I had a kid.
This online classroom stuff is very interesting to say the least. As a parent, you kinda put a veil of trust into place when you put the kid on the bus. Off he goes, the 8 hours later, there he is. Another good day at school.
But now? The classroom is right there in your family room, kitchen, kids room, where ever. I’m actually kind of glad to get a peek behind the curtain, and it just so happens that the teacher this year likes to godzilla stomp all over certain traditional holidays. It turns out she actually has a few real and pretty serious problems too, that are why we end up seeing this kind of stuff on our 2nd graders zoom classroom.
They can always claim the moral high ground, as did Karl Marx.
Apparently, speculating on the stock market for a handsome profit is a way to strike back at the capitalists without engaging in the dirty business of actual work. To quote Marx himself:
“I have, which will surprise you not a little, been speculating … in English stocks, which are springing up like mushrooms this year … andare forced up to quite an unreasonable level and then, for the most part, collapse. In this way, I have made over £400. …
“… now that the complexity of the political situation affords greater scope, I shall begin all over again. It’s a type of operation that makes demands on one’s time, [but] it’s worthwhile running some risk in order to relieve the enemy of his money.”
Everybody secretly wants to be a capitalist, even anti-capitalists. Funny.
Yeah, I definitely agree. Seeing how the sausage is made is important no matter how maddening. Which is one big reason I think homeschooling has been on the rise in recent years. Granted it’s a bit of a luxury for most, and it also depends on the ability of the home teacher lol.
I recall bodyguard talking about the school issues quite a bit.
I locked my profits before the end of the day, because wanted to ensure that my 100,000 contracts on tulips would not be impeded.
Please don’t make my position known to your Dutch clientele.
95%+ of over 30 year olds have families and careers and real problems to worry about. But that last few percent really make a stink of things. The BLM founders are all late 30s or early 40s, for instance.
The founders of BLM dont really have much power over the BLM movement. I really dont think they are all that influential as the BLM movement is super decentralized. People dont even know the two lady’s names without googling. Its the younger folks who have taken up the SJW torch to push back on the establishment in various ways- the lowest hanging fruit being to get their school name changed.
I also think many folks are looking at this from a perspective where changing memorialized names, or statues is canceling those historical figures, and erasing the past. I think a pretty valid perspective is that we are simply swapping out memorialized names and statues to historical figures that are more pertinent or culturally significant nowadays. The same way the USPS changes up who gets to be on a stamp, we can change up whose name gets on a building, school, street, etc. A school name or statue doesnt have to live for all eternity once it has been set once, 50 years ago.
FWIW, the narrative over on WSB is that it they hold the ethical high ground by continuing to drive the stock price higher and higher, and anyone who cashes out is selling out “the movement”. The point is to do to Wall Street now, what wall street did to the people in 2008… the point isnt to profit.
So, really its the folks like me who are happy to say they DGAF about “the movement” that are trying to capitalistically capitalize on this whole shit show, while “the movement” stays pure.
It’s three women and they have Hollywood agents and are making tv deals with people like Oprah.
Also, BLM rakes in millions of dollars so it must have some organizational structure. It is not just some slogan.
This is an uneducated way of thinking. Is the bill of rights still pertinent?
This is the problem with how Americans think; historical relevance is not a trend. The Ancient Greeks are historically relevant and still significant. And the reality that these fragile, semi-educated social justice avengers are rebelling against is that they owe their existence to Greco-Roman culture and society. All of these blue haired humanities undergrads are connected to what they refer to as white culture, colonizers, imperialists, patriarchy, etc. They should be grateful they were able to inherent that culture but instead they want some sort of do over or reset.
A history professor complaining about Greeks and Romans (who didn’t think about race as we do today) should know that the very concept of history is a Greek and Roman invention.
And her picture looks exactly as you would expect.
Yeah. I was in a zoom meeting yesterday and we had to state our pronouns as we introduced ourselves. My name is obviously masculine so I didn’t bother.
All they need to take in millions is a cheap website, and a PayPal account. Ask the folks at BLM. org or other knock off websites who received donations haha.
I fail to understand how it’s uneducated to have that viewpoint. Are you suggesting that once something is named after a person, or a statue erected it should never be renamed or replaced lest we “forget our history”? I think only the truly great should have names or monuments last for centuries or millennia. James calhoun is not important on that level and should be happy to have had a lake named after him for 100 years.
Just following the directive of the black pool HFTs , uh larger hedge funds that actually piled on and made the shorts puke (right before grabbing a short for the freefall) , er I mean SEC suggestion.
@Legalsteel Is there a VIX for an individual stock? lol