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[ChairmanPoo]

My uni was f*ing expensive, g at least they behaved with the textbook stuff, insofar for the most part many teachers provided the materials themselves.



In other news, while it seemed things were going well in my job, they're trying to weave a web around me using a goddamn calendar. Since apparently some goodwill attitudes of me have been interpreted as a weakness sign, I'm going to escalate this.

[EnigmaticHat]

There's some websites out there that let you review your professors and give them ratings... and frankly a lot of the reviews I've seen have been awful.

In my experience a lot of the reviews on those sites are written by the professors themselves.

As for the whole capitalism discussion, what you guys want is a capitalism where exchanges are between things of equal value.  Right now, what we have a system where those in a position of power or with money get to make better exchanges.  In this case, the captive audience of university students is the form of power.

You know, if you want to be optimistic and believe things could be made more fair.

[Loud Whispers]

buy out detroit, kick everyone out, do some demolishing and support the university via the profit margin you get from rent of a small town you now own

1. Buy out Detroit.
2. Kick everyone out.
3. Demolish.
4. Fill land with Pandas.

Conclusion: Not sure, but pandas. At least you won't have to worry about social issues anymore, because pandas so fluffy ;-;

[quinnr]

Someone wrote a letter to their neighbor telling them to euthanize their autistic son. You never cease to amaze me, world.

[LordSlowpoke]

buy out detroit, kick everyone out, do some demolishing and support the university via the profit margin you get from rent of a small town you now own

1. Buy out Detroit.
2. Kick everyone out.
3. Demolish.
4. Fill land with Pandas.

Conclusion: Not sure, but pandas. At least you won't have to worry about social issues anymore, because pandas so fluffy ;-;

...

put china on the line

[Shakerag]

Someone wrote a letter to their neighbor telling them to euthanize their autistic son. You never cease to amaze me, world.

Commentary on the article is amusing and somewhat interesting.

I like it how many people are decrying the author for the hate-filled letter, and then with the next breath describing what sort of nasty things they want to happen to them. 

If you're calling out someone for being hateful ... and then go on to describe how much you hate that person ... where does that leave you?

Of course, I do like the intriguing notion that the author of the letter may actually be male, a teenager, or even a member of the autistic person's family. 

[Mr Space Cat]

Greentext story time.

>receives schedule for senior year of high school in mail on August 16, 2013
>goes to school attendance office before the year starts for last minute adjustments on August 21, 2013
>note on door saying the office is closed and all schedule changes must be made before August 16 or else wait until the second week of school.

Bear in mind I did not receive any note with the schedule informing me of this deadline before hand.

GG school, good system you got going here. Really quite efficient at screwing with students, good jerb brah, good jerb.

[Sirus]

Greentext story time.

>receives schedule for senior year of high school in mail on August 16, 2013
>goes to school attendance office before the year starts for last minute adjustments on August 21, 2013
>note on door saying the office is closed and all schedule changes must be made before August 16 or else wait until the second week of school.

Bear in mind I did not receive any note with the schedule informing me of this deadline before hand.

GG school, good system you got going here. Really quite efficient at screwing with students, good jerb brah, good jerb.

>makes greentext post
>text isn't green

[Dutchling]

But.. greentext means putting a ">" in front of it...

Making it green is called morethantext,

[Lagslayer]

As for the whole capitalism discussion, what you guys want is a capitalism where exchanges are between things of equal value.  Right now, what we have a system where those in a position of power or with money get to make better exchanges.  In this case, the captive audience of university students is the form of power.

You know, if you want to be optimistic and believe things could be made more fair.

How do you convert the value of things that are so different? How can you determine how much sweeping is equal to a loaf of bread?

You can probably tell by now that I am not an optimist.

[Loud Whispers]

But.. greentext means putting a ">" in front of it...

Greentext is green though.

[Dutchling]

But.. greentext means putting a ">" in front of it...

Greentext is green though.

That's what they want you to believe.

[quinnr]

Greentext story time.

>receives schedule for senior year of high school in mail on August 16, 2013
>goes to school attendance office before the year starts for last minute adjustments on August 21, 2013
>note on door saying the office is closed and all schedule changes must be made before August 16 or else wait until the second week of school.

Bear in mind I did not receive any note with the schedule informing me of this deadline before hand.

GG school, good system you got going here. Really quite efficient at screwing with students, good jerb brah, good jerb.

My schedule had issues, too! I had more luck getting it changed though, although I couldn't get a hold of my personal counselor, I went into the school and the head counselor was there and made everything better. She's scary though, she even knew my name.

[Solifuge]

Someone wrote a letter to their neighbor telling them to euthanize their autistic son. You never cease to amaze me, world.

Semi-related note. My former roommate and I were talking, and the subject of Autism came up. He started talking about a family he used to sit for, who had an Autistic Kid. He described how the kid "is making a slow recovery from it as he gets older. He might even be cured of it, but he can still name all the US Presidents." Confused, I asked a few questions, and started explaining how the kid sounds more like he had Aspergers, but was not Autistic, and was learning the methods behind socialization as he got older. He responded that, since "he worked with Autistic Kids first hand, he probably has a better idea than I do."

I made a point of not talking about how I was trained formally to work with children with rough family backgrounds, disabilities, and abnormal psychological conditions such as Aspergers. I also didn't talk about how my cousin and brother, and at least 1-2 of my friends, are diagnosed (or are very likely to be) high-functioning. Instead, I wanted to hear him talk more about all the things he knew.

He went on to describe the boy in detail. He used words such as "really stupid, sometimes", "retarded", and "idiot savant". He explained how "though it sounds really bad to say" you have to "treat them the same way you'd treat a Pet." He then went on to share an anecdote about how he got sick of eating at the boy's ritual lunchtime restaurant, and forced them to go get Bacon Cheeseburgers at Wendy's instead, which the boy hated. He considered forcing the kid to eat it his personal triumph, as a caretaker. "See, you've just got to be firm with them and break their habits, like with an animal. That's the only way to really get through to them."

I... okay. I know he is a good person. He's offered me help when I really needed it, and though he is insensitive and misinformed, he generally means well. But he is so wrong. And so sure of himself in his wrongness. There was no diplomatic way to get through to him, so I agreed to disagree.

It took a while, but I'm starting to really, honestly resent him.

[Spaghetti7]

Trying to download 20GB of Battlefield 3 on a shitty internet connection and through a shitty program. I hate you Origin, but does that mean you have to break my already incredibly slow download every 5 minutes? Thanks. -_-