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Jun 15, 2020 10:22
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School uniforms indoctrinate children to conformity and fascism.
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Jun 15, 2020 10:25
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So what's our excuse?
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Jun 15, 2020 13:34
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I don't think it actually matters all that much other than the increased likelihood of developing a vaguely disturbing schoolgirl fetish
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Jun 15, 2020 13:36
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Milo and POTUS posted:So what's our excuse? School uniforms reek of papacy, say American protestants.
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Jun 15, 2020 13:39
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Phlegmish posted:I don't think it actually matters all that much other than the increased likelihood of developing a vaguely disturbing schoolgirl fetish As evinced by the popularity of "sexy Catholic schoolgirl uniform" Halloween costumes...it's not that uncommon in the USA either.
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Jun 15, 2020 14:05
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I always thought school uniforms were a dumb and impractical idea and no child should ever be required to figure out a tie.
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Jun 15, 2020 18:22
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one of the things that should have twigged people to the fact that aaron sorkin sucks poo poo is that he makes president bartlet take a "principled but unpopular" stand on uniforms for public school children in the face of the habitual complainers in the ACLU
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Jun 15, 2020 19:28
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SlothfulCobra posted:I always thought school uniforms were a dumb and impractical idea and no child should ever be required to figure out a tie. I am 47 years old and refuse to use a tie, or learn how to use one.
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Jun 15, 2020 19:33
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a fatguy baldspot posted:are things really that dire in their exclave or is it just colored the same as russia It's pretty average by west Russian standards. 
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Jun 15, 2020 19:46
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Tyva Republic 
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Jun 15, 2020 19:49
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That's a very impressive decline in the murder rate, holy cow.
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Jun 15, 2020 19:55
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You should generally take Russian statistics with a grain of salt, but I can definitely believe there's been a serious drop in the murder rate. There's a reason many Russians prefer petty dictator Putin over the chaos of the Yeltsin years.
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Jun 15, 2020 19:58
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What's going on in Tuva, is that a hotspot for organized crime?
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Jun 15, 2020 20:14
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Phlegmish posted:You should generally take Russian statistics with a grain of salt, but I can definitely believe there's been a serious drop in the murder rate. There's a reason many Russians prefer petty dictator Putin over the chaos of the Yeltsin years. Yeah that's what I was thinking. The 90s were a very ugly time for Russia. Kamrat posted:What's going on in Tuva, is that a hotspot for organized crime? Also this. I would expect higher numbers in a place like Dagestan or Chechnya.
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Jun 15, 2020 20:30
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Kamrat posted:What's going on in Tuva, is that a hotspot for organized crime? No one lives there, so a small number of murders can show a huge per capita crime rate.
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Jun 15, 2020 20:43
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Phlegmish posted:You should generally take Russian statistics with a grain of salt, but I can definitely believe there's been a serious drop in the murder rate. There's a reason many Russians prefer petty dictator Putin over the chaos of the Yeltsin years. I believe it. There was a story I heard about how in Putin's early days, he worked to take out oligarchs as part of restoring law and order in Russia. Then after he took out the bulk of the oligarchs, he used the remainder to reinforce his grasp on power and betrayed his allies who had been helping him. And since one of his allies was an American businessman who was close friends with a Russian accountant who Putin had killed, that eventually led to the current US program of placing sanctions on Russian individuals believed to be guilty of crimes. https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2017/07/14/537304186/episode-784-meeting-the-russians
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Jun 15, 2020 20:52
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The real reason the number of murders have dropped is that the murderers all killed each other.
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Jun 15, 2020 21:00
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Phlegmish posted:There's a reason many Russians prefer petty dictator Putin over the chaos of the Yeltsin years. And that reason is the current regime just went full-on Hitler with their propaganda, blaming literally every evil in the world on (mostly) gay people, and the Russian public ate it up. e: And dissenters with a voice mysteriously get "murdered by Chechen rebels" or suicide. 3D Megadoodoo fucked around with this message at 21:17 on Jun 15, 2020 |
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Jun 15, 2020 21:14
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Tuvan throat singing is awesome but you don't get powers like that without making certain tradeoffs.
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Jun 15, 2020 22:22
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Count Roland posted:Yeah that's what I was thinking. The 90s were a very ugly time for Russia. It was an ugly time for pretty much all of the former Warsaw Pact countries I'm guessing. This page says that the German murder rate pretty much exploded after reunification and then quickly dropped again from its peak of 1,468 cases in 1993 (although you'll have to subtract ~84 from that, for some godforsaken reason the authorities decided to a) include all the 421 people killed while trying to leave the GDR in the post-reunification murder statistics and b) spread them out roughly equally over the 1993-1997 years) to 565 in 2015. East Germans were 22% of the overall population in 1993, but accounted for 36% of all registered murders. I'm not sure what the reasons are, although I can think of two:
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Jun 15, 2020 22:53
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Archduke Frantz Fanon posted:No one lives there, so a small number of murders can show a huge per capita crime rate. Yes that would account for some abnormality but not all of it, a lot of places in Russia are sparsely populated but none of them had a homicide rate of 130/100 000, even today the number is abnormally high compared to the rest of the country
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Jun 15, 2020 23:46
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richard feynman's ghoul, twarted from visiting tuva in life, now stalks its populace in death
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Jun 16, 2020 00:30
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It's the Tannu Tuvan People's Front.
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Jun 16, 2020 00:36
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Jasper Tin Neck posted:It's pretty average by west Russian standards. Saint Petersburg's way worse than Moscow though, cultural capital my rear end.
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Jun 16, 2020 00:47
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Jun 16, 2020 05:16
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Took me a few moments. 
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Jun 16, 2020 05:53
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Had to zoom out to see it. Well played.
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Jun 16, 2020 05:54
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Scotland looks like it's had one too many deep-fried Mars bars.
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Jun 16, 2020 06:40
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Phlegmish posted:As for immigrants, they generally learn whichever language is dominant in their social environment, and that's not always the local vernacular. Mass immigration can put serious pressure on dialects and minority languages (see for example the status of Catalan in Barcelona). Different immigrant groups will also generally use a simplified version of the dominant language to communicate with each other and the native population, implying pressure towards a lowest common denominator, but otherwise not necessarily in a particular direction. A big reason that the language laws were implemented in Quebec were because Immigrants would enroll their kids in English schools. That's why the Jewish community of Montreal is Anglophone. Edit: 
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Jun 16, 2020 07:41
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I love this kind of maps and to see where I would roughly live then. I can’t be 100% sure but it might be Decatur county in NW Kansas, a place with less than 3,000 people that’s 98% white, voted for Trump with 80+% and is named after a 19th century navy hero who died after getting his dick shot off in a duel, even though the county is more than a thousand kilometres away from the nearest ocean. I sense that this is not the best place to be 
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Jun 16, 2020 07:46
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System Metternich posted:I love this kind of maps and to see where I would roughly live then. I can’t be 100% sure but it might be Decatur county in NW Kansas, a place with less than 3,000 people that’s 98% white, voted for Trump with 80+% and is named after a 19th century navy hero who died after getting his dick shot off in a duel, even though the county is more than a thousand kilometres away from the nearest ocean. I sense that this is not the best place to be Conversely, I'm on the northeast bit of Ukraine's Russian border
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Jun 16, 2020 07:52
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I'm somewhere in Nebraska, apparently. I know nothing about it but I'm guessing there's a lot of corn everywhere
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Jun 16, 2020 09:21
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I,m currently drowning in the Red Sea.
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Jun 16, 2020 09:58
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Points for matching Finland, Minnesota.
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Jun 16, 2020 10:55
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Looks like I'm in Mountrail County, North Dakota. Place is like 37% Norwegian-American so that's a thing.
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Jun 16, 2020 11:10
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ToxicAcne posted:A big reason that the language laws were implemented in Quebec were because Immigrants would enroll their kids in English schools. That's why the Jewish community of Montreal is Anglophone. I find Montreal to be a fascinating city because it's basically Brussels, except French is the historically subjugated language and the assimilation process got stuck somewhere halfway, while not (yet) having been fully reversed either. Very clear geographical divide as well, which is rare for a single metropolitan region in the 21st century. There's just so much to study in a sociological sense. In Brussels, where Dutch is natively spoken by only a negligible part of the population, Dutch-language schools are very popular in a relative sense, to the tune of 30% of the schoolgoing population being enrolled in one. That's mostly because there is a huge difference in terms of professional success between bilingual people and unilingual French speakers, which hasn't gone unnoticed by ambitious parents (so the correlation also has something of a chicken-egg dynamic). I've said this before, but I used to work at a place that employed several perfectly bilingual descendents of immigrants.
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Jun 16, 2020 13:46
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Montréal is the greatest city in the world and everyone should visit. But don’t move there I want to move there.
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Jun 16, 2020 14:20
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Montréal is the greatest city in the world and everyone should visit. But don’t move there I want to move there. Weren't they having problems with French people moving there because its "Cheap" and the French can't concieve of a France with multiple cities. I remember reading several articles about Montrealites complaining about French international-Gentrification.
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Visiting North America has never interested me, I guess I subconsciously don't find it exotic enough to justify the expense and effort, but if I did Montreal would definitely be at the top of the list.
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