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You must've gone to a pretty kick ass elementary school. In mine, we'd play Connect Four and make paintings out of fake hieroglyphs...

• 082349872349872 3y ago
  I'm fortunate my parents didn't stick with free-to-play, but were willing to spend 5-6 digits more to buy a house in the "good" school district: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39946026 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39946026
  • dxdm 3y ago
    Willing _and_ able.
    • aebtebeten 3y ago
      I grew up during the Cold War, so I don't know what the Young Pioneers were learning*, but we were good little capitalists, and we learned the Golden Rule: "Whoever has the gold makes the rules" (*maybe the ones who spent their summers at Artek were learning "whoever makes the rules has the gold"?)
• inopinatus 3y ago
  When I were a lad, elementary school meant four hours of beatings in a muddy field, and we were glad of it
  • 082349872349872 3y ago
    On that note, I found Orwell's posthumously-published Such, Such Were the Joys (about his boarding school days) suggests the inspirations behind large swaths of 1984.
    • inopinatus 3y ago
      Coming Up for Air is practically my childhood in a nutshell