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by cjs_ac 2y ago
Learning about new cultures is exactly what makes moving to a different culture fun, but when you're a teacher, you have to know how your school functions, because you have to enforce order within that institution. I was surprised th
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I saw plenty of American television while growing up in Australia; there's a lot of it on in the UK, even though the UK is a television powerhouse in its own right. In America, learning about other countries is a choice; in the rest of
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by cjs_ac 2y ago
I used to be a schoolteacher, and the Growth Mindset was one of the Theories of the Year that I was expected to wholeheartedly believe in. Educational psychologists keep coming up with this stuff, and teachers lap it up, because teaching is
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All of the businesses described have been around for long enough for us to discover why the things they 'eliminated' existed in the first place. Amazon is an infinite cornucopia of worthless shit. A good shop is one that offers a
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by cjs_ac 2y ago
English comedian Peter Kay shows a series of these in one of his routines: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7my5baoCVv8
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You can't fake your way into the upper class in the UK, because they all know each other already. As for behaviour, dress and speech, the standard books are: * Noblesse Oblige [0] Mostly about vocabulary, and very outdated (1950s) *
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Oh no, 'climbing the greasy pole' takes at least three generations. The 'right neighbourhood' is itself a complicated concept, because the working and middle classes in the UK live cheek-by-jowl. I live in a street of ru
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In Watching the English , Kate Fox gives a thorough explanation of how much she can pin down someone's social class by what they buy at Marks and Spencers (which is a department store that's branched out into groceries). I forget
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by cjs_ac 2y ago
There's this quote from Andy Warhol that I think has great explanatory power: > What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest. Y
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In Mytens' painting, it's not even clear who is giving and who is receiving the wreath. > On this canvas, now part of the Royal Collection, the King is being passed a laurel wreath by his wife, as ‘a symbol of their union and a
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Regarding the last two points, I wonder how much this varies between countries? In the aftermath of Brexit, the suggestion that American chicken could be sold in Britain was met with horror by the British press due to what was considered ap
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See also the one hundred and eleven Livery Companies of the City of London: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Livery_company
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Taking your comment at face value (and ignoring any sarcasm), yes, this is worth spending taxpayers' money on, because one of the symptoms of lead poisoning is antisocial and violet behaviour.
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https://archive.ph/geqRg
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A less rigorous but more entertaining treatment of this topic is available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfXoUaeLcDU
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Until recently, the AWS pricing page had no prices on it. (Or, if it did have prices, I couldn't find them.)
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There comes a point where the cumulative time needed to avoid the carcinogen exceeds the expected increase in lifespan
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When I was a teacher, I noticed this too: the more we talked about mental health, the more cases of anxiety our school counsellors saw. Perhaps some of that was simply awareness. But adolescence is also a time of experimentation with one&#x
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by cjs_ac 2y ago
Context for non-Australians: Home ownership is the core of Australian national identity[0]. Since the 1990s, government policy has made speculation on residential property extremely lucrative. Mass immigration is used to keep the economy gr
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> In Calling Bullshit, the authors give the example of the Virginia Mason Quality Equation Q = [Ax(O+S)÷W] (Quality equals Appropriateness times the sum of Outcomes and Service divided by Waste), a formula used for improving operations m
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by cjs_ac 2y ago
To add to this, I mounted an HDD to a case using motherboard standoffs in a place that was obviously intended for SSDs. Not only was it very loud, the resonance between the disk and the case also broke the disk after six months.
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by cjs_ac 2y ago
When you say the word anchovy , which syllable do you stress? I live in the UK, where the stress is placed on the first syllable: ANch'vy. However, I'm originally from Australia, where the UK pronunciation seems to be an 'ol
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by cjs_ac 2y ago
Previous research from Brooke-Taylor, Garden and Oddie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Q5_51J8Hgg
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Is it reinventing the wheel, or is it making a new wheel that exactly fits the design requirements? A framework with all the bells and whistles isn't that great when I want a framework with a piano.
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At my day job, we use something called ClickUp for task tracking. Watching the UI elements load one at a time reminds me of those greybeard stories about using vi over 300 baud modems. ClickUp is supposed to be productivity software. HTMX p
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I personally prefer Rhodia notepads and notebooks: I prefer the stark whiteness of the paper, the smoother paper, and the 5mm dot grid. Moleskine's marketing is simply too aggressive: they don't sell notebooks, they sell an aesthe
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One of my physics lecturers at university made the offhand observation that the distinction between physics and mathematics is a twentieth-century idea : it wasn't made during the nineteenth century or before, and it seems to be disap
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There's a mention of continental Europe driving on the right due to Napoleon. The story I heard is that in the French Revolution, many changes were made purely to make a symbolic break with the monarchy, and driving on the right was on
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The taxi driver is sitting on the right hand side of the car. Driving on the right enables the driver to open the passenger's door without getting out of their own seat (London taxis have 'suicide doors').
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It's well known that about a third of all traffic speed cameras in the UK are decoys; I assume that something similar goes on with CCTV cameras. The British state is administered on the principle of maximum effect for least effort and

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