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  • So, I'm a filthy casual (this was the first game I've watched the entirety of on tv) so while I was happy about the win, I kept grinning when I thought about how stoked you must be.

    Anyway, hope you're still enjoying that "we won!" Post glow!

  • Yeah, that sounds wild. Ours were opt in programs with some testing etc. Coursework was hard but I still hardly had any for homework etc.

    Got to skip a few university classes as ours counted for them though which was useful. And yeah, the more I think about that grad class (decades ago now) the more impressed I am with what some of those folks went on to do.

  • Wild, maybe Canada does ours differently? I was in 2 different programs over the years but we still had lunch, free blocks and still shot the shit a bunch in class. And then sports and other extra curriculars too.

  • Ehhh, to each their own. I was in those classes, fully separated streams. No idea why you'd assume having a more interesting class would nix social development. (You can't learn to socialize if the teacher doesn't have to slow down?)

    Fully wide range of outcomes but a lot of the kids with the potential went and realized it. Sure, not all of us did but from my small circle one's on the second highest court in Canada, one's set up a reasonably famous company, one's a cardiac surgeon etc.

  • Did you mean to respond to another comment or did you completely miss the point?

    Edit: to put it more politely... The entire above point is that rhe evil of Israel's war does not change whether murdering and kidnapping civilians is wrong.

  • Kidnapping civilians is unequivocally bad regardless of whether we think the kidnapper is on the right side of history.

    Being unable to acknowledge the wrongs committed by those whom we support is pretty damn horrifying in my book. To see the same willfully ignorant "america/trump/the church can do no wrong" attitude but on the Left breaks my heart.

  • A bit late to the party but I have a handful that might work.

    For spooky and eerie vibes, Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer. (Turned into a movie that really doesn't capture the feeling.) Just a great sense of creepy dread throughout. I read it alone in a large house in the dark and loved feeling the hair on the back of my neck rise.

    Real life horror, The Hot Zone, by Richard Preston. About Ebola, freaking terrifying gross and real.

    And if you're looking for classics, he's a bad person but a solid gothic writer, HP Lovecraft. Not all the stories work but a lot are pretty good at evoking dread. Almost any of his collections of short stories works!

  • I really should keep an eye out for those comms and just avoid. At least any of the vaguely political ones!

    (Just Manufacturing Consent feels like a trap designed for me as Chomsky's thoughts on this are super relevant and interesting so, like a fool, I fell into the trap.)