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For the cat is cryptic, and close to strange things which men cannot see. He is the soul of antique Aegyptus, and bearer of tales from forgotten cities in Meroe and Ophir. He is the kin of the jungle’s lords, and heir to the secrets of hoary and sinister Africa. The Sphinx is his cousin, and he speaks her language; but he is more ancient than the Sphinx, and remembers that which she hath forgotten.
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Notices by RDN's Lucifer (nerthos), page 60
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@sim It's hit and miss really, but it should be reviewed to pick relevant texts that are enjoyable to read, so that students will pick a reading habit, rather than make them read unappealing or bad works that'll discourage them.
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@sim Same as far as the national pride thing. I'm not a patriotic guy, and I actively scorn the bad parts of the history of my own country and others, but I think it's important to teach history, specially if the country has lots of it to tell. Here at school you'll see a very basic recap of the independence wars between 1800 and 1816, and some stuff about the 1880s, '40s and '70s. That's it. And Buenos Aires was first founded on 1534, and stands since 1580 after being destroyed once by it's inhabitants. Not to even go into pre-Spanish history. And this is still much younger than your place, of which there exists historical records from at least Roman times.
In a country like yours with a much longer history and thus full of interesting stuff, there should be much more covered and shown in school so that people have an idea of what has happened where they stand. -
@sim Haha, yeah. Then again that's in a big part the fault of schools that make such works mandatory reads. Schools tend to be terrible at picking books for the students to read. For example here in highschool students are expected to read a book called El Matadero to cover for local historical literature set in the 1800s, and this book is about political thugs overpowering a man and shoving a corn up his rear (long story short a political party here at the time had thugs that used that as a form of torture). Instead I'd suggest Milla Loncó which is about a kid in his early teens that moves to the frontier lands in ~1870 (at the time disputed between natives and the army) and recounts how life was there, both in the forts and among the natives. It's a much better read, meant for a more general public, and still covers the late 1800s period in the country.
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@sim Honestly I would have assumed in the UK it wouldn't be that rare, since the place has a long history with bows. Shows things really changed over time. Archery also would have the plus of teaching much more about responsibility than any ball sport can, since you have to be aware of where others are standing and you can't fool around with the bow, even if you're using practice arrows. The kind of responsible behaviour it'd teach would be a considerable help with building a society that's mature in the handling of weapons.
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@sim Those should just be required to be mild.
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@sim I had swimming for a bit in elementary school, but that required a trip to a sports club and about two hours between travel, changing, showers and so on.
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@eris Ha, I remember a teacher hated me for two years because in mid school I had an ingrown toenail and I'd consistently pull a doctors' letter that advised otherwise whenever he told me to go run. That'd get him really mad.
Best part is that it healed on it's own after that. -
If I had archery or fencing or whatever at school I would have gotten 9 or 10 every trimester consistently, because those things are actually fun, unlike football or handball.
In a japanese school I would have been a member of a bunch of sports teams. -
@sim Well that's what the +18 tags are for haha
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@sim It was kind of annoying mostly because I don't like to run, so it didn't cover any sports I found entertaining (cycling, swimming, archery, swordfighting, and so on. Only kinda interesting thing was javelin once) and I wouldn't get the best grades because of it despite being physically fit. I'd deliberately slow down in the marathon tests or warmup just because I found it annoying, even though I could do the 100m sprint, pushups and long jump decently.
I think the issue here comes from the fact that most PE teachers think the assignement is about sports, and no one actually corrects them. They teach you how to sport correctly but nothing else. -
@sim That's why kids are so much more likely to catch diseases than adults in general, schools bunch together kids of a lot of areas and they pass disease.
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@sim Relationships are one of the few topics that are genuinely complicated because outside the obvious, what is ok in them and what isn't come down to the personalities and morals of each partner, and what is disappointing or abusive to one might be relaxing and nice to someone else. It just comes down to picking someone with a matching personality and actual commitment.
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@sim @maiyannah @camoceltic My average PE class was stretching and warm up then the day's game. Grading was based on basic tests like long jump, 100m sprint, 1k marathon, pushups and so on. It was decent in covering basic sports stuff but awful at actual health.
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@maiyannah @camoceltic When I had it (finished highschool in 2010) theory classes were given in rain days when outside sports were not an option, but very few teachers actually focused on teaching anything useful.
I remember one that was particularly good though, but I had him only on the last year. The guy really cared about PE and health and sports and all that, and could do whatever he wanted as he was the most senior professor in the field within the school (school had at least a dozen PE teachers) and was about to retire, so he gave genuinely good classes as no one could tell him "keep it down so you don't make us look bad" -
@sim The person probably had the vaccine, which caused their immune system to focus on that, and caught another strain during that time when their immune system was busy with it. It's why generally vaccines aren't applied to people who are already sick.
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@camoceltic This is common practice, and not only in the USA. PE class is the best example of this: it should be a comprehensive course on human anatomy and health across the entire duration of basic education, covering human muscles, bones, nutrition, exercise, and how to prevent common strains, and it ends up being years of just playing sports and dodging balls.
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@sim I was just giving an example. It's pretty easy to tell when a work of fiction is trying to sell an ideology and when it's just putting it there as part of the story by making characters believe in that ideology.
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@sim No, generally the vaccine version of the disease is weakened to a point that it can't normally spread, and at times it's even a dead sample of the disease, thus not being able to create new bacteria.
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@moonman True. But hey you know that USA deals with mistrust like nep deals with server issues.
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@sim Well, flu shots are often not mandatory, but are offered for free to risk groups like children and the elderly. You can still however go to a pharmacy and buy a shot, which they'll often administer right there with a nurse, if you're worried about it.
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@moonman Well it's true that many institutions can't be trusted at all nowadays, but the solution is not to revert medicine to the XVIII century.
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@maiyannah Actual Nurglite Maiya
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@sim I don't have anything about talking about those things, just against encouraging them.
It's one thing to say "Hitler ordered his officers to euthanize the disabled" which is a factual, historical statement and informs the reader of this without influencing their opinion. It's another to say "Hitler rightfully brought up the severe tax that the disabled were on the state's resources to his officers, and for the sake of the country asked his officers to put them to death, thus increasing the quality of life of the general population" which makes an idiotic reader that would have otherwise said "that's bad" to think "huh maybe we should kill the disabled after all" -
@maiyannah Oh, alright. Yeah, can't argue that at all.
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@sim Furthermore, even if you WERE immune to the disease, if the rest haven't gotten the vaccine they'll fall ill, they'll have to skip work so day to day life would be affected, and they'll also collapse the healthcare system, so if you get sick with something else there won't be available doctors nor resources to treat you.
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@sim A vaccine works by building a resistance to a strain of disease by exposing the body to a severely weakened sample of that disease. Like learning to defend yourself from knives while wearing padding and with a rubber knife. Your body recognizes the threat and creates defenses without being in real risk. This severely strenghtens immune response to the disease, but it doesn't always make you completely immune, that only happens with certain diseases that you can't contract twice. With others your immune system can be still overwhelmed. It's often given to vulnerable people and children because they're the ones most likely to be unable to fend the disease proper just with their base immune system.
If people don't take the vaccines, then the exposition to disease you have to deal with is much, much higher. Like how a lead suit will protect you from a few rads but you'll still die if you sit on a plutonium brick.
