“Seattleites who would never set foot in a Walmart are passionate about their love of Amazon. Ideals become easy prey when convenience is at stake. And it’s a matter of perception, too: Walmart puts its low-paid employees up front, parades their lack of dignity around for customers to see. Amazon gets to hide its poorly treated employees in warehouses, far from public view. Walmart’s cheaply made goods, all lined up and hanging on a rack, evoke the assembly lines of China. Amazon’s cheaply made goods, delivered individually in an attractive cardboard box to your door, seem like something magical; they don’t bear the fingerprints of people working for pennies a day in slave-labor conditions. All the ugliness of Amazon is behind the scenes, hidden behind a thick wall of corporate silence, and for that concealment, any number of people who consider themselves good citizens are willing to trade their loathing of Walmart for a deep and abiding love of the Great Walmart in the Sky. Turns out, that love might not be unconditional, after all.”
brandxAnd because I seriously side-eye this Western journalism trend of never crediting and NAMING the actual inventors in the headlines (especially when they’re young POC)
this inventor’s name is Shubham Banerjee, and he is making his glorious design completely open source, publishing it online FREE of charge! Just remember this kid’s name before some crusty old white dude “innovates” his design and takes all the credit.
lystrareid"pansexual means ur attracted to the person not their gender uwu"
damn. you caught me. the shady bisexual. exclusively attracted to gender. i dont give a shit about your personality. just show me your gender and i’ll fuck that.
- anime:
Ah yes, the beach episode!
- cartoons:
Ah yes, the episode where a character gets shrunken down and sent into another character to explore their body!
earth-dadanime: Ah yes, the beach episode!
cartoons: Ah yes, the episode where a character gets shrunken down and sent into another character to explore their body!
commandersheenaIn one of my film classes last semester we had to tell a story in 3 pictures for a mini assignment so my friend and I did this
jonbutterHeartbreaking Simpsons Moments 1/∞: Bart Gets an F
songofagesI never understood why it’s an F if he gets more than half out of 100? Unless it’s more than 100. If you get more than half the answers right how is it an F?
heruutAverage American Grading Scale:
A+- 97-100
A - 94-96
A- - 90-93
B- 80-89
C- 70-79
D- 60-69
F- 59 and under
well-metaphoricallyspeakingAnd in some places in America it goes by a 7 point scale, so it’d be
A - 100-93
B - 92-85
C - 84-78
D - 77-70
F - 69 and below
flameoflightNow you understand why American kid’s feel like there’s no point to school. If you have a 100 question text, and get 79 of them correct, that’s a C. That mean’s your Average Intelligence on this particular subject. And it get’s even worse when you have only like… a 10 question quiz. If you get two wrong? that’s a B. 80 fucking %. Now tell me again why American school’s are easier?
punkrocklunanext time you try to tell americans that we’re stupid
i’m gonna remind you
that our “average” is your “A”
accountant-in-a-can#is that true?
Yep I was shocked when I heard this in a different post but a Google search pulls up a ton of sites backing this up.
Shit son I woulda passed College Algebra with an A in the UK. And I spent the end of the semester in perpetual fear that I would fail and have to retake the class.
keylimepieAnd basically as an American you’re expected to get 80 or higher. Technically 70s are considered ‘average’ but there is such a level of pressure to get a B or higher, that Cs have become equal to Ds. Basically anything under 60 you might as well gotten a 0, and anything between 60-80 is considered practically failing. So basically schools have to be designed to make sure majority of students are getting 80s or higher on specific topics, which means you’re spending all your time going over a few choice facts a billion times and there is very little room to teach anything else. Which explains why American schools are of such low quality. The insane demand on the students ends up wrecking their education. Not only do you not have time to teach them anything, but they end up hating learning. Even outside of school your life is dedicated to memorizing these few dumb facts because your homework ends up taking hours of your time. A teacher from one subject says they expect you to spend 2 hours every night on their homework. And if you’re studying 5 subjects and they all demand that 2 hours? Good fucking luck, because if you don’t have straight all 80s or higher you’re not getting into a good college and college degrees have somehow become the minimum requirement for getting jobs.
gaezedkrielI spent most of my junior year of high school in a state of constant panic that I was going to get a C in Honors Physics much less fail the class. If I got a C on my report card, I was grounded until the next one. I lost count of the times I’d wake up at five in the morning to take the early bus to go in for zero hour before school actually started for the day
yourroyalpenisFile this under the exact reason so many Americans detest going to school.
zimothySome are even more strict. At my beauty school, anything below a 76% is failing. :c it makes test-taking extremely difficult when we get to things like anatomy and the skin disorders and diseases chapters.
breakfastburritoeI really like u but you are an ocean and I’m just a more impressive ocean with cooler and stronger sharks
wtfamidrawingywpd 60min prompt Izumida
I wanted to draw something serious and now he’s eating catfood and flashing a bra. I’m—
