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A giant of the car world, Ken Block has died aged 55 after a snowmobile accident.
His impact on car and popular culture was absolutely massive, easily as big or bigger than Netflix's Drive to Survive. Except stuff like Gymkhana was just pure automotive joy. Godspeed, Ken.
Saying not to bother with the favourite button on mastodon because it doesn't affect any algorithm is like saying not to say thank you to someone because no one else will hear.
Stop thinking in those old social media ways of engagement and visibility and algorithms and reach and audience and start thinking about being social.
And BOOST! It's how you saw this, probably!
A favourite is a nice thanks, a boost lets everyone else discover the great thing you discovered too!
Welcome to 2023, everyone! 🥳🎉
To put to you how weird our perspective and perception of time is, we’re now at the half way point between Halley’s Comet visits!
1986 …………. ☄️………. 2061
If you’re born ~1980, you might be lucky enough to see it twice!
📸 NASA/W. Liller
@Blotreport @mojo The sad thing imho is that the hoi polloi are in the same measure, gifted, average or weak at the same subjects/skills as the kids at private schools.
The difference is that weak kids at private are given higher grades for ordinary work or tutors do the work for them. (My husband once did a semester at a prestigious private school and was told to rewrite some of his reports bc "our parents don't pay our fees to be told their child is a B- standard"). They also have a network of contacts who can get them jobs in business regardless of their work ethic.
Weak kids at govt schools misbehave or fall through the net. Or both. They don't have a network to get them into a job after school.
Top kids at private schools succeed anyway and find themselves in small VCE groups with other top kids.
Top kids in govt schools don't have the luxury of small groups in an underfunded school so they end up in VCE classes of 20-25 then get ranked against lower ability peers. Their grades are pulled down which affects ATARs. Sad reality. And then they have to compete for uni places against private school kids.
It's never a level playing field with fixed goal posts.
I will never understand why people want to be in crowds, I'd just feel as though I were drowning.
My ideal places are those that contain a lot of green, rolling hills and wildlife, and barely a human, if any, for miles.
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