I mean when it comes to subjects like math, languages and the various sciences - absolutely, they provide you with some basic tools that you may or may not use later in life. History is the fucking worst though. And a lot of it is the teachers’ fault. You could design tests to be more about explaining what happened, why it was important, etc. But at least in my school, you could barely get a passing grade on only that type of knowledge. You really needed all the dates and shit memorized for a good grade. Really strict teacher, not pleasant at all. Funnily enough - if you took any of her elective classes (extra history and philosophy) that only had like 6 or 7 students each, she was a very different person and the tests were a lot more about your general understanding, rather than being rally anal about very specific facts.

There’s no standardized testing for history in Estonia. No final exam to worry about. The teachers make up their own tests. Only in a few subjects did we actually have national exams. Estonian, English and math are the ones I had to take in high school. They could make significantly better tests if they wanted to. Teachers vary a lot by quality too, so in middle school my biology grade was a 3 (lowest passing grade in Estonia) and in high school it was a 5. The middle school teacher sucked at keeping students interested and the tests were uber strict. Miss one word in an explanation and you lose the point. The high school teacher was way friendlier, more engaging and paid more attention to what you knew, rather than how well you knew the minute details.

That gets me a loaf of bread, a smoked sausage, cheese and I’ll even have money to spare for tomatoes.

I can have several sandwiches.

I just can’t get over how her name is Girl Amick lol

Unfortunately that border town is likely to be in my country. Narva is chock full of Russian speakers.

Meanwhile my cold ass country is experiencing an abnormally warm autumn again.

Oh this is a good one

D, but only if they’re tory voters

Naked, lying in a pile of snow, steaming. After coming out of the sauna.

Life itself is nothing more than a collection of anecdotes. Outside of math and philosophy, all our knowledge is based on anecdotal/empirical evidence. And in terms of psychology in particular, “everyone”, “always”, “never” and “nobody” aren’t really terms you should use. I never said everyone with red hair is insane or something, I just said a large amount of people with bright red dyed hair seem to have issues. It’s a red flag to keep out for.

Now the question is, how deeply did you know all the people sporting bright hair colours, and can you be sure for real that most of them had no traumas they were dealing with? Someone being “reasonable” doesn’t mean they’re healthy. Nor does having mental health issues mean you have to be unreasonable or even unpleasant.

Oh, right. I forgot American ISPs are allowed to pull shit like that. I don’t think this would fly where I live. I also don’t use public WiFi, because why would I even

I’m personally partial to highwayservicestations for being a compact way to say 2 words as one and shieldfrogs because shieldfrogs are awesome.

We have lehmakool (cow cake) in Estonian too and I found it absolutely hilarious as a kid reading some children’s book. Might have been one of those Bullerby books by Astrid Lindgren, but I might also remember wrong

It really doesn’t, on a technical level.

You’re not sending them any data. None that they send you is unique to you. There’s no real benefit in encrypting it.

Anglo spotted

It’s different in sane first-world countries. Anglosphere countries are the worst at this. I suspect it’s all the Murdoch media.

Also, yoghurt isn’t sterile, but arsenic is I think?

Cool, but at least one of them completely admitted she’s got a lot of issues (nonviolent, so we were pretty good friends until we fell out of contact) and another was actually very violent - against me and at least one other former partner I know about - and SHE was the one who told me about it, not the victim. We were kind of a thing for a bit, but eventually the sex wasn’t worth the constant gaslighting and attacks.

Then there was one who said she’d dyed her hair “mental breakdown red”, but I never got to know her well enough to figure out how much of it was a joke. There was a “this is a joke, but like all jokes, it’s not completely out of thin air” energy about it.

Truth be told, I know one girl who has a similar hair colour and seems completely sane. Don’t know her too well, kinda stopped talking after school and she was pretty introverted back then, but she’s been rocking it as her style for a few decades now. The common thing between the others is that they all did theirs after some traumatic event, which is where I got the hypothesis that radically changing one’s appearance might be a trauma response - hence my nickname for it: mental health red.

There’s still good movies coming out these days, just far fewer of them. Steer clear of the blockbusters and the really low effort slop and there’s still a few mid-budget original movies made every year generally.

There’s a specific hair color I refer to as “mental health red”. Every girl I’ve talked to that has had it, was, uh, off in some way. It’s a REALLY shiny, fake red, not a natural tone at all. Also common after break ups.

People with dyed hair in general though? Can’t say I agree.

Only with the correct iOS version though.

Back when people made a big deal about iPhone planned obsolescence, they were actually easier to repair than most competitors. Nowadays it’s about the same.