>>46058

>Are you sure that's not just selection bias based on your dad's educational and class background?

lul

> I don't know why any of us bothers trying to talk directly to some American considering there's only a handful of us here but it's routinely wrong and the assumed person is somebody else.

lol I am not RAC. Wait a minute are neither one of us RAC? Lol.

Anyway these were just my personal observations out of a very small pool and yes indeed it could be that partly because of educational biases however I would also like to point out that the Indians acting trashy I have observed have been just as likely to be educated and like I said they act like they have a chip on their shoulder or something. Desi girls are awesome btw. As a white dude who knows next to nothing about these living cultures and probably I'm just adding fuel to the fires here north Indians or whatever they are actually do look pretty Aryan in the Persian sense to me whereas south Indians--the ones who act like everyone is dirt beneath them almost in a caste sense for having climbed the US citizenship hierarchy--look much more like idk some kind of Polynesians or non-Asiatic looking Pacific islanders.

But like you said it could be just because half my interactions were in college so it's biasing me towards Desi types and well educated Pakistani men, including one friend I'm thinking of in particular who had this really sauve almost like idolizing a James Bonde villain tier thing going on where he clearly appreciated Western culture although in retrospect I suppose part of what I found so likeable was the fact he had a lot of supreme arrogance in the educational sense and it wasn't being directed at me. There is a difference between like an IT professional or intellectual or scientist being arrogant because he knows he's surrounded by a bunch of dumbasses, and class or identity or other arrogance where it's totally unfounded and directed outward and you're just being an ass. That one friend for example even if he was a little arrogant was extraordinarily polite and well mannered, as opposed to some south Indian technician who clearly expresses how shit he thinks everyone else is.

You can, in short, reign in your own base proclivities and that is what's known as having class. It requires a certain amount of restraint and self awareness.

I'm also really confused and curious as to why Indians loathe ice water. They act super offended when you give them water with ice cubes in it. Clearly I am speaking from multiple different perspectives and positions in life here despite the fact I've not personally known a ton of Indians and Pakistanis but have interacted with them enough at enough points in my life to start forming some anecdotal pattern recognition, which is an unfortunate perceptual bias

I am also really sad to have seen one store in the area go down. That old man was super nice but he lost his business for some reason and I always deliberately went there and only there for mu tobacco until he was forced to shut down for whatever reason.

>Yesterday
>Get message from old HS that I should send back a digital copy of my degree because there might be some problems with it
>Send it back
>"Everything is all right with your papers (so fare the only case where this is true)"

Pretty nice of them to "remedy" this issue after two fucking months during the fucking enrolment procedure, but whatever.
I'd have been pretty fucking mad if I failed to enrol because of an undiscovered bureaucratic error. (That slipped past like three layers of bureaucracy.)

I woke up at 8 o' clock and had a small breakfast and then just lounged around the house. My sister went to pick up her new textbooks, and after she left, I immediately set to make lunch, only to find it's still only 10 o' clock.
So I went and picked up my package. They misspelt my name on the package. I guess it happens when you have a long name with a slightly archaic spelling.

I think I now own every book of interest from this press. (Except for maybe their Mongolian-Hungarian dictionary, but I'm not particularly interested that much in the Mongolian language as of yet.)
Got a copy of the Bhagavad-gita, a collection of Chekhov stories, a small collection of Mongolian myths, two short poetry volumes by the Japanese poet Ryokan, a book on Ming-era furniture, and a small volume of travel sketches from two Hungarian poets who travelled to Shanghai in the 1930s. I've never heard of Zoltán Nyisztor, but Sándor Weöres is probably one of my favourite poets. He's one of the best 20th century poetry has to offer. He was also a prolific translator, and his translations of Chinese poetry and the Daodejing, both of which he made with the help of now legendary Hungarian Sinologists are still widely read today.
I had no idea he ever visited the far-east.
Apparently the two poets were on the same boat at the same time, both of them writing their own travelogue. (Weöres knew that Nyisztor was on the boat while Nyisztor didn't acknowledge Weöres's presence, because as a radically conservative Catholic he probably cared little for an up-and coming poet publishing in a liberal/reformist journal like Nyugat. At least this is what I gather from the afterword.)

Autumn is just around the corner. At least based on the constant, gentle wind that I feel and see whenever I go outside.
I'm going to miss reading in the garden.

>>45707
>>45708
Honestly at this point I gave up on following Covid in the US, because it's a colossal clusterfuck that makes no sense as an outsider.

Bydlo here stopped wearing masks when not in a store or on public transport, judging by the news-footage I saw a couple of days ago about local flower and bread-festivals and such.
The big issue is that on September 1st, lower education will reopen, and by the end of the first week, higher education will too. It'll increase public transport usage by ~40% in the capital.

You can't have the kids sit 1.5 metres from each other like the government recommends, because there's not enough room in most schools for that.
The issue is that if they order education to be digital again, the parents won't stand for it.
(Especially in the lower grades where a disproportionate amount of teaching would fall on them, which they wouldn't be able to handle. At best, the parent is tired, at worst, we'll have a generation of kids who have shaky academic foundations because of corona.)(At least this is what I've found to be the general sentiment while talking about the state of the education during the rona with colleagues.)
Some universities plan on using "hybrid-systems" where some classes would be online, some would be held in person.

The situation isn't too bad right now, we have less than 1000 diagnosed cases (of which less than 100 require hospital care) and we have a large stockpile of ventilators and PPE. (Not to mention some of the national oil company's plants were re-purposed to produce hand sanitizer, and the penal-system handles local mask-production.)
Though the gubmint said they'll publish their plans for September sometimes next week, which should be interesting.

>Virus becoming more deadly

Unless it becomes LESS infectious, it won't get more or less deadly, because there's no selective pressure on it to change the mortality rate, simply because it infects people BEFORE the symptoms start.

I don't think any country allows Americans to travel. The US allowed cross-Atlantic travel, but most states still uphold the two-weeks quarantine upon arrival for US-citizens.

>>45711

> big issue is that on September 1st, lower education will reopen, and by the end of the first week, higher education will too. It'll increase public transport usage by ~40% in the capital.

Where we're going, we won't need eyes to see

>At best, the parent is tired, at worst, we'll have a generation of kids who have shaky academic foundations because of corona.)

This is really just a bunch of whiny parents exhausted from dealing with their kids who want to put the national health at risk because they'd rather a bloated taxpayer funded babysitter to deal with them. That's literally the actual rationale from the public side, and creating drone's from the system's side.

Obviously I am rooting for and cheering on the possibilities of this thing completely crashing their indoctrination of a whole generation of kids. Maybe it's different in your schools but I can tell you from experience in spite of the noble efforts of a select few educators the entire American public school system is completely worthless for everything except its actual non-stated function as John Taylor Gatto alluded to in his Against School paper and The Underground History of American Education which largely applies to any society that adopted the Prussian model of education particularly around industrialization.

Do note: that elite private schools like whatever all those British elites do in between buggering each other in the dorms, are in fact good schools. Andover is a good school, it's basically prep for Yale. Sadly higher education has also been degrading but no sense bitching about non-STEM in an unrelated thread.

Point here being that I sincerely believe forcing homeschooling is going to do a maximal benefit to society as a whole including a generation of children. Let them work on their own projects instead fuck textbooks and tests and classroom learning it's total garbage.