They have to shoehorn art in there because the teachers are retards who can't teach STEM. Coworker of mine moved from China and his 8 year old is leagues ahead of his class. High school teacher I know had the school division try and get him to stop teaching Ohm's Law in Electronics Class because they didn't see the value.
With how much time we spend using computers I do not understand why microprocessor fundamentals, hex and binary aren't taught in like 4th grade. Any kid graduating high school should be able to install Linux, troubleshoot a network and write Hello World in 4 languages.
Somehow in the before times when I was in school we had to reach 60wpm in typing class but they actually just ditched the class entirely now.
even Linus' own kids would tell you learning CRT is better than ever trying to use Linux. if he can't get his own stupid slut daughters to learn linux why would you think a bunch of Canadian kids would bother learning it.
Glad we are focusing on that instead of coding & robotics. Kids gotta know what gender they are.
Linus is glad too. imagine raising a daughter.
I think at some point all youth counterculture gets turned into another marketing trend.
The worst part of getting old is not being able to see the current subcultures. I'm sure there's kids out there now getting amped up about the next big sound and aesthetic but without being in the scene you'd never know.
What I know for sure is that the 2000s were kind of the beginning for a unified look, social media made us all get on the same page, there weren't that many regional variations to the archetypal looks. Whatever is next will be similar, it'll spread across the english speaking social networks.
it was always like that, its just that its easier to see with the internet, the deadheads in San Fran looked exactly the same as the deadheads in NYC or Miami. The same magazines people steal their fashion advice from circulate to all the major cities, even Gavin noted that it didn't matter that Vice weren't heavy online in the 90s, it's fashion "dos&donts" circulated just as efficiently as it would if it was a thread on twitter.
just being on this website is a counterculture technically, as for marketing trends, they only end up happening if there's enough cash for a break through, the pop-punk of the 2000s only happened because of 20 years of punk slowly regaining popularity after the late 70s. hot topic only got big because the ceo decided to make a big push into suburban malls because they realized most punks in the 1980s had to travel hours to the big city or buy merch at rock shows to get the stuff that they now sold there. and it only was a proven store concept once green day and other punk bands broke through in the late 90s. a fuck load of people were already pushing 21+ as punks by the time the money men came to capitalize on their "youth culture"
And sometimes it never happens, plenty of fans of any type of rock the last decade and a half that will be safe from getting marketed to because its a dead genre in this country. Beyond that some things are too spicy to market, Lloyd Kaufman has been waiting to end up the dominant guy in culture for 50 years now. Highly doubt the modern right will ever be marketed to ever. For fucks sake they've taken away curse words from youtube.
honestly the idea of one counterculture or it being good or it being something all youth do is such a jew trick its amazing people still believe it. think about how many artists in all genres never get their time in the mainstream spotlight, entire genres of one hit wonders.
even youth culture, if it reaches our ears its already old and stale. think about snapchat now compared to when it was initially released ,when it was for teenagers could get away with making porn, now its for the middle aged to send goofy snaps of themselves with dog ears or other bullshit.
Unfortunately I know way too many Canadians like this. I've said this in many posts, but the ones who say this^ and brag about how much better we are than Americans are the ones who rely most on America, be it through trade or American culture and entertainment. They love to shit on the states but also love to rely on them.
Really, Canadian and American bugmen have more in common with each other than bugmen do with the rest of their own country. And those bugmen are to a big part to blame in the current failed states of each country.
Shout out to the real Canadians and the real Americans. Fuck all bugs
honestly how often are people relying on healthcare if its considered a plus that its "free" the only time i've seen guys go to the hospital is if theres a bone sticking out of their body or they have a kidney stone. guys on average spend more money on nail clippers in a given decade than on "healthcare" the last time anyone i know had a psychical it was to play ball in high school.
in fact thats a big reason why its so affordable in so many countries, a healthy aryan population that doesn't abuse it; the second they need to care for abdul's wives and kids medical issues from a lifetime of smoking and eating carbs and being 300 poounds suddenly the systems start slowly collapsing in on themselves.
