air new zealand does a fifth freedom london→los ángeles→tāmaki makaurau flights, so it's a bit different

aren't they also not really a democracy

i remember when british media was reporting on the movements of her bus like it was a wagner tank column on the road to moscow

looking at their other replies i'm pretty certain this is a fake and right wing run account btw

i very much viewed his decisions as a latent mid life crisis spiralling into an end of life crisis, amplified by his terrible personality

eek

a koblenzer yekke, surely

whenever i hear anything about the portland area it's always the most insane shit

it's possible but i don't recall

unrelated but omg the wikipedia article for litvinism is so bad. who wrote it

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inventing mass timber brutalism

i suppose it's another collective obligation versus individual freedom battle, but made more complex by the fact that the collective obligation (in 'just' conscription) is to defend individual freedom itself

it's something i have a tough time morally squaring

if people can leave school and start work at 16, then no mandatory requirements on subject studies should be imposed beyond that, because then an inequality of choice is introduced between those who work and those who study. if you want more maths skills, make the GCSE/N5 curriculum deeper

maths isn't optional though, it's mandatory until people are 16 and that's sufficient for people who don't want to go on further with it

i feel like this discourse is very split between people who went to uni in the USA and people who went to uni in a place that actually teaches you what you sign up for