I was a poor kid in a rich kid class (gifted program, which imported the smartest kids from all of the local private schools).

They stuck us all in a school literally in the middle of the 'hood.

I'm just going to come right out and say BULLSHIATE.

All the rich kids, became lawyers, doctors, artists and engineers (including poor me! Except I had no money so they only thing they'll let me engineer is software).
All the poor kids: some never graduated, most in jail or just out of jail, some have okay jobs (the smarter ones) and punch their clock go home and watch hockey and drink beer.

And this is why reddit is very popular.

I reply to these polls with a write-in tertiary option: GFY

I agree, I liken this to a Master Lock. All keys are the same for the master lock (A Hammer/Crowbar), that doesn't mean it doesn't provide a measure of "sufficient security".

like Hey, if you want to steal my lawnmower thats cool bro. I'll put a master lock on the shed and worry about securing the really important stuff.

Something to do during these oppressively long meetings. Maybe we'd even have less if people weren't talking and using the wasted time to make themselves actually smarter rather than just sounding smarter!

I live in the Ontario suburbs you nitwit. Yes I'm talking about you.

I got mine through 30 years of hard work, your dissonance is the cost at which it is to serve you with city services in the suburbs vs a big city landowner (welfare case paying property taxes? where do you get this stuff)
Also no one mentioned city politics so there is that too.

Try living in Canadian "Fuck You I Got Mine" Suburbs. The cognitive dissonance is astounding.

Don't be too optimistic, the drums are beating:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com...

I thought that was Pulseaudio that gave me the streaming voices that tell me to see systemd trolls everywhere.

When my kid was 2, she was at grandmas when she had an aneurysm. Luckily grandpa was home. Far from scarring, my kid actually had a fascinating life experience, and opened a dialogue about emergencies, first responders, what to do if something bad happens and they are alone. My kid still recalls it today as a positive, but very unfortunate circumstance.

Kids are far more resilient than your average parent gives them credit for. I'm proud of the way my kid handled it.

Synonymous with Oprah-ing! "You've got cancer, You've got cancer, and you've got cancer, everyone in the audience has received cancer! " *throws cue cards in the air and wraps the show*

I have a new verb to describe this type of useless abstraction: I call it, "Poettering-around".

Just do more work ruir! Double in fact.

I share a name with the son of a billionaire.

I have given feedback on his condo housecleaning and politely declined his best friend's bachelor party blowout at some swanky ski resort. Was fun. :D Haven't received any more emails since then.

Better outcomes than mean is the goal of equal opportunities. Nice false equivelence here. How on earth is your comment Interesting? It doesn't even survive casual consideration.

Equal treatment != equal opportunities.
Equal treatment = inequal mobility due to means

As far as I can tell, and I'm just taking a straw poll of my middle class liberal self and friends.... Liberals tend to be for Equal Treatment + Equal Opportunities (= better outcomes on average), as this is the only approach which can close the gap on Equal Outcomes.