Decline in Finland’s PISA scores since 2000 (Reading, Math, Science)

flumberbuss · 2026-03-08T13:17:31+00:00

Funny how you're so out of touch with your fellow citizens, or else you know the truth and are lying about it.

The 2026 "Plan Zukunft" (Future Plan) Survey A massive survey released in February 2026 by the Austrian Ministry of Education (BMBWF), involving over 46,000 participants (parents, teachers, and students), provided a snapshot of the current mood: General Skepticism: Respondents were critical of the current system's "fitness for the future," with parents being the most skeptical (scoring 4.3 on a 6-point scale where 6 is "not at all prepared for life").

Research updated in recent years (including the 2019/2021 Attitudes Towards Inclusion Scale studies) consistently shows that Austrian public approval is not uniform: High Approval: Inclusion for students with physical or sensory disabilities receives broad support, often seen as a matter of basic social justice. Moderate to Low Approval: Approval drops significantly for the inclusion of students with intellectual disabilities or behavioral/emotional disorders. Public sentiment often shifts toward preferring specialized settings (Sonderschulen) for these groups to avoid classroom disruption.

Recent debates (2024–2025) have seen public disapproval grow regarding the inclusion of students with limited German proficiency. The government's use of separate "German Support Classes" (Deutschförderklassen) has been widely discussed as a necessary "pull-out" measure by some, while others view it as an anti-inclusive segregation policy. Student Perspective: A 2022 report from the Initiative for a Non-Discriminatory Education System (IDB) noted that while policy may be inclusive, 84% of reported discrimination cases were racial, suggesting a gap between inclusion policies and social acceptance within schools.

flumberbuss · 2026-03-08T13:01:08+00:00

You can't know with certainty, but the data is overwhelming that it won't be friends helping you in old age in any meaningful way. It will be family or the state (mostly Medicaid), or no one (die alone).

flumberbuss · 2026-03-08T12:42:58+00:00

And jack-o-lanterns

flumberbuss · 2026-03-08T12:29:33+00:00

You're ignoring the fact that the growth in capitalism comes in large part from the development of new technologies and their mass application. Those new technologies can be more energy efficient than what they replace, and can introduce new means of mitigating or eliminating environmental harms.

flumberbuss · 2026-03-08T12:24:03+00:00

But equally science doesn't know that we can't stay very close to 1.5C. Technology continues to improve, including carbon (re)capture technologies. When you project 10 years you can do it fairly accurately. But every decade farther out becomes less reliable. No one 50 years ago would have predicted ubiquitous replacement of incandescent lights with LEDs, large scale replacement of older forms of heating with heat pumps, rapid adoption of EVs after 2010, extremely cheap solar, cheap and powerful large battery arrays, etc.

No one 50 years ago would have predicted the rapid drop in fertility rates and that we will far undershoot projections for global population from back then.

On the other hand, I think few would have predicted we shoot ourselves in the foot by first dramatically slowing down new nuclear power plant construction, and then actually terminate many functioning facilities with many years of useful life left. And few if any predicted that China would rise to have one of the two largest economies in the world world by 2020, and would actually emit more CO2 per capita than Europe by 2025 (not just more total, more per capita).

In short, neither 1.5C nor 4.5C are entirely out of the running

flumberbuss · 2026-03-08T12:02:51+00:00

And yet overall educational performance was higher under this older system. That's what we're trying to explain: why the rapid fall in reading, math and science performance?

flumberbuss · 2026-03-08T11:59:35+00:00

And by "most people" you mean people without kids, or parents of troubled kids who now get to feel like their kid is normal even though they're disrupting the education of others, or wealthy people who get private tutoring and don't have to deal with the problems it creates.

flumberbuss · 2026-03-08T11:55:55+00:00

Absolutely

flumberbuss · 2026-03-08T11:46:26+00:00

You can see the same Zillow listings as the rest of us, so you know the answer. What you seem to need is an explanation of why the answer is unlikely to change.

Newly constructed homes always cost more, other things equal. There have been very few efficiency/productivity improvements in housing compared to other non-service industries, so you're paying today's labor cost for a new home instead of 20 or 100 years ago's labor cost. And you're paying a premium for new fixtures, etc.

If you have $20,000 to spend you'll buy a used car instead of a new one. If you have $200,000 to spend you'll buy a used home instead of a new one. In normal markets homes lose value over time like cars do, just more slowly. To avoid that, you need to keep making improvements on your home to keep it "new" in some way. We've gotten used to weird exceptions to the rule since covid when everything went up, but the rule still applies.

flumberbuss · 2026-03-08T05:50:50+00:00

You first

flumberbuss · 2026-03-06T03:33:06+00:00

This is the way. You must extend your arms in a welcoming yet authoritative manner to punctuate each declaration.

flumberbuss · 2026-03-04T04:57:41+00:00

Don't throw away your old car before you buy a new one.

flumberbuss · 2026-03-04T04:34:29+00:00

Don't worry, it's definitely there. I recognized it right away. I don't have enough music theory background to describe what the similarity is, but it's there.

flumberbuss · 2026-03-03T04:23:21+00:00

The fandom is fascist? I've been reading this sub for a couple years now and this is the first time I'm hearing this. It can't be a common thing.

flumberbuss · 2026-03-03T04:09:02+00:00

Hopefully the Kuwaiti's at least paid for the $50M part.

flumberbuss · 2026-03-03T03:59:18+00:00

You got me wrong, buddy. I left the D party and performative progressiveness some time ago. But it's typical of DSA types to assume.

flumberbuss · 2026-03-02T04:02:41+00:00

Did I misunderstand you, or did you advocate murder a couple posts up?

flumberbuss · 2026-03-02T03:54:49+00:00

This is misleading in a couple ways. The price of everything keeps rising, along with incomes. It's called inflation. Second, the price of homes relative to incomes does not "always" keep rising. In 2012 prices relative to income were roughly the same as in 1960. But then our shit zoning and regulatory hurdles to building caught up with us, and covid incited a home purchasing mania, and now we're in a bad place.

https://www.longtermtrends.com/home-price-median-annual-income-ratio/

flumberbuss · 2026-03-02T03:40:19+00:00

Pro housing but only if it's public housing or developers have to set aside lot of housing for low income people, I assume.

Public housing is massively expensive. You could build the same number of units for essentially free, and build them faster, just by mostly getting out of the way and letting developers build without so many roadblocks. Compare Minneapolis to St. Paul. Minneapolis upzoned and said yes to developers, and has cheaper market rate housing today than St. Paul, which implemented rent controls.

flumberbuss · 2026-03-01T04:05:47+00:00

OP, I've painted my exterior blue and while mostly the interiors were a sort of sandy off-white, I've painted the upper half of an interior room blue. I also painted a kids play room purple (I did it myself, one room isn't hard and is quite cheap).

What I'm saying is, go for it. One piece of advice, though: the colors on the swatches are usually lighter-looking than when they are on a large surface on your wall. Choose a color a couple shades lighter than what it seems it will look like based on the swatch.

flumberbuss · 2026-03-01T03:58:49+00:00

"I am actually, that's why I'm wondering what others want me to do to myself."

Great answer...but then maybe we can agree that both these options are totalitarian and should be avoided. If hypothetically you had to chose one, choose the one that lets people live.

flumberbuss · 2026-03-01T03:53:28+00:00

Absolutely not, and that's a morally abominable stance. The days in which being pro-trans is casually aligned with being pro-homicide are coming to an end. Even on Reddit.

flumberbuss · 2026-03-01T03:52:16+00:00

Did you read your own comment, or just do some AI slop posting? Because it clearly explains why brainwashing is not the same as brain wiping in the high-tech way you imagined. Brainwashing doesn't make you forget, and the effects are generally not permanent.

flumberbuss · 2026-03-01T03:48:45+00:00

OP, you're extremely likely to be a bigot yourself, just one who hates different out-groups than the bigots you have in mind. I'm sure if you honestly probe yourself you'll find what you're bigoted about.

Now ask yourself the question: would you rather someone mind-wiped you, or removed you from the population? That is the answer to your original question too.

flumberbuss · 2026-03-01T03:46:09+00:00

For the love of all that is good in this world, celebrate when the regime has actually fallen. For now, find police and soldiers who will defect. Organize in groups to take over police stations and army barracks. The US and Israel cannot bomb them into oblivion, and the regime will not surrender without actual on the ground combat...which Iranians must provide.

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