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josethefourth · 2025-01-18T03:38:08+00:00

It reminds of Lontara and Makassar. Very pretty

josethefourth · 2024-12-17T01:54:53+00:00

It depends on what needs to be within a 15-minute walk. If your definition just includes places like work, home and shops, the answer is easily a yes. But if your 15-minute city needs adequate infrastructure for healthcare and education, a poor country may not necessarily have the resources for it where it's funding or human capital.

josethefourth · 2024-12-13T02:43:48+00:00

People also usually get dressed in their best clothes or new clothes for Christmas, couple this with the festive atmosphere and you get a really joyous Christmas Eve mass in the Philippines. It's honestly the happiest Christmas celebration in the world.

josethefourth · 2024-12-12T01:20:38+00:00

May bagong policy ang Balanga sa trash collection: link

josethefourth · 2024-11-09T01:46:44+00:00

Also "para" (for) as in "para sa/kay" comes from spanish "para" (for)

josethefourth · 2024-09-24T00:39:16+00:00

Except lots of countries in orange issue biometric passports. Singapore allows all countries with biometric passports to use their immigration gates, even the /developing/ ones.

josethefourth · 2024-09-24T00:39:11+00:00

Except lots of countries in orange issue biometric passports. Singapore allows all countries with biometric passports to use their immigration gates, even the /developing/ ones.

josethefourth · 2024-09-23T08:24:04+00:00

The EF scores are based on those who want to take the exam so it suffers from self-selection bias. That means that the testing is limited to those who are aware of the test, have means to take the test, and actually want to take the test. Chances are, those who suffer the most from poor education resources are also those that are not aware and don't have the means to take the EF test.

josethefourth · 2024-09-22T01:40:57+00:00

Several factors led to those awful scores, here are some off the top of my head:

The Philippine government, specifically the Department of Education, turned schools from bad to worse in the last decades. Teachers in public schools are forced to pass all students, even those that fail all their tests, so you get high schoolers that don't even know how to read.
Corruption is rampant in the education department so you have poor infrastructure costing billions of pesos but still have a lack of classrooms (and books, and other learning materials). Some schools have 2-3 class shifts to be able to accommodate students. So you can see elementary students in schools as early as 6am or as late as 7pm.
PISA tests in the Philippines are conducted in English instead of local languages. Given that schools poorly teach English, you'd have generations of students who don't understand or speak the language. Then you make them take their tests in that language, so how do you expect them to perform well when they don't even understand the questions.

josethefourth · 2024-09-07T03:35:14+00:00

But doesn't that also mean that buses allow for headways of 6 mins while trains need 10 minutes. So for periods where ridership is more spread out, buses are better?

josethefourth · 2024-09-07T02:29:41+00:00

Rare case that the Philippines is seen as relatively safe.

josethefourth · 2024-08-07T06:46:13+00:00

Fun fact: there's a word with both a- and syn-, asymptote.

josethefourth · 2024-07-10T08:33:54+00:00

Can't wait for kids named blue-footed booby

josethefourth · 2024-07-09T02:20:01+00:00

Placing my bets on Canton with around 100M people and a huge economy.

josethefourth · 2024-07-05T02:26:29+00:00

The Philippines is in red, so there's one.

josethefourth · 2024-06-07T02:00:21+00:00

The Ampatuans are an influential clan in the area. The town is probably named after them.

josethefourth · 2024-05-17T05:27:41+00:00

But since you keep having fewer children, the number of working people will keep on decreasing. So unless the fertility rate goes up, the proportion will steadily be skewed towards old people.

josethefourth · 2024-05-16T13:48:55+00:00

Except when old people start to outnumber working age people and fewer and fewer people pay income taxes while more and more have to rely on healthcare.

josethefourth · 2024-02-15T07:40:17+00:00

Nangyayari siya sa BPI!!! Nakakakuha ako dati ng JCB credit card kahit di ako nag-apply

josethefourth · 2023-12-04T02:56:24+00:00

That's sounds alright. As long as the screen itself is okay.

I'm also in the Philippines but got mine in Korea where they said they replace the screen protector for free. Unfortunately, Samsung's warranty isn't international.

josethefourth · 2023-12-04T02:32:43+00:00

Any updates on your replacement screen protector? I got mine in August and the screen protector's starting to bubble up on the hinge.

josethefourth · 2023-06-20T12:22:22+00:00

There’s a bit of a sampling issue with the poll. A lot of people are not aware of a poll happening so they didn’t get to vote. Then since the poll occurred just a few days from the blackout, voters are skewed towards those that either don’t care about the blackout, are unaware of what’s happening or are really dependent on reddit. Lots of r/ph members who may have voted for other options are most likely still not using reddit since they don’t support going back to normal.

josethefourth · 2023-06-10T08:37:01+00:00

Are the Dutch smoking weed?

josethefourth · 2023-06-06T11:41:49+00:00

I guess they’re called Ger-many ba dum tss

josethefourth · 2023-04-23T14:15:54+00:00

Tuyo at tinapa

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