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Counterpoint, wouldn't it be better to have 3 weeks for Christmas, 2 weeks for spring break/easter, 2 weeks in the summer and then an extra week or two break in the fall? Depending how you organize it kids could have up to 2 weeks off after every quarter/major exams.

Or, going the other direction, you could condense it down to every other or even every Friday off, meaning 3 days weekends and 4 day work weeks for youth.

I get the sentiment, that having 2 months or more off as a kid was great and I certainly enjoyed it at the time, but looking back it was such a bad system and I certainly would have adapted better to school if I had more breaks from it throughout the year rather than one long absence in the summer. It's not that summer vacation needs go away entirely, it just needs to be revamped to a more manageable break and that excess time off spread out throughout the year, particularly around times where students experience the most stress so they can decompress.

Summer vacations as they exist in the US are counter productive, pointless and a hold over from pre-industrial schooling when rich families would pull their kids out of school during the hot summers to go somewhere cooler leaving the school with less funding and without their stat pupils so the trend rapidly developed of just going to extended recess till the weather cooled and rich kids returned.

The argument that it was for farmers is patently false. Farmers plant in the spring and harvest in the fall, both times schools are in session. And livestock farmers have year round commitments so the idea of pulling students only for the summer is equally silly. It all comes down to rich kids.

A sensible school calendar would be year round, with those 6-8 weeks of summer break broken up and spliced elsewhere into the calendar, reducing the amount of material students would forget, basically the entire first quarter coming back for most schools is just going over everything learned the previous spring to catch up. It's not one for one but by the time kids get through 8th grade almost 2 years of their schooling has been spent relearning something they already learned.

We could do so much better for kids if we abandoned the ridiculous calender most schools use and alter the actual hours kids are in school to better reflect on what they learned and absorb it rather than just memorizing enough for the next test and moving on.

I definitely hated Hilton in the 00s but she's been a standup and model citizen compared to Lohan. Lohan has a family history of drug abuse and turned into a train wreck on her own. Hilton by all accounts is a decent person with nearly every controversy she's in coming down to she's from rich white money so cameras followed her everywhere. Supposedly she's a huge amateur radio enthusiast.

Ever wonder if any of those files Trump stole in 2021 were Epstein related?

Completely biased but it's the best of 90s trek because it dares to break the episodic formula and have season spanning stories. Ensemble cast of characters so we get plenty of varied stories interlaced.

It's not perfect, there's a few moments where clearly they were building to a thing and either didn't know how to pull it off or executive meddling forced them to do something else (Julian and Garak's relationship one of the most noticable)

It's a bit dated on visuals but still holds up rather well. A lot of them social commentary disturbingly relevant today. First season is a bit weird (basically a cardinal rule in star trek at this point) but really finds its feet and goes strong around season 2.

Until he burns his bridges with Thiel like he has literally every other ally he's ever had.

The cloaking bit was a late entry only provided to the Federation after the discovery of the wormhole. Sisko probably was asking for a ship since the first incursion with the Cardassians but Starfleet was spread thin. After the entire shenanigans with Odessy being destroyed by the Jem'hadar and the very real threat the Dominion was proving to be, Sisko probably threw a fit at being told there were no ships available to be stationed at DS9 that could carry out the mission. To which he probably pointed at the Defiant he knew to be in prototype phase and probably mothballed in a drydock.

At some point in the conversation the Romulan deal to supply a cloaking ship for use in the Gamma Quadrant in exchange for all the information gathered using it was probably made known to Sisko and he would have pointed out the Defiant was the only ship powerful enough to utilize it given the oversized reactor. So in universe it's all just a happy accident they sent the one guy to look over the wormhole who had first hand knowledge about an unused prototype ship and vague theories on how to get it working on top of figuring out how to get a favor out of the Romulans in a way that pleased both sides.

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There's no windows in prison for her to fall out of.

He calculated the odds, but boy he was bad at math.

Ma'am please, this is a Wendy's.

Some girl when I was in middle school, 14ish, used to get picked up by some tatted up 20 something, pretty sure he was at least 25 but no idea. We thought he was like an uncle or something. Nope, turns out he was her boyfriend. Pretty sure that guy went to prison for meth related activities.