Reactionaries: “California is literally communist!” AES: “we have 99.99% literacy” California: “we only have 76.9% literacy”
one of my friends has recently started calling the state “Commiefornia” and I want to be like “Bro, you have no idea how much I fucking wish that were the case”
Commiefornia: famous for changing their gun laws due to Reagan’s fear of Black Panthers, yep that checks out, total commies
Reactionaries: “I see no difference it’s all commies fault”
Better Call Cuba
Reminds me of an ad/news program in Cyberpunk 2077 where the newsreader was telling the viewer about the astonishing illiteracy rates1 of the NUSA2, or at the very least, Night City.3
Seems like the real USA is slowly heading to that direction as well.
1 - I don’t remember the exact rates, I think she said 1 in 4 people in the NUSA is literate
2 - New United States of America
3 - which - by the way - is located in California in CP2077’s world. Prophetic, huh?
We’ve lived in cyberpunk for a while. It’s just unevenly spread
Yeah, without all the cool gadgets and neon lightings.
Regardless, I hope that cyberpunk will become post-cyberpunk at some point.
Oh we’re getting there. There are already artificial eye crystalline lenses that allow better than natural peripheral vision. Source: my former teacher who got one.
What we aren’t likely to be getting, however, are those hip, mirrorshade wearing anarchistic hackers and whatnot, who rob Megacorps on the regular.
Oh we’re getting there. There are already artificial eye crystalline lenses that allow better than natural peripheral vision. Source: my former teacher who got one.
Shouldn’t those be very expensive? Do Teachers in Usonia get paid that well?
What we aren’t likely to be getting, however, are those hip, mirrorshade wearing anarchistic hackers and whatnot, who rob Megacorps on the regular.
Maybe, maybe not. They could be one of The Anonymous for all I know.
Shouldn’t those be very expensive? Do Teachers in Usonia get paid that well?
I’m in Russia lol. And yes, those are quite expensive and teachers aren’t paid that much. I think his children paid for it.
They could be one of The Anonymous for all I know.
Judging by their actions and announcements, Anonymous has been either taken over or have always been feds. Hackers in general seem to be largely employed by big actors - governments and megacorps
I’m betting on being taken over. I doubt Feds have the interests of people in mind anyway.
No, teachers in the USA make very little! It’s pretty sad, like they make enough for a career I suppose and there are unions for teachers and stuff but the pay is still horrendous compared to what private sector earns. My uncle teaches middle school (god bless that man, Jesus fuckin christ i would go insane having to deal w those kids) and my aunt works as well. He has worked at his school for over a decade now so he’s doing decent, but yea they don’t make much. There was a 3rd grade teacher of mine who actually saved up money (on a teacher’s salary mind you) to buy a top of the line projector that the school refused to pay for. Much love and respect to the teachers of the USA
Those numbers are really not far off, that is probably the most realistic scenario in that entire game like unless shit changes drastically then I think 1/4 illiterate in California is inevitable
I actually said 1/4 Literate. But your scenario doesn’t sound far off either.
Damn, I thought Cali was supposed to have better public education than the rest of the country. No water, no air, and no education? Surprised people still live there at this point.
Funding for education in the state has been cut many times over the last few decades. when I was in grade school (in CA) there were like, maybe 20 kids in each class. Now it’s closer to 40. My girlfriend’s mom is a teacher and routinely has to spend her own money to buy supplies for her class. And charter school/voucher bullshit is being pushed pretty hard here. I got a pretty good public education but gen Z and younger are probably in for a rough ride.
It actually started getting worse while I was in school. Around 4th grade, they swapped out the curriculum. I was lucky to have teachers that refused to use it. When I looked at my sister’s 5th grade math book, it was stuff I learned in 1st to 3rd grade. She’s now in high school and struggling with Algebra, and I’m not surprised.
So basically the same as every other state. Damn.
It varies by income of the school area. Schools even within the same unified school district will receive different funding and you can guess where the better schools are.
Reactionaries: “That’s because of them dang commies!”
That is terrible
Line go down
Lol the funniest part of Marxism Leninism to me is how literally every ML is like “wait shit, this population is struggling with literacy? Nah fuck that, we building schools and teaching kids and adults to read” like from Hoxha to Stalin to Castro to Mao to Minh everyone recognizes illiteracy as an evil of class struggle
So much for KKKalifornia being progressive!
