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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • my knowledge of school in USA comes from Internet

    Well, guess you’ll probably know more about the US system in that case as I’ve never even been near the States. 😋

    Yes some children are bad, but it’s largely shaped by environment on what they feel confident doing.

    Yes, but that does invalidate a blanket statement like ‘children are innocent’.

    Having said that, I completely agree that it should be ingrained that equality and worthiness of respect are not dependent on aspects like skin color and gender.





  • Children are innocent

    I was the shortest of the class in my youth, which was reason enough to get bullied day after day. Some children are innocent, others just go along with bullies to not get picked on themselves and some are just absolutely cruel and vile if you’re different. And it’s definitely not always upbringing, the worst of the bunch actually had very nice parents, his brother was a great guy as well. But some kids are just rotten to the core.









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    12 days ago

    At the other hand, the lord did have obligations to the peasantry as well. Providing protection is a fairly well known one, but it could also be stuff like providing their people with meat at least once a week. An example that we know of is a case where a complaint was raised by peasants (and won!) because their lord had only provided fish (or maybe duck, as that was considered fish as well) for too long a period.


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    They had 2-3 months of religious holiday where they were not working. Also every Sunday, no work.

    I can only speak for myself, but I don’t work on Saturdays and Sundays. And I don’t have any religious obligations on those days, so I’ve got them all to myself.

    So that’s almost two months worth of Saturdays and on top of that I’ve got a month of paid leave and 7 holiday days.

    Work-wise I’m not going to day we have it better or that we aren’t being exploited, but I sure know I wouldn’t want to trade places with a medieval peasant.


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    12 days ago

    I’m not sure how adding a bit of nuance to the suggestion that medieval peasants might have less working hours than we do is “simping for inequality”.

    I don’t endorse inequality, on the contrary. Hell, the party I vote for in my country is so left it makes Bernie Sanders look like a rightwinger in comparison.