Putting a girlboss spin on virulent racism

I agree with you in essence but there are a lot of differences between USA and India in this context. Prep and tuition fees are inhibiting for most of the potential aspirants but they are much lower than in the US. The result is that way way more people are able to prepare for and take these entrance exams. In the US on the other hand, you first need an ultra expensive undergrad degree, then medical school applications and interviews and so forth. In India, massive tutoring companies are the beneficiaries. Allen Career Institute for example posted a total revenue of about INR 20,000,000,000 last year and there are four or five other companies like this along with the god knows many small businesses and individuals in this sector. All this for preparing high school students for entrance exams. There is a city called Kota in Rajasthan where:

Over 150,000 students from all over the country flock every year towards the city for preparation of various exams such as IIT-JEE and NEET-UG etc.

(Hostels in Kota are outfitted with special ceiling fans designed to prevent suicide by hanging.)

Those who are very wealthy and want to skip this process do one of two things. They either study abroad. Or study in private colleges where admissions can be bought but they are usually not considered prestigious, not that it matters to those already with a lot of wealth. There is little advantage that an extremely wealthy aspirant has in these exams compared to someone who is moderately wealthy or even just upper middle class.

These exams are rather meant as a bottleneck between an extremely large number of aspirants and an extremely low number of vacancies in higher education. The exams are very difficult to present an illusion of meritocracy but the “competitiveness” is a foil for a weak and wanting education system.

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It’s not India comparing itself. At least not in this instance. It’s a study by Amartya Sen et al. The rationale is explained:

When development planning began in China after the revolution (1949) and in India after its independence (1947), both countries were starting from a very low base of economic and social achievement. The gross national product per head in each country was among the lowest in the world, hunger was widespread, the level of illiteracy remarkably high, and life expectancy at birth not far from 40 years. There were many differences between them, but the similarities were quite striking. Since then things have happened in both countries, but the two have moved along quite different routes. A comparison between the achievements of China and India is not easy, but certain contrasts do stand out sharply.

Not just that but the Minsk accords were meant to be ruse as Merkel said. Unfortunately westerners don’t know or care for how long this war has been incited. “Where were you for the last 8 years” is now a wikipedia page that shitlibs can throw at you as a thought terminating argument.

You have a YouTube link for this scene? I have always wondered what this guy is saying here.

He wrote about this in 91 from what I know. Don’t know of other instances of him talking about this:

Comparing India’s death rate of 12 per thousand with China’s of 7 per thousand, and applying that difference to the Indian population of 781 million in 1986, we get an estimate of excess normal mortality in India of 3.9 million per year. This implies that every eight years or so more people die in India because of its higher regular death rate than died in China in the gigantic famine of 1958–61.3

https://academic.oup.com/book/2070/chapter/141991095

I’ve been aware of the ills of education privatisation for a long time but I found out only this year about how deep the tendrils of private involvement are in exam conduction, something that requires a very long chain of trust.

Actually the serf seeing his father dying from the plague said “ah shit this will be ultimately inflationary.”

I don’t know where you are trying to go with this honestly

Sanctions are usually not meant to targeted specific slices of the powerful. That’s a rhetoric that has been used to justify them but sanctions almost always try to deny common people their basic needs.

That’s why they “work” against nations like Cuba and North Korea which are in their infancy but not against nations like Russia which have a respectable industrial base of their own and are also deeply embedded in the global economy.

I don’t think it’s that. Like this image from Reuters served by Cloudflare works:

On the other hand if you try to embed an image served on Reuter’s /resizer/ endpoint it won’t work embedded since they have some authentication process for it.

I don’t think embedded images are being proxied through Lemmy. It’s likely the browser trying to fetch the images directly which fails in some cases.

Edit:

Does the image load in my previous comment?

Yeah it does.

I think maybe it doesn’t work on embedded images in posts and comments yet. But I’ve not been following lemmy development closely so don’t take my word for it.

It’s probably a privacy respecting measure from the recent update. If lemmy hotlinks images or anything in general, there is a chance that your IP is leaked to the server being hotlinked to.

Now images are proxied through the lemmy instance.

Can you explain more? Like what it is you are doing, what you expect to happen and what actually happens?

Socialism in popular consciousness is not always seen as the transitory phase towards communism. Sometimes it is conflated with the existence of a welfare state of some variety. I.e. when the government does stuff.

The socialism in Indian constitution comes mainly from how Nehru and his peers understood it. He was educated in England and hung out with utopian Fabian socialists.

Earth has been reduced to a toxic wasteland. But what does the line say?

Orange bomber jacket

I’m personally against posting battlefield footage. I think the people who are interested in it should find it on telegram where it is readily available.

Currently you can post if you set the post’s language to be undetermined. I have asked the community mod to allow more languages.