Readit NewsSouthern europe isn't california. The mediterranean isn't the pacific ocean.
That's not to say there is no fraud, or bad actors. It's just to say that your comment falls hideously short as a potential way of spotting bad acting, so far short that it looks intentionally misleading.
But that's the point. It isn't "research". It's meaningless busy work to justify a paycheck.
> It's just to say that your comment falls hideously short as a potential way of spotting bad acting, so far short that it looks intentionally misleading.
I disagree. The guy was offering his honest opinion. Your comment comes off as someone working in the industry selfishly trying to justify your existence.
He's been pushing this narrative for a while, and his Bridgewater fund has a heavy China tilt, but I'm also watching Polymatter videos which makes me a China bear.
Shouldn't base your worldview on silly youtube videos. What are the odds that grifters peddling youtube videos are experts on china, mrbeast, ikea, india, dennis rodman, etc?
These people just make videos targeted for their group of dumb masses in order to sell ads.
Just go to their youtube page and ask yourself what are the odds that the grifters running polymatter are experts on any of the topics they pumped videos out for? The answer is none. What they do is most likely analyze what types of garbage their subs may like and create garbage for these people.
You'd think HN would be the last place anyone would take polymatters seriously. But from the comments, many actually look to youtube grifters and outright propagandists ( zeihan ) to form their opinions.
So every pearl has a little creature entombed in the center? Wow, never expected that was how pearls were formed.
Lots of sinners in tech and academia...
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The state we occupied doesn't exist anymore unless you think we're going to re-invade Germany and Japan from our bases there.
No. Australians think they are british.
> We're a German nation that thinks we're British.
No. We are an anglo nation. We speaking german right now? Don't think so.
> The state we occupied doesn't exist anymore unless you think we're going to re-invade Germany and Japan from our bases there.
Re-invade? For what? We already are occupying them.
Yours is the most bizarre and nonsensical comment I've read in a while.
'Great American' my ass. Strange anybody today would want to repeat these stories.
If this triggers you that much, then you are not going to like the iliad, bible or much of human literature/art/etc.
Here, there has been a greater focus on kinship care and in-home aid (i.e. not removing the kids) primarily due to a shortage of foster parents. There is a shortage of foster parents because the system treats foster parents like crap.
> “I helped her do all of these things that I don’t think a foster parent would have done for her. … You’re not invested in that,” Gray said. “But for me, it was my granddaughter.”
Not to pick on the person quoted in this article, but this attitude exists all around the system; there is an implicit assumption that foster parents care less about the foster children than a neighborhood teenage baby-sitter hired for $8/hour to watch kids.
> Plus, they aren’t as likely to be moved to different schools or communities, and as a result they have better mental health and do better in school.
This is a very odd statement to make; the foster care system around here always tries to place children geographically close. It's logistically easier, so even lazy social workers will do this. The one case where a child was placed with me for which there was willing and able kin was because it was not feasible for the child to make the mandatory visits with birth mom if placed so far away.
> Some states also pay less to kinship caregivers than licensed foster care parents
Perverse incentives around remuneration dog any government program. California does seem to have addressed a lot of these in the past couple of decades.
Not mentioned in TFA, but the increase in drug addictions is probably part of what is driving increases in kinship care; there are plenty of adults with serious drug addiction problems that have close family that does not. With other forms of abuse and neglect, it tends to be something that has been a cross-generational pattern.
That's good because children probably feel more comfortable around their family rather than complete strangers. Shouldn't the system be placing kids with kin regardless of the number of available foster parents?