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Uh, her only mission is to fire people. They're not even trying to be subtle about it..

The GIMP user would never have paid Adobe for Photoshop anyway.

If anything, it actually helped people get into photo editing and ended up using Photoshop at their work.

Picking requires much more control than fretting once you've learned the basic shapes or movement.

Think of the timing in it. The fret can be pressed at any time between two notes, but the picking needs to be exactly on time. Fretting basically becomes muscle memory while the picking is the real decision making.

Also think of the expression. Once you've fretted a note, there's little to do with that finger. Bending and hammer-ons maybe, but it's nothing in comparison to what the picking hand does. The picking can change the volume, overdrive, pinch notes, muting and overtones depending on position. Also of course timing as already mentioned.

Traditionally, it was probably chosen because of finger picking though. A lot of classical music is based on very basic chord shapes while the picking hand does all the coordination of playing both bass and melody simultaneously. That requires a lot more rhythmic independence on the picking hand than the fretting hand.

Thousands of tourists? In northern Finland this time of year?

This is the experience they came for.

If he doesn't want Russia as neighbor, he probably shouldn't invade a country that has Russia as neighbor.

The majority of wear on roads by far comes from trucks and busses.

Personal vehicles are almost negligible in comparison, regardless of what engine they're using.

I wish it was just a website. You can't even download Android Studio or any other starter package without being forced into some kind of AI bloated IDE just to write "hello world".

On every single skateboard post or short video, somebody will mention Mullen too.

But anyway, outside of skateboarding, millennials also know of Bam, Sheckler and maybe Dyrdek.

Gen-z probably knows of the YouTubers that show up in their feeds. SkateIQ (Mitchie Brusco), SkateNomad (Mike Boisvert) and probably Andy Anderson because he's everywhere.

I think it's safe to say that skateboarding isn't as mainstream as it used to be when MTV was the main youth cultural feed, but it also allows for a lot more unknown people to rise up. Nobody cares about what young dude Thrasher and the industry wants to portrait as a professional. The skate scene these days basically consists of old men and young women watching footage on YouTube.

If they want to starve out Greenland, they should remember that there are more American soldiers in NATO bases in Europe than the population of Greenland.

I'd rather not. I can't watch his speeches without throwing up.

It also doesn't matter what he says. Words means nothing to him.

That's a valid point.

What I'm addressing is that after the EU mandated schools to include everyone in the same classes, things just don't work.

It used to be one class with "normal" students and one class with *special " students, each with their own teachers. This was highly ostracizing to a lot of pupils who had a mild ADD diagnosis, and that number keeps increasing as parents become more accepting and take their kids for diagnosis.

The current strategy is include everyone in one class and then use supplemental teachers where it's necessary. Big unsurprising shock is that it's necessary to have a speciel teacher attached to every single class and they can't find neither funding or qualified teachers. Surprised Pikachu!

It would be easy to say that we should go back to the old system, but that is also wrong. What they need is to educate every teacher to be able to include the "special" students.

I'm not saying there shouldn't be a "special" class, but it should be reserved for the pupils who are further out on the spectrum.

When I was a kid myself, the special class was for kids with Downs. That hardly exists anymore, because of the option to abort after the chromosome test, and because these kids are funneled into special institutions to begin with. Kids with ADHD or autism would be in normal classes and failing because nobody recognized it as a handicap. They do now, but prior to the EU decision it was the opposite problem. The special classes were full of kids with mild diagnoses. The EU decision addressed this issue, but it wasn't the right way, because there was no money given to update the qualifications of the teachers.

What I am suggesting is that we accept the inclusion, but also that we to ensure that all teachers are capable of handling it. We shouldn't ostracize kids with mild diagnoses by putting then in special class or having special teachers. If we want to include them, which we should, we need to go all in on making the mainstream education include them.