In The Early 70s Sesame Street Was Created With An Eye Towards Educating Poor, Inner-city Children For

In the early 70s Sesame Street was created with an eye towards educating poor, inner-city children for free, and became a massive hit with all children. In 2016, faced with going off the air forever after facing conservative efforts to destroy public broadcasting since basically its beginning, new episodes became a timed exclusive for premium cable network HBO. In 2022 HBO Max, newly merged with and taken over by reality TV channel Discovery, removed Sesame Street episodes and spin-offs from streaming as a tax write-off and scheme to avoid paying residuals.

WHY IS THE FAULT IN OUR STARS SO SAD NO ONE PREPARED ME FOR THIS

It pains me how much it resembles my own school of thoughts

What's that poem about the cockroach and the moth where the cockroach is like "I wish I've ever wanted anything the way that moth wanted to burn itself up in that lantern" because we had to read that in high school and it still fucks me up to this day

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Everything's so much easier if you know people, even if getting to know them was difficult. Get outside people, talk to others. Sometimes you'll meet the right ones, and it'll be amazing.

young me especially would have hated hearing this but networking is literally the most important thing you can do to improve your situation like forget economic barriers to education etc just keep making friends with different people and eventually someone will offer you a hand up just because they dig your vibe and that is exactly all that's happening when undeserving people surpass you anyway

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