actually… that kinda makes me nostalgic. No Mercy was the best, and it holds up pretty well!

Ads are basically paid graffiti

Me playing Zelda needing a strength powerup be like

https://wiby.me/

Searches for web pages without JavaScript. The Surprise me! option is fun for finding random ass old sites too

edit: https://mapfight.xyz/

Compare the size of any two landmasses.

Ready Player One was a dystopia and Zuck was so enamored it became required reading for building the “Metaverse”.

Billions of dollars can’t buy you the ability to sense irony I guess.

It’s not that they’re not religious. They just don’t pick only one. As they say, “Born Shinto, married Christian, die Buddhist”

Hey now, go easy on them

… they’re doing everything they can.

Most Americans have their talking points ready to go around certain topics: healthcare, guns etc. But if you get anything that attacks the capitalism, building the country off of slave labor, or the country being the product of a genocide, that’s when the propaganda really kicks in.

Oh and if you call it propaganda, then the denialism gets even stronger.

Noo YOU’RE awesome. Hugs for everyone!

Ah this is nice!

I don’t know why I’m here commenting about this, but I love type, so:

Hyphen (-): the short one, used for hyphenated words. fire-eaters. Close-up.

en-dash (–): slightly longer, traditionally the length of a lowercase"n" in the typeface. Used between for things like a timeframe. 10–11:30, August–October

em-dash (—): the longest of the three, and the length of a lowercase “m”. Used as a punctuation mark to denote a side comment or to abruptly cut off a sentence. “It’s a great punctuation mark—in fact I overuse it—but it’s still useful.” “Hey where are you going with that giant—”

I didn’t bother to double check the definitions, so there might be more specific rules, but these are my rules of thumb.

Same, I don’t really care what the media thinks, I’m having a good time.

I absolutely agree, I think you ahem that lead actress should win an Oscar.

But I think it’s important that we don’t let enjoying things become synonymous with liking (mindless purchasing) the corporate products that are being sold to us at a breakneck pace.

What ways do we have to still create our own ways to have fun? How can we make our own “weird barbies”?

grave thoroughly urinated on

Shit, I guess people found an alternative after all

Margaret Thatcher, is that you?

The really wild one is the Ann Coulter reading:

“God gave us the earth. We have dominion over the plants, the animals, the trees. God said, “Earth is yours. Take it. Rape it. It’s yours.”

(Referring to Dominionism and Genesis 1:28, on Hannity & Colmes, 20 June 2001)

I don’t live in the US. I’m adequately paid, and the summers are short where I live. Take your strawmen and throw them back whatever hole you dug them out of.

I can’t speak about US problems, but what I’m talking about is education in general. I’ll give you an example: I was teaching some students to read the other day, about 8 years old. One student clearly has the leg up on the other one. She goes to after school programs, short summer programs, the works. She can read about two levels higher than her classmate. Hey, that’s great. And actually when reading is concerned, I’m happy that she can do that. But what happens is that when I need to slow down and actually teach that other student to read (at a level that’s perfectly fine for her age), she groans, she gets impatient, she makes fun of that kid. And what happens to that other kid? She feels stupid, she feels inadequate.

And ok, you might say, an intensive reading program is good! But one thing it does not teach these kids is that they are not better than anyone else, and even if they learn more, they need to also learn to be respectful to their fellow students.

Tl;dr we’re teaching them to be competitive, not good human beings

I explicitly said that the love of learning is great.

And I’m not saying that learning extracurriculars is bad, in fact, it’s wonderful!

I’m talking about summer schools that literally just teach a class curriculum ahead of time. In that respect, yes, it is “gaming”. The only thing those students learn is to get ahead and stay ahead.

Um, yeah? Teaching is not about awarding those who game the system the best. It’s all about making sure that the “lowest common denominator” gets every chance to succeed.

It’s not a fucking leaderboard.

Signed,

a salty fucking teacher who will defend those students to the end.

Edit: I’m gonna keep going on this because it’s a subject that pisses me off to no end.

I live in a place where the rich kids can afford to tutor during the summer, and some take extra classes to “get ahead” of the school year. And you know what those kids do?

They sit in the classes, bored, because someone paid for them to do all this stuff early.

And I’m not saying that learning extracurriculars is bad, in fact, it’s wonderful! But if you paid somewhere to just take the same math class that you would have done anyway, well congrats. You got nothing. You beat Mario before everyone else.

And even that would be fine, except the attitude that comes from them – some as early as 6 years old! – is that these fucking “remedials” are slowing them down, and they are “smart” all while a mountain of money and privilege supports them.

And do those kids feel like they should help their fellow students learn? No! They just punch down harder, because no one in their families teaches them that learning is cooperative effort. Just get to the top of that fucking leaderboard and stay there at all costs. From fucking kindergarten onwards!

Thanks for coming to my fucking ted talk.