It’s been a trend for quite a while now, “reaction” videos. There was even a YouTube gremlin who wholesale stole content from everyone and did nothing on camera

Nothing is original these days. Smh

Demontower, found within Night in the Woods. That could easily be a standalone short game

“The point of parasites is that you serve their interests, not your own”. You mean Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and other billionaires are making the government gay?

I did buy a number of fake flash drives, so they’re definitely up there. Luckily I’ve always won the disputes and got my money back from every one of them.

There were also a number of headphones whose sound was so fucking bad, listening to stuff off my phone’s speakers was better

It also plays a central role in the Coconut Religion founded in 1963 in Vietnam.

follows the Coconut Religion link

The Coconut Religion was founded in 1963 by Vietnamese mystic and scholar Nguyễn Thành Nam,[1] also known as the Coconut Monk,[2][3] His Coconutship,[4] Prophet of Concord,[4] and Uncle Hai[4] (1909 – 1990[5]).

Oh, come the fuck on, now

As so many other things, what makes education a tricky thing to manage is the many different ideologies and agendas that demand to have a say in it.

The market wants the bare minimum that creates a never ending pool of cheap labor, preferably one that cannot fight back. The right will often demand something “patriotic”, “religious” and ban loads of “subversive” content, in some cases praising military teaching as ideal (see Brazil). The left usually wants kids to learn social stuff, like sociology, philosophy, etc, things “without market value”, but which can help them realize why some stuff is the way it is. Then you have school directors who may swing any each way and individual teachers who may comply or try to “subvert” the higher ups.

One of the things that annoys me a lot about education is that, in much of the world, it still works on a assembly-line logic. Make kid pass through process, test to see if it passes minimal quality assurance, proceed to next step; if not, repeat the entire previous process (imagine redoing a whole fucking year because you couldn’t be arsed about one of the many things that are pointlessly taught at school). Maximize production, reduce costs (1 teacher per 40 kids)

“When education does not free a person, the dream of the oppressed is to become the opressor.” - Paulo Freire was so damn right that, to this day, the Brazilian right demonizes him, wrongly accusing public schools and universities of being “breeding grounds of communists” for using his method (which is bullshit, his method was aimed first at teaching adults how to read and, afaik, no public schools ask the kids to “bring their home experiences” so they can be contextualized in the teaching)

Protection goggles when removing supports from your resin 3D prints. ALWAYS

No matter how well you point out the paradox (if God knows everything that will happen, free will doesn’t exist, because everything is predetermined, just like a fully written book), a significant portion of christians will simply ignore and keep circling between “but God gave us free will” and “God knows everything”

I’d become a trans woman in the blink of an eye if I got to drive a Tesla tank. I’d also put Hell March 2 to play on full blast

Writing your passwords in a piece of paper. Safer than storing it digitally and easier for people that don’t know how to use password managers or computers in general to understand what to do to access your stuff if you’re under a difficult situation or dead.

Also, physical photos. Yes yes, we all have gigabytes of photos, but almost never check any of them. Physicals catch my glance at home very often, great decoration. I’ve also took to writing the day, place and people on the back, plus any other important bits of context.

Back in 2011, as an intern for a lake club, the place’s director called me and my boss, who was the sole IT department of the place. The director was trying to get my boss to quit, doing all sorts of assholeish tactics and pressure, including calling for an “off the record” talk which we both saw him preparing his cellphone to record.

My boss was fired some time afterwards, getting full rights and pay and everything. The club later contracted a private IT support firm, paying 3x what they paid me + my boss. Fuck that place.

Most anything related to healthcare:

• System for medics and nurses to input all the data of a patient, which can be accessed by said patient if need be
• System for keeping track of vaccines applied and pinging people who need to take more shots (second dose, reinforcement dose, etc)
• drivers and programs to interact with medical equipment

Just something simple that I can listen to my MP3s with.

You mean like foobar2000? I don’t know much about fully FOSS players, but foobar is free

Last November, I gave some volunteer drawing classes at a school. Since I had limited space, I had to pick and choose a small number of 9-10yo kids, and asked the students interested to do a drawing and answer “Why would you like to participate in the drawing classes?”

One of the kids used chatgpt or some other AI. One of the parts that gave it away was that, while everyone else wrote something like “I want because”, he went on with “By participating, you can learn new things and make friends”. I called him out in private and he tried to bullshit me, but it wasn’t hard to make him contradict himself or admit to “using help”. I then told him that it was blatantly obvious that he used AI to answer for him and what really annoyed me wasn’t so much the fact he used it, but that he managed to write all of that without reading, and thought that I would be too dumb or lazy to bother reading or to notice any problems.

That works out to 12 hours per day, Monday through Friday, which Brin calls the “sweet spot of productivity.”

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH get fucked, assclown. The sweet spot of productivity is 6h per day, tops.

Besides, “torture yourself 12h a day so we can be the first to bring AI overlords into our world” is less likely to entice the workforce than “we’ll suck 100ml of blood off all of you in order to keep my skin young”

They’re the same, no?

They roasted it because they know better than to do it raw

Kakapo. Off to shag someone’s head now

People not caring about their privacy and their data being collected and sold to everyone. “Eh, it’s not like my data is worth anything”. If it wasn’t, it wouldn’t be sold, moron. All those spam and scam calls you receive? Yeah, that’s because your “worthless” data is being sold, resold and spread out everywhere. But hey, if you fall for a scam and lose, dunno, 50k dollars, it’s not a big deal, huh?