this post was submitted on 18 Apr 2025
264 points (95.8% liked)

Casual Conversation

3363 readers
608 users here now

Share a story, ask a question, or start a conversation about (almost) anything you desire. Maybe you'll make some friends in the process.


RULES

  1. Be respectful: no harassment, hate speech, bigotry, and/or trolling.
  2. Encourage conversation in your OP. This means including heavily implicative subject matter when you can and also engaging in your thread when possible.
  3. Avoid controversial topics (e.g. politics or societal debates).
  4. Stay calm: Don’t post angry or to vent or complain. We are a place where everyone can forget about their everyday or not so everyday worries for a moment. Venting, complaining, or posting from a place of anger or resentment doesn't fit the atmosphere we try to foster at all. Feel free to post those on [email protected]
  5. Keep it clean and SFW
  6. No solicitation such as ads, promotional content, spam, surveys etc.

Casual conversation communities:

Related discussion-focused communities

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 

Fancy cupcakes are 70% icing, really not that nice and a waste of money

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago (12 children)

The Petty One: Optical Media is Bad. It has always been and always will be. We used it for as long as we did because there was no better choice. But when it came to music I went straight from tape to mp3 because I never trusted CD's, and I will continue not to trust CD's.

The Serious One That Might Ruffle Feathers: The entire school curriculum of every country should be wiped out -- And replaced with fifteen years of nothing but reading comprehension. We live in an era where information is extremely cheap but knowledge is priceless. And to go from information to knowledge, one needs to have a well developed reading ability and bullshit filter. There's no point memorising a bunch of nonsense when it is easier and faster to use technology -- We stopped doing recitations when we invented writing, you know? -- What IS important is understanding what you are seeing and recognising lies for what they are.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (6 children)

It didn't ruffle my feathers. It just made me laugh.

Everybody has an opinion on education. Most of them are single-issue. Almost all of them are wrong.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

I would like to congratulate you on choosing the most assholish way you could have possibly phrased that :>

load more comments (5 replies)
load more comments (10 replies)