chocosoldier

joined 10 months ago
[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

It's all too common when anti-phrenology people don't understand phreno101.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

oh look yet another warmed over "DAE the kids r bad" talking point that i've been hearing literally since i learned language.

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

this. milk is fucking disgusting.

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

yes because having assigned reading material directly and specifically relevant to the subject of the class is exactly the same as registering for a website full of shitposts and propaganda bots. remember when you got all that spam from opening your textbook, and there was an entire chapter calling you out for being a little bitch?

that's the stupidest comparison i've ever heard.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

"hey there's this thing called lemmy, check it out some time" <- leading a horse to water

"ok you have to register an account on lemmy, it's part of your grade" <- shoving a hose down the horse's throat and cranking the spigot

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago

requiring my students to create Lemmy accounts

No. Nobody likes registering accounts for random services because an authority figure told them they had to, I feel like if it were me I would do the bare minimum of interacting that I was required to and never look at the service again out of resentment.

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

The fiddle itself is a handicap too, gold is an awful material for an instrument.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

I've been saying for eight years he'd be more dangerous as a martyr than his stupid alive self.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

it's kind of dramatic to frame "hey it's not cool to use our platform to jokingly encourage would-be assassins" as "capitulation" to such-and-such political movement. by all means make assassination jokes in private but it's different when it's through a megaphone like that - we live in an age of stochastic terror man, that shit's been weaponized for a decade now and it's silly to pretend it isn't as long as the "joke" reflects your own feelings. this is some maga-level mental gymnastics, maybe think more about it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

right now mine has manjaro+cinnamon. i booted my wife's Win11 laptop to it so she could test drive it and within ten minutes she was asking how to get to the installer. i hope to repeat this process with others as well.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

I spent most of my 20s alone, and met the woman I married at age 33. It's never too late.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

"Gifted" education in the US means they burn us out with weird "critical thinking" extracirriculars and then berate us when the senioritis hits two years early.

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