voracitude
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- Comment on Emperor of overpromising Peter Molyneux says he's done with games after Masters of Albion, which is also his 'redemption title' 1 week ago:
- Comment on How do I keep a 9 year old from constantly licking erasers and putting them in his mouth 2 weeks ago:
This is how society corrects behavior
Followed by
Your office comparisons are insignificant here
Really? School is where we learn how to treat other people, and we learn it by example as much as being told (more than, I’d contend).
Claiming this will immediately lead to bullying or just the threat that it might do is to an extent quixotic to me
First off, quote where I claimed it would immediately lead to bullying (good luck). Secondly, yes, whether believe it or not a teacher engaging in this behaviour signals to the other children that it’s okay, there’s an extremely elevated chance that they will take that and run with it.
If a teacher telling a kid to get their feet off the table, to stop shooting spit wads at the row in front of them, to stop rocking back their chair because they might tip over and fall - if all these situations are okay for a teacher to say out loud in front of the class: “Kevin, stop it!” - and I think they are - then telling the kid not to chew on communally shared erasers is no different.
Telling, yes. They’ve already told them to stop it. Your suggestion, however, was
I would go for gentle peer pressure. Point it out in class, do a friendly dressing down how none of the other students want to use the chewed on eraser. If he won’t stop if you say so, maybe you can get other kids to do the trick. The unwanted public attention from his peers might be enough.
“peer pressure”, “dressing-down”, “maybe you can get other kids to do the trick”. That last one in particular. How exactly do you think the other kids would do the trick? Harass the child into stopping, yeah? Or are you gonna come out now claiming that kids are masters of nuance and they’ll be able to get him to stop without resorting to bullying? Your initial suggestion was bad, but at this point you are being absolutely ridiculous. OP “weighed in against the suggestion” with the words
Kids at that age are ruthless, I absolutely can’t do that
And yet you still want to act like I’m in the wrong for saying that it would open the child up to bullying. An absolutely mind-blowingly dumb argument. I sure hope you’re not responsible for children with this kind of thinking; I had a few teachers like you and I hated them for it.
- Comment on How do I keep a 9 year old from constantly licking erasers and putting them in his mouth 2 weeks ago:
I’d be curious for a follow-up post of you find a way to help him with this! I was this kid when I was little, and needed help and kindness, but there was no understanding for autistic behaviours back then so what I got instead was bullied. I appreciate that you went looking for help instead of just throwing up your hands.
- Comment on How do I keep a 9 year old from constantly licking erasers and putting them in his mouth 2 weeks ago:
I read your checklist, and I think you missed the bus where I said “when it seems like all other options have been exhausted”. There’s absolutely no need for the “peer pressure” component, it’s unnecessary to call out a kid on front of a class like that when you could just add easily have a private conversation with the kid about it, and I suggest you think about what it means to enable bullying without actively participating in it.
I don’t think they will go full Lord of the Flies on him
You have no way of accurately predicting this, because it’s children we’re talking about, and they are famously agents of chaos.
I can’t think of a single office I’ve worked where it would be considered professional to call someone out for minority problematic behaviour in front of all their colleagues, and I don’t see any reason it would be considered acceptable with children either.
- Comment on How do I keep a 9 year old from constantly licking erasers and putting them in his mouth 2 weeks ago:
I don’t think it would be a good idea, that seems like it would only open up opportunities for bullying, without doing anything to address the source of the issue.
- Comment on How do I keep a 9 year old from constantly licking erasers and putting them in his mouth 2 weeks ago:
Sounds like it could be a stim thing - impulsive, you say? Any chance there’s (undiagnosed?) ASD there? The mentions of bitter spray reminded me of when my mother tried that to get me to stop biting my nails. I just stopped using my lips and tongue, and only used my teeth…
Anyway, if it’s a stimulation thing, maybe finding an alternative would be easier than getting him to stop entirely.
- Comment on Anon doesn't believe 4 weeks ago:
There are vanishingly few generalisations a person can make on the internet and have any chance of being correct. This one, though, you’re bang-on right every time.
- Comment on (Rant) Don't buy Rockstar games. 1 month ago:
First of all, I agree entirely. Now: Pounds, so you’re in the UK. Have a read about your options with the ombudsman service: …org.uk/…/how-to-use-an-ombudsman-in-england/
the Financial Ombudsman Service sorts out problems with banks, insurance, PPI, loans, mortgages, pensions and deals with other money and financial complaints - read our advice about getting your money back if you paid by card or PayPal
If nothing else you’re putting them on blast with the government, and that contributes to the paper trail for eventual action. In the meantime it might get your complaint resolved. Did you try tweeting at their official account too? Sometimes that can help get things moving.
- Comment on Suggest some games according to my laptop's hardware 1 month ago:
Starsector (fractalsoftworks.com)
Uplink: Hacker Elite
KeeperRL
Doom, Quake, Unreal Tournament (the originals) 😋
- Comment on My IP address is apparantly suspicious? What? (Real IP, not a VPN) 1 month ago:
weak passwords (user error) not really hacking
If you need to cross a chasm, and someone rolls a boulder in that lets you get across, are you going to go into all the ways that it wasn’t really a bridge?
Hacking is about making stuff do things outside is intended purpose. There are no prescriptions on how; hacking doesn’t gatekeep. If it works, it’s a hack. Convincing sometime to open the door for you is social engineering, for example.
So, if someone uses/reuses weak passwords, it’s fair to say that’s an easy hack, but it’s still a hack.
- Comment on Would it be weird to ask my brother if I could tag along when he goes out with his friends? 1 month ago:
Hell yeah, I’m always down to hang out with my sister (I’m older but whatever, you said you’re adults so who was born first is kind of irrelevant). I hope you go and you guys have a blast!
- Comment on Family in fear after Tommy Robinson shares video of black man with white granddaughters 1 month ago:
Based on this, it sounds like he’s actually a fucking terrorist.
- Comment on Children at Scouts camp mistaken for migrants 1 month ago:
Naming and shaming is something the UK does much better than the US. Put the vile creatures recording and threatening children on blast, let the public see them for what they are.
- Comment on Anon is dehydrated 2 months ago:
You think that ruined your day? I had LASIK - I paid to read that more clearly.
- Comment on I dropped more food. 2 months ago:
Sounds like she might be Labradoriented?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I’m really glad that he’s aware of the moral implications of what he did.
Doesn’t sound like you are though. I mean, you just admitted he committed fraud in order to appropriate money meant for people who actually needed it, and now:
- you want to justify it by saying “clearly the government wasn’t holding back assistance to anyone at the time” as though it being an honour system at the time made what he did okay;
- you’re pulling that after you first tried to paper over that they weren’t just any old loans he took out; in addition to which
- you want to try and paint me as the bad guy.
You serious, dude? You’re aware that I didn’t commit fraud during the pandemic, right? And it wasn’t hard either, I just didn’t apply for relief I wasn’t eligible for. You’re aware he wasn’t scamming a bank, he was scamming people in need?
It’s okay to make mistakes, but he is lucky he’s not in prison, and if he can own what he did like an adult then so can you.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Hope you’ve got some of that broken leg serum
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Also half of the loans were government Covid aid that he applied for even though he wasn’t eligible
Ahh, so he did a bunch of fraud. The reason the government was writing blank cheques was because people were dying in the millions and businesses were failing left and right. He’s lucky he’s not in prison.
I’m glad he’s doing better now, but I can’t help but think of the people who needed that money and might not have gotten it in time (or maybe at all) because of what he did. Does he ever think about that, do you know?
- Comment on It is even possible to "imitate" the voice of a fictional character without AI? 3 months ago:
I believe this is called an “impression”.
- Comment on Tony Abbott tells Advance supporters bequeathing money to rightwing group will ‘protect’ Australian values 3 months ago:
Sorry Tony, none of us can hear “the response we deserve” over the crunching of that fuckin onion
- Comment on Can you clear a straight line of malfunctioning pixels on a phone with a lighter? 3 months ago:
Where did you hear that setting your phone on fire works fix the screen? Out of curiosity.
- Comment on What the fuck you 4 months ago:
And it can be bought anywhere other than Amazon.
- Comment on What the fuck you 4 months ago:
There are better solutions than literally anything that could be behind that Amazon link.
- Comment on Anon's split personality 4 months ago:
Explanation: Luck. Just pure good luck. Biology is messy, results for one aren’t the same for all. It does however increase the chances of an infection, regardless of whether she’s ever had a UTI from this practice.
- Comment on Anon's split personality 4 months ago:
As a straight boy who is better-versed in vaginal care than most: thank you for spreading the word. Uninformed men can do a lot of damage to the self-esteem (and sometimes, by consequence, to the vaginas) of their partners if they don’t know this stuff.
- Comment on Is their any evolutionary benefit to the sneezing reflex when looking at a bright light source, or is it just an evolutionary glitch with no purpose? 4 months ago:
Interesting! I’ll update my post, it makes sense there would likely be variability in how it presents due to biology. My experience isn’t necessarily the default.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
homey needs to smell like a gun in a pine forest
Stealing this whenever I need to describe Axe in the future.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
Women always telling me a smell nice is why I use women’s soap and deodorant. I would rather smell vaguely like a field of wildflowers, a warm summer breeze, and fresh-washed linens than whatever the fuck Axe is meant to be.
- Comment on Is their any evolutionary benefit to the sneezing reflex when looking at a bright light source, or is it just an evolutionary glitch with no purpose? 4 months ago:
That’s the prevailing theory, yes, but as far as I’ve found there’s not empirical evidence to back it up. The theory does make perfect sense to me, though!
Also, as a sufferer, I’ve noticed it almost always requires sunlight or something with close to the same frequencies. Most artificial lights don’t trigger it.
- Comment on Is their any evolutionary benefit to the sneezing reflex when looking at a bright light source, or is it just an evolutionary glitch with no purpose? 4 months ago:
Contrived acronym. I much prefer Photic Sneeze Reflex, it’s easier to remember and doesn’t sound like bullshit 😂
