Capricorn_Geriatric
@Capricorn_Geriatric@lemmy.world
- Comment on Nothing’s new bloatware includes Facebook services that can’t be uninstalled 1 day ago:
Nothing good will come of this.
- Comment on Just up the production quality and they'll love it, Trust me bro 👍 2 days ago:
Clearly it’s nodes.
- Comment on Same... 3 days ago:
Well, NFTs just might be just useless enough.
- Comment on Over 47% of Stop Killing Games Signatures Have Already Been Verified 4 days ago:
Playing devil’s advocate here a bit, but
This is a good way to test the water. If they give a nonsense response, then what use would it be to do the same thing for somethijg there’s an even greater problem?
The US is sinking into fascism at an alarming rate, and many other “leaders” are taking inspiration - all over the world, including Europe.
Signing an online petition with your name and ID is a great way of saying “I’m ripe for the disappearing”. Just look at what happened to Charlie Kirk “critics”.
- Comment on Don't fix the problem just change the parameters 6 days ago:
It isn’t lazy to have a mastered skill and use it. It’s lazy not taking the time to master it.
That being said, the biggest lazies of them all are the curriculum writers which don’t make teaching future working adults how to use a clock a priority in grade school.
- Comment on Don't fix the problem just change the parameters 6 days ago:
Or should we get rid of spoons or hammers?
I have to say, I’m auite fond of my pneumatic hammer. When will my pneumatic silverware become a thing?
I just can’t be bothered to expend any energy while I’m eating! It’s supposed to give me energy, after all!
- Comment on Don't fix the problem just change the parameters 6 days ago:
I agree.
That being said, there’s a difference between having a disability and just not having had enough practice.
Just having an analogue clock in all rooms and halls of a school is a way to give people the opportunity to get the practice.
In higher grades you can have an analogue clock in front and a digital “cheat” one in the back. If they’re not sure, they can glance at that. And if that cheat clock is only in every other room. Most will learn because it’s easier that way.
When reading the clock comes as a topic of the curriculum in 1st or 2nd grade, having the teacher ask a student to read the time periodically from the classroom clock for a few months will make sure everyone has had at least some opportunities to practice.
Of course, if someone does have a problem bordering on disability, accomodate them. But a quarter of a class having it is really either bad luck or just bad methodology.
- Comment on Don't fix the problem just change the parameters 6 days ago:
I feel that learning cursive is important.
First you learn how to write ordinary letters. That trains your fine motor skills so you can write them reliably (try writing with your non-dominant yourself hand to see).
What cursive teaches you is how to write quickly. Of course, no one will write in pure, perfect cursive. Most people settle for a style somewhere in between. It teaches you the concept of “you can combine letters together to make you write faster” and “here are a bunch of ways to combine them” is a good thing. Especially if they end up going to college.
Giving them a few more weeks of practice in reading and writing is a great way to avoid them being partially illiterate.
- Comment on There was no need to ever improve upon THIS 1 week ago:
Instructions unclear: AWS is doing fine, but my AC won’t shut off until I renew my BMW+ subscription.
- Comment on grindset challenge 1 week ago:
poop
- Comment on Colorado delenda est 3 weeks ago:
Since a 2°C increase in temp means a ~2m increase in sea level, there’s plenty of room left over from your 33’.
- Comment on Texas National Guard arriving in Chicago 3 weeks ago:
First strategic stop: Chick-fil-A
- Comment on Sage advice? 3 weeks ago:
Mine has usage, at the very least.
- Comment on Unified Theory of American Reality 3 weeks ago:
literacy crash course…
I love how today literacy isn’t even a thing. No one talks aboit teaching things (in the EU, at least). It’s all about financial literacy, digital literacy, social media literacy, hell, even (and bear with me here) AI literacy. Yes, really. There’s prpbably 800 of these literacies floating around.
Whoever thought of this is an idiot. The word literacy means one thing: the ability to read and write (and understand what you read/wrote). Nothing more, nothing less.
It isn’t just stupid, it’s also malicious. Kids all over the globe are suffering from poor literacy, and instead of fixing the problem you quite literally shift the goalposts.
- Comment on you spin me right round baby right round... 4 weeks ago:
The fuck is RT FOOT PN and why the hell is it not RT FT PN
- Comment on Light. Not Even Once. 4 weeks ago:
If “Life” is “Evolutionary”, then yes.
- Comment on Just got this flyer in the mail today. 4 weeks ago:
Every now and then, I can’t help but wonder
Is me’s AC ready for Summer?
- Comment on Lead 5 weeks ago:
Will nobody mention the wrong placement of the checks notes stigmata?
- Comment on Trapeze artists 5 weeks ago:
Well, here’s me hoping the victims suing for damages get them paid from the one responsible for making the poor (wo)man work, and not from them directly.
- Comment on Cable placement a little weird, but the ergonomics are excellent. 1 month ago:
Have you heard of grue?
In any case, the same applies to animals. They may not be linguistucally differentiated in the same way across language boundaries.
- Comment on N. 5 1 month ago:
Number one is pee, number two is poo, and number three is barf.
What are four and five, then?
- Comment on Nintendo reportedly gets even more obnoxious about patent law by taking a 'mods aren't real games' stance against a Dark Souls 3 mod that could invalidate its Palworld lawsuit 1 month ago:
Sure. It’s just that the user doesn’t install Unity (or any other engine) themselves when installing a game. They install the game and “it just works”.
For a mod, you have to either have the game, or go get it before you can play a mod.
I know what a game engine is. A court clerk or judge most likely - doesn’t.
And it’s in Nintendo’s interests to paint mods as something lesser - that’s why they take this strawman angle to mods. They couldn’t care less about “games” or “mods”. They care about protecting their IP with any groin punches and baby mario noises they can get their divorced-from-reality hands on.
- Comment on Good shot indeed 1 month ago:
Trump is clearly dishonoring prescious Charlie. How dare he!
But more importantly, why isn’t he getting
cancelled“cosequenced” for it? - Comment on Nintendo reportedly gets even more obnoxious about patent law by taking a 'mods aren't real games' stance against a Dark Souls 3 mod that could invalidate its Palworld lawsuit 1 month ago:
It’s basically a non-sequitur.
A mod isn’t a standalone game, sure. It requires the base game to have meaning. Unitl it gets spinned off and becomes a “real” (standalone) game.
However, that has no connection with the original problem: Did anyone who isn’t Nintendo ever animate a cartoony person throwing a ball that does something, before Nintendo filed for a patent?
Of course they have. That’s prior art, and the patent itself is under serious question - whether the animation was in a “real” game, a “fake” one or in a Blender animation has very little influence on that fact.
- Comment on Too soon? 1 month ago:
They must’ve been… Immaculately concieved.
- Comment on Time to bash Americans again 1 month ago:
Have you heard of “induced demand” courtesy of the FuckCars community?
Well, the same applies to violence.
If you have police on campus people subconsciously expect violence. It’s a self-fullfilling prophecy. The more security theatre you add, the more actual security you’ll need.
Normalizing shootings by giving them such media attention also doesn’t help, if the prospective shooter craves it. Neither does the fact that it occupies a large part of the US public consciousness.
Some kids do it because others have already, and because school shootings are such a hot media topic.
- Comment on monthly challenge 2 months ago:
It’s so wrong it underflowed into somehow being right again.
Unusual? Sure. Mathematically? Right.
- Comment on Finally a washing machine that understands me 2 months ago:
Max SPIN FART until SLUT: 1200 rpm
- Comment on Worst part about living in Europe 2 months ago:
500% import duty is way too much.
80% is enough.
High one-time taxes are not a good idea.
Rather dilute them into 8 seperate yearly taxes.
A curb weight tax of 40% sounds reasonable. A fuel inefficiency penalty of 25% also sounds good.
At least a 15% tax on anything shorter than 1 meter being invisible from the cabin is also very warranted.
That’s 3 of 8.
Additionally, whenever a truck is involved in a crash treat it disfavourably. That should drive up insurance premiums.
So with my 80/80 tax mix they’d actually pay 880% tax in the first 10 years of ownership with 3 basic taxes.
- Comment on AI art 2 months ago:
Look, at least it’s not an AI generated cycle of ads. Those fools over at Marketing burnt the planet to a crisp already.
Do you know how much re-prompting it takes to get the little family pics all consistent?