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- Comment on Eton parents’ revolt reflects growing anxieties over classroom tech 5 days ago:
I’ve worked in IT for private and state schools in the UK and let me tell you: the prats running private schools get away with shit that would land anyone at state schools in prison, so I can’t say I’m surprised to hear this about Eton but please don’t tar every school with the same brush.
In the private schools I worked at, the process for issuing a device to a student invariably went: “Here’s your top-of-the range Apple iThing. Here’s a piece of paper with the apps we expect you to install.” and that was it - the kids were free to do what they wanted, which is the problem here: not that they have an iPad, but that they have full access to the web browser, App Store, social media, games, etc. Kids were addicted to them from day one for all the reasons we all already know about, but the Fauntleroys who make the decisions in those places just don’t want to hear it and will push back on having to make any kind of decision.
State schools were invariably more sensible and when devices were issued - to students, classes, libraries, whatever - they were heavily managed by MDM to make sure that student had exactly what they needed and nothing more: no social media, no games, usually no camera, a website whitelist, a curated list of apps that could only be used based on time of day, geofencing, etc, all controlled by policies customised to each location, yeargroup, curriculum needs, etc. Those kids were less enthralled with the devices specifically because they weren’t the target of a never-ending sensory and emotional barrage from predatory billionaires. Where devices were issued to kids on a 1:1 basis for use at home (very rare) they were strictly limited to school-approved tasks unless the parents specifically gave consent (and took responsibility, even rarer); even then there were still strict controls in place and those kids wouldn’t be allowed anywhere near TikTok and it’s ilk. In this context, tablets, smartphones, laptops, whatever are actually really useful, serve their purpose well and really do benefit the students.
The problem, as ever, isn’t the technology, but a lack of consideration and reflection on the part of the decision makers.
- Comment on According to the New York Times, Game of Thrones is the 6th best TV show of the 21st century 6 days ago:
Happy Valley, Black Mirror, The Crown, The Office, The Thick of It.
- Comment on Anon fears The Hand 1 week ago:
found it maybe
No, that’s definitely it. Amazing result, thanks!
- Comment on Anon fears The Hand 1 week ago:
Anyone else remember an eighties or nineties cartoon like batman or something that had an episode with a flying hand like this? IIRC it looked like a mouse cursor… I can’t remember anything else about it.
- Comment on Anon fears The Hand 1 week ago:
So it’d be kinda like NOPE?
- Comment on Anon fears The Hand 1 week ago:
How about cucumberwang?
- Comment on *Throws grenade and runs* 1 week ago:
Literally the first episode of Lower Decks has someone off-hand mention having to empty the holodeck cum trap.
- Comment on Do turkeys that tell you to cook from frozen usually turn out as good as thawed ones? 1 week ago:
- Comment on Delicious 1 week ago:
Not nearly enough.
- Comment on Delicious 1 week ago:
Bread. Sourdough, baguette, ciabatta. A good start. Toasted. Even better.
Garlic. Mint’s boisterous umami cousin. Always welcome. Always a delight.
Butter. Lavish. Rich. Deep. Saturated. One with the crust, one with the fill. Every crumb blessed.
Salt? In moderation. He will own the day. If you let him. This is not about him. He must be told.
Mozzarella. The partymaker. The rule breaker. A plus one? Asiago. With wisdom, you nod.
A cacophonic harmony, an angelic orgy, an instant of eternity, a grating, nagging, raging itch in your soul that what could be is being squandered and what should be is being suppressed and what must be is being denied. You scream, gutteral, primeval, enraged at the injustice, and then you see. In the doorway. Silhouetted. Cocky. Confident. Italian spices. One of your hands rests on his shoulder long enough to push him aside. You have no time for his charlatanism, he can only add to what is already an abundance. Instead, you will know the sultriness of refinement, the ecstacy of admonishment. You extend a hand, and a figure, once hunched meekly and in shadow, rises to glowing majesty and takes it. A tear rolls down your cheek, unnoticed.
Parsley.
- Comment on Simple. Elegant. Fashionable, even. Become the envy of the airport. 1 week ago:
- Comment on Simple. Elegant. Fashionable, even. Become the envy of the airport. 1 week ago:
From the product description:
Too big to be included in your free allowance and self-defeating as a checked bag, this mandatory carry-on item includes an unfamiliar-looking battery (which is either too small to be useful or too big to be safe) that will make on-board staff and TSA agents alike giggle with glee, and the space demanded by the retractable handles and motor ensure that not only will you need to be selective with your packing but also with your prepatory gym workout in preparation for lugging this thing into an overhead bin. On the departures lounge it comes into it’s own: instead of having to walk for arduous minutes at a time from security to the gate - often along treacherous perfectly flat carpeted concrete floors, and with mere hours to spare - you can now inexpertly weave your top-heavy assemblage through the delighted thorngs of your fellow travellers who will surely be as obliging as can be of enduring the occasional shin injuriy and will graciously bow out of your way as their self-preservation instincts sense your approach.
Please note this thing must be kept bone dry and is utterly useless on asphalt, gravel or even the mildest inclines, meaning it becomes an unrelenting burden the moment it leaves the terminal.
…probably
- Comment on 🍳 challenge 1 week ago:
That’s unjustifiable.
- Comment on More than £2m spent by government on influencers since July 2024 1 week ago:
Don’t hate the player, hate the game. They can’t turn their nose up at any effective advertising channel, even if it’s one that shitty, and even more so if it’s one gleefully used by the people trying to dismantle society. Honestly £2m over more than two years doesn’t seem like that much anyway.
- Comment on Men lose appeal for harassing BBC journalist over A Very British Cult documentary 1 week ago:
From the Wikipedia:
Waugh borrowed ideas such as M. Scott Peck’s postulation of four stages of spiritual development to develop his own concept of four ‘levels’. People who were ‘level one’ are characterised as being chaotic and childlike, whereas ‘level four’ indicated someone who was enlightened and had profound perspective of the world. According to a former member, within the group everyone except Waugh was considered ‘level one’ due to their lack of proper upbringing. Waugh himself was ‘level four’.
Sounds perfectly reasonable and not at all like the mental diarrhoea of a messianic physchopath. Kifflom.
- Comment on He's right, you know 1 week ago:
- Comment on I'm sick of bad news and contention. comment things that you love about the UK. 1 week ago:
The Type G outlet is the best in the world in every way that matters except one.
People who claim that there’s nothing more painful than stepping on Lego don’t live in a country with Type G plugs.
- Comment on He's right, you know 1 week ago:
Sounds like someone wants to go back to a website
- Comment on Addison Lee founder owes £20.5m in tax after UK tribunal ruling 2 weeks ago:
Good. Guys a dick. He proudly declared that he made “fuck around and find out” his business model and then whines whenever “find out” doesn’t suit him.
- Comment on Why do so many older people talk to themselves in public? 2 weeks ago:
You know how the technicians at NASA keep finding new and creative ways of using the Voyager hardware well beyond it’s operation lifespan, hardware limited and original intent? As you get older you realise you have a few bytes of very short-term storage in the air between your mouth and ears and you might as well use it.
- Comment on If I only have space/money for one exercise machine, what should I get? 2 weeks ago:
Man, it’s like you guys have never heard of fully-programmable 350W industrial grade fucking machines that cost $2500.
Hey, guess what, that link may or may not be nsfw but with text like that it could be totally innocent so who could say for sure?
- Comment on Parents face extra bus fees over smartphone stance 2 weeks ago:
TrentBarton are a fucking nightmare for this.
They used to have a physical Mango card with RFID that could be topped up manually in stores or online, or be set to auto top-up. But they killed that off and replaced it with an app that displays a QR code - an app that has to be online to work, and a QR code that changes every fifteen seconds or so. Seeing elderly people trying to deal with that was horrible for everyone involved, not least the elderly person themselves.
They also have the most bewildering convention for labelling their services. Instead of numbers, they all have quirky names like “the threes” (there is no “the ones/twos”, but there is a “the nines”), “rainbow one” (there is no “rainbow two”), “H1” (there is no “H2”), “my15” (there is no “my1” through “my14”), “the harlequin”, “the mainline”, “the miller”, “the comet”, “red arrow”, etc, but those all refer to multiple bus services that visit different places or take different routes so you just have to know that the bus that’s pulling up is the one you want which you can only see in - you guessed it - the fucking app.
I honestly think that the higher-ups at TrentBarton are sadists who get off on making their services as infuriating and confounding as possible.
- Comment on Military aircraft reportedly blamed for UK air traffic control outage 2 weeks ago:
“Military grade” means something different to people familiar with anything military grade.
- Comment on Never Kirket, Never Forgrift 2 weeks ago:
I heard that the male neck can just reject any bullets it doesn’t want, so he must have secretly wanted it.
- Comment on Never Kirket, Never Forgrift 2 weeks ago:
Tolerant people being intolerance of intolerance is not a paradox, but a self-evident necessity. The only people who demand tolerance of the intolerant are the intolerant.
- Comment on How hard could it be? 2 weeks ago:
Excuse me? Explain, if you can, how systematically destroying all life and turning the world into an uninhabitable waste hostile to even the most resilient microbe wouldn’t also eradicate cancer? Checkmate, atheists.
- Comment on Never Kirket, Never Forgrift 3 weeks ago:
What a lucky man he was. May we all get to live in the world we strive for.
- Comment on Never Kirket, Never Forgrift 3 weeks ago:
How did Charlie’s neck get so red?
- Comment on Why Should I... 3 weeks ago:
Nonsense. You can’t bite into an American meal without immediately tasting a wonderful selection of flavours, like:
- salt
- corn-derived sweetener
- Comment on Shabana Mahmood urges police to curb far-right, anti-migrant protests 3 weeks ago:
Good. While we’re at it, could the government start labelling these people, who use acts of terror to cause their targets to feel terrified and impose on wider communities a state of terrorism, as, y’know, some kind of terroriser or terrerismist or…
