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- Comment on Good guy moth 3 days ago:
Someone make a “grand moth tarkin” meme for me, please. I’m too lazy.
- Comment on Don't know shit in class 2 weeks ago:
In my lexicon, educators and teachers are not synonymous :3
But yeah, you are totally correct
- Comment on Don't know shit in class 2 weeks ago:
This is just “what educators have known about education for decades” in meme format.
Different people do best learning in different ways. And different people learn different subjects at different rates. Grouping people my age, putting them all in lectures during the day and having them all do task work at home is not a good solution to education.
It was great when it was introduced, because it brought the majority of uneducated people up to a minimum level where they could read and do arithmetic. But compared to what we COULD be doing now that we know more and are better at it, this sort of industrial era “factory line” approach is idiotic.
And educators have known it for a long time now. Government just hasn’t caught up
- Comment on what's the word for a leg elbow? 4 weeks ago:
Wouldn’t the legpit be the pocket created at your hip when your leg is folded against your body?
- Comment on Anon can't go on a field trip 4 weeks ago:
No matter the veracity of the information?
- Comment on Anon can't go on a field trip 4 weeks ago:
I see. So anything you have not personally experienced is to be disregarded entirely?
- Comment on Anon can't go on a field trip 4 weeks ago:
There are some great recommendations in other replies already!
IMO the best YA content right now is actually coming out of Japan (where they’re called Light Novels)
Some series worth checking out:
- Re:Zero - Starting Life in Another World from Zero
- Spice & Wolf
- Ascendance of a Bookworm
- World End - What Will You Do at the End of the World? Are You Busy? Will You Save Us?
- Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?
Don’t let the titles fool you (especially that last one). A silly title will often lead to a deep and complex story only loosely related to the title.
The first three I named are some of my absolute favorites.
And this is just the fantasy stuff. If you’re looking for sci-fi or rom-com, or something a bit heavier/darker, there are plenty more recommendations I can provide :)
- Comment on Anon can't go on a field trip 4 weeks ago:
I mean, I totally get it. There is just better stuff out there and it sucks that she got lucky when otherr, better authors don’t
- Comment on Anon can't go on a field trip 4 weeks ago:
The issue I have with this line of reasoning is that there are equally whimsical, better written series that just didn’t have good fortune to pop off the way HP did.
It’s marketing. And cover art. And simple timing of fads. It sucks. And it funded a horrible person through pure happenstance
- Comment on Anon can't go on a field trip 4 weeks ago:
In all seriousness, this is what happens when you write novels without doing any world-building and just put down whatever seems “fun”. The are sooooo many things in that series that make no sense once they are superceded by later plot devices. Rowling didn’t think any of it through ahead of time and have almost no thought to internal consistency with previous comment when she wrote new things.
It’s honestly a terrible series in most regards and it’s kind of disappointing how popular it became.
Also she a trans-hating bigot. Fuck J.K. Rowling. Can’t forget that part whenever discussing her or her work.
- Comment on Rawr 5 weeks ago:
While this is good advice, best practice is to always get your yubikey in pairs and keep them synchronized. One should remain in your home, in a safe place (as you described) while the other should remain on your person or outside the home (e.g. in a safe deposit box)
It’s more of a pain in the ass for sure, but handles the theft scenario more effectively
- Comment on Playtron wanted to take on Windows and SteamOS with their GameOS, now they're announcing a cryptocurrency 1 month ago:
Called this a while ago urusai.social/@neatchee/112255667073894754
- Comment on The specter of a GTA 6 delay haunts the games industry: 'Some companies are going to tank' if they guess wrong, says analyst 2 months ago:
Exactly this. I work in the games industry as well and even big studios are falling over themselves NOT to release anywhere near GTA6.
Nobody believes there won’t be people playing other games at that time. But it’s going to dominate the media cycle for a month, especially if it is either better or worse than fans hope. And the reality is that many, many people have limited gaming budgets. If you’ve only got $100 to spend, GTA6 is very likely to be the default pick at that time.
It’s a behemoth in terms of grabbing attention from both the media and players. All the best laid plans for a successful release can be completely derailed by a game like GTA6.
- Comment on I'm OOTL: Why is TikTok being banned? 5 months ago:
This is the most accurate conclusion so far. The US government considers it a national security threat. There are lots of things it’s “okay” for your own government to do but not a foreign government :)
- Comment on Netflix bad... Shocker, I know 5 months ago:
Go pirate. That’s what I do when shit doesn’t work.
I just don’t also fool myself into thinking they will ever change their ways so long as it’s profitable 🤷
I’m not saying you’re wrong. Nor am I telling you to accept the shitty quality stream as the best you can get. I’m just saying this is how the system is set up right now and it’s not a Netflix problem. It’s a capitalism problem.
- Comment on Netflix bad... Shocker, I know 5 months ago:
Big corps like Netflix only care about supporting the 90% of users to who operate in a bog-standard configuration. They really couldn’t care less about supporting things like AirPlay, debloated Windows, Linux running on a Mac, or anything else that’s not damn near configured exactly as it was when it was first removed from the box.
It is not worth the engineering investment to make it work. They would spend more money maintaining these features than they would earn from it.
You can have whatever opinions you want about that reality, but that’s just how it is. Blame capitalism.
- Comment on Anon loves his sister 6 months ago:
While there is no question that in modern times, both in the West and East, the term lolicon refers to a sexual attraction to underage girls, that’s not how it started. This topic goes all the way back to the 70s and the shoujo manga scene which was initially dominated by women, and only later welcomed men.
As with most things in life, if you actually spend the time to look into it, these things are a lot more nuanced than you might think.
- Comment on Anon loves his sister 6 months ago:
Once again displaying your ignorance.
Siscon is about having an infatuation with an idyllic image of your sister and having abnormal affection for them as a result.
It’s about idolatry more than anything else.
Seriously. The sex fetish is weird. Please stop
- Comment on Anon loves his sister 6 months ago:
Was I supposed to lean into it or something? Kinda sick of people ruining my fandom with their fetish bullshit.
- Comment on Anon loves his sister 6 months ago:
Of course they find it weird. They make fun of it constantly. The clarification/term originated there for a variety of reasons. Not everyone who likes Japanese shit is a degenerate pervert. Go touch grass
- Comment on Anon loves his sister 6 months ago:
Doesn’t mean incest, though I understand how someone unfamiliar with the term and Japanese culture in general would think that. Western obsession with sex is weird
- Comment on Anon loves his sister 6 months ago:
This is called being a siscon
- Comment on Has anyone ever come up with what a Palestinian State would look like without wiping Israel of the map? If so have both sides ever been presented the offer? If not why? 6 months ago:
Lol you are exactly the type of person who most needs to hear the message of this video and you never will, and that’s kinda sad
- Comment on Has anyone ever come up with what a Palestinian State would look like without wiping Israel of the map? If so have both sides ever been presented the offer? If not why? 6 months ago:
It’s a video of a very well known academic from Israel. It’s available on many, many different sources. I literally just grabbed the first one that came up on YouTube.
Here’s the original 2hr video of the entire conference presentation from CDA: youtu.be/Cs70S35_HPY?si=mKsQPYQfrOZvuAQo
Don’t reject self-evidently truthful commentary simply because you have a problem with the specific channel providing the clip.
- Comment on Has anyone ever come up with what a Palestinian State would look like without wiping Israel of the map? If so have both sides ever been presented the offer? If not why? 6 months ago:
You should watch this Israeli academic explaining about those terrorists! youtu.be/2CTpVNKw7UM?si=-kWXAxceWpj9X2hP
- Comment on Half as Hot 7 months ago:
For anyone questioning this logic, try running your “idle” CPU without a heatsink of any kind.
- Comment on If a planet was completely covered in water, wouldn't it all be freshwater? 8 months ago:
Hahaha I figured something like but couldn’t resist the opportunity :D
- Comment on If a planet was completely covered in water, wouldn't it all be freshwater? 8 months ago:
For those following along: SEAWATER IS NOT SALINE EITHER. Just making sure we’re clear on everything
- Comment on stars & sharks 8 months ago:
Fair enough on the first point!
The interesting scenario re: Polaris A’s age would be if a larger, younger original star merged with a smaller, much older star. You’d have a small amount of late-stage byproducts in an otherwise early-stage star. That would definitely make any age models ‘confused’ heh
- Comment on stars & sharks 8 months ago:
This is only sort of true, unfortunately. Polaris is a two-star system: Polaris Aa and Polaris B.
Polaris B is much older than sharks, by several billion years.
Polaris Aa appears to be younger than sharks, at a measley 50 million years old, compared to sharks’ 420 million years
HOWEVER it is unclear whether Polaris Aa is actually that young. Scientists believe that, based on some contradictory findings, that measurement may be inaccurate if Polaris Aa is formed from two different stars that merged. In that scenario, the model we use to calculate star age would no longer work and could give wildly inaccurate estimates of the star’s true age
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