Fancy cupcakes are 70% icing, really not that nice and a waste of money
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The world actually did end in 2012.
This is hell.
Nuclear energy is currently the best way to achieve energetic independence until we find out how to maintain a fusion core running for more than 20 minute.
I’m so out of shape right now, it’ll probably be whichever one I try to climb next.
Depending on how the next four years go, probably Capitol.
Vinyl sounds shit. It reintroduces all the issues digital audio solved decades ago. I have heard vinyl rips made with equipment that costs as much as a new bmw and it has constant and frequent quality issues like static. It also has to downgrade audio sometimes to prevent the needle from physically flying out. It is impossible for vinyl to sound as good as the digital master or flac version of it that it was made from. It WILL always sound worse even thanks to the fact that physical world is very flawed and imprecise.
People arguing otherwise are either deaf or need to look in the mirror and accept the fact that they enjoy vinyl for the experience not the sound quality.
First-past-the-post voting should be replaced so people can vote outside the two party system with no spoiler effect.
Electoral Reform Videos
First Past The Post voting (What most states use now)
Videos on alternative electoral systems
Fondant isn’t icing and is cheating when making a cake. It also tastes gross.
DND is not a good universal game system. It’s pretty good at being DND, but that’s a particular beast that’s mostly about resource management.
You can definitely use it for a game about social intrigue, or horror, or modern day anything, but it’s not really good at any of that. Like using a hammer to put screws in, you’ll probably get something done, and if you’re hanging with your friends you’ll probably have a good time. But it’s a weird tool to reach for.
Personally, I don’t think the core of the rules system is very good at all. Flat probability feels weird. Armor as all-or-nothing is weird. Hit and damage being split into two rolls is slow and weird. In the latest edition, making very few choices about your character often feels bad. Levels are a very coarse unit of growth. The magic system somehow manages to make magic not feel like magic- no wonder, no mystery, it’s just safe and standardized. I could go on.
But it’s mega popular and people are emotionally invested, so there’s not much to be done about it. There are dozens of people playing the thousands of other games out there.
Also a lot of people have never played anything else, so their analysis and defense of it is often lacking. Like if I’ve only ever played baseball, and never even watched any other sports, I wouldn’t feel qualified to talk about bowling. But you get people saying like “no you need to wear cleats that’s a universal property of sports” when bowling comes up. Like, not every game has six stats. Not every game has attributes like that at all.
And again, if you’re having fun with dnd then that’s the primary goal achieved. We don’t need to maximize fun and efficiency in all things all times. I just think that it would be a good experience to branch out more, even if it’s scary, because that will lead to a richer experience overall.
Respect pornstars.
Things where better when the internet was one spot in your house. Not in your pocket at all times
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The Petty One: Optical Media is Bad. It has always been and always will be. We used it for as long as we did because there was no better choice. But when it came to music I went straight from tape to mp3 because I never trusted CD’s, and I will continue not to trust CD’s.
The Serious One That Might Ruffle Feathers: The entire school curriculum of every country should be wiped out – And replaced with fifteen years of nothing but reading comprehension. We live in an era where information is extremely cheap but knowledge is priceless. And to go from information to knowledge, one needs to have a well developed reading ability and bullshit filter. There’s no point memorising a bunch of nonsense when it is easier and faster to use technology – We stopped doing recitations when we invented writing, you know? – What IS important is understanding what you are seeing and recognising lies for what they are.
Reading comprehension is incredibly important. Bullshit filter also sorely needed. I get very frustrated when I see people falling for obvious false information. I’ve been shown AI videos that are clearly fake but they believe it.
I think my favorite are conspiracy theories who won’t believe something backed with like, facts, but will believe this 30 seconds tik Tok from someone they don’t know quoting someone they also don’t know.
It didn’t ruffle my feathers. It just made me laugh.
Everybody has an opinion on education. Most of them are single-issue. Almost all of them are wrong.
I would like to congratulate you on choosing the most assholish way you could have possibly phrased that :>
Go on… so what’s the right one? I can’t understand why anyone would go to attack others without offering a superior alternative. Like, you may as well just not say anything, then. If you don’t have a better idea, then theirs isn’t worse because you didn’t even provide a rebuttal.
I’m not even on the side of the person you responded to, but why would you not want to state what would work better? That’s just trolling.
The “right one” is to stop treating it as a “single issue” matter and dismissing literally decades of education research.
Maybe go read a modern textbook on education and see what issues there are, what the research on the subject says, and derive from that some conclusions about any “single issue” approach to education (whether it’s “TEHY JUST NEED MORE JEEBUS!” or “we should throw everything out and replace it with reading”).
So the “right one” is to shut the fuck up if you think there’s a one-size-fits-all approach to education. Kind of like if you think there’s a one-size-fits-all approach to anything. Even carpentry.
But you’re not offering even any example of possible models so how can anyone take your position seriously if you refuse to share more of your stance when asked? Lack of transparency is not cool, as well as assuming; I never once said one-size-fits-all.
I gave you an example of a possible model.
READ A BOOK BEFORE OPENING YOUR MOUTH AND SPEWING DRIVEL.
I’m not here to give you an Education 101 course. (Frankly, given your performance here thus far, I’m not even certain you could understand the contents of such a course.)
And if “throw everything way but this one thing” isn’t “one size fits all” what is it!? You’re literally saying "everything being done now is wrong and we should do this ONE THING for everyone. That’s practically the definition of “one size fits all”!
I get it. You’re a techie and have been trained by techie culture to think (or at least pretend) you’re the smartest person in the room. But to first causally dismiss literally decades of research to then propose a “solution” that is risible on the face of it goes well past typical techie arrogance and into Elon Musk territory.
“Given your performance?” Since when were discussions, heated or not, a performance? I never said anyone was right or wrong here with their stance towards education, but you’ve only said to not treat it as a single issue and nothing more, which is what I have beef with. When I asked, “so what’s the right one,” I didn’t say that I believe there is any “one” right way of education, but you’re continually saying to just read “a modern textbook on education” without even suggesting exactly what to read. What such book do you recommend?
I have not once called you “arrogant,” I have not called you “a techie,” and I have not said you have been “spewing drivel”; name-calling is the territory of Reddit and I hope we can agree to leave it there, but you didn’t even bother to reply to the original commentator’s response, maybe because he’s right; that’s what I was going off of. All I’m getting at is to not troll people in that closed way.
I don’t think I can put into words how much worse my life would be if we followed your second suggestion. There are a great many things I never really wanted to learn about, but I’m incredibly glad I was still taught them - starting from basic stuff (like maths etc) over arts (especially poetry and literary analysis) to sciences (especially physics and chemistry).
I would understand far less about the world, I could never engage as deeply with media as I love to, and I couldn’t have built so many things that require holistic insight into our world.
I’d be a far less developed version of myself, because I wouldn’t be able to follow my interests the same way.
I must wonder why not. Like, clearly those things are enriching to you, aren’t they? Why wouldn’t you have learned them on your own terms? Assuming nothing was stopping you? You seem not to be an incurious person? Again, information has never been cheaper, you just have to look for it.
Like I’m not trying to make fun of your explanation or even say you’re wrong. Just… Genuinely wondering how come
I wouldn’t have known how much I enjoy some of those things. Let’s stick with literary analysis - I hated doing that in school, really hated it. It was a slog to get through. Until I one day read something I enjoy, and started feeling the things I learned to analyze. Suddenly the text wasn’t just a text, it was a conversation with the author. It made me engage with reading on a different level, and also taught me to utilize the same techniques in my own writing.
But I know myself well enough to know that I wouldn’t have been able to force myself to learn that stuff on my own. Writing literary analyses and having them read, critiqued and graded by my teachers was essential to learning it. Yet I would have gone on thinking that it’s a waste of my time, had I not been forced to learn it.
That’s correct. In school the most important thing you can possibly learn is to learn. Information is abundant and easily accessible, the school, university or even research labs are no longer gatekeepers of information. But knowing HOW to find resources, HOW to filter it, HOW to use it, HOW to sit your ass down and work with information in a meaningful way is a specialized and rare skill.
Blessing someone for a sneeze is the most useless human interaction I know of and we should do away with it.
It should be illegal for vehicles so noisy that I can hear from kilometers away to drive inside cities and close to people.
It is illegal in most places. Enforcement is the problem.
Modern flip phones (e.g. Samsung Fold) are stupid and tacky and will never be as good as previous gen flip phones. Just won’t. Sorry not sorry.
