Hell, there’s at least one story of a black teenager being shot because he rang someone’s doorbell to ask for help.

Because replacing said property costs money, money they generally don’t have. Being poor in the US is a cruel hell and they don’t seem to plan on fixing it any time soon so violence it is.

Oh for sure, I won’t argue that, but it does explain my point. Even when I use a program with the squiggly red line I correct it myself so that I can reinforce the correct spelling.

Absolutely.

Thinking about it, our school systems do prioritize memorizing just enough information to pass a test and then people just kinda forget it all because they didn’t really get a chance to internalize it. The best teacher I ever had earned that title from me because he took the main curriculum and threw it out, teaching us instead how to be comfortable and confident with the CAD program. When the other class, taught by the moron who wrote the curriculum, even, joined us the semester after they basically had to be retaught because they retained nothing over the Christmas break and the rest of us kinda just sat there until they figured it out.

It ends up discouraging “frivilous” learning, demanding we learn not only specific stuff but so much of it that there’s no way we can actually absorb it. It’s the difference between letting a sponge soak in a bucket and just dipping it in the ocean.

As if the USA would provide that service for them. Many people do need help but instead live in squalor and are often only cared for, if at all, by burnt-out family members while everyone involved lives well below the poverty line.

It’s not a good place.

We need to teach people curiosity. I use my GPS all the time because of construction and stuff but I also look at the route before I leave so that I know where I’m headed on my own, too. Meanwhile I know people who’ve lived in a city for decades and still can’t get around it without help.

They say that, when making an Anki deck, using it is only half the battle because a lot of the learning comes from the act of making it yourself. That advice is older than these LLMs and it really showcases a big reason why they suck. Personally, I haven’t even used autocorrect since 2009.

Being a luddite I feel requires having a highly abstinence-only approach. Knowing what is worth off-loading and what is worth doing yourself is just being smart. I’m really glad that I don’t need to know every detail of modern life but I still take a lot of pride in knowing how quite a lot of it works.

Oddly enough, when it comes to less dense suburbs with richer people in them, the cost to the city is always more than those people pay in taxes. They pay more but they’re actually using poorer people’s taxes to pay for their shitty “neighbourhoods”, in quotes because the word implies a level of community they could only dream of.

That 30C was a decade ago. Monday and Tuesday this week were above 40C with the humidex, the highs being around 44-46C. That’s, like, 114F or something.

I have zero desire to be a kid again. What I want is finacial stability and trust in people in leadership positions to not be huge pieces of shit who make houseflies look like members of MENSA.

The desire to be a kid, I think, is far more rooted in wishing for blissful ignorance.

Greenhouse gases go brrrrr(except, not brrrr, sadly).

I remember when 30C was a standout kinda day only a decade ago; now it’s half the days in the summer. I was thinking about how all the weird climate change denying dipshits would post about how global warming can’t be real if there’s still snow but I guess they’re ignoring this little obvious change in our lives.

Making eye contact is a good thing, even if you’re two pedestrians and the other donut isn’t paying attention to where they’re going.

I super agree with the “making it your identity” thing. I drive a sportscar and do all the repairs myself but I largely take public transit because it’s just objectively better almost every time. Meanwhile there are people who can barely stay in their lane and have no idea how the basics of their vehicle work yet they act like you’re talking about cutting away a piece of their soul when you suggest the concept of a protected bike lane beside a place where they can still use their car.

Fair enough.

Except I’m the one saying “and”. They both suck, and it doesn’t matter who sucks worse since they’ve both crossed the threshold and people shouldn’t be giving either of them money. Where on earth did you get anything else from out of my comment?

“Rowling is a transphobe AND Gaiman is like a Weinstein sex pest” Fixed it for you.

She’s actively pushing hard, with a large platform, against trans people and her product is not some necessary thing but rather just a book series. It is so easy to just drop her, especially if you’re now an adult/young adult with a higher reading level and can take in better content from better people.

People need to drop her, she’s a horrid lady with incredibly mid-to-decent books and there is no excuse for hanging onto her.

Why wait? Cops are already shooting rubber bullets at journalists during protests and doing all kinds of illegal things to them for the crime of-well there is no crime, actually, except for what’s being committed by the cops.

And that’s totally fair, but it’s the “you’ll never have to wait on anyone” vibe that reads so strongly as this person’s shitty friends having bailed on them way too many times.

This reads more like someone who’s been hurt than someone with a good point. I’m sorry for them, but I’ve done solo stuff and I generally prefer to do those things with my friends. Sharing the experience is a big part of it.

The LLM will eventually steal the code, though, and people will claim it invented something.

Also if your number isn’t in my phone and I can’t find it with a google search and you don’t leave a message I’m gunna assume that it wasn’t important and never engage with it. It has the same energy as “call me” like, you’re the one that wants to talk, dude!