I need this to anti-trend. Please.
Finally, a president pick i can trust.
Self improving Hexbears is what the systems fears the most. That and organized citizens crossing over social/racial/Religious/cultural barriers to come together to defeat the vampires at the top in order create more equality and equable world
I’m wholehearted agreement. Some teachers are really putting the work to enlighten young minds in spite of institutional opposition, and others are sadly just guards at the checkpoint for the school to prison pipeline. Which is of course really saddening and generally a bummer. It’s really a shame so many modern classrooms are preparing kids for a MEGACORP overlords ruling over them and not equipping them with problem-solving, curiosity, creativity, and reasoning skills. Because of course the overlords don’t want that sort of shit in their underlings
I genuinely cannot imagine what it's like being a teacher these days. Don't get me wrong I think teachers are one of the truly great public workers and ought to be venerated like other public workers. However, I can't even begin to think about how to teach young people in the modern age. The overlap of social media, accessibility of information, generative AI that could do homework, parents totally disengaged and expecting teachers to raise their kids, all that stuff seems super damn hard.
Do you have any plans for October?
My big plan for October is to do a game jam. Something small and get my foot in the waters of game development with others or in some form of "community". I want to continue to expand my skills and abilities with Godot and game programming and I need to challenge myself to force myself to grow.
Do you want to share something you've done in the previous week? Everything counts, nothing is too small.
I let go of some friends who were really not doin' shit. Not in the "they are content with their lives and are keeping it lowkey" but more so "yo you have been the same dude since we graduated high school, I can't rock with you anymore because I have changed a lot and you have not. You're the exact type of dude I don't want in my life and yeah man I don't think we can really be homies like that anymore because I don't respect people who don't grow". It was an emotional complex realization and conversation.
Do you have any goals or plans for next week?
Find a job/job hunting
Do you have any streaks? For example, "sober for one day." Feel free to post your streak every day in this thread.
I actually lost my streak of programming everyday but I'm building it back today. Day 1 again, this time with feeling. I am not deterred though. Losing some momentum happens in all endeavors, the key is to not stop. Slow down sure, even go in reverse sometimes in life hits you like that, but don't stop.
An excellent first post.
There are like two MEGACORPS that run educational textbook industry. I know many students who used Z-Library to get their textbooks. It's crazy that IP law is ALWAYS about money, nothing else. IP law does nothing but get in the way of education and knowledge creation. Z-Lib was the plug.
It's so silly that real adult people treat this man seriously.
Anytime I hear "The economy is doing great" I parse it as "The king is so wealthy. The Lord of treasury boasts of his boundless coffers, he is rich, so I am too."
Agreed. If sports were a local level thing, I think it would boost and bolster people's connection to the place they live for real. The idea of local athletes is probably good for the soul of a people. Even in urban metro areas, i think it would provide a since of civic pride that has been lost.
Sports would be a lot cooler if each sport wasn't run by two MEGACORPS and some special organization institution. Just about every sport (team or solo) is captured by some group of vampires. From the rules, to the equipment, to the spaces to do the sport, it's always like a cabal of like 3 and a half groups.
Also the gambling thing has made sports worse and has probably hurt regular people a lot but people don't talk about it. I'm not some "vice" shit, but gambling is one of those things people don't really talk about nor is really much care of other than a hotline number (that gets played at the end of a gambling ad). Gambling is far too profitable to really be like public health issue and that kind of just sad.
Finally. No should be paying more than $12 to go see a sports live, also kids should just get in free. Going to see sports is like going to a damn concert these days. Also concerts tickets should not be so high either.