tamal3
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- Comment on How do you gently tell someone you only want to keep seeing them if it's on a dating level? 5 days ago:
But New Hampshire and dumpster have a p…!!
- Comment on well... 6 days ago:
Chocobo?
- Comment on You really have to reach back to remember how THIS worked in your car 6 days ago:
What were you driving cerca 2018? That’s amazing
- Comment on Little miracles 1 week ago:
I mean, the Israelis are committing genocide. How is that not the ultimate irony right now? What a sad world we live in, and what a sad species we are.
- Comment on Mozilla is shutting down Pocket, their read-it-later and content discovery app, and Fakespot, their browser extension that analyzes the authenticity of online product reviews. 2 weeks ago:
Didn’t some articles have the pocket icon, and some were without? I remember trying it a number of years ago and being completely flummoxed by not being able to save things I wanted to read. Though it could have been user error.
- Comment on It's Breathtaking How Fast AI Is Screwing Up the Education System 2 weeks ago:
Yes, but for a kid who is new to the country and who is taking a 3-4 hour test in English, a paper dictionary is an impediment. I’m not saying it should be illegal, but I know we can do better by these kids. (Honestly, my preference is for a newcomer with limited English to not even take this test at all their first year, but that’s not my choice.)
- Comment on It's Breathtaking How Fast AI Is Screwing Up the Education System 2 weeks ago:
I didn’t say 20 years, I said 20 devices.
- Comment on It's Breathtaking How Fast AI Is Screwing Up the Education System 2 weeks ago:
Yes but the process of obtaining the information is significantly more difficult. We can, you know, reuse the same 20 translation devices for years, and all kids have a laptop… I feel like you’re focused on the wrong thing.
- Comment on It's Breathtaking How Fast AI Is Screwing Up the Education System 2 weeks ago:
My point is that it’s a somewhat outdated skill, and these kids have enough to figure out without the encumbrance of a paper dictionary. Most of my kids have never used one before, and yes, I can show them how to use it, but it’s not a functional testing accommodation. Testing accommodations should not include learning skills that are only tangentially related, especially not when there is a reasonable alternative.
- Comment on It's Breathtaking How Fast AI Is Screwing Up the Education System 2 weeks ago:
There are good teachers, and there are good methods for writing essays. Did anyone ever give you a graphic organizer to plan an essay? You should know how to put an essay together after coming up with an organized outline, and you should never write an essay from beginning to end without planning it out first in some way or another.
- Comment on It's Breathtaking How Fast AI Is Screwing Up the Education System 2 weeks ago:
Maybe, but are there other things we can focus on? For example, as an ESL teacher, why do my newcomers only get a word to word paper dictionary on end of grade exams? I’m pretty sure the state of North Carolina just hates children? There’s literally no reason for this. Give them a digital dictionary.
- Comment on It's Breathtaking How Fast AI Is Screwing Up the Education System 2 weeks ago:
Wait wait, can this be where we get “a load of Bologna (baloney)” from? Or is that because no one knows what’s actually in bologna…
- Comment on It's Breathtaking How Fast AI Is Screwing Up the Education System 2 weeks ago:
Unpopular opinion:
I am a public school teacher and I support public schools, but there have been a lot of issues with our education system for a long time. Talk to any kid with ADHD who had to sit through 12 years, and they are indicative of a larger problem. Our idea of school now is as a place that teaches kids to behave and mostly follow rote instruction. Wouldn’t it be so much better if we were teaching kids to be creative thinkers, work well in groups, problem solve, and think critically about the information they’re getting? We know that’s what school should be, but maybe now we will be forced to go there. Yes, there will be issues like learned helplessness and certain skills being difficult to teach, but it’s kind of exciting too.
Though it’s also possible that public schools will close and only the wealthy kids will be well-educated… can we not, please?
- Comment on It's Breathtaking How Fast AI Is Screwing Up the Education System 2 weeks ago:
Fuck YES (says a middle school teacher)
- Comment on It's Breathtaking How Fast AI Is Screwing Up the Education System 2 weeks ago:
Many middle schoolers I work with have an ear bud in at all times, and as an ESL teacher my population of kids really needs to practice processing spoken English without that as a distraction. Hell, that applies to every kid… This isn’t an issue of somebody listening to music in the hallway or while studying, this is during class, during lecture, during group work, while writing essays, while reading…
- Comment on Verizon is charging extra to limit spam calls and texts: Scam calls and texts have surged, yet Verizon continues to charge customers extra for essential protections. 2 weeks ago:
There’s lots i hate about having a Pixel, but the spam protection isn’t one of them
- Comment on 7 for me 3 weeks ago:
I’m too oily to sleep naked… #2 all the way, preferable in a shirt that’s at least 2 sizes too big.
- Comment on Still booting after all these years: The people stuck using ancient Windows computers 3 weeks ago:
I just found the Warcraft install disk for Windows 98 if y’all need something to do…
- Comment on Boys and beans and... 3 weeks ago:
Remember when you used to get your shoe stuck in the ribbon of fabric that would detach in a loop from the bottom of a leg. For some reason it was always only one leg.
- Comment on i broke 3 weeks ago:
I had a friend in college who shopped around between all the available therapists and finally decided on the one she had the best rapport with. I know there are wait times and other difficulties, but it goes a long way to find somebody you quick with.
- Comment on How do children address a non-binary parent? 4 weeks ago:
My nephew has a dad and a mawpa, but there are lots of options out there. It’s wise to choose syllable sounds that babies can easily pronounce.
- Comment on Tesla confirms it has given up on its Cybertruck range extender to achieve promised range 4 weeks ago:
Where I live is not super uncommon for people to drive an hour into the nearest city. I don’t recommend it, though!
It really makes me envious when I see how much Europeans work: my partner already works more hours on average than the average European, and then his commute is on top of that. Why are we here? Give me mandatory vacation and a job I can bike to ANY DAY.
- Comment on “Bionic Girl” Debuts New Wireless Hands That Even Work When Detached From the Main Prosthetic 5 weeks ago:
I had the same serious of thoughts, but also thought it said “blonde girl” and so wasn’t as excited for the movie.
- Comment on Should I continue with exercise if I didn't get enough sleep? 5 weeks ago:
I committed myself to a run this afternoon but felt weak when the time came, so i tested it out and only ran two miles. I’m glad i went out.
For me it is important to maintain momentum, so if my track record is getting a little iffy I’ll be more vigilant about going out and doing the thing and not putting it off.
- Comment on Trying to avoid antitrust suits, Google senior executives told employees to destroy messages 1 month ago:
Is it illegal for them to delete messages? I had always been under the impression that FOIA only covered government.
- Comment on Bill Gates Bought His Daughter A $16 Million Horse Farm As A Graduation Gift — But Ex-Wife Melinda Says The Kids Were Raised Very 'Middle Class' 1 month ago:
…and not living behind gated walls. My partner works construction in some truly outrageous "communities " and the people in our city don’t even know the lavishness of the lives of those who live there.
- Comment on What is this called? 1 month ago:
Agreed, “cloak” feels bigger and heavier than “shawl.” Cloaks aren’t necessarily specific though: you might get coats, or ponchos, or shawls.
Maybe search “shawl cloak”?!
- Comment on Is there any negative consequence to wearing socks inside out? 2 months ago:
Why do you wear them then? I would feel like my toes are all smooshed?
- Comment on What is the minimum number of words needed to communicate 2 months ago:
My favorite is “Do you speak (language)… Please??”
- Comment on Does it make sense to buy a lifetime supply of honey? 2 months ago:
I’ll add that if you have all that honey, you might also eat more of it than you’d initially planned and run out sooner. Personally, I would start putting spoonfuls in my tea, using honey instead of jam, maybe experimenting with baking…