natecox

@natecox@programming.dev

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not an expert on this, but I have listened to people talk who are and claim that you can pretty clearly link cognitive decline with the introduction of technology effectively everywhere.

  I’m sure it’s not as clear as “tech bad” but it does seem like screen time and deferring the manual parts of learning to computers is not great for us.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I get what you’re saying, but this isn’t a dig at Gen Z. For as long as we’ve been testing, which is like 50 years I think, the new generation has outperformed the previous one and that’s a good thing.

  Having this generation underperform means that we have failed them and we need to figure out exactly how we fucked up. The evidence is really strong that technology in the classroom is a significant contributor.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thanks a lot, AI: Hard drives are already sold out for the entire year, says Western Digital⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Free market totally regulating itself like we’ve always been told.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon's Ring and Google's Nest Unwittingly Reveal the Severity of the U.S. Surveillance State⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Did you find one?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon's Ring and Google's Nest Unwittingly Reveal the Severity of the U.S. Surveillance State⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  “I don’t have anything to hide” is such an insidious little lie. A colloquial fib we feel compelled to utter as a mock defense, like asserting innocence will assuage suspicion.

  We all have something to hide. Probably many, many things to hide. Even just in the narrow context of the law, there are hundreds of thousands of laws that apply to any one of us at any given time, and you are almost certainly breaking some of them without even knowing it.

  Personal security through privacy is so very, very important. I wish more people could see that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Free Tool Says it Can Bypass Discord's Age Verification Check With a 3D Model⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You can’t pull one over on these kids. They have tons of free time and none of the responsibility of adulthood, they’re gonna bypass whatever the fuck you put in front of them.

  I was that kid that refused to be constrained and I’m so fucking proud of this generation for carrying on the legacy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Manfluencers’ are filming themselves trying to pick up women using smart glasses⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t agree with passing off their behavior as “cultural”. I am ashamed of men because some of them are reprehensible and some of them want to ignore how reprehensible they are or explain it away.

  I choose to embrace feeling deeply ashamed at how we’ve allowed the worst of us to form the general opinion of us and vocalize that routinely.

  Fuck their insecurities, if they want to be able to go up to a woman without “getting her drunk splashed in their face” maybe they should focus harder on fixing the problem so women can generally feel safe with us.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Manfluencers’ are filming themselves trying to pick up women using smart glasses⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I didn’t say that I was ashamed of myself, I said I was ashamed of men and the association they cast on me.

  You’re kinda enabling that behavior by advocating against vocalizing how shitty it is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Manfluencers’ are filming themselves trying to pick up women using smart glasses⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s fun being deeply ashamed of your gender because some of us are filth and scum.

  These fuckers harm everyone with their actions. Wish we could do something actionable about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A community dedicated to 30+ gamers.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Discord required

  Nope.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wobble wobble⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Folks reading way too much into this lol.

  The meme is from a music video with a strong percussive beat; not unlike an off balance centrifuge.

  The music video: youtu.be/j9V78UbdzWI

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EPA says it will eliminate its scientific reseach arm⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Lee Zeldin, the E.P.A. administrator, has boasted about cutting dozens of environmental regulations, saying he wants to make it cheaper and easier for industries to operate.

  Yeah because we all know the primary focus of the “environmental protection agency” is protecting corporations.

  Fuck everyone involved in this bullshit. And fuck everyone with real authority who is choosing to fail to act.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨nuked from orbit⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Wow what a lousy take from this exchange.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨USA | Trump threatens to impose sweeping new tariffs on Mexico, Canada and China on first day in office⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  “On January 20th, as one of my many first Executive Orders, I will sign all necessary documents to charge Mexico and Canada a 25% Tariff on ALL products coming into the United States, and its ridiculous Open Borders,”

  This inveigling of the American public needs to stop, and democrats need to start absolutely flooding every single media outlet possible with rebuttals. You don’t charge a foreign country tariffs, you charge your own country the tariffs; but the deceptive phrasing here is an intentional misleading of people who don’t understand global economics.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Friendship is Universal⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Fuck you, Tony!