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- Comment on Lmao 1 day ago:
“Thanks in advance” has changed meaning.
It used to mean: “I appreciate your effort into this, no reply needed”. It now means :“Fuck you if you don’t do this, and I expect this done without complaint.”
- Comment on And you will never catch up as Bezos make 8,000,000 per hour 1 day ago:
All non-stock companies which is the majority of all companies. That’s the problem. When a company applies for a stock market registration, it means that they’re selling off controll and profit sharing of the company I order to gain investments to expand.
All companies start with a single or two owners. The transition from owning everything to including others won’t happen if it means giving up to the majority of control, whether that’s 50% or 5/95%. That’s why many companies get stuck on 51%. It only ever comes over 50% when someone dies or makes a mature decision of letting others control “their” company.
- Comment on And you will never catch up as Bezos make 8,000,000 per hour 1 day ago:
Well, those sugg would destroy the stock market. Nobody would ever register.
- Comment on Risky Buisness 1 day ago:
Makes up theory of relativity. Marries cousin.
- Comment on Has anyone let David Icke know about this? 4 days ago:
What the thing with Swedish lutefish in Ukraine? I’ve seen several videos of soldiers attempting to eat surströmning as a dare.
- Comment on Has anyone let David Icke know about this? 4 days ago:
If you wipe your ass with a dollar bill, it will reveal the brown note.
- Comment on THICC 5 days ago:
- Comment on The mark 1 week ago:
No. People who are older than that have a smallpox vaccination scar on the shoulde from the vaccines in 1958-1977.
The arm thing s is just an urban myth and plays on confirmation bias. Almost everyone have a freckle there for no good reason.
However… Mexicans actually have a tuberculosis vaccination mark on the arm, but most other countries didn’t need to vaccinate against that.
That’s how these myths spread, part truth+loads of bullshit.
- Comment on Name generator 1 week ago:
Chac’n’Meese
- Comment on Is there a difference in meaning between the words *people* and *persons*? 1 week ago:
I can hear it and am not American.
Try snubbing your nose while saying"those people"
- Comment on Oh Elon 1 week ago:
Never used it. Never missed it. Never lost touch.
Anything that ever happened on that site worthy of being called “being in touch” has always been and always will be reported elsewhere too if its actually worthwhile. I see more more of it than I want to anyway. Even this post.
You can quit it today and not miss out on anything.
- Comment on Is there a difference in meaning between the words *people* and *persons*? 1 week ago:
Ok, now I’m not a linguist and also not English, but in my opinion there’s a difference. “People” is a broad undefined group. “Persons” is a more defined group.
Adding “those” in front also alienates them further. So by saying “those people”, you are distancing yourself from them, despite then being your family. That is the amusing part for the person you talked to. You mildly insulted your family.
In a similar vain, “some people say” all the stuff that you won’t to be heard saying yourself, even if it’s your own opinion.
Or in some places (this might be more local) using “you” instead of “me” when answering personal questions. For instance if someone asks: “How does it make you feel?” and answered: “It makes you feel sad” then the person answering it is distancing themselves from their own answer by literally answering on behalf on some unknown “you” when they should be using “me”. Using “people” is sort of the same just on behalf of someone else.
- Comment on Excel 1 week ago:
Hnm. I just tested it. “No fill” will make it transparent. White would cover the grid lines.
- Comment on Excel 1 week ago:
The area under the guys face is blank. I’m not sure if it’s possible to stack a transparent color.
- Comment on Ballaholic I'm guessing 3 weeks ago:
She’s gonna complain about the bill.
- Comment on Could an American please prove me wrong? 3 weeks ago:
Maxaco
- Comment on YouTube is Losing The War Against Adblockers 5 weeks ago:
The ads have reached a breaking point.
If I can’t block them, I’m just not watching the YouTube. I’ll never pay.
It used to be funny to link a relevant YouTube clip, but it’s not funny if you have to sit through half a minute of ads just to see something silly.
It’s also not really a long time streaming service like TV channels or netflix etc., because the homemade content sucks in comparison to an actual documentary that I can also watch without ads on other services.
It’s like Google completely misunderstood the point of the service they initially made. Also following a decade of users attempting to “monitize” their fucking crap, you can be sure that there’s nothing worth watching on YouTube that couldn’t have been better presented in a gif or in text.
Then the player is also fucking up lately. Usually if I go there, I’ll check the written description while the ads play, just to see if the content is worth the wait, but nooo… you can’t even do that anymore, because the app will start reloading between the multiple ads and the screen scrolls around and minimizes the description and comments. They’re literally hiding any information on the clip except the title until you’ve watched the ads.
It’s fucking garbage. Enshittified to death.
- Comment on Basalt Baddie 5 weeks ago:
A football is made from hexagons and pentagons. The dude in the picture is all hexagons.
While hexagons are bestagons on a 2d plane, they don’t really fold well over inflated 3d space.
I’m impressed that the barber solved that on a ball shaped head anyway.
- Comment on How is Lemmy better than Reddit? 1 month ago:
There’s a lot less commercial interest.
Not just no ads, but also no users trying to push products or gain karma for account selling and all that crap.
- Comment on Elon Musk loses fight with ex-Twitter staffer, must pay $600K 1 month ago:
It’s interesting how most of Musk’s wealth is in stock and such, when people start cashing out on it. What’s his liquid wealth?
I assume he’s been wealthy for long enough that he’s been able to cash our interest and dividends to make him a wealthy man, constantly accruing money simply by having money.
Seeing him tank on everything he touches( bringing down the value), I have to wonder if there is a limit to his liquid funds. The world’s richest poorest man or something.
Fuck him and the horse he rode in on.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Exactly.
I’m surprised to see users on Lemmy being this dead set on banning stuff for kids just because "we tried nothing and it doesn’t work*
Social media is bad, phones are bad, I get it, but banning is not the solution.
Kids will grow up in a world with both social media and phones. IMO school should prepare them and be a practice ground for it, so they don’t make the same mistakes as we - the parents - did.
Like posted elsewhere, my kids are better at it than I am. Banning phones is projection all the way.
I’m perfectly fine with disallowing phones during class, but an outright ban is an extreme reaction completely missing the problematic issues and potentially making it worse.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Social media is a problem for sure.
Also, thank you for asking what schools are supposed to do.
The problem is schools not managing to encouraging pupils towards learning.
I know I’ve said this before, but the teachers curse is that nothing is taught until the pupil understands it themselves, and is willing to absorb the material put in front of them. Encouraging pupils to want to learn ought to be top priority for any school. Banning phones is a lost cause, because they’re already lost at that point. They’re bored, so they rock on the chair or fiddle with a phone. I seriously don’t think that social media addiction is the core issue here. It’s an issue for sure, but it’s not what is keeping kids from learning. Boredom is.
Regardless of technology, paying attention is entirely up to their own willingness to learn. Teachers should be feeding the desire to learn, not in a “fellow kids” kind of way, but by showing them why the curriculum is important to them.
I totally acknowledge that there’s no reason to have a phone in class and that social media is bad, but it’s relevant not issue in teaching.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
I think you’re missing my point.
I doubt the sports jocks use their phone during sports ball practice?
Seems like a sports jock attention problem more than a phone availability problem.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Their friends are pretty good too. Whenever they hang out they do other stuff. They plan to meet for some purpose and that’s what they do. Keeping up to date on social media is something they do on their own time when they’re bored.
It’s like they grow out of it, once they’ve seen enough crap.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
I have children, including a teen, and they have phones.
One thing I do notice is that they’re quite a lot better at putting the phone away when they’re with friends doing stuff or at family dinners than their grandparents who keeps checking notifications and answering calls regardless of when and where.
They grew up with phones and they have a much better understanding of when it’s socially acceptable to use it.
They know not use the phone during class, so there’s really no good reason to ban it entirely.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Before phones, students were distracted by fidget toys, tamagochi, bubble gum, various collectibles, comic books, ordinary books, paper notes, drawing, pen twitching, etc.etc.
Students always find ways to get distracted. Take away everything and they’ll still be rocking on the chair.
So if the purpose of banning distractions is to make students more attentive, well… it’s just not going to do that.
Then there is online bullying. Has bullying actually increased or are we just seeing it more, because it’s now documented? Banning phones in school won’t stop it from happening outside school hours anyway.
I’m not advocating for allowing phones in schools during lectures or anything, but it’s pretty clear to me that an outright ban is an outdated solution that will only hide the issues instead of solving them.
- Comment on Introducing you to the next Bond 1 month ago:
- Comment on Tech CEOs are backtracking on RTO mandates—now, just 3% want workers in the office full-time 1 month ago:
“flex index”… I don’t know what they do, but it’s a proper description of what employers used RTO do do.
- Comment on Dutch toilets 1 month ago:
Yeah well, I’m not counting. On busy days, the toilets have queue lines all day long. Depending on the length of the visit and the willingness to use the brush, it’s probably in the hundreds, or at least a lot more than anywhere else.
- Comment on Dutch toilets 1 month ago:
I know the joke and all, but recently the local theme park has replaced their toilet brushes with toilet rubber shovels. They work surprisingly well. They can both hack’n’slash a log, but also the back side is also ripped so you can use it to brush out the regular shit from the sides, while avoiding the dreaded paper clutter and other issues with a toilet brush being used by thousands of people daily.
It’s like toilet brushes evolving into poop knives. Looks like this: pin.it/OKHBRlxjI