The next step is to add a treadmill under everyone.

You can trust when I say, if it wasn’t so well known that educators get the raw deal right now, there would be way more teachers. I for one, thought about being a teacher and still do. But the terrible pay, the lack of funding… really detured me and I’m sure a bunch of folks away. I know people who actively suggest people away from going into teaching, because they don’t want to see the person just struggle and watch their passion die.

It’s not a problem of finding the supply (teachers), it’s about creating the demand (way better pay and working conditions)

At this point, if someone complements me, my first thought is “Well that’s a fucking lie, they want something”.

The problem, though, is a lack of prioritization in education, especially in the US. It’s a constant: more kids, fewer teachers. Teachers also get paid very little for what they deal with. Many teachers end up having to spend their own money to buy supplies the kids need. Meanwhile, my hometown has had 2 multi-million dollar embezzlement scandals that I know of. There was a news story a few years ago where the education board was making boatloads of cash, and teachers got jack (I can’t find the article, but I think it was during the pandemic).

Most schools when I was a teenager, would gladly buy up new football gear, a new coach bus (because the one from a couple years ago is just, not flashy anymore) but other departments can’t get new books (I remember using books from the late 80s… and it wasn’t the 80s), supplies, equipment, larger school buildings, more teachers, etc.

A teacher having even 20 kids is too many. We need more teachers, we need to prioritize education funding and standards. We don’t need AI.

I’ve lost count the number of times where I try to find something in SO, and it’s just someone posting the exact same example code as the answer. Or someone suggesting you just google it. Then I ask ChatGPT… and I get an answer.

I mean, I don’t know why you’d be skeptical.

A&W has a write up about it https://www.awrestaurants.com/blog/memories-history/the-truth-about-aws-third-pound-burger-and-the-major-math-mix-up/

And Snope’s did an article https://www.snopes.com/news/2022/06/17/third-pound-burger-fractions/

There’s plenty of blunders like this. Like when JCPenny’s just gave great prices and sales dropped because if something is $50, that’s too much. But 75% off from $200, well, that’s a deal! We know more about the JCPenny one, because it happened in 2012 and not 1980-something

I’ve never trusted anything as much as that person trusted that lid.

Nope.

I put myself through community college, got 2 AAS degrees. I’m doing pretty good for myself. Before college, I usually worked around minimum wage and hated every single soul sucking job I had just to barely scrape by. This was early 2000s… we had real dollar menu meals and $5 footlong subs, ya’ll who be out there surviving these days you’re built different and you have my respect.

Anywho, if I hadn’t gone to college and did something with my life, I promise you I would have ended myself. That’s not hyperbole, I had 2 failed attempts before college already.

I wish people would stop demonizing college. Especially in the US, we have more and more uneducated people because you have people on the internet (mostly on video format) telling people, “Oh yeah, college was a scam, I dropped out and I make millions, and speaking of millions, this video is brought to you by…”

It saddens me to see terrible advice like this meme, implying college was a waste. Or that hundreds of people upvoted it.

And yes, I know, college is fucking expensive in the US. It was expensive when I went and we were arguing about it then and I know it’s gotten worse. But we shouldn’t be celebrating ignorance, we should be fighting to get our education back.

Highlander rules.

Apple has gone out of their way to make it near impossible or impractical to repair their phones. I’m not spending my time making a list you’re not going to read. If you’re actually interested in learning, seek out Louis Rossmann on YouTube. Here’s just videos JUST Apple https://www.youtube.com/@rossmanngroup/search?query=Apple

You know how many people I know that have a cheap phone. One. Do you think my nieces and nephew would “settle” for cheap phones in grade school… LOL no. And if you’re like “Well it’s the parents…blah blah blah” then you’ve completely clocked out on the 8 hour bully sessions kids can receive, so don’t start.

You vastly underestimate Apples marketing and influence. I’ve argued with so many people that “well I like my AirPods” despite the fact phones UNTIL Apple killed the 3.5mm jack, had Bluetooth audio. The entire reason to remove the jack was to push sales of over priced e-waste.

Don’t @ me with this “you do realize” BS.

Then where? Not like you can walk into a funeral home and be like “Yep, I’m done, I’ll take your deluxe ‘End it now’ package please”

I also, unironically, couldn’t tell. That’s not a great sign, when you look at gibberish like that and your first thought is “that… genuinely could be him…”. Then you come to the comment section, and you’re still not sure, because everyone else was unsure too.

Ok, so we take out DS9. But TNG on repeat for sure.

I remember reading a story about something like that at KFC. And the code phrase was you wanted an extra biscut or something.

Imagine gatekeeping humor

Lol, people downvoting you like they weren’t manipulated into spending 10x as much for a product that can’t be repaired, all in the name of profit.

Just the show, since it was Game of Thrones. Figure book readers would go by the actual name.

There’s a short scene when he’s messing about in the past were he pops over to the King, and if I remember correctly, that’s when the King goes mad. Shouldnt be long after the Hodor scene. It’s been a few years. But I distinctly remember being like ‘wait, it was his fault!? That little shit!’

So you going to overlook the Bran, once he got access to his powers proceeded to messed with the brains of people. Hodor for one. The ‘mad king’ for the other. Of that we were shown.

Or how Bran does jack shit in the big fight, despite being able to.

And then it’s made king because… He had the most interesting story…

Countless people died because that little shit manipulated time and events to gain power.

!So that kid end up basically being the bad guy. Pretty much everyone would have been better off if he died!<