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imo with better funding teachers would have more drive and ability to create a better learning environment for their students, excluding outliers of course.

The good use cases is my personal experience, and it does not help as much outside of class when I'm reading a textbook or doing homework. It's exponentially better for me to look this stuff up in real time when the teacher's talking about it. It helps me visualize.

I think a lot more people are susceptible to getting distracted than there are susceptible to extreme acts of violence.

That is certainly true. I wasn't saying anything on the contrary; merely comparing them since they are similar from psychology perspective.

What sort of things are you backing up? I use TimeShift (on Linux, similar to windows restore afaik) to backup up my computer configuration, and manually backup media files (timeshift only does config) all to a single external drive. Of course that's a point of failure, but I don't really mind since most of the things I'd want to preserve are still available online (p2p) with few exceptions; personal pictures, rare albums, etc.

I don't really have anything to say about Windows since I haven't used it in more then a decade, but I really have no complaints about Linux. If you need help switching over feel free to ask me questions in this thread or pm. There's also a lot of good info over on https://askubuntu.com/ or https://www.linuxquestions.org/.

Paint it Black by gob. I think it's funny that I was listening to a relatively small Canadian rock band before I learned about The Rolling Stones.

I'm excited to see how much blood they use for a tiny desk.

I use my phone/laptop a lot in class too look things up. Like finding gifs of the stages of a beating heart, and generally, reading about the same topic being covered by the professor, but explained differently. It helps tremendously. That being said, there are certainly other people in any class that are on tiktok or whatever else and those people wouldn't pay attention with or without their phones. Take their phones away and they'll just distract themselves with something else. They don't want to be there and taking their phones away won't fix that; it will probably just make it worse.

This reminds me of the idea that violent video games causes violence; which they do, but only in people that are pre-disposed to behaving violently; and in those cases they're violent with or without the video games. It's the same with smart phones. They'll only distract people that are already going to be distracted. It's just a matter of what they're going to be distracted by.

The onus instead should lie with how the classes are delivered, and tangentially, how the entire system itself is funded.

Have you played recently? After update 8 they added lumen, and I think this is part of it.

Are you saying we shouldn't talk about this, just in case someone reading this decides it's a good idea to eat borax?

Yes, exactly! I have no idea what you said, it's blurred out!

RIP AND TEAR

Man, I love Block the Rich. No more musky spam. My internet smells so much cleaner now.

Of course. They're not actually crusading for free-speech, I have a hard time understanding what they are "crusading" about. I believe they don't know either; though they wouldn't tell you that and they don't even tell themselves that.

I think it's more of a feeling they are after, what feels right to them. Logic and morals was never a part of it, and never will be a part of it.

An old, angry song.

Thanks lol. I was getting tired of seeing Exceptionally Musky's toupee.

Considering what I read about the inner workings of "Hollywood", I'm not surprised.

Yep. It's why I almost failed my courses last year. 😅

*Quick edit: It's even more beautiful now after update 8; they added lumen (a SUPERIOR lighting effect). If you think this is beautiful, play it now and be bedazzled.

That was a good read, thanks for posting!

Horizon: Zero Dawn, almost non-stop. The mechanics can be a bit finicky sometimes, but the story and world building keep me coming back.

There are a lot of little things that I really don't like about it and these almost certainly exist because it was originally exclusive to Playstation. I sometimes find my self a bit irked because there was so much more they could've done to make it a classic. Instead, it's just good enough.

Oh no... Anyway...

I do have a mastodon account, but only for keeping tabs on the war in Ukraine and some random posts to do with FOSS.

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