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[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago

Then the problem is incompetent administration. "Kids attempting to bully teachers" is already a thing, and routes to deal with it exist.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

"Hey ... so your kitchen is on fire. You should probably grab a pair of pants."

[–] [email protected] 25 points 9 months ago (5 children)

Combined with a working smoke detector outside the bedroom this will save your life. Twice in my career I've gone into a house filled with smoke and had to wake people up to inform them their house is on fire.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Didn't the humans use the "learning machine" to teach themselves advanced knowledge? The same machine the alien overlords put Jonnie in to teach him their language?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Because that's what's really important: a statue.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

The instance I'm on is (was?) federated with hexbear. As soon as instance blocking was added as a feature I blocked hexbear and lemmygrad. It was a drastic improvement.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Being able to figure out what another person is trying to say is an important skill some people don't seem have. I'm not talking about pretending not to understand to "win an argument" either: some folks are legitimately incapable of it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

On the other hand life is full of those kinds of "bad questions": poorly framed questions, leading ones, arguments in bad faith, etc. You're going to encounter them on future tests and in real life, and often the stakes are higher.

That question might have been shit at teaching about probability but it was a far more important lesson in disguise.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

Film of the era also made people look older. Old film is sensitive to UV light, which exaggerates/makes visible "flaws" in skin you wouldn't see or notice otherwise.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Not really.

"We don't have anything definitive and we can only speculate, which we're not going to do."

Also, there's this.

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