Menagerie I: Exoptable Money and Menagerie II: Presentable Liberty are both quite short and fantastic commentaries on money, corporations, and prison. They’re both free, too.

It’s insanely good.

That’s Weird Al Yankovic!

Can the guy with the gangster Simpsons screensaver stay?

Ubuntu lol.

Try a gaming-focused distro with more focus on preconfigured drivers. I think you need it.

Pop!_OS if you wanna use Ubuntu, CachyOS if you want your shit to be fast.

Literal victims being victimized doing more to punish Epstein associates than the US Govt.

I was relieved to see she was interviewed as an adult in 2019. Brave as a girl, brave as a woman.

I think you are underestimating how many of these “professionals” are just reading the material out loud without much comprehension on their part.

Homeschooling is an act of hubris if you’re trying to stack up against a real educator. But I’ve had like 5 real educators in my public school career.

Out of all my teachers, I’d call maybe 5 of them professionals. The rest are all power tripping bastards that want to put kids in line instead of teach them.

Were the system better, I would say public school is the obvious option. But one of my public school teachers told my friend he’d be pumping gas for the rest of his life in the middle of Algebra class lmao. Some of these people are petty as fuck and childish, and they’re punished the same way bad cops are punished.

I was homeschooled until 8th grade, when I was put into public school. Good take.

I learned so much more when I was homeschooled. I was a reader, so I could get all of my work done myself in about 4 hours per day. It was great, honestly.

I stand by the statement that public school doesn’t teach you how to learn, it teaches you how to follow instructions. I would even go so far as to say that public school killed my love for learning.

Out of all my teachers, I had maybe a handful that were passionate about learning. I’m super grateful for my 8th grade English teacher, who did an in-depth unit on the Holocaust and had us meet a survivor. I first heard the “First they came for the socialists…” quote in her class. I don’t think I could have ever been prepared for today if it weren’t for that.

My 10th grade English teacher as well, who was a friend and guide in the right direction, despite the fact that I was an antagonistic right-wing little shit.

Which leads into your point about peer pressure. My school was 93% white, and the attitude matched. I had racist friends. Hell, I was saying racist shit all the time with absolutely no bearing on what the fuck I was really doing, other than following the lead of my shitheel friends.

It’s also hard to avoid getting crushed by the system. I remember one time, somebody said a swear word in the back of my computer class and nobody snitched so the teacher collectively punished us by making us write 100 (completely unrelated to the class) word definitions 3 times each. I complained to the principal, and he chuckled and said, “I’m going to back the teacher.”

I won the election for Student Council President in 10th grade against the son of the woman in charge of Student Council, and they literally just ran the whole thing without me. Then, I tried out for the Radio program and didn’t get selected over the leagues of thickly-accented rednecks who read out loud at the speed of one word every 2 seconds.

So, I started smoking pot and went back to being homeschooled, also taking classes at the community college.

So yeah, you’re pretty spot-on.

But you’re also right about the socialization aspect. I would not be at the level of socialization that I am now without just going through the shit in public school. If the system were fixed, public school would be the better option. Right now, the way we educate is primarily the problem. These kids sit around so unstimulated that they’re already trying to numb themselves with drugs. It’s fucking ridiculous.

I think that the solution is homeschool co-ops, but even those aren’t perfect. I went to a co-op that was extremely religious and incorporated that into the science lessons, for instance.

“The AI that actually does things” is a fucking hilarious tagline given the thing it actually did.

PS2 or PS3.

Those systems are where most of today’s stagnant franchises started. The modern universal control scheme started with the PS2 (that is, actually utilising both sticks in the modern tradition), so there’s no issues with playability.

I’ve been replaying GTA V, which is a PS3 game in case we all forgot.

A good PS2 and PS3 off eBay will reawaken your love for gaming. The PS2 has so many smaller classics that don’t get much love now (Sly Cooper!), and we’re still being sold and resold PS3 games to this day.

Omfg I just watched this elsewhere. Also it’s free. How kind of them.

I think this is just trying to put a good spin on it before any privacy concerns come up.

Cruel and unusual punishment much?

Arch + KDE win

Yeah, Nova has been dead for a while now. I thought there was a fork, but I’m just now finding out that’s no longer in development.

I’ve migrated around other launchers, and I now use μlauncher, which fulfills my needs for a minimalist launcher with function.

I gotta say, I agree with both their statements.

LMAO. Gonna be a funny Super Bowl.

Maybe I’m the faggot, America!

I’m not a part of your redneck agenda!

Get off the phone! I’m trying to use the Communism!

Yeah lol I tried the Tabbed UI and then went back after it was unusable