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We need to lay more blame for "Kids don't know how computers work" at the feet of the people responsible: Google.

Google set out about a decade ago to push their (relatively unpopular) chromebooks by supplying them below-cost to schools for students, explicitly marketing them as being easy to restrict to certain activities, and in the offing, kids have now grown up in walled gardens, on glorified tablets that are designed to monetize and restrict every movement to maximize profit for one of the biggest companies in the world.

Tech literacy didn't mysteriously vanish, it was fucking murdered for profit.

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#my adhd diagnosis was a fucking gift #i might not be medicated #i might never get the chance to experience a semi normal brain #but at least now i have words to make my mom understand i have symptoms #instead of just getting called lazy #or told i must not care

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new favorite bit is saying "I would be fangirling so hard if I met him in real life 😍" about random species of fish

#me when i got to go to the aquarium for my birthday #to see the whale sharks #i did *not* play it cool

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most of the talk on this website about Game Changer is how Sam Reich psychologically tortures his contestants, but I want to make it clear to the uninitiated that he's actually extremely ethical about it

He sends out a company wide email and asks them to choose episodes based on a chili pepper rating system

meaning he doesn't put 🌶️🌶️ people into 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ episodes

they're also big on consent ie cast and crew have to be okay with it before they'll do nudity or something like that in an episode

it's like the bdsm of psychological torture. safe, sane, and consensual.

the contestants know what they're getting into, and they're full down

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‘relationships are work’ means ‘you have to put effort into loving each other intentionally & learning how to love each other and communicating properly’ not ‘your relationship makes you feel stressed and sad most of the time & the other person disrespects you and treats you bad but you stay anyway’

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what am i doing part fourteen: you know what screw it nothing rhymes with „teen” but it’s the end of the year and I haven’t done text posts in a while so catch extra two

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living the dream

#svsss

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TAIYO & MUTSUMI IN EP02 | MISSION YOZAKURA FAMILY

#yozakura san chi no daisakusen #they are shockingly adorable #ep 1 was meh but it took off with 2 #i am charmed

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Bothering the beast

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one of the most infuriating things about becoming an adult is when you realize that it actually is 10x easier to solve problems by making a phone call vs literally any other communication method

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“lmao imagine liking men” OK!!! ON IT BOSS 🫡🫡🫡 it’s beautiful here

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Us in 50 years

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shenanigans at the beach

#jujutsu kaisen #jjk

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A Magical Taxonomy

Warlock: from wær (old English, “pact/oath”) + loga (proto-Germanic, “liar”) + hard “-ck” (Scottish English); Oathbreaker (contextually; breaker of Baptismal Oaths; hence also Apostate)

Wizard: from Wis (old English, “knowledgeable”) + -ard (same, “too much of”); Possessor of too much knowledge

Witch: from weyk (proto-indo-European, “apart, separated, different”)[connotations akin to Latin’s “Sacre”]; Sacred Outsider

Sorcerer: from Sors (Latin, “Fate”) and Ser (same,“to bind”); Fate Manipulator

Druid: from dru (proto-Celtic, “Oak”) + weyd (same, “to see”); Oak-Seer, or Tree-Knower

Cleric: from kleros (Ancient Greek, “lots/ casting lots/ drawing lots”) [contextually; public servants were selected by drawing lots, as opposed to, say, voting]; Public Servant / Clerk

Bard: from bard (proto-Celtic, “Bard”); Bard

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the hotter it gets the more i realize i only fuck with the summer superficially and in concept

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i hope you write (i hope we both write)

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I'm writing something about a species that is genuinely very rare and trying to not get too philosophical about it. No, how we treat this one shrimp is not indicative of humankind as a whole, but at the same time you guys had better keep this shrimp safe after I'm gone or I'll haunt you forever.