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Comment on Eleven spouses on what it’s like to live with someone on Ozempic in ~life
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Comment on What do you like about your job? in ~talk
thumbsupemoji Link Parentare you hiring lol. I'm getting pretty serious with a potential position that trades in-office time for more money, which is a compromise I'm willing to make for enough dollarydoos, but that does...are you hiring lol. I'm getting pretty serious with a potential position that trades in-office time for more money, which is a compromise I'm willing to make for enough dollarydoos, but that does sound dreamy...
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Comment on What's a feeling you sometimes experience that you don't have a name for? in ~talk
thumbsupemoji Link Parentyou guys have so much land lying around haha, sure it's cold and inhospitable but i bet there's still plenty to go around lol—in fact I just checked & you can get almost 1sq mi in N Ontario for...you guys have so much land lying around haha, sure it's cold and inhospitable but i bet there's still plenty to go around lol—in fact I just checked & you can get almost 1sq mi in N Ontario for C$285,000! "Access in winter would be by snowmobile" however... but i mean once you were there, why would you want to leave?
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Comment on What's a feeling you sometimes experience that you don't have a name for? in ~talk
thumbsupemoji Link ParentIt's like: kids don't want to get into the bath. Then kids don't want to get out of the bath. I think it is innately human to powerfully resist most anything that is good for us unfortunately : )It's like: kids don't want to get into the bath. Then kids don't want to get out of the bath. I think it is innately human to powerfully resist most anything that is good for us unfortunately : )
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Comment on What's a feeling you sometimes experience that you don't have a name for? in ~talk
thumbsupemoji Link ParentDo you ever use the tiny lil screwdriver/wrench they send you with the box of furniture parts, even though you have a perfectly fine and far superior option already available? Just sounds familiar...Do you ever use the tiny lil screwdriver/wrench they send you with the box of furniture parts, even though you have a perfectly fine and far superior option already available? Just sounds familiar maybe : )
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Comment on What's a feeling you sometimes experience that you don't have a name for? in ~talk
thumbsupemoji Link Parentnot actually directed at you specifically @Promonk, but I came in here actually just to say: Hey, if there's a feeling you have & you can't figure out what it is, I'm not saying that's a reason to...not actually directed at you specifically @Promonk, but I came in here actually just to say: Hey, if there's a feeling you have & you can't figure out what it is, I'm not saying that's a reason to find a therapist/counselor, but if you do then you'll definitely be able to better identify and describe that feeling (and probably figure out some other stuff too).
There are absolutely listicle-style emotional concepts from other languages that English isn't super specific on, but also like for years I would get this prickly sort of reaction when people tried to help me do something, and I thought "Oh, it's just that I'm afraid they're being condescending," etc. Actually nope, CPTSD lol. It's not all "let's talk about your childhood," but kinda it is—at least for me. And now I know why I'm having these feelings & it honestly feels much better.
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Comment on What's a feeling you sometimes experience that you don't have a name for? in ~talk
thumbsupemoji Link ParentThe millennial curse of being born too late to robber-baron the American continent, too early to colonize Mars lolThe millennial curse of being born too late to robber-baron the American continent, too early to colonize Mars lol
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Comment on What's a feeling you sometimes experience that you don't have a name for? in ~talk
thumbsupemoji Link Parentmy whole life changed due to some random dude's internet ADHD diagnosis lol, go for itmy whole life changed due to some random dude's internet ADHD diagnosis lol, go for it
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Comment on US President Donald Trump prepares order dismantling the Education Department in ~society
thumbsupemoji Link ParentWhat you've observed is absolutely the trend, because lower-SES schools are so much more demanding to work in, both implicitly and explicitly. 60% of baseline expectations in one district I worked...What you've observed is absolutely the trend, because lower-SES schools are so much more demanding to work in, both implicitly and explicitly. 60% of baseline expectations in one district I worked in would have made me a rockstar in another, slightly more well-off district. But I think again it comes down to attracting people who are not necessarily the best educators, but the people who work the hardest & thrive the most when they are compensated non-monetarily, via throwing as many starfish back into the ocean as possible : )
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Comment on US President Donald Trump prepares order dismantling the Education Department in ~society
thumbsupemoji Link ParentThe most damning thing I've seen so far: someone on the site formerly known as Twitter made one of those "Why isn't anyone doing anything??" posts, saying that Republicans should be ashamed—the...The most damning thing I've seen so far: someone on the site formerly known as Twitter made one of those "Why isn't anyone doing anything??" posts, saying that Republicans should be ashamed—the reply was: "They're not even ashamed of the Confederacy yet."
It's the WWI -> WWII track all over, just took 160 years to cook.
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Comment on US President Donald Trump prepares order dismantling the Education Department in ~society
thumbsupemoji Link ParentFive bucks says the red ones go to full public ("public") charter approach, so all of the rules but none of the guidelines, with the difference made up through officially-sanctioned christian...Five bucks says the red ones go to full public ("public") charter approach, so all of the rules but none of the guidelines, with the difference made up through officially-sanctioned christian nationalist homeschool groups. Ugh I don't want to be right
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Comment on US President Donald Trump prepares order dismantling the Education Department in ~society
thumbsupemoji Link ParentYep it would require a full reset, both of the educational-industrial complex that depends on low scores to justify paying giant publishing companies for crap test prep for crap tests lol—but I...Yep it would require a full reset, both of the educational-industrial complex that depends on low scores to justify paying giant publishing companies for crap test prep for crap tests lol—but I don't think taxpayers in general are against it; it always comes out as this false dichotomy of "Well you don't want to pay 50% property taxes, so what is the gov't supposed to do??" idk don't blow up other countries ig.
It's only a non-starter because The United States of America has decided they don't want it—to be clear it would be revolutionary in the truest sense, the current US avg teacher salary per the NEA is about 70k, which is the starting salary for the highest-paid teachers globally in Luxembourg; they top out around 140-150k tho, so it's in the ballpark of what I'm describing, but we would literally be the only ones doing it that way.
But to your first point and really your final point as well: we need janitors, rely on them, but yeah you can teach someone to do their job quickly so we do not societally value the position more than we pay for it to be done. If every single custodial employee in the country didn't go to work tomorrow, we would probably value them a lot more by the next day, and if they took the weekend off collectively we would be having a very different conversation on Monday. So teaching currently requires a hell of a lot of school for a job that pays maybe $30/hr avg. starting pay—minimum 4 year degree, and it's not one you can easily take & do something else in a different field (at least they do not advertise that feature). In my state first-year teachers make about 75% of the federally-defined "living wage," so not great, and we're at about the halfway mark. Add on a masters (or two) for additional income, and you're looking at 6-7 years, probably some student loans, ok—yeah if we offered 3x the money for 1x the work & required education, that would not attract individuals who would be good candidates for educating children lol. Many teachers go back for the additional schooling already, so frontload it & require a GRE or MCAT or make the Praxis actually worthwhile, do an orals-style field experience, send them to Harlem on a Tuesday & have them teach a class to kids who are over their shit—sorry if I wasn't clear, I am definitely not advocating making teaching "cushy," I am advocating for it to be made a profession, and for teachers to subsequently be paid a professional wage: within five years of that initial change, we would def. lose a lot of dead-weight teachers to new hires who were more educated, more enthusiastic, etc, and parents would suddenly be very interested in getting their best & brightest into teacher ed programs, which would similarly be better-funded, more rigorous, etc. All leading to smarter kids—which, again, you're not wrong: it won't happen, because if we wanted it we'd already have it. The Space Race was the last time anyone was really worried about how smart our kids are; now we just need a few, and they'll be fine anyhow, & the rest need to be malleable enough to vote how they're told.
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Comment on US President Donald Trump prepares order dismantling the Education Department in ~society
thumbsupemoji Link ParentExactly! Imagine if university donors were trying to make college gifts to get their kids into... a middle school teacher training program. Competitive application process. Districts competing to...Exactly! Imagine if university donors were trying to make college gifts to get their kids into... a middle school teacher training program. Competitive application process. Districts competing to get the best of the best, instead of starting insane programs to just let anyone get in there for a year, please.
Well, yeah. And then the people who are anti- come in & say "But doctors and engineers and people have to work so hard, medical school takes eight years or whatever"—which is really "don't pay children's teachers as much as me, and god please don't pay them more than that." It's not about applying an increased-income filter to US Ed as-is, it's about deciding that it's actually a priority. Until that happens I'm believing that it's a feature not a bug lol
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Comment on US President Donald Trump prepares order dismantling the Education Department in ~society
thumbsupemoji Link ParentYeah it'd be a big Bernie Sanders-level ask, and I'm no economist but my thought process goes: well we are in fact paying devs/engineers that much, so it's doable—make education programs...Yeah it'd be a big Bernie Sanders-level ask, and I'm no economist but my thought process goes: well we are in fact paying devs/engineers that much, so it's doable—make education programs harder/more selective if it needs to require suffering on the front end, raise the standards all around, & if raising taxes is an issue then just get it from somewhere else, idk maybe all these billionaires I keep hearing about can pitch in. Point being, we pay for what we actually value societally, but in industries like education/healthcare/etc we do not actually value the boots-on-the-ground workers because we want to pay them in Thank Yous & You're Making a Difference, and a software engineer doesn't have to choose.
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Comment on US President Donald Trump prepares order dismantling the Education Department in ~society
thumbsupemoji Link ParentFor sure, it wouldn't fix everything—I'd put maternal/paternal leave on employers elsewhere, but if all US parents get a year off with their kids & are then forced to send them to daycare/public...For sure, it wouldn't fix everything—I'd put maternal/paternal leave on employers elsewhere, but if all US parents get a year off with their kids & are then forced to send them to daycare/public schools where everything sucks, I mean that's no good either. I'm not in favor of just "throwing money" at anything & just hoping for better results; in education that would just get you higher-paid administration & snazzy new buildings full of teachers still making $50k. If there was a line of people wanting to teach, if parents after a few years realized it would be a lucrative/"respected" career instead of a fallback or whatever it is now (I say that as a ten-year PS teacher who picked it on purpose lol), then that would begin to have serious effects in education, and sure eventually elsewhere; once those students had kids, then hopefully things would be better in places like where you are. But gosh you are deep in the trenches, and it's commendable work & god I know it's hard, so good job you, I am proud to even be talking to you right now haha. Seriously thank you.
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Comment on Best "complete" anime you'd recommend? in ~anime
thumbsupemoji Link ParentA) saving this list thx B) so... basically toonami? lol most of these may have already been finished when Cartoon Network aired them in the 2000sA) saving this list thx
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Comment on US President Donald Trump prepares order dismantling the Education Department in ~society
thumbsupemoji Link Parentthe conservative moms on social media who I guess didn't think that DEI applied to their kids who are literally in "inclusion" classes... I mean the intentional downfall of US education didn't...the conservative moms on social media who I guess didn't think that DEI applied to their kids who are literally in "inclusion" classes... I mean the intentional downfall of US education didn't just start in 2025, but damn they hit the critical thinking first.
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Comment on US President Donald Trump prepares order dismantling the Education Department in ~society
thumbsupemoji LinkFor years I've been saying: pay teachers enough money, like an amount of money that would make a lot of people spit their coffee out, like engineer or software dev money, & by the time this year's...For years I've been saying: pay teachers enough money, like an amount of money that would make a lot of people spit their coffee out, like engineer or software dev money, & by the time this year's freshmen graduate there won't be any problems with the education system left—and we could be doing this already but we're not, which means improving US education is not actually the desired outcome, at least not for the people deciding whether it gets improved. And people would respond by spitting their coffee out lol—"my wife taught for 37 years and she wouldn't have wanted any more money, it was about the kids," "my wife wouldn't go back in the classroom for a million dollars a year," actual quotes!—buuuut here we are, doing the opposite. Republicans (or anyone who voted for DJT, or anyone who just didn't vote), when your kids all bring their "AI-Ready" future-workforce-member report cards home from X-么亗ALPHA亗 Elementary Site (A Tesla™ Company), 90% funded by whatever crummy state DOE you've got and 10% funded by how many Amazon Prime subscribers live in your school district, please remember there were people who said this would happen before it was happening & you said it wouldn't.
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Comment on AI video editing helpers are changing my life in ~creative
thumbsupemoji Link ParentMaybe this is what @MimicSquid meant—I think there are valid concerns, and the general public definitely has a bad taste re: AI due to the baseline they've been presented with on facebook or...Maybe this is what @MimicSquid meant—I think there are valid concerns, and the general public definitely has a bad taste re: AI due to the baseline they've been presented with on facebook or whatever. So if not done correctly it could be the same as using animated captions or something not cohesive with the material.
It's just gotten so much better than most people are aware—not at thinking or taking over the world, but writing sonnets & making videos of cavemen riding bicycles & editing boring parts out of videos, for sure.
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Comment on AI video editing helpers are changing my life in ~creative
thumbsupemoji Link ParentYeah if I am seeing terrible DALL-E level shiny people with goofed up fingers eating hamburgers or whatever ima peace out of there, but I feel like what you're saying could be applied to any...Yeah if I am seeing terrible DALL-E level shiny people with goofed up fingers eating hamburgers or whatever ima peace out of there, but I feel like what you're saying could be applied to any aspect of content creation, especially in the early stages of whatever is at hand—four years ago if someone had put their "serious" content on Tiktok that would have been crazy, right, because it would have devalued their message; in 2025 it's almost unavoidable. The AI images I'm describing would be indistinguishable from the real deal, not a crummy facsimile. But that would make an entirely different group of people uncomfortable.
well this way there's a giant industry making tons of money off of high-calorie food with cheap chemical ingredients and a new industry making tons of money selling medicine to treat the resulting obesity from that other industry—Novo Nordisk spent $3M on lobbying and $470M on advertising recently, paying off with a 25% increase in sales to over $40 billion dollars.