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Many people don’t really think about their language. They kind of snap their phrases together like a child with those big duplo blocks.
Most of the time that’s fine, if a bit limiting. But occasionally you get glimpses into how communication could be clearer, or more accurate, if they thought about their words more.
I partly blame our public education system. Not enough funding, some funding misused, other problems I don’t even know about. But it feels like a lot of people are barely educated, and don’t have any intellectual curiosity.
It’s not enough funding or misused funding that’s the problem, it’s how the funds are being used that’s the problem.
In my former life I worked in education finance and its eye opening.
First… Fuck Pearson, Fuck Mcgraw-Hill, Fuck Houghton Miflin Harcourt. Also fuck the companies that sell testing templates as a consumable goods.
The three biggest issues are big education companies, grant limitations and SPED mandates.
First, big education: They lobby state governments to change curriculum, even when test scores had been great. “We can always do better!” This creates an endless cycle of states updating curriculum that’s not broken and schools shelling out huge sums of money for new textbooks or even worse the yearly consumables that seem to have infected every school system. These companies just always need to be selling and will strip every dollar they can from the budget every year.
Second, grant limitations: A large part of a schools budget are federal pass through grants. These can have many limitations about what percent is spent on supplies or resources and highly encourages paid hours for extra learning time. Extra learning time means kids are in school longer… Kids like adults are tapped out after a full day of school. Additional instruction time has extreme diminishing returns.
Third, SPED is Frankenstein’s Monster: While SPED is well intentioned and obviously needed, legality and loopholes has caused SPED programs to spiral out of control. Now basically anyone get an IEP if their parents try hard enough and being placed in SPED can grant real educational advantages. Not only can students get breaks on testing times and other performance breaks, being placed in SPED almost always legally creates a burden for that student to be assigned more and or more expensive resources. If a child isn’t placed in SPED parents can sue, and parents are winning more and more of these expensive lawsuits, causing districts to place more and more students into SPED. This causes a lopsided budget where a majority of the funds are being diverted to SPED students. Meaning non SPED have less resources, fall behind and then their parents often try to get them an IEP to be placed in SPED. It’s a real problem, with no great immediate solution.
Everything you described seems like funding misuse to me. Using public funding to funnel money to private interests is corrupt af. The teachers aren’t to blame here, this is just what capitalism does, it corrupts everything it touches.
Really only the first point is corruption and corruption can exist in any system.
A lot of it is misaligned priorities and people and institutions who are unwilling to talk about and fix the hard issues.
I am not a programmatic expert, but I would suggest allowing more educator autonomy and they need to rewrite contracts to allow bonuses or raises for high performing teachers beyond what most current union negotiations entail.
The inefficacy of current public education system is a feature not a bug. The rulers want workers just smart enough to measure inches and run the machines to keep the money printers flowing. But not smart enough to realize just how badly they’re getting fucked over by a system that sold out and threw them overboard before they were even born. You need high level language and a general understanding of history to comprehend high level abstractions that govern human hierarchy. Ill bet 5$ on which subjects are getting most cuts in public schools.
some funding misused
MASSIVE funding misuse. Most of the funding goes to the school boards, admins, and giving children brain damage playing tackle football.
I have a friend that effectively has a PhD in computer science with a teaching cert, he applied to teach some computer course at a local highschool but they gave it to a football coach instead.
Until we reform education, abolish private schools, and adopt standards from other countries, education in the US is unlikely to ever improve.
Skibidi toilet
Rizzler.
“I am furthering the ado. Pray I do not further it any further.”
I love the smell of ado in the morning
Frankly, my dear, I don’t give ado.
Ado. I am your further
Here’s looking ado, kid.
Ado, ado, to you and you and you.
Much ado about nothing.
Wait…
Y’all hear that banger from Rammstein?
Ado, goodbye, auf Wiederseh’n. Den letzten Weg musst du alleine geh’n. Ein letztes Lied, ein letzter Kuss, Kein Wunder wird gescheh’n. Ado, goodbye, auf Wiederseh’n. Die Zeit mit dir war schön!
<3 sponsorblock
This is included in the modded Android YouTube app ReVanced: https://revanced.app/
That’s the official site with links to their github and socials, beware of the many fake sites with similar URLs.
I recommend Tubular (a fork of NewPipe + SponsorBlock) which is available in FDroid https://f-droid.org/packages/org.polymorphicshade.tubular/
I switched back from Tubular to PipePipe, because the later one seems to be developed way faster and with more people. You may want to have a look at PipePipe. Exporting your settings in one and importing it in the other one works just fine
Any advantages over, say, PipePipe, or Newpipe+Sponsorblock?
Havent tried PipePipe but Tubular is just the new name of the old and deprecated NewPipe x Sponsorblock made by the same dev.
Fuck yeah, SponsorBlock! 🤘
I love the statistics it gives you
Does this fast forward past ad reads in YouTube videos?
Basically. It’s community driven, so people have to mark sections of the video as an ad, or filler, or whatever else it may be. Then you can set it up to skip particular sections, mute during them, or other things.
It makes it really easy to mark segments too, so while new or unpopular videos may not be marked when you watch them, it’s easy for you to add the marks for others who see it.
I wish they could find a better solution because some people have terrible editing skills. I’ve seen far too many videos where dialog like “but first, a word from our sponsor” and “now back to the video” is still left in before/after the skip. The edit should be seamless, as if the sponsored segment was never there to begin with.
That said, it’s still better than no SponsorBlock at all.
you can do it yourself and also rate existing ones.
I do but it gets tiring. I have ADHD so I get burnt out easily.
yes!
Yes
As I was grabbing my things, the lady ringing me up at goodwill said “last but not least, your receipt.”
I got to my car before I thought “what part of this transaction could be less than the receipt?”
“Would you like to sign up for our newsletter with your email or phone number”
“Before you go, please select on this pad how you would rate your shopping experience today”
When that lying bitch says have a good day! As if? What does she know about good (insert bane speech from Batman here).
/s
Depending on how many items, the bag?
When the product malfunctions.
Much Ado About Today’s Sponsor
Ado II: The Adoening
Ado III: The Furthering
electric boongado
Ado III: The Much
Ado II: Ads
You guys are overadoing it.
The extra comment is the like the ado in this meme
i was today years old when i discovered that ado and adieu were in fact different words
One might even say, much ado about nothing…
That’s specifically for video tutorials that are 10 minutes of ado and the 30 seconds at the end is the actual tutorial, which you realize you didn’t need because it was stupidly easy.
(Literally me last night looking for how to get to a thing in a game I was playing, and it turned out to be right next to me just in the dark where I didn’t see it)
It really irritates me when gameFAQs are slowly becoming easier to use than everything that has followed since. THEY EVEN HAD ASCII ART!
Maybe I just miss being able to ctrl+f for what I need.
On cable once they came out with DVRs you could skip the ado. Now there are unskippable ados and it’s much worse.
Anything’s skipable if you try hard enough
Just a lot easier on a computer than TV. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sponsorblock/
I use sponsorblock, it’s great, but it only applies to that type of streamer content/ad. And it doesn’t have full coverage for that. It doesn’t help if your streaming service has unskippable ads. And Google is inching closer to insert ads into the Youtube video stream dynamically which will make them truly unblockable.
With Spotify you can’t even mute an ad without it pausing until you unmute.
You’re being punished for bad behaviour. Paying for streaming services leads to unskippable ads. If you just torrented, you wouldn’t have to see ads anymore. In other words, doing the right thing comes with moral desserts in this case.
An alternative for torrenting (if you’re willing to pay) is Stremio+Debrid-Link, which works like a streaming service but without any ads nor geo-locked content. Debrid-link is 3€ per month (if you buy 6 months), which is probably cheaper than paying for a VPN (e.g. Mullvad) for torrenting.
Stremio has apps for W*ndows, Linux, MacOS, Android, iOS, AndroidTV, SamsungTV, LG TV, Sony TV, Philips TV (even Meta Quest) and also you can use it in a web browser without an app (if any of your devices aren’t supported).
The only downside is that sometimes movies/shows take some time before they’re available.
I was willing to pay before all these companies decided to treat their customers like shit.
Stremio isn’t a company or a streaming service. It streams torrents.
oh nice, imma check that out
I know it suck overall.
It’s a lot less convenient and definitely past the gray line, but I pay for Spotify premium (optional), but pretty much never actually listen to music via Spotify. https://github.com/spytify
Me whenever youtuber uses the word “deconstruction” as “taking apart”
Or concept instead of idea.
A concept is the thinking that underlies the idea, or sometimes kind of an interlocking system of ideas that form an understanding.
And I’ve run out of anger about utilise instead of use. Don’t even have the energy to wri
The only thing like this that actually frustrates me is people using “hung” instead of “hanged.” It’s so prevelant, even in TV and movies, that I’m wondering if “hung” is actually correct now because people use it that way so often.
Wait, hung is not a thing at all?
It means you have a big dick lol… So yes, when most people mistakenly say, “so and so got hung”, they’re accidentally making a comment about the size of their penis.
Concepts are hard. Ask the US president
If I ever asked that motherfucker anything I would be hoping there was no answer.
The only thing I think I’d ever ask him, given an opportunity, is whether his daughter vomits after he fucks her.
Also this usually follows 2-3 minutes of just waffling about bullshit. It doesn’t help if you put your ‘further ado’ ahead of that statement either, jackass, just get to the damned point.
I hated this in the early days of minecraft modding. “see video below for install instructions”. The video is 30 minutes long, all I need to know is which modloader this uses or do I dump it in the .jar
Ugh, I dunno what it was specifically about minecraft videos, maybe that’s just what was popular at the point in time where the algorithm worked the way it did to encourage it or something, but they were the fucking WORST about this.
Don’t dump it in the jar. It can’t take much further ado.
Also, some people will type “without further adieu,” which is similarly infuriating.
without further bonjour
Without further omelette du fromage
Frere Jacques, Bonaparte.
They are just trying to finish before more French people leave.
I can’t recall having ever seen it written down so I just assumed it was another French word/phrase bastardized by anglophones. It’s a reasonably safe assumption but certainly has its failings.
When the ado furthers
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