I don’t think a US Army/Air Force vet is going to have any less biased of a take than the a Dutch government official lmao

Well yeah, nerds in their basement with a passion for repairability figured out how to jailbreak iPhones, of course nation-states with a passion for killing others protecting their global interests are gonna figure out how to jailbreak their war machines

Throw in a few ratchet and clank games and I’d do unholy things

I think we should start questioning the ways of the worm

Bro who the fuck rides a stationary bike in a sauna WEARING JEANS

Ah, I see you frequent the “for men” candle section at Bath and Body Works

What a wild pivot from “flowers are for all genders” to 'bring back homeopathic medicine, I don’t need no stinking doctors telling me what plants I should rub on my wounds!" lmao

Edit: sorry for conflating homeopathic and herbal medicine, they was dumb of me. I was just trying to point out what I though was a funny swing from one topic to another pretty unrelated topic

Fair, but it’s still giving you really really bad advice. It should reply to those prompts with something like “it’s not safe or sanitary to insert food items into your rectum, and the FDA doesn’t recommend it. Only use adult toys and devices specifically designed for anal insertion” or something along those lines.

There what is?

I’m sorry you can’t handle me speaking plainly and truthfully. I didn’t intend to be belittling, and I don’t think I was aggressive. You immediately came out on the defensive* after my first comment because you mistook what I said for contrarianism/argumentation instead of clarification.

Please point out where I wasn’t civil or demonstrated a lack of conversational ability

Alright I’ll spell it out for you. For some context, the article in the post (which you probably didn’t read) describes how schools are sending tablets and laptops home with elementary and middle school children. I specifically stated that I didn’t use a laptop for school until I was in college, and implied that my technology literacy did not suffer despite such “late exposure”.

I did not say that I didn’t use a computer until college. You made that up. I’m not advocating to remove all technology from school. That’s a strawman you’ve built to argue against. I used computers all throughout my time in school, starting in like 2nd grade. We had these things called computer labs, where a teacher that specialized in technology would teach us the ins and outs of using a computer, how to be safe on the internet, and provide adult supervision and guidance. In middle school, we had designated computer lab time to work on book reports, lab reports, research projects, etc. I carried a usb stick around with me to save things onto, which I would then take home, where I could continue working on my assignments on our family computer. My parents established rules and boundaries for using the home computer, and were another resource I could go to for help and guidance.

But we also wrote stuff down. Like with pencils, on paper. And had teachers up at the front of the room giving lectures, helping us through example problems, teaching. That was the primary way we learned. We weren’t sent home with an iPad and some edutainment games and told “good luck!” like the kids described in the posted article.

I’ll say it again, but I’ll reword it in more plain language so there’s less chance of misunderstanding: sending school children home with corpoware-riddled tablets and laptops with little to no guidance and expecting them to use that for the bulk of their schoolwork (the thing described in the article) is not a good way to foster technology literacy.

Ah, you don’t understand nuance, I see.

Go back and reread my comment, then reply to me when you’re ready to engage with what I actually said, and not a bunch of scary strawmen you’ve built.

Brother, I became a software engineer and I didn’t use a laptop for classes until college. Shoving Microsoft and Google products down school kids’* throats does nothing to “prepare them for the future”.

The staff have to be paid significantly longer on the train to transport far fewer people simply because of more elapsed time.

I haven’t run the numbers, but I feel like that discrepancy is made up for by the number of passengers trains can carry, considering trains can carry way more people than a plane.

Human-dog interactions happen billions of times a day, this isn’t the gotcha you think it is

In bobsled, the other people at the back are important for the initial pushoff, since you’re allowed a running start. And then I’m pretty sure everyone helps steer, based on what the guy in the front is doing/commands he gives.

Granted, all my knowledge of bobsled comes from Cool Runnings, so take all that with a grain of salt

The fact that it’s a Dodge Charger alone makes it a 50/50 chance

Huh. Weird how you’re allowed to take a stand and point things out and correct people, but others aren’t

Just get a string quartet to follow you around on the ice and play live. I’d pay to see that