I did buy a number of fake flash drives, so they’re definitely up there. Luckily I’ve always won the disputes and got my money back from every one of them.

There were also a number of headphones whose sound was so fucking bad, listening to stuff off my phone’s speakers was better

I don’t think my computer can even run the game, the high requirements are the biggest headscratcher for me. One of the appeals of The Sims, at least 1 and 2 (maybe 3?), was that they could run on comparatively lower powered computers of the time, which greatly helped with sales

emergency-patch an oversight that allowed children to be killed by driving into them when in a car.

So, you can kill people with your car, but not kids?

I don’t think dwarves are known for their food in any setting, only their alcoholic drinks

Brazil is currently fighting to increase the income tax of the top earners. I don’t expect it to pass because congress and senate are, by and large, protector of the interests of the wealthy.

To me, some NSFW forums, like F95 and LoversLabs

It was a table height fall, roughly 1 meter, not enough for that to happen.

Bedsheets do not in fact make an adequate parachute for a second story jump, btw.

Learned second hand that umbrellas also don’t work well as parachutes. My cousin was the first hand victim experimenter

FOMO, fear of missing out

Great shitpost, wrong community tho

Thoughts and prayers

Oh, of course the game is gacha waifu central, what the fuck else did I expect?

This is a pretty damning “they used assets of when they were under contract”, so, for once, squeenix isn’t entirely in the wrong.

On the other hand, why the fuck did they even cancel the production? The studio went ahead and released it, with people apparently enjoying the game, so that’s on you being stupid, squeenix.

Worst case scenario, 🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️

As so many other things, what makes education a tricky thing to manage is the many different ideologies and agendas that demand to have a say in it.

The market wants the bare minimum that creates a never ending pool of cheap labor, preferably one that cannot fight back. The right will often demand something “patriotic”, “religious” and ban loads of “subversive” content, in some cases praising military teaching as ideal (see Brazil). The left usually wants kids to learn social stuff, like sociology, philosophy, etc, things “without market value”, but which can help them realize why some stuff is the way it is. Then you have school directors who may swing any each way and individual teachers who may comply or try to “subvert” the higher ups.

One of the things that annoys me a lot about education is that, in much of the world, it still works on a assembly-line logic. Make kid pass through process, test to see if it passes minimal quality assurance, proceed to next step; if not, repeat the entire previous process (imagine redoing a whole fucking year because you couldn’t be arsed about one of the many things that are pointlessly taught at school). Maximize production, reduce costs (1 teacher per 40 kids)

“When education does not free a person, the dream of the oppressed is to become the opressor.” - Paulo Freire was so damn right that, to this day, the Brazilian right demonizes him, wrongly accusing public schools and universities of being “breeding grounds of communists” for using his method (which is bullshit, his method was aimed first at teaching adults how to read and, afaik, no public schools ask the kids to “bring their home experiences” so they can be contextualized in the teaching)

And enslaving a significant chunk of those foreigners, too.

Protection goggles when removing supports from your resin 3D prints. ALWAYS

No matter how well you point out the paradox (if God knows everything that will happen, free will doesn’t exist, because everything is predetermined, just like a fully written book), a significant portion of christians will simply ignore and keep circling between “but God gave us free will” and “God knows everything”

I’d become a trans woman in the blink of an eye if I got to drive a Tesla tank. I’d also put Hell March 2 to play on full blast

Writing your passwords in a piece of paper. Safer than storing it digitally and easier for people that don’t know how to use password managers or computers in general to understand what to do to access your stuff if you’re under a difficult situation or dead.

Also, physical photos. Yes yes, we all have gigabytes of photos, but almost never check any of them. Physicals catch my glance at home very often, great decoration. I’ve also took to writing the day, place and people on the back, plus any other important bits of context.

Because setting up an IRC server is way, way easier than setting up a matrix server. It’s also a lot more reliable. The downside is that it’s text only

Back in 2011, as an intern for a lake club, the place’s director called me and my boss, who was the sole IT department of the place. The director was trying to get my boss to quit, doing all sorts of assholeish tactics and pressure, including calling for an “off the record” talk which we both saw him preparing his cellphone to record.

My boss was fired some time afterwards, getting full rights and pay and everything. The club later contracted a private IT support firm, paying 3x what they paid me + my boss. Fuck that place.