andxz

joined 1 year ago
[–] andxz@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

The fuckwit is a danger to everyone.

[–] andxz@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

At least that'll correct itself when all the fish are dead, right?

..right?

[–] andxz@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Mint is on the other hand the most popular in the world

[–] andxz@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

If you meet dicks everywhere you post maybe you should reflect a bit on why that might be. Just a suggestion.

[–] andxz@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

No. Do you have a serious case of anger management issues? You sure sound like it.

"I truly don't want to.." yeah I bet you really don't want to.

[–] andxz@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (5 children)

Here's an idea - try some empathy instead of whatever this "it sure shifted me to a conservative direction.." bullshit is.

It's not really all that believable that any normal person would behave like you say you did, but in case you're actually serious I feel sorry for your child. Nobody deserves shit like that from their own parents.

[–] andxz@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Slaps are what my mother gave me. My father wouldn't bother with something like simple slaps.

There's never any reason to hurt your own children. Not one. Parents are supposed to protect their children.

[–] andxz@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago (3 children)

The only thing my ultra-conservative father and grandfather managed to do to me was to never ever let them anywhere near their grandchildren.

I also might've let my father know how it feels to get thrown through a bookshelf by someone a lot stronger when I got old enough to do so. Suddenly he was a lot less enthusiastic about physical violence. I wonder why. He still managed to fuck up my spine for life when he did the same to me - when I was 12. Took me 6 years and a lot of physio but he'll never hurt anyone else ever again.

[–] andxz@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I don't want to generalize, nor am I American, so this is probably irrelevant anyway, but as my wife is an experienced spec ed teacher and I myself have also worked in the educational system for most of my life I feel somewhat competent in giving some perspective.

Now, we do live in one of the Nordic countries, and I've lived in one of the others as well, and we were both raised bi-lingual (Swedish speaking Finns, to be exact). As my immune system is compromised due to a chronic sickness and I'm also an asthmatic, we decided to keep our son home for quite a while during Covid. My wife works with a relatively small group of pupils (~5) since she's a private teacher for children with some form of Autism so we didn't regard that as a really dangerous vector, as they were all masked up due to their own medical issues.

Anyhow, even with all our experience and know-how (and that's besides the social part he missed) it was a major undertaking to homeschool our boy even for a 6 month period, and he's a smart boy too. We made most of the material myself except for his school books, and damn if it wasn't close to a full time job. Ironically we all did get COVID (and I survived, to my surprise) about 2 weeks after he went back to school.

His handwriting had improved a lot though, and he were several chapters in front of the rest of his class in math. He's also almost a year before his peers in English, which means he speaks three languages almost fluently at 10 years old.

So, tl;dr: you're not wrong, but it is possible. Exhausting, but possible.

Edit: typos.

[–] andxz@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

It does, but if you really want to and have the time all but extremely expensive gun safes are not guaranteed to be all that hard to get into.

I've personally lockpicked my way into one that is deemed safe enough for civilian weapons in my country (as a demonstration to its owner, for the record).

[–] andxz@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

A lot has certainly happened since then, if nothing else. It's not like her campaign was very smartly done on almost any level. It sucks, because the end result could have been so much better than what you got instead.

[–] andxz@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

This is almost 20 years ago today, so my memory is a bit hazy, but basically each student had an account with a certain amount of server space. I can't remember the size, but given the amount of digital files we produced it would've been at minimum 500GB+/student. We could also "see" the account folder for everyone else in our class for file sharing and stuff.

There were also accounts/folders for each teacher which were used to turn in the primary copy of whatever assignment we had done if it was in digital form. Physical art were scanned or photographed also, as a sort of backup. We were also required to back every project up via USB sticks, ofc.

There was also a rack with individual docks for each digital camera that they had which allowed us to get our photographs transferred to our own folders. Since we could access those files from our accounts it also was a part of that server system.

There were also several networked and customised Macs used for single tasks, like larger printing projects and also for an airgapped paintgun for a lack of a better description. We avoided having to wear masks when we printed large sheets in single colours with it, for example. I have no idea what software that thing used, I think I used it like once or twice.

Now, I'll freely admit that I haven't touched a Mac since I left that school, and I've never had any interest in them whatsoever, so I don't know what they used or if it even exists anymore. Someone with more knowhow maybe does?

I do remember them specifically (proudly) telling us it all ran on Macs, otherwise I probably wouldn't have any reason to believe so. The "server room" was basically what looked like a glorified closet with a rack and a couple of Macs that didn't look like the ones we students used. This was just before the all-in-one models were introduced, iirc.

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