Kaputnik

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[–] Kaputnik@hexbear.net 32 points 2 weeks ago

This teacher is just an asshole but the relationship between teachers and students is complex and most of the issues are systemic. In the same way that a retail or food service worker may hate their customers because of how some customers act, it should not be surprising when teachers may come to hate 'students' in the abstract when the students are what cause them the most difficulty on a day to day basis. Now some teachers are able to introspect and understand that the students themselves are not the root cause of these problems.

People outside of education often think teachers have control over their schools and students. However that control is mostly a facade, teachers increasingly feel powerless in their own classrooms as society cuts more and more support positions forcing teachers to pick up the slack. Students with exceptional learning or behavioural needs are left in overcrowded classrooms and obviously this causes problems that are not the fault of these students.

Most teachers are only in the system because they care about the kids. I wouldn't look at the teachers subreddit and expect a real look at how these teachers think. Most (not this guy) are mainly venting and coping using dark humour as the system collapses around them, much like how outsiders are surprised at how medical workers use dark humour to cope.

[–] Kaputnik@hexbear.net 17 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

What the hell is wrong with American elections?? The way I see Americans talk about the New York Mayoral election makes it seem like it's happening next week. But that shit isn't untill November?? Wait until October to start your campaign dawg

[–] Kaputnik@hexbear.net 25 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

It is interesting to see how much more vulnerable top military leaders are in modern conflicts. In past conflicts it seems generals and top command were often kept far away from battlefields to protect them, but that does not work anymore. I wonder how militaries will respond to this, keeping generals confined in bunkers, or spreading out command between more people to prevent a single death being devastating.

[–] Kaputnik@hexbear.net 18 points 4 weeks ago

Shoulda swallowed a spider to catch the bee smh

[–] Kaputnik@hexbear.net 15 points 1 month ago (2 children)

IR lasers can cause eye damage without triggering a blink reflex think-about-it

[–] Kaputnik@hexbear.net 15 points 1 month ago (4 children)

American cops are so trigger happy if they see a red dot they'll assume it's from a sight and might just start shooting at anything nearby

[–] Kaputnik@hexbear.net 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Xiaomi phones are really cheap and work well as a basic smart phone, unless you're buying it for the camera. If you're in the US you may need to get it drop shipped and I'm not sure how the tariffs would affect it

[–] Kaputnik@hexbear.net 23 points 1 month ago

Yeah, combating spreading desertification is good as it protects the existing ecosystems that surround the desert. But some people have a misguided belief that deserts are useless areas and greening entire deserts would be a net positive. Deserts are an incredibly complex environment, even if we know less about them than areas where we humans live in larger numbers.

We know the Sahara desert is responsible for soil replenishment of Carribbean islands and South America. The knock on effects of removing a desert could be disastrous.

[–] Kaputnik@hexbear.net 19 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Sekiro is my favorite game that Fromsoft has made. The gameplay is hard but I actually find it easier than the hardest parts of Dark Souls/ Elden Ring because so much is about learning patterns. Outside of one or two bosses they are easier to see and you can track their arm movements so you can tell which attacks are coming. Compared to Elden Ring where bosses are causing so much on screen visual noise that I can't tell what's going on.

The environments in Sekiro are also beautiful. Its less gloomy than Dark Souls so many of the areas are very vibrant. I love spending time in many of the more fantastical areas of the game.

[–] Kaputnik@hexbear.net 48 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The key evangelical for O9A ... is Joshua Caleb Sutter ... a paid FBI informant since 2004.

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/the-satanist-neo-nazi-plot-to-murder-u-s-soldiers-1352629/

[–] Kaputnik@hexbear.net 12 points 3 months ago

I can be ur angle or yuor devil

[–] Kaputnik@hexbear.net 8 points 3 months ago

The theme song for this show has been stuck in my head for over 20 years

 

Currently trying to refund the new Indiana Jones game because it's unplayable without raytracing cri. My card isn't even old, it's just 8GB of VRAM is the absolute minimum apparently so my mobile 3060 is now useless. I miss when I used to be able to play new games in 2014 on my shitty AMD card at 20fps, yeah it didn't look great but developers still included a very low graphics option for people like me. Now you need to be upgrading every 2 years to keep up.

 

This is bad right? No known links means this is spreading undetected through the population right now. doomjak

 
 

Setting up following this guide: https://mullvad.net/en/help/shadowsocks-android

And I have everything in OpenVPN and Shadowsocks set up like they say, but when I try to connect to the Shadowsocks server I get the error "Failed to detect internet connection: connection closed". The upload/download shows I can upload at ~30 kbps but no download.

I'm on MIUI 14 which may be the problem because I know it has some issues with...everything really... But I turned off power saver so it should be allowed to run in the background

 

And not in a good way.

The movie is written by Nick Pinkerton, who I've never heard of before but is apparently associated with the Red Scare Pod in some way. The movie is a mumblecore surrealist comedy loosely based on Alice in Wonderland, where the main character travels through different parts of the United States and meets different characters. It's got some funny parts and it held together well enough in the beginning but it starts to drag by the second vignette and really starts to broadcast where it leans politically.

The main character essentially acts listlessly throughout the entire movie and calls things and people ableist slurs. While other characters are supposed to...I guess represent different political positions in the US? I don't really know what the point was meant to be, but the vibe is "caring about things is dumb". There's four main vignettes which boil down to the following:

spoiler

  1. A group of anarchists that never actually profess any political beliefs besides not working and eating food from the garbage. The main anarchist character is immediately shown to b a sex pest and the group then goes out to a field to fight Nazis that aren't there. (This is the only representation of the political left in the movie)

  2. An academic Nazi who takes in our main character and lets her live in his house. He is given ample time to espouse his ideas and does not attempt to sleep with the main character which is shown to be a big deal. She lives with him as a tradwife for some time, and is like happy with it I think? But eventually runs away

  3. Two New York film makers who are making a period piece. Sorry I really don't know what this one was trying to say it just felt random, but the film shoot ends when Nazis shoot everyone.

  4. An Arabic guy who saves the main character from the shooting, but oh no! It turns out he's locking her away to be his wife and also he lives in a terrorist training camp.

And then finally the writer of the movie shows up as a Catholic monk to save the main character and talk about miracles for some reason.


Maybe I don't get it because I don't really vibe with this kind of art. But genuinely this movie was pretty boring and it feels gross when you know the politics behind it. I will give them credit though, I was anticipating a TERFy joke the entire movie and I didn't catch one.

 

If you're into the idea of a John Wick esque action movie where Dev Patel fights the BJP and RSS then I really recommend this.

It doesn't outright name the BJP but it's pretty obvious. It's also got some good commentary on land seizures, along with the treatment of indigenous and Muslim communities in India. Also some good representation of the Hijra community which I haven't seen mentioned in much Western media

 

I'm treating this like adult Pokemon and my friends aren't getting my excitement when I find a new bird.

Also I've been checking in on some juvenile Bald Eagles near me here's a picture I could get of one:

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