every dollar prevented from going to cengage or pearson is a win for college students

but their online homework and grading subscriptions that they tie in with textbooks is definitely making it harder, especially the way they pay off schools to push their texts and curriculum on professors in stem fields, it’s awful and puts students in a position where they’re forced to pay for a textbook regardless

The movement isn’t saying that every precolonial society was better than ours in every metric, or that we should roll back the clock a thousand years, all it’s saying is that we should work towards giving back what was lost through the countless genocidal policies and violent colonialism that indigenous people across the world have faced.

Also I will say, at least in North America, which I’m most knowledgeable of, many indigenous societies were absolutely far more egalitarian and democratic than most western democracies, but are painted in a far different light when reading of them from the colonial perspective.

anecdotal but i ended up switching from ddg and searxng to brave because of how much more relevant and well structured i found their search results to be so i’m not sure i agree with the findings for that column

absolutely hate the company and am skeptical of their practices, but even considering all that their search toes the line of privacy and functionality better than some others, at least in the case of a daily user who needs a service that lies somewhere in the middle of those 2 extremes

I’ve felt the same way, not only for what you said on the trans experience and atmosphere, but also in a more personal sense where a lot of the time posts like that start making me think critically about how I’m perceived, which is something I try my best to ignore to be able to get through the day lol.

I do get that a lot of us don’t really have any support networks or healthy outlets for our struggles with dysphoria and could really use someone to help ground our anxieties, so I don’t want that to be taken away from those who really need that, but on the other hand this is a pretty closely knit public forum where posts are seen by many people who are less vocal so i’m curious to see how others feel

Not at all, from my experience they teach you how to use the websites and programs needed to complete assignments and nothing more, same went for teachers and faculty who would have no idea how to do things like change inputs on displays, turn on projectors, tell the difference between online and local versions of software, etc

this looks sweet, will probs try this next time i need a new spool, looks way sturdier than the one I’m using currently