[-] DM_ME_SQUIRRELS@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

They clearly are. So, care to explain what "power over air" is?

[-] DM_ME_SQUIRRELS@lemmy.world 11 points 11 months ago

"Maybe he got that pepper spray can for Christmas and was dying to use it."

WTF?! Please tell me this is satire.

[-] DM_ME_SQUIRRELS@lemmy.world 14 points 11 months ago

Wait, they banned r/savethirdpartyapps? I guess they really don't give a shit about anything other than making money.

[-] DM_ME_SQUIRRELS@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

No tech background. I work as a teaching assistant and after-school teacher with grades 1-4 (not exactly, but those are the closest US equivalents). Always loved technology though so I spend as much time as I can teaching my kiddos programming and other nerdy things.

[-] DM_ME_SQUIRRELS@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

Authority is useless. It's all about building relationships, especially with the difficult kids. The rest will usually listen to you anyway just because you're an adult.

[-] DM_ME_SQUIRRELS@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

Yeah, good luck with that. I work at a school where me and my colleagues have put a great deal of effort in educating the kids we teach (grades 1-4) about what LGBTQ+ means (we're actually certified by a LGBTQ+ organization). Most of the kids could tell you what it means to be transgender, some of the ways in which LGBTQ+ people are being discriminated against and in which countries you could go to prison for being gay. Most of them also agree that people should be able to identify as whatever gender they want and that everyone else should respect that.

Despite of this, not a single kid has ever shown any desire to identify as any other gender than their biological one except for the kids who already identified as trans; the older one clearly saying they're trans and the younger one repeatedly saying things like "Why does it matter if I feel like a boy or a girl" and that they're fine with any pronouns when other kids have asked them what gender they are. We have some of immigrant kids who have trouble with pronouns and often the kids get angry with them for using the wrong pronouns ("I'm a BOY, not a girl!") and, despite of our best efforts, you can often hear them saying things like "We boys are so much better than girls". Good fucking luck convincing an 8 year old that they should identify as any other gender than the one they identify with.

[-] DM_ME_SQUIRRELS@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago

I agree with many of the comments about just choosing a direction and trying out a lot of things - that is absolutely what you should do at first.

However, I disagree with many on the part about just finding something that pays the bills and finances your hobbies. You're going to do your job for 40 hours a week for almost your whole life. There is nothing you'll spend more time doing than your job.

I've found a job that I love and it makes life much more enjoyable. While my job doesn't have an exact US equivalent, the best way to describe it is that I work as a teaching assistant during the school day and as a teacher at after-school. Sure, I still hate getting up on Mondays (and the rest of the days too, honestly), dealing with difficult parents and idiot bosses and all the other annoying shit that comes with any job, but all in all I love it and I'd gladly keep working 20-30 hours a week there for free if I won the lottery tomorrow. I could make hundreds or even a thousand dollars more every month if I took say a factory job, but it's still worth it because I genuinely have fun doing my job.

Try to find something that you really like and still pays the bills. It's worth it.

[-] DM_ME_SQUIRRELS@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

Is there any way to invalidate their trademark if there's proof that the term was used on AOL? Would be a fun way to fuck with them.

[-] DM_ME_SQUIRRELS@lemmy.world 13 points 11 months ago

That's my favorite Wikipedia page now. Love that Wikipedia takes itself so seriously that they actually list the uses of toilet paper.

[-] DM_ME_SQUIRRELS@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Isn't it automatically indexed? I mean, I can go to lemmy.world in a browser and see the content, wouldn't Google's indexing bots do the same?

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