Glide

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[–] Glide@lemmy.ca 14 points 3 days ago (9 children)

My man, I can't grow up on Kevin Smith films and miss the opportunity to sit between him and Jason Mewes. Are we kidding?

[–] Glide@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This isn't a competition of who is a bigger victim. People are suffering in both halves of the world, and you're here telling American's they should be killing themselves in protest because their president is out there committing war crimes. The irony of your self-righteous attitude, as you sit here projecting your pearl-clutching sense of moral rightness onto others who are just struggling to keep breathing, is fucking insane.

America is not my country. I just don't let bullies spew shit without being told. Do yourself and the rest of the world a favor, and reflect on the things you say.

[–] Glide@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I am choosing to tell you the fuck off. Don't mistake this for an exchange of ideals. You are behaving in a disgusting fashion, and you need to be told. I respect that it comes from a good place, because we ultimately want the same thing, but to treat people who already feel powerless as morally bankrupt is beyond absurd.

You are kicking the powerless while they are down, because you don't like the outcome. Get some perspective.

[–] Glide@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Jesus fucking christ, dude. Get some perspective, or shut the fuck up. They don't "got theirs," and choosing to "help" is quick suicide for no gain.

Honestly, it's disgusting to watch someone like you parade some absurd moral high ground while having absolutely no grasp on the lives others are living.

[–] Glide@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It sounds to me more that they think antisemitism is morally correct based on their aforementioned conspiracies.

Because apparently blaming the people committing the crimes isn't enough. You need to perpetuate hate against an entire ethnic/religious group, otherwise your opinion is invalid as "Liberal tears."

Anyone who looks at everything that is listed in the Epstein files and concludes, "this is why Judaism is bad," needs to pull their head out of their racist ass.

[–] Glide@lemmy.ca 20 points 1 week ago

Appreciate this.

Trump's political supporters say and do enough batshit, immoral things that we don't need to be lying just to make our points.

[–] Glide@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 weeks ago

The documentation on how China "solved" homelessness exists, mostly thanks to previous citizens that left.

Unfortunately, reliable modern information is scarce, because that's what you get with an authoritarian regime obsessed with information control and social engineering.

[–] Glide@lemmy.ca 15 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The goal of keeping children naive towards sexual acts is to make them vulnerable and attractive to pedophiles. The Albertan government is working to infantilize children so that they better appeal to pedophiles.

[–] Glide@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

The same can be said of America's culturally in groups.

Unfortunately, thanks to authoritarian control of the media, it's hard to tell exactly how many labour camps filled with "totally not homeless" people are propping up China's economy.

[–] Glide@lemmy.ca 9 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

It's a little sad when our collective culture has convinced us that any woman being unapologetically horny online must be a bot.

I've definitely seen humans "behave like this." Spend 15 seconds on any short-form social media, and it's thirst post after thirst trap post, ad infinitum. We have had posters here in Lemmy that pretty perpetually post boomer-humor style content that aimlessly sexualizes women. But a woman goes "fuck it, I want to do that," and it must be a bot, because that's the culture we've built.

Women aren't really different from men. Men act up being horny all the time. Women are like that too; we just look down on them when they do. It's about time we stop claiming to be beyond petty sexism while continuing to seperate the genders so unabashedly.

[–] Glide@lemmy.ca 19 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (8 children)

They really need to stop devaluing the meaning of the word "racism."

Equating the life of individual privilege that the leader of an autocratic nation lives with an oppressed minority is despicable. Even from the (completely dishonest) position that leaders like Kim Jong Un are actively making their countries better, there's no perspective that allows one to depict someone in such a position of power as suffering akin to the murdered and marginalized communities that genuine victims of racism have to suffer through.

We hate Kim Jong Un because he's a fascist, narcissistic piece of shit, warping the narrative in his own country to justify living a life of luxury while his people suffer. Race has nothing to do with it.

 

Apparently "nationalism is bad" is an uncivil take. Unless there's another reason someone would ban this comment... 🤔

 

So the situation is this: I am a junior high ELA teacher and I want to bring some videogames into the classroom. What I have to work with are the students Chromebooks. At first glance, I figured I'd throw some short, playable without install games on some flash drives and we could play through whatever game it is, and then talk about it like any other short story. Bring in the relevant terms, connect it to the course outcomes, easy. Then I began to learn the limitations of Chromebooks and how challenging it can be to run Windows .exe's on them, or find games that run natively on a Chromebook without installing.

Getting the rights to install anything on these devices is functionally out of the question. The request would have to go through the school board. Even if they agree that it's a good idea, the practicality of giving me the rights to install things without opening it up so the students can install things and without consuming an inordinate amount of class time in just setting up is unlikely. Ideally, I need games that can run on a Chromebook without running an install, or games that run in browser.

I'm googling around and considering emulator options. If anyone has experience in playing games in these circumstances, I'd love some options and insights. Additionally if people have recommendations for games that would be particularly good (narrative focused), I'd love to hear them. It's 2023; these kids don't need to learn what conflict is through short stories written by white men in the 1920s. With all the push towards student-focused learning and differentiated education, I want to start giving them choice and breadth in how they take in these concepts.

Thanks in advance for anyone who gives me their time and expertise on this.

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