Glide

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[–] Glide@lemmy.ca 10 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

I know it's funny to insinuate that brain damage caused people to become conservatives, but I think we should accept that the culture around aggressive, full-contact sports tends to be conservative to start with. Surround yourself with that culture day-in, day-out, and before long you find yourself ingrained in more than just their favorite sports.

But I mean, that doesn't mean it's not the brain damage. A thing can be more than one thing.

[–] Glide@lemmy.ca 7 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

This is some "people aren't choosing healthy food, so raise the taxes on sugar" shit.

How about building a society and economy where having children doesn't feel like an overwhelming detriment to the parent's and child's well-being?

I got curious and started Googling. Apparently China has VERY recently created a subsidy for parents, and finally begun creating support for early childhood care centers, which have traditionally been apparently prohibitively expensive due to privatization (In MY "Communist" China?). It's good to see there is some actual social progress being implement alongside the hair-brained capitalist schemes that only serve to do harm to the poorest classes. But hey, fuck the points if it keeps the economy going, right?

[–] Glide@lemmy.ca 22 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

The only war is class war.

[–] Glide@lemmy.ca 2 points 23 hours ago

He did not explicity state this, no. But the entire premise of the invisible hand metaphor is to show that a core function of the capitalist system is that it moves wealth to those that bring good to their society. The natural inference from this is that wealth is representative of virtue, ie, if Roblox was doing net bad things, it wouldn't be worth millions.

Don't get me wrong, fuck the various Catholic attempts to justify wealth as a virtue too, but the issue is as prevalent in the secular world as it is in the non-secular.

[–] Glide@lemmy.ca 18 points 2 days ago (6 children)

It's even worse than that.

At it's root, capitalism, as shown via Adam Smith's "invisible hand" theory, infers that wealth equals virtue. To receive wealth is to have provided a benefit to society, and to be bereft of wealth is to contribute little while taking much. This system inadvertedly places a dollar value on the abuse of minors in Roblox: any suffering caused is of no consequence to the great good being provided to society, otherwise Roblox would go bankrupt.

CEOs and corporations take the moral high ground because they live within a system that tells them that wealth is virtue, and they are overflowing in wealth. Until we accept that the core principals of capitalism are flawed, we will never begin holding bad actor's appropriately accountable.

[–] Glide@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 days ago

And yet, you play the role of Chinese-MAGA. It's unfortunate that the irony is lost on you.

[–] Glide@lemmy.ca 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

C'mon man, there's a lot of things to be said for how braindead of a take OP's is, but throwing slurs around isn't the play either.

Or, think about it this way: suggesting they were born facing serious mental and intellectual struggles is excusing their behaviour. This isn't something they did because they were born unlucky. It's a choice they made. They should have to own that, and we should hold them accountable as best as we can.

[–] Glide@lemmy.ca 13 points 2 days ago (2 children)

It's about time for the Imperialists to start this again, I see.

[–] Glide@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

To be clear, I am extremely pro-immigration, but many of the immigration policies as written are tools used to suppress wages. This is the reason we see so many immigrants, often with degrees and training we refuse to recognize in Canada, in low paying, minimum wage jobs. I personally had the pleasure of working with a wonderful woman from the middle east who was a qualified teacher, stuck working 30 hours a week in a grocery store deli because we refused to recognize her degree or decade of experience. She spoke perfect English, was incredibly pleasant, and visibly intelligent and well-mannered, but she's a brown immigrant, so fuck it, minimum wage for her.

We can take immigrants at the rate we have been while not using them to further wealth inequalities. But as a friend of mine says, the purpose of a system is what it does, and the current iteration is not about creating a multi-cultural nation.

For additional clarity, this isn't to say that you're wrong and immigration isn't being used as a scapegoat. I'd just argue that the problem is more substantial than simply calling the issue a scapegoat suggests. There is a real problem, but it's not in that we're accepting immigrants at all; it's the conditions we've agreed to accept them under.

[–] Glide@lemmy.ca 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Feverishly replacing your one-liners with long-winded lies, you mean? It was nice to see how under your skin I am, but honestly man, let the hatred go. Maybe it'll be easier to engage with reality.

[–] Glide@lemmy.ca 0 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Watching you frustratedly update this in real time is very amusing.

[–] Glide@lemmy.ca -1 points 3 days ago (5 children)

Yikes, you are crashing out really hard right now. This must be very frustrating for you.

The only thing I've said in your entire mind break is that Xi Jiping is a dictator. Which, by defintion through control of every facet of the government and media of China, he is.

Sorry you seem to think white people are superior for some reason. No race is, but it must be hard to see the world through that lens all the time.

 

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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