Bullshit! I found evidence of their proliferation in my cupboard and behind the bed.

If subtitles are on I may as well be deaf because I’m no longer watching with those damn words getting in the way. That’s what books are for.

That sounds like a wonderful journey of reflection.

My personal view is that hope as a foundation is complete bullshit. My foundation is, in the most positive version of nihilism, “ultimately, nothing matters.” I look at it as a clean slate. You get to decide what is important to you and persue it! I study all of nature to find purpose or meaning. I take joy in human ingenuity. I take sorrow in callousness. I appreciate what I have and want better for everyone.

Hope is a fine outlook but not something to lean on. It can kill motivation when expecting some ‘other’ to fix things. That can reward the callous and hamper ingenuity. It does not drive people to be better but can drive them to follow depraved systems of belief when they are promised post mortem reward or punishment.

That’s a good point. I haven’t used drafting software in a long time, but that shows this imagery is a practiced skill rather than an innate ability.

Must be nice having an inner voice.

That looks like a healthy cry. She will go through much self reflection and come about as a better person.

Nope! She has spent her life with a religious as her backbone and now will seek it as a crutch with greater desparation. Trauma…survival mode…etc…

Teachers are generally quite adaptable. We have asjustes for AI in our classrooms. We have adjuated to not teaching up to standards because we would be fined by our states for pushing some imaginary agenda. We have changed our entire curriculum the week before classes start because the County curriculum specialist had a bright idea.

The reality is that we have to navigate arbitrary law, we have to not do what’s best for our classroom and teaching style because someone who hardly spent any time in a classroom thinks they know better. We have to do all this while being blamed for the behavior of students when their parents block the school phone numbers.

Some of my students act like that. You are in school, put them away!

Okay, so, I completed this impossible task. Now, how do I get coffee into my cup?

I would read this series. I can’t wait until he throws his mouse out to fight a snakE. Or when he tries to keep a snapping turtle in his pocket.

I think what you are calling toys are what I would call addictions. They can get innovative with finding ways to access those addictions, but really they just want that mind numbing, repetative flashing lights and noises. Anything to shut down and avoid thinking, like a bunch of zombies.

Sorry. That’s just the rant of a 7th grade teacher.

This was fun when my business address was some office I’d never been to.

The sun is a fiery, life-giving snail that is creeps across the pale blue outer shell of the great mother snail we live upon.

How can you possibly pet all the goats? Google AI helped me calculate that there are over a billion goats in the world and nearly 2 million new goats born every day.

edit: You’d have to pet 1.7 million goats per day to finish in 1 year. this doesn’t seem to add up. sorry. I tried. it’s not possible is all I’m saying. But if you could, Baphomet would probably find you.

Okay. I don’t understand all the different instances yet. I got instructions from someone on how to navigate it but haven’t sat down to try.

Nah. I had my feed highly curated to active and sane subs within my interests. It was too good to be true.

I miss Reddit. R. I. P.

Is there a political community you found on lemmy that understands how this works, like you do. I see way too many Democrat apologists on these popular communities.

There could be a prequel based on Eyeball Kid by Tom Waits.

Pretty sure those shingles are asbestos as well.