BeFlatXIII

The US government is more likely to be a threat to my personal freedom than the Chinese.

> 95% of those descriptions have nothing to do with anything that happens later in the book, other than hiding the one tiny detail that actually does become relevant

The foundation of the mystery novel.

The problems with teaching symbolism using novels are:

1. Novels considered “curriculum-approved literature” often have symbolism that is irrelevant to a student’s life. It was placed there intentionally by the author, and was blatant to all readers when it was published, but it is indistinguishable to a student from the teacher making things up.

2. Teachers who aren't the best end up teaching from a “it's true because it's true” mindset, which may as well be “because I made it up and said so.” These are quite common.

3. Or the teacher draws from a pool of stock symbolic and thematic answers for all novels. Astute students will spot that immediately and treat it as a game of guessing the teacher’s answer rather than engaging with the text.

Stories like this are why there should be competency tests before letting people be fertile.

Speed and effort arguments are negated for southpaws.

But is there a difference between cursive and block lettering? I fully agree with your overall point about handwritten notes being far superior to typed notes. It forces you to filter out extraneous information instead of being a live transcriptionist of your professor.

Seems like a skill issue on your end.

The kids don't hate classroom reading because of the reading; they hate it because of the associated curriculum. “Why were the curtains blue?” is a skill wasted on children. I only gained an appreciation for such meta-reading during a weeks-long TV Tropes bender during a spat of unemployment after getting fired from my first big-boy job.

I type like a drunkard from the autocorrection on modern phones.

Fun hobby project with the option to change that if someone offers a big enough bag of money.

Borders of Westphalian nation-states being relevant is recent, unlike personal and tribal territories.

What are those reasons?

Toddlers like those characters and aren't likely to skip ads. Good for revenue.

As if that would stop folks from using competitors to make knockoff Disney content.

Why would the Chinese government care about US export restrictions in the first place?

Not the heckin' ToS!

Are those 2 hours of doomscrolling consecutive? That's the big difference in finding time to game.

I miss the days when I'd click every link and follow every rabbit hole. 100% completionism of collection games. It's shaped how my life has turned out, for better and worse.

True. A better way to say it would have been to say that when taking the blame carries professional or financial risk, the smart move is to avoid it. When everyone cooperates, everyone wins (until the system breaks down); if all but one cooperates, it gets pinned on a fall guy (to the same effect).

> I learned to trust that someone understands the code and between blames and Slack I can almost always hunt that person down.

Does your company not have many retirements, firings, or employees who quit to work elsewhere?

On the flip side, the drugs may have decreased the ideations. The entire point of it being a trial is that it's unknown.

Then why don't you tell the room who it is?

Nobody wants to be responsible because those who are responsible end up taking the blame.

Perhaps a blindfolded person and a person who has always been blind have very different expectations of how to use software, such that they would give divergent opinions on what makes a good screen reader UI.

Would you like a golden sticker?

Do they do actual damage, or is this egghead economic theory?

“Paid attention”, you're probably right. Seen them enough to remember? Forum signatures were far harder to miss than Discord bios.

The problem is that most computer-touching is too easily self-taught to have a proper union that won't immediately be undermined by those who offer their services without asking permission.

You're one of the 1% who reads profile bios.