@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems2026-04-26 18:14:50
A long time ago, when I was still going to school, I often thought about some class or other: "What's the point of this? I'm just wasting time on stuff I won't ever need. And my grades are going down because of it." So I supported all these bright ideas like having schools work the curriculum out with the industry.
Nowadays, I know better. The purpose of school is not to produce ready-made employees. It's to give people a wider perspective. Perhaps they won't use most of what they learn there, perhaps they'll have bad memories of some classes, but that doesn't really matter. What does matter is that you learn how to learn, how to reason, how to think.
I hate what's been happening to schools lately. They are becoming conveyor belts: we throw children on them, throw specific knowledge at them and see what sticks, we do exams and classify them. We expect to get a thoughtless laborer at the end, someone ready to take a specific job immediately.
A human whose only purpose in life is mindless labor and mindless consumption. Metaphorically, someone who's just going to spend their time off by drinking beer in the front of the TV and breeding more babies. Babies who will eventually become more cogs in the machine, fueling the infinite growth, trying to prevent this mindless system from falling apart.
#AntiCapitalism
@cdarwin@c.im2026-04-22 02:47:52
A parasite that has been eating people for 3,500 years is about to be wiped off the planet.
It infected 3.5 million people in 1986.
Last year, it infected 10. And I have not seen it make a single front page
https://www.resete…
@DieGesellschafterinLang@swiss.social2026-02-14 12:12:09
#Wien "Man möchte gerne, dass die Filmgeschichte weitergeht, dass sie sich häutet und noch einmal frisch anfängt." - Alexander Kluge, Filmemacher, Schriftsteller und bildender Künstler feiert seinen 94. Geburtstag.
@Koffietje@social.linux.pizza2026-01-27 03:01:46
@karlailona@mastodon.social Ooh, same! vBulletin was my jam! The federation aspect really does make it feel like “a bunch of little forums”, but more convenient.
Also did some HTML and CSS in the past, before falling out of it, but then rediscovering the joys of programming as an adult!
If you ever need someone to learn Dutch with, let me know! (Finnish always seemed like such a daunting language to me… 😅)
@rasterweb@mastodon.social2026-02-21 13:22:39
Just email someone. I always like it when people email me about some weird blog post or project I’ve done.
https://goodinternetmagazine.com/why-i-email-complete-strangers/
@floheinstein@chaos.social2026-03-19 11:42:19
Looks like someone broke @… again
web.archive.org results in a 503 error.
It's almost as if someone might be interested in people not remembering things from the past...
#webarchive
@davidaugust@mastodon.online2026-02-18 13:40:00
I woke up angry today.
ICE spokesperson Lindsay Williams is a liar, who is bad at lying.
“Asked if the ICE officers chased Lopez, Williams said: ‘Chased? I wouldn’t say that. They followed him until he crashed.’”
Wouldn’t say that? How about: ICE was committing crime (their standard procedure), someone died, they’re the killers. Your people killed a school teacher, Williams.
Have the day you deserve, you apologist scum.
@aral@mastodon.ar.al2026-03-19 07:59:39
Oh no, looks like someone is going to be very careless by a window soon. @… https://mastodon.gougere.fr/@cyclotopie/116251115963348037
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk2026-02-13 16:00:19
@floheinstein@chaos.social2026-04-22 04:48:12