Hazel

Not just eating in bed, eating chips.

*shudders*

Well, I call them weird because it’s not like harmful things suddenly stop being harmful when you turn 18. Why protect children but let adults fuck themselves with harmful and addictive behaviors? It’s not like there’s some switch being flipped where one’s responsibility somehow fundamentally changes. For things with potential harms we should be asking ourselves what responsible engagement looks like at differing ages instead of drawing some arbitrary line in the sand between total ban and free-for-all. If we want social media and porn at all we should regulate good versions of those things.

And teaching people responsible engagement by banning any engagement with it outright is very ineffective. I think we should do the, admittedly much more difficult, work of scaffolded teaching. Engaging with the subject under guidance first before letting adults figure things out themselves. This would require people admitting however that teens like the same fucked up things adults do, which seems very scary to many people.

Age limits really are weird and ineffective solutions.

It’s millennial lingo actually.

That guy is a real historical weapons connaisseur.

Go watch Jaadugar right now!

River of Gods by Ian McDonald.

And probably his other books also, but I haven’t read them yet.

True. I do wonder if there’s not some element to it which works the other way round. Many rich people spend their excessive wealth in order to distance themselves from communities. Private mansions outside the city, yachts, private islands…

Now there’s also plenty of reasons for them to obscure their activities. Not only because some of them are morally abject but mostly because they can’t let anyone notice that they’re entirely unremarkable. But there must be something that makes isolation appealing to them and being an unremarkable part of a community seem horrible. Though maybe that’s just a learned trait under capitalism.

In order to get rich you have to dislike people in general it seems.

I don’t think it should be like that across Canada, but nobody bothers making different packagings.

(Disclaimer: not Canadian.)

Yikes, that does sound bad.

I mean, I really don’t notice it with regular use, though my monitor is an IPS Black one, so might be less bad. And I definitely notice discoloration on TN panels given how close I am to my monitor =P

all the defects

Are there more than the backlight bleed?

the additional workforce would come from other segments - which finally means reduction in standard of living for the average citizen.

This is a great point, one also addressed by Kropotkin in The Conquest of Bread. However, you’re assuming all labor meaningfully contributes to our standard of living and produces “societal achievements”. I’m not so sure about that, I have yet to see any benefit from e.g. the advertising industry.

As Kropotkin and Graeber both argue, capitalism breeds many bullshit jobs that help capital accumulation but don’t actually contribute to a better society. Transferring those workers to necessary jobs alone would allow us to work less without a meaningful loss in standard of living.

Will that get us to 4/10/10? Probably not, but I like to be a little aspirational. If you only demand a workable 40h workweek that’s all you’re getting, if that. Any further demand will simply be met with “but we already gave you what you wanted you ungrateful peasant!” :)

We probably need closer to 10hrs of sleep (e.g.).

I think a 24 hr workweek is pretty ideal, distributed as one prefers (3x8 up to 6x4), so 4hrs work per day not counting Sundays.

4/10/10 is what we should strive for in the current age I think.

Batteries can be recycled pretty well actually.

There are limits to how far people are willing to go, and you’re talking to someone who already bought a Fairphone. Maybe not someone you should be overly concerned with, all things considered.

Shrubbery.

I find Simard pleasant to read. When the Forest Breathes is her most recent afaik.

Against the Machine by Kingsnorth is top of my to-read pile. From the blurbs and leafing through it it seems to end on a fairly positive note.

Eh, I don’t necessarily agree, you’re testing a child’s ability to come up with a solution moreso than their ability to follow instructions. Other answers are possible, and maybe a student prefers their own way. But one way of doing it, like a number line, should be so ingrained in all students that anyone knows at least that one way of doing it, imo.

Probably a number line? Draw a line to show it’s only 2 jumps to 20 but 4 equally spaced jumps to 40.

As a teacher that’s what I would’ve done at least. Number lines are quite effective at helping kids visualize numbers.

This response doesn’t seem to indicate this particular teacher has adequately explained what the expected answer is though.