adam_y @ adam_y @lemmy.world

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Really cementing his place as a skidmark on the pages of history.

A lot of prejudice that was very much in the open too.

OK, I think the first thing to say is that you aren't at fault here.

Folk work at different speeds and it sounds like your school has adopted a rather awful way of teaching and assessing students. It's ableist and unproductive.

I want you to know that.

But, here are some things that might help you keep up when you need to.

The first trick is ti always start with a quick plan. Whatever the assignment, give yourself a few minutes at the start to plan the task and try to break it down into chunks.

For example, if it is writing an essay, you would break it down into an introduction, a main body and a conclusion. Bullet point list the main points of the essay you want to hit too.

If you are comfortable doing do, take how much time you have and divide up across the plan. It might be something like five minutes for the introduction, three minutes for each point if the essay and five minutes for the conclusion... And practice sticking to that.

As a teacher, I'd always look at student plans, especially if they had run out of time, to see if they understood more than they could answer in the time they had. Most did.

Another thing I'd reccomend is perhaps talking to your teachers. Find one that you feel comfortable with and ask them for advice. Generally, teachers want to support you in learning. If you di well it looks good on them.

I do hope things get better for you. I know it might knock your confidence, but it really is no reflection of your ability.

The lay offs were just a small part of the many examples I gave.

However, what does that represent if not a dismantling of the state apparatus? It is quite literally a move towards fascism.

As I responded to the other comment where you say that... You are presuming the 50 millions are all on the same side in that scenario, when the rest of the world sees the US as incredibly divided. There are many more people that, democratically at least, supported a fascist leaning president than didn't.

If a violent uprising does happen... You won't be being shot at by the army or cops. It will be the guy that lives down the street.

That's a fair enough answer... But from the outside we see a country riddled with guns and one where that deterrent effect doesn't seem to work in practice.

It also, somewhat, contradicts your claim that it stops your government from becoming fascist.

I think that's because you base it on a false premise that those 50 millions of people will be on the same side... When we can clearly see a country completely divided between those that actively welcome fascism and those that don't.

None of this is a criticism, just an observation, and I respect you for your desire to never fire a gun at another human. I think we all wish that for you.

First thing, no apologies needed friend... You really didn't speak over me, and replies take as long as they take.

Second thing... I wish I had read more of his work when I met him. Instead we just chatted about the world. He has such a broad intelligence and he was very kind with it.

If you were ever setting up a pub quiz team, I'd highly recommend. * *

He's a fellow northerner, and there's something about his work that really speaks of that. There's such a strange creative history up here that gets attention, but also seems to get subsumed. We chatted about that.

And for me, Alice in Sunderland is the one I give to other people, but Luther Arkwright is the one I'll happily return to.

Genuine question from someone who isn't an American...

How far does this shit show have to go before you act on it?

See, I figure you keep guns to stop tyrants, but how much of a tyrant? Like, one that threatens to invade sovereign countries? One that makes thousands jobless, or seeks to disenfranchise whole sections of the population? What about one that is trying to shift the federal reserve into a cryptocurrency that they can openly defraud? Maybe one who renegs upon the deals the US has made with the world?

Really, I'm just asking if those guns do anything other than give you something to hold whilst you watch it happen.

The only part that's unique to gaming is that gamers are the most toxic community in the internet.

I wish this wasn't as true as it is.

I don't think this is a gaming problem.

It is a discourse problem.

People engage in absolutes. They either love a thing or hate a thing. There's no nuance.

And it must be made to cater for them, there's no expectation that it will contain choices they don't approve of.

And this stance, this modern relationship with the world permeates everything, especially forms of media.

You see it in films and books... Fans and stans and folk trying to take it down. There is no nuance or middle ground.

People don't accept that, perhaps, something isn't just "not for them". That's why you get grown men complaining about the direction of children's shows they used to watch.

And this is compounded with social media where polarisation, blunt takes and contradiction are the primary drivers of engagement.

Audience error.

That's fair enough.

I recently started editing video in Resolve, but decades of using Premiere means my muscle memory is heavily biased.

I suspect that might be the same for you.

In what ways do you find it more convenient?

Yep. Cool. There's a place for them, certainly.

Still don't think that's reading though.

I say unpopular because those that do think audiobook are "books" tend to be very, very vocal about how wrong I am when I express that opinion... As if I'm somehow undermining their enjoyment or the legitimacy of their consumption.

The 52% on my side are just sat quietly reading books and minding their own business.

I think you make some interesting points... Content is important.

Although I think there's such a desperation to get people into the reading habit that anything is considered good enough.

Remember the Harry Potter book when they first came out. I seem to remember a lot of chat about how those books were low effort, but that they encouraged a lot of life-long readers.

I know that here, in the UK, our education system tends to make people resent reading. Furthermore it instills some awful habits... Like feeling you have to finish a book even if you aren't enjoying it (which usually means you stop reading altogether).

Anyway. That's a long way of saying I think you are right.

I know this is an unpopular opinion, but listening to audio books isn't reading.

It is a different sensory experience. It uses different parts of the brain and imagination too.

It is far closer to listening to a radio play.

I'm not saying it is any worse or better, just different.

I'm not sure that conflating the two is useful, particularly when talking about reading habits.

Prompt to hallucinating?

Do you mean "Prone"?

That is the sort of mistake an Llm would make.

Thanks, that guy.

Nice listicle, but would have been better to write something inciteful as to why all these sequels failed so hard.

It wasn't just the cash grab, but a fundamental misunderstanding of what made the previous film great.

Kids loved watching the original RoboCop because it was R rated. It was a comic book film with gore and guns. It was illicit.

Then they turned him into a cartoon character for kids.

Police academy became a paradox of itself. You could argue that the public perception of the police had changed significantly between the original and Mission to Moscow too. It was no longer funny to be entertained by the thought of inept police.

Anyway, that's just off the top of my head.

I bet the idiots have shares in the dental industry though.

When this is all over. One way or another. And the dust has settled. Please remember that even moderate republicans supported him.