Blasting Shit To Bits

This video is a perfect demonstration of just how badly elderly people need to be introduced to video games. Like it should be a thing in facilities and assisted living, it's like a no brainer, and could enrich these people's live SO MUCH!!!

In addition to being pastors, my parents were both also professional teachers. My mom has a master's in education.

I still wish I wasn't homeschooled.

Like, I run into folks now who get super excited when I tell them I was homeschooled because they're thinking about homeschooling if they ever have a kid and want intel, and they get super grumpy and dismissive and defensive when I tell them how absolutely debilitating it was socially, and that it really wasn't worth it just to be a year ahead in math.

And part of that is this sense that homeschooling is an opportunity for you to customize your child. It's usually an extension of a broader fantasy that that's what parenthood is about. That you can minmax your child's stats and construct the perfect build, and the only reason everyone's all screwed up is just that nobody sat down and really micromanaged their child's education enough. Other teachers (and peers, for that matter) might steer them in directions you don't want.

Even when done well, homeschooling is about removing those outside influences so you can control their environment and prioritize your own goals for them. It's a magnet for people with narcissism and control issues as a result, it's a magnet for fundamentalists, but it's also a magnet for idealists. Sometimes it even works out great, hell, there are people who for accessibility reasons will likely be taught far better at home. But that's more a "lesser of two evils" situation.

One person cannot be smarter in every single subject than every single teacher that the kid would ever have. They can't singlehandedly replace the socialization, the networking, the mentorship, and the life experiences. And to think that they can borders on megalomania.

seeing people argue on twitter that we should not be nice to strangers and that strangers do not owe you respect or kindness and that if anyone asks you to be nicer ever they are entitled and a horrible person and being nice to people you don’t know is unpaid emotional labour and if you ask anyone to do it ever you are an abusive person. ha. hahahahahahahahahahaha

individualism is a disease.

genuinely the way capitalism has completely destroyed everyone’s view of community and comradeship is insane. we are all so isolated from our fellow humans beings. i hate this. get me out of here. hahahaha please get me out of here.

this might be my favorite tiktok i have ever seen. absolute gold through and through

"War crime is a category which is starting to sound meaningless to us because everything we do qualifies as one" is not the brilliant defense of your actions you think it is

To clarify, this is a war crime, the Geneva convention bans the targeting of medical transport. There's no caveats. It doesn't actually matter who's driving it.

The last month has taught me that apparently all the Geneva convention is really good for is getting indie games to change a red medical cross to some other medical cross and that it can do fuck all about actual war crimes.

i hope the wellness industry explodes im so fucking sick of it

im not disputing the benefits of meditation excersize mindfulness etc. like that’s not the beef i just think its so fucking evil that this industry gets a boon every time there’s a global fucking catastrophe. gets trotted out like a baby pacifier shhh shh just buy more products shhh shh just subscribe to our app shh shh ignore everything else shhh shh. arent people sick of being condescended to like this you’re not a fucking sheep

the self obsession and selfishness it encourages people to cultivate as a core part of their self understanding is not a bug its a feature. don’t be moved morally or emotionally don’t get angry dont feel anything don’t do anything just take a bubble bath??

cant wait for two seconds before monetizing it its so disgusting

OP Change your FUCKING URL

disorented by the way gwar seamlessly blends into bookshelves

One struggle 🫡

if we keep getting fatter and hornier we can abolish all world militaries by 2026

idk y’all should treat fat men better. and i don’t mean mildly chubby guys i mean honest-to-god love-handles-and-double-chins fat guys. stop calling them shit like discord mods or gross weebs or nasty creeps or neckbeards or that they’re stinky or sweaty or beer bellied or whatever else. fatphobia isn’t cute, even repackaged in a neat little box of “ew men”