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Stultus Maximus posted:Jesus yes. That made me sweat more than the test itself. My hand was cramping and I was trying to remember how to make letters. I did a quick Google search about why they do that, but not only could I not find out, but also hardly anyone was even speculating on that, rather just treating it as an annoying given. For the test that's supposed to take us into grad school, and environment supposedly about critical thinking.
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CuwiKhons posted:I got caught in the exact moment of cursive going out of style. All through elementary school and some parts of middle school, my teachers were like "You must write in cursive - it's the only thing high school teachers and college professors will accept!" and it was loving awful. By the time I hit high school? Printed papers were where it was at and once I was in college, if I'd tried to turn in a handwritten paper, even if it was written in print, my professors would have looked at me like I was an idiot. I long for the day no one knows how to write in cursive because goddamn it's loving hard to read. I remember hearing that in elementary school as well, and looking back, I'm pretty sure just the kind of bullshit they tell kids rather than having to defend sinking all that time into a useless skill. Having talked with people in their 70's and 80's today, when they were in college, they were expected to turn in papers that had been typed on a typewriter. I can't imagine a professor, or anyone else, wanting to read 40 different 10 page papers all written in messy rear end cursive.
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Samurai Sanders posted:I always wondered, when I'm old am I gonna be like "kids these days don't know how to do something they will probably never encounter again in their lives and that's bad"? And if so, how old? https://twitter.com/Klonick/status/1085685104901533696?s=19
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Remember when EBay bid sniping bots was cutting edge internet technology.
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For work, I will occasionally deal with teenagers who are utterly baffled by Word documents. I guess they're doing their schoolwork in Google Docs or something?
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The North American International Auto Show is going on in Detroit right now and the DSA is protesting outside it because GM is laying off 15,000 employees and leaving a whole bunch of communities in Michigan hanging. Rashida Tlaib was protesting with them, presumably still calling Trump a motherfucker. What do you think Motown's favorite vroom vroom cartoonist will be talking about this week?
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After The War posted:For work, I will occasionally deal with teenagers who are utterly baffled by Word documents. I guess they're doing their schoolwork in Google Docs or something? Lol who tf uses Word anymore grandpa
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Jan 19, 2019 05:59
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I parsed that as some kind of spy code phrase.
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So the Prickly City arc was "You got Trump Chud T Rex, and you got DSA Ostrich. Both are clearly equally objectionable extremists! So sad we can't just get along. Wouldn't you like to vote for a nice Reasonable Republican in the middle here?" Is he nude?
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Like holy poo poo the level of irony of saying that the people calling out actual problems are sticking their heads in the sand is astounding.
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AnoHito posted:Yes and there are still people, occasionally on these very forums even, that get irrationally angry about it even thought they should've stopped like 30 years ago. It doesn't anger me, but as an archivist who manages hundreds of boxes' worth of documents written in cursive, it is a bit sad to show students a letter from 50 years ago and have them stare blankly at it like it was written in German blackletter.
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Gaybies nomination: Best Edit/Parody Gaybies nomination: Most Willfully Dense This is going to be a helluva category to pare down at the end of the year.
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Zesty posted:What makes you say that? Big tiddy Amazonian coast guard woman.
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Katt posted:Big tiddy Amazonian coast guard woman.  ...? What?
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In Norway we have a communist party in parliament and it's considered perfectly normal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Party_(Norway)
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After The War posted:For work, I will occasionally deal with teenagers who are utterly baffled by Word documents. I guess they're doing their schoolwork in Google Docs or something? As a teacher, Google Docs is great. Every kid can work together from their laptop on the same thing and you can watch them do it from your own screen. And there is a record of who wrote what when you need to show their specific work. And you still get dumbass kids typing "gently caress" in the chat where I can see it and their name is right there 
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"Why can't we all work together to find common ground?" "Hi I'm a socialist and have you conside-" "Let me stop you right there, I mean the common ground that I'm already occupying."
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Something about this comic in particular is making me want to take a break from this thread for a while. Imagine immediately shutting down someone in conversation and then going all ~tHeRe WaS a CoNvErSaTiOn?~ as if you had the moral high ground. Couple this with the fact that this conversation was actually just a cartoonist putting an imaginary argument in his head onto paper and I fear the brainworms will become contagious.
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Chef Boyardeez Nuts posted:"Let me stop you right there, I mean the common ground that I'm already occupying." "Well okay, I'll come over to your common ground"
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The Duggler posted:Something about this comic in particular is making me want to take a break from this thread for a while. Run while you loving can.
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The Duggler posted:Something about this comic in particular is making me want to take a break from this thread for a while. E: Nope, nevermind, you already said that.
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Samurai Sanders posted:I always wondered, when I'm old am I gonna be like "kids these days don't know how to do something they will probably never encounter again in their lives and that's bad"? And if so, how old? I got annoyed when I heard the latest design fad was putting books with the spine first into shelves, so only the text block is visible, meaning I am probably in the old man club already.
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I love that unconsciously and immediately dismissing the ostrich based on his stated group affiliation is actually a micro-aggresion.
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:Couldnt think of anything to relabel the phone Just relabel the phone "WIFEBEATING".
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ungulateman posted:i can't say anything with certainty but i suspect i might be one of the youngest people alive to use Netscape Explorer Netscape Navigator. I'm now calling your browser cred into question.
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I live in S. Korea and Internet Explorer is required to use so many websites, especially government and banking sites. 
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Charlz Guybon posted:I live in S. Korea and Internet Explorer is required to use so many websites, especially government and banking sites. So much for everything being smaller and faster in Korea 
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The thread is a loving goldmine of misogyny: https://twitter.com/ConradSpoke/status/1085611443993554944
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Charlz Guybon posted:I live in S. Korea and Internet Explorer is required to use so many websites, especially government and banking sites.
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Charlz Guybon posted:I live in S. Korea and Internet Explorer is required to use so many websites, especially government and banking sites. Samurai Sanders posted:Yeah I'm gonna have to use it to do my Japanese taxes soon. I mean, either that or go to the tax office and use their PCs there, which also run some ancient version of IE. Is there some reason that government websites in east Asia require IE? Any explanation at all other then bureaucratic inertia?
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