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EoinCannon posted:They're a good way to support local artists. Those gift shops that sell local type stuff always seem to have a rack of them and they usually just have some art on the front and no trite message inside so you use them for anything. Yeah this old lady I garden with makes them and sells them at street markets and stuff as a hobby/income and they're really well done. She has no other income except I assume some pension or superannuation and is not able to do much else. That's not to say supermarket hallmark cards hold any benefit though
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Duck and Cover posted:The problem with self checkout is it's lovely. The bagging area is small, some of the times it has a weight sensor so if you can't fit poo poo on it it'll complain, the scanning is picky so you're spending time finding the bar code, if you use those price scan guns Stop and Shop has they might not be sufficiently charged. I'm on team really big vending machine. I've honestly never had a problem with using the self checkout. I just don't like new things anymore.
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The self checkouts with the guns are definitely way better. I can blast through an order pretty quickly with one of those. One of the benefits of an American public school education is proficiency in firearms at least
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BONE DOG posted:Lettuce is expensive now Romaine fluctuates between $3.99 to $8.99, CAD, depending on the week. Limes go between $.89 and $1.50 There is no way to know if they will be “okay for 2021” price or “loving future” price when you set out for food I drink my gin with lemon now because I can get more out of a lemon than limes
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Love that sites putting up a huge popup to tell me I’m using an adblocker is catching on like wildfire.
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CubanMissile posted:Love that sites putting up a huge popup to tell me I’m using an adblocker is catching on like wildfire. ctrl+w to fix it
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google search no longer lists any of my blog posts. They only come up in links to forum and reddit posts for some reason, unless I do the full blog name, but no one's ever going to search for that. To be fair, after I disabled the advertising on it (which got 0 clicks in 5 years) it looks like it broke it for ALL search engines. I guess if I don't have advertising on the site, none of the search engines care anymore.
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CubanMissile posted:Love that sites putting up a huge popup to tell me I’m using an adblocker is catching on like wildfire. i like how websites stopped using popups in 2008 because everyone agreed they were annoying and lovely, now every site from freeclownporn.biz to the new york times has popups but its ~technically~ just an overlay so its fine
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Manky Tungeon posted:i like how websites stopped using popups in 2008 because everyone agreed they were annoying and lovely, now every site from freeclownporn.biz to the new york times has popups but its ~technically~ just an overlay so its fine Yeah I decided my block lists weren't sufficient and am trying PopUpOff. Don't like the "HEY WE USE COOKIES" privacy overlays, the chat overlays, the newsletter overlays. Duck and Cover fucked around with this message at 17:45 on Nov 23, 2023 |
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Wilkins Micawber posted:The john Oliver from last week about dollar stores was honestly eye opening. Really crazy poo poo, like it is sometimes a constant nightmare warzone in these places. I'd recommend also watching the Wendover video on dollar stores, it covers all of the other horrible poo poo dollar stores do that Last Week Tonight hit quickly in order to focus on the labor conditions.
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I am a teacher. We now have a Special Amazing App to give exams with. It is just like giving a normal exam except I now have to stand there like a doofus taking photos of every kid's work, and then I can squint at the photos in the app to try to determine if it is correct or not, and then enter in individual scores by typing in their answers for each question on the app. Repeat this about 250 times. We now have a Special Amazing App to get observed with. Previously, an office parasite of some sort who holds meetings by reading off a poorly spelled power-point slide would come into your class and 'observe' (play with their phone) and then bring you into the office to spend 20 minutes telling you how lovely of a teacher you are because you didn't begin and end the lesson by reciting the Lesson Objectives to the children. Now I get observed and I have to log into the special Observation App to find out how bad of a teacher I am. In the past, an office parasite would come to your desk and tell you that you're going to be observed soon. Now you can just check the app every single day to find out! Previously, kids would take home their test scores and have to get mom to sign it to show how little Pnurtis failed to learn multiplication. Now, with the app, mom gets the score in real-time so she can call her child DURING the class because she checked her very special app and found out that Pnurtis got question 4 wrong. Previously, if I was calling out sick I would call the office and say "I'm sick" and they would arrange a substitute. Now, I can call out sick using the Special Amazing App and log into it where it then needs to get approval from 3 different office parasites before the request passes through and triggers the Substitute Finding Task. Usually one of them misses it (because the app sucks) and the kids will be sitting in a room with no adult until they go all Lord of the Flies and then the school wildly panics trying to get a sub. Previously I'd take attendance by looking around and seeing who was missing, then I'd notify the office if anyone was gone. Now, I can use the Attendance App and click each individual student by name to mark them as Present. The attendance app requires that I do this every 35 minutes even if my classroom door is closed the entire time and no one goes anywhere. The attendance app will lock you out if you don't do this within the first 5 minutes of each 35 minute class and then send the data to the office to show that I am a Bad Teacher. Every week we get an email showing who is the Worst Teacher by ranking them on how many times they missed the Attendance Window. By the way, all of these are different apps that each require their own login, and will often log you out inexplicably and then demand to text you with a special code to log back in, sometimes the code even arrives.
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Nov 25, 2023 14:23
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Mr. Grapes! posted:I am a teacher. jfc
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Nov 25, 2023 14:45
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Let me guess each password resets every 30 days and you can't ever reuse a password
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Nov 25, 2023 14:52
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The teacher app should leave your phone camera and mic on 24/7 and let parents monitor your every move, and give them the option to shock you with a less than lethal electrical charge if they feel you aren’t paying enough attention to Braeylynne or Jaspickyr
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Our board is t as bad with the attendance or sub thing, but I can verify that we have multiple programs that we need to use and sometimes they change but teachers and admin still refer to the new ones by the old name, which makes it really hard for new staff. To add, parent teacher meetings are becoming worse. Many parents come in seething and try to take out whatever is wrong with their lives out on the teacher. It’s crazy and we’ve basically had to switch to having admin present at all meetings.
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LimaBiker posted:It's really weird seeing the (what i assume are) americans complain Yeah we know where this is going. Just getting the population ready for the day when fire regulations become fire suggestions.
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800peepee51doodoo posted:Streaming has gotten so bad I've gone back to piracy as my main source of media, after years of not torrenting poo poo. These dumbdick media companies look at a golden goose and are like "hmmm but maybe we'll see an uptick in next quarter profits if we kill this thing oh woops nope". Make this poo poo work right, stop playing grabass with content availability, and gently caress straight off with these "ad-supported" tiers and I will happily pay a reasonable subscription fee. Paramount's app is so aggressively lovely, in particular, before, during, and after the ad breaks, I investigated paying for the goddamned ad free version and nope, even the paid version still had ads.
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StrangersInTheNight posted:Yeah the corp response to the wide array of internet death threats on social media has been to throttle usage of those words, lol. Because if you just make it impossible for a user to say they will murder someone, then the issue is solved! quote:I’m going to fill you with acute angles until you’re dangerously dehydrated If the death threats become incomprehensible nonsense they won’t go viral when someone dies: Risk Managed.
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Mr. Grapes! posted:I am a teacher. I think you died and are actually in hell
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Mr. Grapes! posted:I am a teacher. Nannying pays like $25-$30/hr nowadays. Usually under the table, too. And you get free food and nap breaks. And you only have to deal with one set of parents.
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I’m glad I didn’t become a teacher because what the gently caress, what the actual gently caress. Hell, I’m glad I’m not a student, imagine all that surveillance. This just doesn’t seem healthy
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big mean giraffe posted:Let me guess each password resets every 30 days and you can't ever reuse a password Yeah, so that means everyone just has a sticker with their passwords on it stuck to their laptop. You basically need to do this in case the TA needs to log into your stuff to do all the zillion admin tasks that require logging into all sorts of stuff, with yes, different passwords for some. They recently instituted a internet blocking tool which blocks presumably porn and such, but also any interesting website a student might want to visit (little physics flash games I'd send them for science lessons, bamboozle quizzes, etc). There is a separate wifi just for students, but they also installed this block on the teacher wifi. You never know what's blocked until you try it, as no one tells us and presumably the list doesn't exist. I've tried so many times to find out. If you want something unblocked, all you have to do is enter it into a spreadsheet and wait ?????? until it is unblocked. I've had it in a day, I've had it in six weeks. Took me a month to get a gif website unblocked, which sucks because we're expected to produce so much online content (for the apps, you see).
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IOwnCalculus posted:But test score number go up, must be good? They certainly do! No recess means extra learning time!
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teen witch posted:I’m glad I didn’t become a teacher because what the gently caress, what the actual gently caress. Hell, I’m glad I’m not a student, imagine all that surveillance. This just doesn’t seem healthy These are all rich kids, and many of the parents insist on this breakneck pace. I teach in the gifted program, so it has an even greater share of parents with huge expectations and little concept of kids having free time. After school many of them stay for clubs, and then go off to do violin or whatever at night, then lots of homework, then sleep and back again. Another enshittification of schools is that the teacher-student ratio has largely remained the same for decades, but the number of 'support' personnel has absolutely exploded. Many of these are quisling teachers who get their master's degree then take an office job to 'support' you, which often involves championing their new pet app (better than the old one, yes, still gotta update the old one ho ho). Each new admin/manager type needs to hold pointless meetings that could have been an email, and create new pointless admin tasks that never really improve the classroom experience for the kids, but do show up nicely on a CV when you can claim you forced a bunch of teachers to spend their little free time going to seminars about some new amazing idea that's gonna revolutionize teaching. If they just halved the number of kids in each classroom by having more people actually teaching then the student experience would improve immensely. I have taught at schools with 8 students per teacher in the past and the things you can get up to are amazing when you have time to individualize attention instead of playing cop to 28 kids at once. This year they created several new support admins who give us new and exciting spreadsheet tasks, but no extra teachers.
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My gf works in an urban district with poor kids and thank god the district doesn’t have the money to do this poo poo. She loves her job.
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Big Bowie Bonanza posted:My gf works in an urban district with poor kids and thank god the district doesn’t have the money to do this poo poo. She loves her job. I fully admit to being a sellout when taking this job. I used to work in chiller schools but then I went for this one because it paid about 3x as much. The school has a 'good reputation' as parents are concerned, but it is an insanely high pressure environment for both kids and teachers.
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Mr. Grapes! posted:I am a teacher. Lol that sucks, sorry. Jfc
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I quit teaching when COVID hit. gently caress all that poo poo.
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It’s back to normal now except all the kids coming up have social issues because they stayed at home playing video games and watching YouTube and TikTok for months at a time lol
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Professor Shark posted:It’s back to normal now except all the kids coming up have social issues because they stayed at home playing video games and watching YouTube and TikTok for months at a time lol The data on that has come out. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/18/opinion/pandemic-school-learning-loss.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare 10% of high schoolers tried to kill themselves in 21-22 Chronic absenteeism is still absurdly high in high schools. “the pandemic may prove to be the most damaging disruption in the history of American education.”
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When I’m king I want to sit these people down and ask just what the gently caress their problem is, a full on struggle session. So you made these extra tasks up, did you really intend for this to have a positive effect or were you just trying to justify your weak little sinecure? Explain the utility of having to do this. Did you know this whole time you were just making pointless work for others to benefit yourself or were you just that oblivious?
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skooma512 posted:When I’m king I want to sit these people down and ask just what the gently caress their problem is, a full on struggle session. These are the same people that thought these fart apps would adequately replace school during remote. It’s extremely disheartening to hear anyone listens to them now that we know how bad remote was.
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Bar Ran Dun posted:The data on that has come out. Anybody have a way to bypass the enshittification paywall? Looks like they got wise to VPNs.
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In the thick of the Covid-19 pandemic, Congress sent $190 billion in aid to schools, stipulating that 20 percent of the funds had to be used for reversing learning setbacks. At the time, educators knew that the impact on how children learn would be significant, but the extent was not yet known. The evidence is now in, and it is startling. The school closures that took 50 million children out of classrooms at the start of the pandemic may prove to be the most damaging disruption in the history of American education. It also set student progress in math and reading back by two decades and widened the achievement gap that separates poor and wealthy children. These learning losses will remain unaddressed when the federal money runs out in 2024. Economists are predicting that this generation, with such a significant educational gap, will experience diminished lifetime earnings and become a significant drag on the economy. But education administrators and elected officials who should be mobilizing the country against this threat are not. It will take a multidisciplinary approach, and at this point, all the solutions that will be needed long term can’t be known; the work of getting kids back on solid ground is just beginning. But that doesn’t mean there shouldn’t be immediate action. As a first step, elected officials at every level — federal, state and local — will need to devote substantial resources to replace the federal aid that is set to expire and must begin making up lost ground. This is a bipartisan issue, and parents, teachers and leaders in education have a role to play as well, in making sure that addressing learning loss and other persistent challenges facing children receives urgent attention. The challenges have been compounded by an epidemic of absenteeism, as students who grew accustomed to missing school during the pandemic continue to do so after the resumption of in-person classes. Millions of young people have joined the ranks of the chronically absent — those who miss 10 percent or more of the days in the school year — and for whom absenteeism will translate into gaps in learning. In the early grades, these missing children are at greater risk of never mastering the comprehension skills that make education possible. The more absences these students accumulate, the more they miss out on the process of socialization through which young people learn to live and work with others. The more they lag academically, the more likely they are to drop out. This fall, The Associated Press illustrated how school attendance has cratered across the United States, using data compiled in partnership with the Stanford University education professor Thomas Dee. More than a quarter of students were chronically absent in the 2021-22 school year, up from 15 percent before the pandemic. That means an additional 6.5 million students joined the ranks of the chronically absent. The problem is pronounced in poorer districts like Oakland, Calif., where the chronic absenteeism rate exceeded 61 percent. But as the policy analyst Tim Daly wrote recently, absenteeism is rampant in wealthy schools, too. Consider New Trier Township High School in Illinois, a revered and highly competitive school that serves some of the country’s most affluent communities. Last spring, The Chicago Tribune reported that New Trier’s rate of chronic absenteeism got worse by class, reaching nearly 38 percent among its seniors. The Times reported on Friday that preliminary data for 2022-23 showed a slight improvement in attendance. However, in some states, like California and New Mexico, “the rate of chronic absenteeism was still double what it was before the pandemic.” The solutions are not simple. There is extensive evidence that punitive measures don’t work, so educators may need a combination of incentives and measures to address the economic and family issues that can keep children away from school. Researchers have long known that American students grow more alienated from school the longer they attend — and that they often fall off the school engagement cliff, at which point they no longer care. This sense of disconnection stems from a feeling among high school students in particular that no one at school cares about them and that the courses they study bear no relationship to the challenges they face in the real world. These young people are also vulnerable to mental health difficulties that worsened during the pandemic. Based on survey data collected in 2021, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported this year that more than 40 percent of high school students had persistent feelings of sadness and hopelessness; 22 percent had seriously considered suicide; 10 percent reported that they had attempted suicide. Since the beginning of the pandemic, many parents and educators have been raising the alarm about the effects of grief, isolation and other disruptions on the mental health of their children. In addition to reconnecting these young people to school, states and localities need to create a more supportive school environment and provide the counseling services these students need to succeed. The State of Virginia took a big swing at the problem of learning loss when it announced what is being described as a statewide tutoring program. But high-impact tutoring is labor intensive and depends on high-quality instruction. It is most likely to succeed when sessions are held at least three times a week — during school hours — with well-trained, well-managed tutors working with four or fewer students at a time. Such an effort would require a massive recruitment effort, at a time when many schools are still struggling to find enough teachers. While tutoring is a step in the right direction, other measures to increase the time that students spend in school — such as after-school programs and summer school — will be required to help the students who have fallen furthest behind. In some communities, children have fallen behind by more than a year and a half in math. “It is magical thinking to expect they will make this happen without a major increase in instructional time,” as the researchers Tom Kane and Sean Reardon recently argued. A study of data from 16 states by the Center for Research on Education Outcomes at Stanford University shows that the most effective way to reverse learning loss is to increase the pace at which students learn. One way is by exposing them to teachers who have had an extraordinary impact on their students. The center proposes offering these excellent teachers extra compensation in exchange for taking extra students into their classes. Highly trained, dedicated teachers have long been known to be the most reliable path to better educational outcomes, but finding them at any scale has always been difficult. If creative solutions can be found, it will help reverse learning gaps from the pandemic and improve American education overall. The learning loss crisis is more consequential than many elected officials have yet acknowledged. A collective sense of urgency by all Americans will be required to avert its most devastating effects on the nation’s children.
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I don’t think they’re going to do anything about the pandemic generation and are just gonna wait until they all age out. They already couldn’t do much about the kids that were falling through in the before times and now that’s a significant part of the population. Education was already teetering, but COVID firmly broke its back and probably for good. Parents got way too comfortable fighting with the school all the time about the policies they didn’t like and the kids got too used to there being no standards on their work or behavior. I peruse places like r/teachers and they’re struggling more than ever before. It wasn’t a great profession before, and now it’s just a straight hardship posting.
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Bar Ran Dun posted:Researchers have long known that American students grow more alienated from school the longer they attend — and that they often fall off the school engagement cliff, at which point they no longer care. This sense of disconnection stems from a feeling among high school students in particular that no one at school cares about them and that the courses they study bear no relationship to the challenges they face in the real world. Oh hey that was me! I always thought it was just a “weird depressed kid” thing and not more of a wider phenomenon. I’m shocked I managed to graduate HS and college on time because that was some weapons-grade apathy. I hope that this will bring a complete overhaul of the education system but I know in my heart that if it does, that it’ll be for the worse.
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