it was chaotic and it was awesome.

randomness of the early internet was a gift.

bluesky sucks and has limited reach.

twitter is far more integrated and popular.

people want to reach people, they have to use the broadest platforms.

a fancy monitor that makes like 1/3 of the people who view it throw up.

that’s also how really successful human beings work. they bullshit and lie and appear confident, and people believe them and ignore the people who don’t do that, because they don’t appear as confident.

also why people basically fall in love with AI, because it spouts nothing but bullshit at them and they eat it up like candy because being fed back bullshit is a dopamine hit.

interacting with real people doesn’t supply endless dopamine and they might not tell you what you want to hear.

it’s a gloried spell checker, basically.

and yeah, it’s a really good spell checker.

it’s more fun to flip out over random harmless bullshit than stuff that actually matters though.

no, it’s the job of their parents.

yeah, kids are stupid shits and think everything is suffering, that’s why you discipline them.

you only had those things if you were in a poor school district. also probably half your teachers or more were drunk townies who had no interest in educating you and were just there to relive their glory days as high school atheletes forever and ever.

if you were in a rich one you had great books and great teacher and tons of supplies.

the key to american education is to have parents who have a lot of money and put you in private school, or can afford a town with million dollar homes where the public school is excellent,

simple don’t be born to a poor family and you won’t have a shitty education, and if you have to be born poor, at least do so in a major city where you can get into an exam school. major city exam schools are frequently rated as the best schools in the country, on par with the richest suburban school districts.

Bingo.

Everyone wants a cheatcode at life. But there is no cheatcode for learning things. You have to do the hard work, which is hours and hours of boring repetitive stuff. That’s how your brain works and improves and retains information, from repetitive exposure. That’s why living in a foreign country massively accelerates your language skill, because you’re constantly exposed to the language intead of working in an isolated way for like 30m each day.

It’s hilarious that people agree with the 10,000 hour rule for learning guitar or something, but magically think that rule shouldn’t apply to school work. You know what it also applies to, physical fitness. Nobody can cheat at getting faster or stronger without doing hours and hours of hard training, and nobody thinks it’s problem for kids to spend 20 hours a week at football practice… but god forbid we think students should need to study 20 hours a week…

Like we know what works. Americans, teachers and students both, are just pathologically lazy and want to shortcut and cheatcode everything. Meanwhile the students who are learning and successful put in the time and the effort. And of course everyone else resents those kids and mocks them as losers.

Even my own nephew spent a good chuck of his graduation mocking and deriding the top performing kids as losers with no lives, meanwhile he’s a B+ student who spends 30 hours week paying video games and whining how he isn’t a better student and life isn’t fair… and if you try to point out to him that being a A student would require less video games and more studying, he gets angry and tells you he wants to have ‘have fun’. OK buddy, you made your choice then, and you got your results. He is under the delusion he’s B+ average should have gotten him into MIT or something because he is ‘cooler’ than the kids who studied way harder.

Typical American entitled attitude. I’m sure he will make a great CEO someday.

or kids need to stop expecting learning to be easy and entertaining…

and do the work required if they want to learn.

because that’s what adult life is like, learning and working doing difficult shit all day. not being entertained.

bold of you to assume students know how to write anything by hand in 2026.

what point is that? that companies are evil if they give you refunds in gift cards?

am i also evil when I get my nephews gift cards for christmas? because i’m restricting their consumer choice!

because 12 year olds care about what store they buy games from…

what? I literally just bought it 3 weeks ago. That number is going to be high because I only have 4 games.

I will buy more games as time goes by and that cost will go down. That’s how math works.

I also bought a PS5 four years ago, and only had a few games for it for the first few months… that’s how buying consoles/games works. Now I probably have like 50+ games for it, but it’s been years.

my point is everything was cheaper a few years ago.

Depends on when you buy the game. New retail games on steam deck are still 50-60 bucks.

I can also find massive discounts on digital games on switch. I just bought like a bunch of $5 or less games on the last eshop sale.

Does Zelda and Mario go on sale for $5? No. They go on sale for like $30-40. I also just bought Mario Odsyessy for $40.

I’m happy to pay these prices. Cool if you are not? Lots of people buy shit I would never spend my money on. I haven’t bought a gaming PC in 15 years, because it me it seems like a huge waste of money and time.

Almost as if other people have different preferences, and priorities than you do? And they are happy to buy products you are not.

I mean, you can do that.

But it’s inconvenient and expensive and takes up space. So most folks choose not to do that for pragmatic reasons. Physical media still is broad available for books and music. Less so for films and TV shows, but many are still available in physical formats at online retailers.

I have a lot of physical books, like 500+. People tend to be quite negative about it and have so for a long time, because the popular conception is that physical media is stupid and wasteful. A lot of people take pride in owning nothing physical and regard that as ‘minimalism’ and are more than happy to purchase digital rentals or subscriptions only to further this aesthetic.

But it makes no sense to continue to produce physical media if only a niche audience is buying it, unless the product is niche, cheap to produce and has a high mark up. That’s why Vinly works, folks are willing to pay $30 per record and records cost pennies to physical reproduce.

Yep. I’m just an idiot. It’s not like I’ll go back to the store ever again and I’m a regular customer.

They are clearly ENTRAPPING ME. Just like all the times I returned a product and they gave me a full refund, that was also total entrapment. Or when I returned a product for a warrenty fufillment and they replaced it, also entrapment.

cool, and a few years ago you could get a switch lite for $200. still can, in fact.

yeah, your human rights are being violated, clearly.

meanwhile pharma companies are murdering people with drug costs, but this is where you draw the line. very brave and strong and smart!

because folks are bitter about they still charge $60 for a 10 year old game.

I’m not. I bought a switch 2 last month and Zelda BoTW for $70. It’s great. But what do I know, I’m a morally bankrupt bootlicker or something, because I was happy to spend my money on something that I am enjoying.