Ok, so they’ll ban it under that guise to appease US companys, same as TikTok. I really didn’t care about TikTok since it’s all brain rot to me but this might actually be a tool I’ll use if it’s as efficient as they say.

Good thing I can run it locally, I guess.

It’s just, much of university funding comes from research which requires peer review and recognition, so you can’t hide behind falsities. You can probably do a few things to appease, but at the end of the day you can only ever get so far without adhering to reality. Mind you, this is only true of universities with research programs; you can censor all you want at Junior colleges and (ironically named) liberal arts colleges.

I still don’t really get how this works, and I have a PhD in education. I get the idea, and can totally see K-12 having a skew since that can be a few steps removed from primary sources, but any school conducting research will ultimately end up “liberal” because, on average, objective approaches point towards approaches adapted by liberals and leftists (plus genuine discourse usually leads to left out center conclusions because logic points there.).

My dept was full of people with very conservative beliefs (and even a bit racist) but their work still pointed to shit like basic income and socialist reforms being the solution to most education gaps. Advisor proudly displaying The Bell Curve on his shelf while simultaneously getting millions for experiments with giving families thousands of dollars of no strings attached money because evidence simply suggested it’s a very effective solution!

So what is DeSantis doing to make it more conservative? Just focus more on majors without methodology? Avoid research funding and focus on instruction only? Add a whites only application pool? It’s not like you can get published in a serious journal without an objective methodology. It’s about as nonsensical as renaming the Gulf of Mexico, you have to get a global consensus for it to stick.

As an 87, I can’t say I’m bored, needs to be replaced with tired. But I agree that Pikachu is in fact one of our major emotions.

Dragon Quest 9 on DS (emulated). Prior to this I was playing Kingdom Hearts Recoded also on DS (emulated). My recommendation is to enjoy what retroachievements does to your old favorites, lol (can’t wait for DOSBox integration).

I’m generally a PC gamer but I was playing the steam ports of Kingdom Hearts (they are bad ports) and now I’m just emulating things. Can you believe those lunatics lumped 4 games of achievements into a single set without any order? There’s even duplicate names for things, it’s a wildly sloppy port, lol. Not recommended.

I need you remember the term “fisher price laptop” because it’s exactly how I feel about MacBooks.

I use an ad supported Lemmy app and am seeing them. Lol

Ok, except what if only the target is within earshot and it’s used exclusively to make that person feel like shit? And would this be true of any other insult that could potentially apply to someone else, like being bad at something? Although I guess if harm is the goal, empathy isn’t exactly a priority.

I’ll concede you’re right about collateral damage, though. Friends of mine know I don’t actually believe the insult in most cases (especially penis size, what am I, 12?), but I use more tact if I’m worried it would upset present company or being up bad memories, etc (more commonly fat shaming). I also don’t insult people like I used to, though.

But, I don’t really hold anything sacred and I’m not about to hold back a good insult for a hypothetical person.

It’s like with the “do you punch a Nazi?”, even pacifists have limits.

Then again, I think for me it’s ok to hit people where it hurts when you want to hurt them— and penis size is the “alpha males” easy and effective target just like crowd size is a certain assholes weakness.