Posts by pteryx@dice.camp
(DIR) Post #B09LIki5OpOK1i5u6q by pteryx@dice.camp
2025-11-11T22:24:04Z
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@CatEveryHourTaking "cat tree" literally, with awesome results.
(DIR) Post #B0PNDJ2wI6f1SaiKps by pteryx@dice.camp
2025-11-19T16:00:52Z
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@CatEveryHour"*gasp* What happened to outside?!"
(DIR) Post #B0ZyAMk7HwN6hh1uaW by pteryx@dice.camp
2025-11-24T18:42:00Z
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@futurebirdThere is a reason why I capitalize "The Algorithm" when it means the specific kind of manipulation of communications people so often mean by it. It's very specific.
(DIR) Post #B0i20HAL7g9jamQ328 by pteryx@dice.camp
2025-11-28T15:49:54Z
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@anja @futurebirdAnd then there are the above-average cats, who understand *way* more than you'd expect. One time I was talking with a friend about how conditions were such that my cat's fur was generating static, and she looked *very* offended at the idea that static had anything to do with *her*...
(DIR) Post #B0i2M9oH9VoR9JX5Xc by pteryx@dice.camp
2025-11-28T16:06:39Z
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@futurebird @anjaThing is, I was discussing it more as a matter-of-fact thing rather than complaining about it.
(DIR) Post #B0o8xOZ51QoQIaKAKW by pteryx@dice.camp
2025-12-01T14:48:52Z
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@futurebirdOf course, there's another problem with "RTFM": *What* M? Especially in the Linux community where this problem is most severe, there often isn't sufficient documentation to figure things out on one's own. Alternately, the only "documentation" might be buried in a Discord.
(DIR) Post #B0oCg0AeretlXIrYK8 by pteryx@dice.camp
2025-12-01T15:30:34Z
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@futurebird @Extra_Special_CarbonSeems like a problem that, in a saner time, would be solved by just launching your own website dedicated to explaining basic mathematics. Writing "TFM" itself, as it were....Mind you, we're not in a time *so* insane that this is impossible. Neocities exists... Really, the tricky part would be figuring out the best ways (assuredly plural) to explain simple concepts to people who didn't get it in grade school.
(DIR) Post #B1Btb3L0QYtiZhfSfQ by pteryx@dice.camp
2025-12-13T01:49:52Z
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@CatEveryHour"Where's Mom?! You're not Mom! Gimme back to Mom!"
(DIR) Post #B1ENrVhA9IT268iNgO by pteryx@dice.camp
2025-12-14T06:38:24Z
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@CatEveryHourThis image begs questions...Did the Siamese train the lab to do this, or is this an opportunistic thing?
(DIR) Post #B1FJwfGRnFPeZ7Ngxs by pteryx@dice.camp
2025-12-14T17:29:13Z
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@futurebird @thecrushedvioletAt least you recognize bullying as a serious problem at all.As for learning about setting boundaries and asking for help... quite frankly, the lesson I took away from how the faculty treated me at school is that authority figures will do anything, *ANYTHING*, to minimize their own workload, and therefore asking appointed or self-selected authority figures for help is not just futile, but potentially counterproductive as they turn on you.
(DIR) Post #B1FLsWYSQuBoIrxVDc by pteryx@dice.camp
2025-12-14T17:50:53Z
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@futurebirdAs skeptical as I may be of this working out in a way that would actually be respectful of children, I do see one singular potential upside: I imagine that a school-run Mastodon instance would not allow kids to actively make accounts, but would instead assign accounts to kids which they cannot delete. Therefore, blocks would actually work because the usual evasion tactics would be impossible.
(DIR) Post #B1FRUvuJ7ZbThvJSkK by pteryx@dice.camp
2025-12-14T18:53:50Z
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@futurebird @zer0unplannedIt's possible that the disconnect is not taking for granted (or perhaps even grasping) the concept of a large, organized school. There are cultures that *don't* herd all their children into big, compulsory educational institutions together.
(DIR) Post #B1RnZALGByLAzUcKyO by pteryx@dice.camp
2025-12-20T17:57:38Z
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@futurebirdIn my case, no "instinct" was necessary. The teachers literally built little rooms for me to cry in so they wouldn't have to deal with me.*Twice.*
(DIR) Post #B1RoTARL0yChVmADTs by pteryx@dice.camp
2025-12-20T18:07:46Z
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@futurebird @beecyclingHaving been in a "good school" of the 1:20 teacher:kid ratio, "everybody" behaves variety and *still* been on the wrong end of bullying and faculty mistreatment, I've always found myself skeptical of the whole idea of classroom sizes alone being a silver bullet... but having heard what it's like in other schools, it does sound like reasonable class sizes are a necessary *starting point*.
(DIR) Post #B1RrG8A6TMQmXoZsTw by pteryx@dice.camp
2025-12-20T18:39:02Z
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@futurebird @funnymonkeyJust generally, it's... *really* striking how consistently throughout history the wealthy and privileged neglect, resent, or simply fail to notice or understand the concept of peasants needing food.
(DIR) Post #B1RrqUIXeGT5chrRZI by pteryx@dice.camp
2025-12-20T18:45:32Z
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@futurebird @jhavokWhen I cited 1:20 in another thread, that was the number of kids in a classroom at a time. I think the full size of each class in the "class of 19XX" sense was about 200ish? It's been a long time, so I can't be sure. Things like it being a wealthy suburb that refused to participate in football so it would have more money for actual education stuck out in my mind more.
(DIR) Post #B1Rt2AfAZonI9ha12G by pteryx@dice.camp
2025-12-20T18:58:55Z
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@futurebird @funnymonkeyAnd yet at the same time they want to force (the "correct") women to have lots of children, because they want more warm bodies for their financial-chain gang.
(DIR) Post #B1YGU2Ta4Z64lbAzrM by pteryx@dice.camp
2025-12-23T20:50:00Z
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@ComputerFriend Computer, not that I mean to question you, but I don't understand why a 2.4% drop in happiness would require a 100% replacement of oxygen. To my mere human mind, it would seem like a mere 2.4% replacement would suffice.
(DIR) Post #B22xOdHF8bAwzQBhbs by pteryx@dice.camp
2026-01-07T15:56:36Z
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@pluralisticOne thing that really stuck out to me when I was in school: a lot of people seem to not get the *point* of sentence structure, spelling, or punctuation. They think that such things exist purely as hoops to jump through to stave off the wrath of a teacher, rather than as legibility aids. When they don't perfectly map to the spoken word, they're seen as even more arbitrary.Writing good dialogue involves learning how to make legible text that still sounds like real speech.
(DIR) Post #B2RDPcfyqFH4DBqCzQ by pteryx@dice.camp
2026-01-19T09:04:40Z
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@CatEveryHourThose ears... "How *dare* you decorate me!"