Nah, that shit woulda never helped me and I wouldn’t even know where to start and I never have, we had laptops open on lectures so I just wrote small programs about whatever concepts the lecturer talked about but to sit in the same place for 2 hours it was borderline impossible.

After entering the workforce it was just pure torture sitting in the office waiting to die 8 hours a day, I went through like a full character arc from arrogant to humble to desperate to hate at others to hate at self to finally worldly and gradually radicalized against the onslaught of alienation.

I came back for my masters in 2020 and it was fairly sweet all online.

Thankfully now many years later I WFH. Uni is far behind. Haven’t handwritten anything in years, I’m almost curious to try it

That sounds like he’s just not going to be well adjusted for the modern world where distractions will always be available. You don’t get over a love for a drug by making it unavailable, you get over it by having it everywhere, yet refusing it.

I had the opposite experience, in person lectures drove me crazy as an unmedicated adhder, I’d be constantly chiming in and answering every question, my legs would be going wild under the table and I’d usually be just doing something else most of the time on the laptop. Online is much much easier to listen to and get invested in at your own time and pace because you can be eating or vaping while watching at 3AM or whatever and nobody gives a fuck

I always take notes, listening shmistening it’s in one ear out the other, reading and writing helps me absorb information much easier, but I never did take notes when we were forced to use pen and paper, once we switched to laptops in high school, I could note down every word because typing is so much easier and faster.

What does it mean then?

If you listen to them speak for more than a minute I wouldn’t be surprised if one in three or them aren’t even a doctor either

In the west - yeah? Obviously third worlders also believe in various miracle healers and televangelist preachers and such, but those countries too have scientific minds and communities and bodies that practice evidence-based, aka “western” modern medicine.

Overrated franchise has dogshit legacy sequel. More news at 11.

Ikr I’m also suffering from this rn, but in my case throw on chills until I pop paracetamol and then I’m on a grill, bone aches like I got Raynaud’s in my legs… Yup it’s flu time!

TL;DR: “Donald Trump is dismantling the very aspects of US society that once made it so appealing for international talents.”

Lol 2018 was a good year, it was the last good “flashmob” before everything truly went to hell offline and online alike

Fucker got what he deserved, I watch it over and over and I feel absolutely nothing for him, no empathy, no connection, no “we’re all made of the same stuff” thing, he is a threat, neutralized.

I would’ve in fact - been very pleasantly surprised if a leftist did this because it meant someone out there with a head on their shoulders getting off their ass to fight for what’s right, and what’s right is to subdue the threat of the political right, if the means of peaceful discussion, debate and correcting misinformation have failed us, then by any remaining means is fine by me.

His political thought is that me and mine should be eradicated - so forgive my thought that he should be.

As it stands, I feel that this infighting thinning out their ranks is the most uplifting news these days.

Thanks.

Yes. Absolutely. I would happily pay more tax for this. 1% is a very tiny amount.

The trains in this country are shockingly abysmal and they cost an arm and a leg, despite being the absolute basic requirement for a functional modern economy.

As someone only on basic rate of tax and fairly low income struggling to make ends meet, I would still happily pay taxes for this, both in addition and especially instead of the BBC for it to spew far right hatred or endless consultantocracies and other assorted privatized money funnels like what’s become of the NHS (especially GPs), alongside council, DWP and TV loicence enforcement goons with their endless investigations, cutting triple lock, cutting winter fuel allowance and other ways boomers drain the economy.

I think there are better ways though - like taxing the top 1%, much higher carbon/road/infrastructure taxes on car people (only fair because of their increased personal pollution, infrastructure use, space occupation and damage to the environment and people).

Even this 1% tax doesn’t need to be flat, it can be scaled with income brackets, with each step being another extra 1%, as long as the math checks out.

Even moreso - Land value tax, and shifting council tax to property owners instead of tenants/residents and second home tax and property for investment tax, ramping it up to as high as it’ll go to fund property buybacks for councils, then charging rents without profit margins baked in to make trains more affordable.

But if it’s what it takes to get anything done in the current political climate dominated by the far-right, tributes to some random pro-gun grifter influencer being shot in another country flooded with guns and Sir seat warmer as PM cowtowing to the demands of pub-dwelling gammon flagshaggers, sell-your-govt-to-palantir-as-an-ideology party of ReformUK, Farage and his oligarch sponsors from the Kremlin to the White House and other various dodgy American govcorp and MIC-adjacent glowing lobby groups then that would have to be it.

It seems correct to me

It’s not rational, it’s looking for a chance for something better than wage slavery.

Yes but power isn’t actually something everyone wants. People do however want to put food on the table and not worry about rent.

I did back in the day. Now everything is IP67 or whatever’s the most common one. It’s honestly a crapshoot, my Xperia Z3 died from just being in the shower room while I showered, nowhere near the water but vaguely steamy in there.

I accidentally flushed, yes - flushed my Pixel 1 XL down the toilet and it was fine (it swam up).

Stuff like that does happen, but in capitalism it’s incentivized, because fame is a gateway to cash

Links? I missed the whole thing