to read books(this one helped a ton, I was a voracious reader all my life and I can tell the difference against people who don’t read.
Saaame. Just yesterday, when you posted this, i met someone who told me she needed to start reading more - i wanted to tell her it's fine and by reading at all she's so far ahead of many people in keeping good habits for life. You can just tell how "well read" people are.
Actually reading for fun made me an academic minor deity compared to other kids, in the days of social media roll-out. Now I have to imagine how much better the kids who don't/aren't allowed to use AI are doing compared to those who do.
I definitely didn’t chase after girls who there was a mutual interest, but rather girls who were “easy” targets for me.
I sorta wish I would have grabbed as many non academic classes as possible
Me too. i'm grateful for having taken art, for instance. Learned so much more about how to learn and be independent than i ever thought i would. Learned about referencing and analysing the influences in design. Actually knowing how to use a camera well has been useful very often in my post school life.
I wish i'd taken a lot more extracurricular stuff, too.
Same. Last year of sixth form, when we're applying for unis i was given really bad guidance for where to apply. I saw an apprenticeship for my degree and thought "if i can get paid for it, why not get paid for it??" But didn't look into it any further because i was lazy. Wish i was grtting paid for my suffering right now.
Because we only get a set of 11 GCSEs we can take (+ in my school some people get "further maths" as a bonus one for being higher maths class, or can take their native language as a gcse), taking food tech would have left me with less knowledge basically, and less options of other things to take. Every subject i took feels like it was worthwhile. Food tech doesn't seem to provide value added e.g helping you get work in kitchens.
Drives me absolutwly barmy, no wonder aliens don't visit us, we're like the drunken neighbour pissing all over his own porch shouting "see this?? I claimed it. I'm the king of the whole dang neighourhood!" - what right do we have to declare our pageant show, steeped in unhealthy and human-centric beauty stsndards, as being the "unverse's one"? Also, very rigged if we're not going to invite any other planets.
So what other rivalries, fiction or non-fiction, is still considered a rivalry, but it’s so one-sided that it makes you wonder why it is.
Sometimes English people insinuate there's still some rivalry with fence but they clearly haven't given the epic rivarly any thought since Napoleon. Oh but maybe that just shows we beat them very soundly, amd won. Huzzah!
Sorry dude, but if this is you, then you were born in the wrong century.
It's like announcing to the room "Yeah i'm a total BONEHEAD, and I'm proud of it. And that's why i have to bully people who like school or sci-fi, or video games. Because I'm not like them - I'm big and dumb instead!"
So, first half of my point is that it's identifying with a depiction designed to put you down. Second half of my point is basically that geeky hobbies and interests have effectively been in vogue for 21 years or so. I think a lot of people talk about this.
I'm also fairly convinced that the dynamic demonstrated in 70-90s high school movies (Think Grease, revenge of the nerds or Can't buy me love' for some particularly bad offenders) is completely fabricated. Perhaps demoralisation propoganda. Perhaps something to do with promoting anti-socialism or anti-civil-rights, tbh.
Almost space-faring atom-punk, but designs and art look a bit too modern.
I always think of this sort of setting as "Amazon takes over the earth and starts an interplanetary trading empire," do we have a term for that? Corpo anti-punk?
100%, that's what i wanted to say. I think le,my is also not a ssfe place in gwneral for expression "prudish" opinions so there's no point commenting to share, ultimately
I don't really get the appeal of the big mound of rice with a bit of tomato sauce on top. Probably makes me sound ignorant food wise but it looks a bit bland? Rice is best mixed around with a bunch of other stuff
Saaame. Just yesterday, when you posted this, i met someone who told me she needed to start reading more - i wanted to tell her it's fine and by reading at all she's so far ahead of many people in keeping good habits for life. You can just tell how "well read" people are.
Actually reading for fun made me an academic minor deity compared to other kids, in the days of social media roll-out. Now I have to imagine how much better the kids who don't/aren't allowed to use AI are doing compared to those who do.
There might be a bit of this in all of our lives.