From the outside looking in

What is the first virtue?

[hateusandseeifwemind]

[pinene]

Can anyone explain wtf is going on here especially a Korean speaker

[tadeadshihamurder]

someone on reddit explained 😭

[no-one-offical]

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[desmolbean404]

That is one of the most astronomical fuck up translations I have ever seen.

[gryffon]

[famouspainterwombat]

[sacred-portal]

[tangledbeast]

If it makes you feel any better, he hated it too.

[gayserblast]

This is the funniest and saddest sentence I've read all week

[minor-locrian]

a warthog is a thog specialized for use in war

[mysharona1987]

To be fair, Andy Warhol would have appreciated Sister Wendy, esteemed art critic nun, coming savagely for him on BBC TV.

[prudencepaccard]

Artiodactyla as a taxon just kinda blows my mind. what do you mean bovids, suids, camelids, cervids, hippopotamids and giraffids are all in the same order of mammals? *hears something in the distance*

I'm sorry did you say fucking whales?

[brazenautomaton]

It upsets and offends me that the term is "hippopotamids"

Cows got a different science name, deer got a different science name, but hippos just decided "nah we don't need a different science name because we can chomp and crush scientists with our mighty jaws if they have a problem."

Suids are pigs and their name sounds like "soo-ee!" Pigs got their shit together on this!

[o-craven-canto]

"Hippopotamus" already is a Science Name -- it's all Greek*! It just feels banal because you guys decided to keep it in common use instead of calling them "chomp-hogs" or something

* "river horse", from hippo- as in "hippodrome" and -potamus as in "Mesopotamia"

when I was on the field in Botswana and we had to go to the bathroom at night in the open you'd hear leaves rstling all around and the chomp-hogs grunting in the distance, jesus christ it was scary

[brazenautomaton]

you're just in the pocket of Big Hippo

and let me tell you, a normal hippo is already pretty big, so Big Hippo must be enormous

[enki2]

[venustapolis]

In Dreams (Hans Andersen Brendekilde, 1906)

[pokemonheritageposts]

on multiple occasions i have seen people on socials excited for palworld 1.0 and it has taken me a moment to realize they aren't doing a bit and are genuinely excited

[morkitten]

Gamer here! This phenomenon can be explained from Palworld being what is considered a "good game" (任天堂以外のゲームをプレイしてください), which can be a concept that is difficult for fans of "Pocket Monsters" from the last decade or so to conceptualize. For futher reading, I suggest "On the Genealogy of Morals" by Friedrich Nietzsche and "Open Veins of Latin America" by Eduardo Galeano, hope this clarifies things!

[card-designers-without-borders]

[tranthony]

grout white shark

[secretariatess]

It's wild to me that there are people who are adamantly against homeschooling because parents aren't certified teachers or have degrees in teaching when there are teachers on TikTok telling people that students are performing several grades below where they're supposed to be.

Clearly doesn't matter if the person is trained or not to teach, apparently. Public schools are not really teaching kids.

Meanwhile, my brother is homeschooling his kids, matching their level of each subject to where they're at, and in many subjects, they're ahead of their peers. In others, they're on par to what their grade would be.

My brother does not have a teaching degree.

[secretariatess]

For everything that is held against homeschooling, it can also be held against public schooling.

So the question is, why is it unacceptable in homeschooling -most of the time to the point of removing it as an option or putting more safeguards against it- yet acceptable en masse in public school?

Why does public school get to remain the default schooling method when it faces the same issues homeschooling does with fewer safeguards and on a larger scale?

[howl224tgeundying]

Not to go all tin foil hat but it is because public schooling is government schooling, and quit frankly the government does not actually want people to be educated in all reality. For if enough people were educated and knew things like economics or politics, they'd probably revolt and burn it all down.

I'm not going to list all the things wrong with public education or else I'd be here all day, but in all essence, public school is not about education, it's about indoctrination. It pushes kids to believe certain things, to reject others and then it pushes them towards "higher education" in which 90% of them will take out loans and be in crippling debt due to the interest rates on said loans (the only loan you can't get away from by filing for bankruptcy)

although the stigma against homeschooling did give us one of the greatest scenes in movie history

[brazenautomaton]

It is literally never, ever, an agentic conspiracy to make people stupid.

It is literally never, ever an agentic trick to pretend to be incompetent.

We can see thousands and thousands of educators talk to each other about their jobs. We can see every single step of the process that results in this system. There are no secret orders. There is no covert agenda. We can see who makes the curricula and why and how. They are not receiving secret orders.

It is literally never, ever an agentic trick to pretend to be incompetent. It is always actual incompetence.

[brazenautomaton]

Like try to think about their perspective.

"We have to intentionally keep the people stupid because if they knew the truth they'd rise up against us" requires the people in charge to know that their own beliefs are false. It is trivially observable that they think their beliefs are true. They would want people to be educated because they, just like you, think that "educated" means "agrees with me" and think anyone who does not agree with them has been misled. They're not able to accomplish their goal because they're bad at their jobs.

[tadpole-art]

Landscaping

[prudencepaccard]

“Dear kindly social worker, They say go earn a buck. Like be a soda jerker, Which means like be a schmuck. It’s not I’m anti-social, I’m only anti-work. Glory osky! That’s why I’m a jerk!”

— Montparnasse, Volume IV, Book IV, Chapter II something I submitted to incorrectlesmisquotes

[prudencepaccard]

I’m unsure if they ever actually posted the submission but I think this was very good

[galileosballs]

Let's say I really wanted to reduce the number of children who die in car accidents. Car accidents are really bad, right? Nobody disagrees about that. And it would be much better for both the environment and the kids' health if they spent more time walking, or taking the bus. Perfectly reasonable. More cars off the road, safer roads, fewer kids getting hurt, healthier kids. A win-win!

Therefore, let's ban children from traveling by car and require all cars to have a scanner on the door that scans the government ID of everyone who gets in the car to make sure no kids are in there. After all, kids get hurt in car accidents all the time! We need to ban this right away!

[nohoperadio]

Vinyl records are circular because it's an efficient use of space: the grooves that encode the music are laid out in a spiral on the disc, so that the needle only has to move as far as the disc's radius to read the entire thing. Before this clever idea was thought of, the grooves were instead laid out in a straight line, and every LP was a narrow rectangle more than a thousand feet long. To flip an album to side b at least two people were needed, one at each end, coordinating via shouted instructions.

[blujayonthewing]