It’s definitely all of the above.

Hexbear is particularly vexing to me. According to the fediverse observer they’re less than a month old and yet have already become one of the most active instances.

outside of running your own instance, asking your instance’s owner to block them, or joining one that already has the offender on the blocklist, no. It’s requested a lot though so it’s probably on the todo list

of course the one person in europe who owns a pickup would park it on the sidewalk

the only restaurant chili with cinnamon is skyline, which is specifically why i dont like it

i mean it’s spiced differently and usually has beans but the main ingredient is still tomatoes. not that different from having a meat sauce

you’ve got to consider that to a lot of these people racism “isn’t real” because their bar for what qualifies as racist is set incredibly high. “how could that be racist if it’s true?”

you can see a similar anti-trans sentiment in the people who defend jk rowling. “she’s just saying gender can’t mismatch assigned sex, how could the truth be transphobic?” nothing could ever be transphobic or racist or whatever to these people when they think very concept of being bigoted isn’t legitimate

chili spaghetti is extremely normal tho ?

i mean skyline sux and all but like

idk, im surprised it took this long. there’s a huge variety of admin teams with varying degrees of security awareness and it’s been over a month since the first big influx of users started. it’ll happen again too and probably not before too long

Unless you actually somehow think this was a genuine misunderstanding of the test directions, then they were clear and the student provided useless answers on purpose.

Getting points is a reward for giving right answers. If the student wants to play language games on his math exam, let em fuck around and find out. But they do have to find out. Literally all I’ve suggested is making the student demonstrate actual understanding. Thinking even that is somehow going too far is absolutely ludicrous.

You have completely flipped the concepts of mature and immature. Only a child would think the exact wording of a phrase is the absolute most important thing and that context doesn’t matter at all. An adult would follow the intent of the exercise and make sure actual understanding was achieved–you know, the entire point of the test. Children love malicious compliance: “finish your homework,” so they scribble a bunch of random nonsense; “stop hitting your sister,” so they start poking them; “go outside,” so they sit down and play phone games. The fault isn’t with the adult for not being clear enough, the kid just doesn’t want to comply. Rewarding that type of shitty behavior just encourages more of it!

Do better with the language next time, and it won’t happen again.

Reward the kid for being a smartass and intentionally misreading directions, and it ABSOLUTELY will happen again. Unless you’re gonna start spending an hour writing incredibly precise paragraphs for each exercise like a magician giving instructions to a genie, there will always be some technically correct version that wasn’t what the question intended.

This is so silly. Kids aren’t code compilers. They know what’s being asked of them. This is like shrugging your shoulders and just letting it happen when a kid is doing the whole “I’m not touching you!” shtick.

Oh come on. This is obviously a kid’s test, and the kid knew they were being a smartass. What’s less clear is whether the kid knew the actual answers.

In your world you start having to write “solve the equations to their simplest forms” on tests for kindergarteners who won’t even know what that means in order to avoid technically correct nonsense like “1 + 1 = 1 + 1”. Room should be made for genuinely unclear test directions, but this is not one of those cases.

Edit, maybe he should have gotten credit for literally writing “a number with a 2 in the ones place.” The test should have used “provide an example,” not “write!”

idk the whole idea of a test is to demonstrate understanding, which this doesn’t. i feel like a good teacher wouldnt take off points, but would have to pull the student aside and be like “ok now circle the tens place, hundreds place, etc”

“Vitamin” is basically the 19th century’s idea of a sciencey word for “nutrients.” I mean heck, half the “vitamin Bs” aren’t even related to each other at all

God I wrote like 3 paragraphs of hair-pulling stupid bugs and experiences I’ve had with steam just over the last couple years but jfc, long story short is your experiences are not universal. Steam horror stories are as common as flies on a week old corpse

you know that mud cookies are a real documented thing that people eat in places like haiti right? i dont know of this woman but saying “people eat mud” in a place known for having famines is extremely plausible

Why Cant I Hold All These new traffic Bananas -every instance, today, colorized

While some streamers could get direct sponsors, that option is really only available to a select few of the most popular ones, and would still deprive them of the extra income they currently get from ads served by the platform. You’d have to convince advertisers to trust that each instance is going to serve their ads fairly and not additionally host content they don’t like. A system to distribute ads between instances would be complicated enough to write in the first place; these sites have a lot of QoL updates to push before they even think about doing something like that.

The other problem with YouTube/twitch alts as opposed to reddit/twitter is that a lot of the creators people like the most actually rely on those platforms to serve ads in order to make a living. That content can’t exist on FOSS systems unless they somehow manage to attract advertisers, which seems next to impossible

“we have broken through the walls and our forces now wash over the land like a giant wave”