People with an obsession with “winning” fail to understand the purpose of education and grading. When the metric becomes a target it stops becoming a good metric. Calling students losers for getting Cs in school is silly. Even more so thinking B is a failing grade.

We don’t call someone who loses a loser. We do that to people who act like "know-it-all"s that score Cs. And funnily also those who take “winning” too seriously. Society is melting pot of circumstances, effort, skill, and mainly luck. Cooperation would get someone farther than competition alone could. Our entire society is built around cooperation.

You know why? Not everyone is good at everything. Some are good at Science. Some are good at Math. Some are good at the trades. Some do well organizing things and crowd control. Some are good at Art and Entertainment.

People don’t teach their kids that winning doesn’t matter. People know the kid is already aware of that. It’s as simple as recognizing that they DID work hard, and they would have scored better if not for reasons X,Y, or Z. The kid definitely knows that they didn’t win 1st or whatever. No need to pile on it. It sets unattainable goals - a source for frustration and depression.

The objective is not to make hyper-specialized machines. It is to make well adjusted adults who are okay with things not going their way in life and being able to deal with it. Because in life you will fail at one thing or the other. Doesn’t make sense to feel bad and get stuck on one thing. Learning how to pickup after yourself and also know that you are there to listen and encourage them is motivation enough for your kids.

that’s how i pronounce it from the very first time i saw it

came to comment the same. But it’s been a while since I was in tiling window land so not sure if it matches what the poster is looking for.

unless you strap a screen the size of your phone on to your wrist it’s not happening.

And we measure that by how much thought is put into a reply.

I think

most who argue for capitalism only think about themselves at the expense of everybody and everything else.

Capitalism is always “lets make differences in material conditions by promulgating that only those with money are considered successful” and then stealing from that differential. It’s quite obvious how terms like “inefficiencies in the market” can mean something quite different to a CEO and to someone who is born into poverty, or worse the wrong skin colour or ethnicity.

The people who hate socialism only see freeloaders who take the fruits of their hardwork. Those who actually have empathy can understand that their success also depends on a functioning and prosperous society where parents had ample support to raise children who would grow up with a nurturing environment.

A capitalist only thinks in terms of pure profit terms. He/she would discard old people who used to work hard for the survival and benefit of society as a whole as “spent fuel”.

An oft made argument is that Capitalism is the best system so far. That just sounds like Feudalism with a recurrent reminder of monarchy and autocracy.

You don’t use the excuse that “Every system has profit motive” to follow up with “I will choose the system that rewards that behavior”. An empathetic system of reasoning would allow socialist policies while keeping free markets alive. Such a system is proven to work in countries like Denmark, Netherlands, etc.

inb4 some morons comment “how many have YOU been in”… it’s probably fair to say “star” probably is the operating term for “actor”

so you agree that we don’t need capitalism for businesses to exist? And that socialist policies do work and can co-exist with a free market?

you mean the CIA backed coup was actually a grassroots movement?

there’s more to life than making money. If you are truly empathetic and willing to change the system, you should stop blaming vague, nebulous entities like “governments” when in reality such entities are routinely used to oppress other forms of economic systems.

Every system prioritizes maximizing profit/satisfaction

Wrong. Only capitalism does this. Profit motive doesn’t exist in socialist systems that place more importance on sustainable living.

If you can live within your means, there is no need for “growth” or “going to the next big thing”. No need to trample on others to achieve “success” which funnily for people whose definition of it is “making money”, is quite a shallow and sad thing to wish for.

The claim that all systems prioritize maximizing profit is dreamed up by hollow people who have to fill holes in their sad souls with unfathomable power, control, and freedom from accountability and responsibility to even feel barely satisfied for a moment.

People who are connected with the spirit of the world and have empathy don’t advocate for a system bereft of empathy and s system in which empathy is considered a weakness. A system where if you put on a mask (translation: become incorporated) then suddenly no moral obligations can stop you. You can just chant the magic words “But a business exists solely to make profit” as justifications to brush aside deplorable behavior in pursuit of wealth and power.

Utter bullshit that anybody would expect Ukraine to fix Russian pipeline supplying Russian allies and thus funding Russia’s war against Ukraine.

Humans can’t help but elect/allow imbeciles into positions of power.

lol this is like cartoon level deceit.

“Show me the damage”

“No it’s dangerous and we are slowly making progress”

Although, it’s mighty rich of Orban to be demanding anything at this point.

yes… the doctors usually advice me against breathing in too much vaccuum or be trapped in zero G for months

Instructions unclear… Am vampire now.

Case in point*

I think you’re the one who keeps thinking about what your friends recommended. They simply gave you an option and moved on. you on the other hand seem to have devolved into a crusade against an alternative choice in running your own OS.

there was a ChubbyEmu video about that recently.

Honestly I have never heard of upscroll. Whatever you did sounds like a good thing to me, especially the “Here’s more of the thing with more people and ticking more of your boxes you can be a part of” as a suggestion.

It doesn’t sound as tone deaf as “Use Linux” advice, although it’s also an area where I wish people took “Use Linux” as more of a “Here’s something you like” instead of “YOU MUST DO THIS”.

it’s a way of doing things with programs that you don’t have to think about. moving your hand to the mouse, clicking or double clicking the window, dragging it to the appropriate corner and waiting for snapping to toggle are all too slow compared to a keyboard shortcut to open and tile left, right, bottom, or stacked in i3.

this mouse movement is even ambiguous on mac os which requires external apps to make the experience marginally above suck.

The main thing is you want to commit these actions to muscle memory to free up your conscious effort on whatever it is you are trying to focus on.