[-] EzekielJK@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago

I grew up homeschooled for my entire K-12 experience through the 2000s and 2010s and went to my fair share of homeschool conventions throughout it. (They're really popular and they always have separate events for the kids.)

There's no governing body for any of these curriculum. My science education would always change depending on the book. At one point, I was told that all the animals in the world were vegetarian before Adam and Eve ate the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil then turned carnivorous. Another series of videos I received spent a literal hour and a half "dunking" on evolution before actually giving a much more valid argument for its existence. (I actually am trying to find a way to convert the crappy flash swf files into video so I can share the insanity if anyone knows how to do that. FFmpeg hath failed me.)

Math was less volatile but had its quirks. I had one curriculum (Life of Fred) that quite literally was made with crappy clipart and not really even written by a person who was qualified to make kids content. It was just purposely obtuse and my mother took me off of it once I wasn't making any progress on it. I made it through two of those books for what it's worth.

Economics and "stewardship" was also high-key Republican trickle down economics and one time they actually blamed social programs for causing the Great Depression.

But, all that said, I got a super advanced education that put me well ahead of most other kids my age and I'm only listing the worst aspects of Christian homeschool curricula. Generally, homeschooling (Christian or secular) is almost entirely dependent on the parent actually giving a crap about their kid's unique needs and strengths. At the very least, if you're going to homeschool (no, I don't mean charter school) your kid for an extended period, make sure that you're involved with activities with other kids and that you really look through what your kid is reading.

[-] EzekielJK@lemmy.world 32 points 1 year ago

Hiking and basic wilderness knowledge.

I live in the Mojave Desert. Simple stuff like knowing not to cut through bushes, wearing proper shoes, avoiding feral dogs, and always having something to defend yourself with when walking in the desert aren't common among a lot of people who aren't originally from here.

[-] EzekielJK@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago

There's also a Veggietales episode where they do a spin on the story where King David essentially rapes a lady named Bathsheba then indirectly murders her husband to keep it quiet.

The Veggietales version involved Larry the Cucumber stealing a rubber ducky from BATHsheba.

[-] EzekielJK@lemmy.world 29 points 1 year ago

I live, breathe, and sleep video games but this is a problem we made for ourselves. You don't have to buy the latest and greatest games from million dollar companies. Heck, you don't have to buy any games at all. Stop buying crap and they'll stop making as much of it. Go play something else or, and I say this as someone who's currently designing homebrew for a TTRPG in another tab, go touch some grass.

[-] EzekielJK@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

Yeah, in the same shop where they bought popsicles, an elephant was also scooping ice cream "with an ungloved trunk" as Judy points out while threatening to issue them a citation.

[-] EzekielJK@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

It's not even the right flag. The rebel flag we see nowadays is a bastardized version of a battle flag that was flown incredibly briefly and not recognized by most at the time. The original was square because they were too broke to afford the cloth to make it a rectangle.

The more common version of the flag still included the symbol but on a white background which was literally to show the "purity of the white race" but then people were confusing it for the flag of surrender. Fitting, in my opinion.

[-] EzekielJK@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

The video player rarely works properly, ads are pretty egregious, it's hard to navigate with so much stuff bloating the UX, there are literal NFTs, and the app is generally much slower in general. And that's just the app itself.

[-] EzekielJK@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

They're copying YouTubers and TikTok stars.

[-] EzekielJK@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

You go to the site and see an ad on the way. Reddit profits.

Reddit turns around to their investors during their IPO and say "look at how many people flooded to our site to engage with r/place." Reddit profits.

People see the chaos and decide to add your two cents to the canvas. The cycle repeats. Reddit profits.

[-] EzekielJK@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

You don't even own an NFT. Even if I bought a print of the Mona Lisa, I at least have a physical, tangible thing in my hand. It might be worth fractions of a cent but at least it's more real than an NFT you might have spent actual dollars on.

[-] EzekielJK@lemmy.world 57 points 1 year ago

It's not for her.

Be the french maid you were always meant to be.

[-] EzekielJK@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

Here's how you actually free space on your computer in a way that matters without installing some malware "fix-it" program or need a computer divining rod to find every random file:

  • WizTree: Scan your entire computer hards drive(s) in a matter of seconds and display a very useful graph and data about where your space it being taken up. It's eons faster and easier to use than the leading competitor WinDirStat to the point where I can't imagine why anyone would use something that isnt WizTree.

  • BCUninstaller: It helps uninstall as many apps and programs off of your computer automatically with little to no user interaction needed beyond hitting the "start" button

  • BleachBit: It deletes all the temporary and nonessential stuff that gets accumulated over time. It won't clear as much as BCUninstaller or deleting stuff with WizTree and a lot of apps will generate most temporary files again anyways but I do typically see a decrease of around a gigabyte or two. Worth a shot in any case.

  • Winget: While not a software in the general sense, Winget is a package manager built into Windows 10/11 itself that lets you automatically download, configure, and install a ton of programs in one command via command prompt or PowerShell.

Every single program I've listed here are available on Winget.

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