Rimworld plus all DLCs is over $100 too, but could last you a literal lifetime in replayability. It’s not the price, but the price per quality content delivered.

Nah man, it’s tiktok and Instagram shorts making us stupid.

There has always been dumb media, it just tends to be forgotten. Survivorship bias makes us remember the past in an undeserved light.

The primal instinct to pick up Very Nice Stick and Very Shiny Rock

Which is hilarious because platforms like Suno try to convince you that you need to buy a license to use the outputs of their AI music commercially. I wonder when someone challenges that and destroys their business model.

I’m like a cartoon character, my entire wardrobe is filled with exactly the same outfit.

That’s a UX issue more than anything, IMO. Matrix is just a protocol

This seems like the better alternative to discord than the other centralized platforms

Gasp! You take that back!

Someone just needs to make a discord clone on Matrix, can’t be that hard, right?

Quinceañera in cat years or human years?

How does it compare to stoat?

I like a girl who stays hydrated

I think that’s likely. We’ve spent an entire generation of the world’s most brilliant engineers on optimizing the addictive nature of social platforms - all to serve more ads. It fries people’s brains just like slot machines do.

Precisely the thing everyone predicted happened? Who could have seen this coming?!

“Got suicided” is the precise phrase

But how else am I supposed to get my daily recommended allowance of microplastics?

I mean dude, you made a Lemmy post of an instagram post of a Twitter post of a news article headline. Not exactly authoritative either. Don’t be a fucking hypocrite.

I don’t know if there’s a place that collects all this data, but here are some issues I’ve seen in the US.

• Class sizes are growing
• 1 in 8 teachers are not actually certified to be teachers. Also of note in this data is that teacher attrition is awful right now - 4 out of 5 teachers who leave are doing it due to dissatisfaction or salary rather than retirement.
• Student misbehavior is up since 2019
• School funding is being diverted away from teachers towards non-teacher personnel and pension debt. Notably teacher salaries lag far behind the rate of inflation.

I mean, this is just a cursory exploration. I think someone with more time on their hands could find better sources than me.

I mean, he’s citing sources, you’re just whining. Put your sources up if you want anyone to listen to you.