Idk how to embed audio to Lemmy but imagine it playing on the background lol
Lazlo bayne - I’m no superman
full version with credits
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This is such a bullshit moral for stories, and it’s so overused that it boggles my brain. It’s just an outright lie - accepting oneself will NOT magically solve all of one’s problems, that’s not how reality works.
It will not solve all your problems, but it might solve some.
Pretending to be someone you’re really not, unless there’s a very good reason for it, usually leads to more harm than good
Recently I saw someone complaining that he’ll always be a virgin and will never get laid. In my advice I recommended making changes to improve himself, like being kind and generous, learning to be better socially, and taking up hobbies that involve being around people.
He said I was telling him to “fake himself.”
All of the “just be yourself” and “you’re perfect just the way you are” platitudes are meant to improve confidence, but unfortunately it means some people genuinely don’t think they need to fix things. That they are just, like, owed success from society or something.
Obviously there are aspects that you don’t need to change, like you don’t have to pretend to like things you don’t, and you don’t have to try to change your orientation or identity, but if you’re an asshole you should try to not be an asshole. If you smell bad you should shower. If you suffer from social anxiety there are both medical and practical ways to address that.
No one is perfect. We can all stand to improve things about ourselves and thus progress towards whatever goals we may have. And the more we lie about not needing to change, or indeed not being able to change, the more we let people wallow in self-pity. I don’t have data to back this up, but I suspect this sort of thinking leads in part to the wave of loneliness and incel-ness we see in our society today.
I think that there’s a comfy middle ground between giving into every horrible trait you have to the detriment of everyone around you, and molding yourself into a character just to please everyone around you.
Learning how to “Be yourself” just means learning how to take your core personality and cultivate it into being your own person that also knows how to get along well with society at large.
This is definitely true. My litmus test is simply empathy. If I were them, would I want to have a stranger (me) do this thing I’m about to do? If the answer is no, then I don’t do it.
Yeah and if you’re someone like me you shouldn’t accept yourself.
I’m actual human garbage.
It’s not just education, lol
Wow, this really says a lot about S O C I E T Y
Truly we do live in one
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There are several hole shapes but not infinite and no guarantee that an individual person will be suited to a hole at all.
Why are you am? Did you try not to be am? I was am myself but myself being am wasn’t fitting well. Well fuck it there’s nothing wrong with being am and well. I am am too and proud of it
I’ve been on the internet since the before before times, I do not recognize this one. I must have been distracted at the time it happened.
Still made sense to me though… So IDK. Maybe the internet has warped my mind. I’ve seen a lot.
OP made a little typo in the title of its post. It made sense then.
Okay thanks for the tip
As you see I’m bad at everything else as well
I kind of regret you remove your happy mistake my friend, but I respect your decision.
As you see I’m bad at everything else as well
Don’t say that. You’re perfect just the way you are.
Don’t say that. You’re perfect just the way you are
Don’t say that. I can’t speak for them, but I know I’m not. :P
That’s right, it goes in the square hole.
That’s a great vid lol
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Square peg, Round hole. Story of my life.
Is that a well?
No, it is a hole, of glory.
A glorious hole?
Full of glories to be had
What is the real context of this pic ?
Probably star trek
The character is Gowron, from Star Trek TNG and DS9. It’s an edit though.
Kingons from Star Trek have combat as a major part of their society/culture. They always seek honor and glory (in combat)
And jussssst in case anyone doesn’t get it, we call that a “glory hole” and… Yeah… Look it up, but only if you’re not at work and are over 18 lol
“Your true self is a circle. You only think you’re a triangle.”
Why homeschool education is best education.
Teehee, come at me with the downvotes, drones.
I’ve been thinking about it long and hard, and I’ve come to the conclusion that I’m a lousy teacher, and on the other hand, I’ve faced a rather limited pool of tutors 😓
Actually, hiring is hell, almost like the “dating” market. Only this time, it’s not even your own life at stake.
My wife isn’t a certified teacher, she just goes online and finds educational resources and prints them out. My daughter is learning at the 4th grade level. She’s only 5 years old.
Before my wife and I had kids we had this discussion about public education, private institutions, and home schooling. If private institutions were affordable, we will go that route, if not, then home schooling. I told her public education is not on the table, ever. It is an institution that keeps the minds of children dull, lethargic, and incapable of advancing because the curriculum provided is static, all children work at the same pace.
When I was a child, my teacher in 2nd grade told my mother I had ADHD. That at first, I was an excellent student, I did all my work, then all of a sudden I had a change in behavior. Come to find out, I was bored. The pace of learning was too slow in the classroom. And thank fk my mom didn’t put me on any meds. My wife was the same way in high school… she was skipping school so much she was about to get expelled but she explained to the dean that all her homework was completed, all got good grades and she always came to school to take quizzes and tests and those scores were never below a B+. And that anytime she got anything less than an A she would do extra credit work to make up for it. They allowed her to continue her high school education and she graduated as one of the valedictorians, meaning a perfect 4.0 GPA.
All I’m saying is, public education gives you the bare minimum to become a wage slave. The institution is outdated, plain and simple.
While this all seems reasonable I would like to point out a couple things. First that ADHD is a real thing that people struggle with, and many are not diagnosed until after they finish school (or not at all in some cases). So yeah sometimes their are spurious diagnosis given by teachers (who aren’t even qualified to give a diagnosis btw), but on the whole it’s under diagnosed.
I also think it’s good to point out that in a good education system you should have things like ability sets and G&T programs. When I went to school they had sets in secondary education at least, but not in primary education for some reason. Little funding for G&T programs as well. This doesn’t make the greatest amount of sense, especially for people like you and your wife.
Public schooling helps kids acquire social skills and learn how to interact with others, like not calling people you’ve never met “drones”
I went to public school, I explained that public school for me was too slow, as too with my wife. Why would I limit my children? And homeschooling doesn’t interfere with social skills.
In some specific cases it might be, but a lot of parents are doing it for the wrong reasons, and I’m not sure I’ve ever met a homeschooled kid that didn’t seem a bit off socially.
Well keep in mind that homeschooling doesn’t exclude extracurriculars. In my town, almost on a daily basis there’s some sort of child learning activities, museums, planetariums, gardening, nature exploring etc… These activities are done with other homeschooled children and children going on field trips.
If only they made the hole square…
That’s optimization for you. Just a 27% increase in size would allow a whole lot of more shapes, but think of the economy!
Can you guess which whole these shapes go through?
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But every time I try to watch, I get either an endlessly spinning broken circle, or “error: sign in to prove you aren’t a bot” and I’m not gonna jump through hoops when a non-hoopy alternative is just… Don’t use the service.
Yeah this bot annoys me. Because it never works ¯_(ツ)_/¯
If it’s because I’m using Firefox mobile, then that’s even more stupid, considering Lemmy harps on about not using a chromium browser.
We don’t want squares in society. Your free to make your own hole as long as you don’t modify the walls or use the hole.
that’s right! the square hole
[mental breakdown intensifies]
I think most education systems actually work the other way around, the hole’s there, but the teachers will hammer students into the “right” shape
Why do you think that hole has so many cracks around it?
Thats why it feels like youre being chiseled out by the education system
Teachers are on the other side with hammers trying to force everyone through.
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Pretty sure the triangle can fit through that hole.
I still love this clip. Her reactions are so visceral.
Add the square as well, since it doesn’t appear to be a cube.
