Came here to mention this one. I’ll be 36 soon and that story still haunts me 20 some odd years after reading it in class. Link for the curious.

thaw and pan fry them, it’s fucken amazing.

It’s all too common when anti-phrenology people don’t understand phreno101.

For context, this book came out the previous year: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/140

https://invidious.nerdvpn.de/watch?v=dU8VPQsTqFU

oh look yet another warmed over “DAE the kids r bad” talking point that i’ve been hearing literally since i learned language.

it’s been a long time for me too lol, took some googling to find the name “mortron”. i remember the alien you’re talking about but i don’t remember what it’s called or which book.

these are Mortons, from the Andalite Chronicles

i don’t disagree with that person but it’s a weird hill to die on, and their behavior is an atrocious embarassment to all feminists and queer people. nobody is going to change their mind after reading that stuck-up, insulting, pendantic rant.

you’re not wrong BUT

cramming nuanced and counterintuitive sociological topics down peoples’ throats and then calling them bigots and idiots when it doesn’t click right away makes you look like a crazy person. if i didn’t already agree with you i’d be far less inclined adopt your viewpoint after having an interaction like this, because every time it came up again i would remember your smug ass on a high horse wielding it like a cudgel and mentally disengage.

you need to ease up and give people time to explore and integrate new ideas and perspectives, especially things like this that involve subtleties of linguistics and human psychology - not insult them and storm off when it doesn’t take right away. acting this way just makes people double down on their position.

i read it as “obligated to go to church” too but he wrote “obligated to go to a church”. damn english.

this. milk is fucking disgusting.

itt people trying to logic out a definition from an english word as if it’s meant to be anally descriptive jargon and not a colloquial term with tons of historical context

it’s still a market, and “free” is still a price point

yes because having assigned reading material directly and specifically relevant to the subject of the class is exactly the same as registering for a website full of shitposts and propaganda bots. remember when you got all that spam from opening your textbook, and there was an entire chapter calling you out for being a little bitch?

that’s the stupidest comparison i’ve ever heard.

“hey there’s this thing called lemmy, check it out some time” <- leading a horse to water

“ok you have to register an account on lemmy, it’s part of your grade” <- shoving a hose down the horse’s throat and cranking the spigot

requiring my students to create Lemmy accounts

No. Nobody likes registering accounts for random services because an authority figure told them they had to, I feel like if it were me I would do the bare minimum of interacting that I was required to and never look at the service again out of resentment.

the joke is the guy bitching about illiteracy thinks 40 words is too much to read

native english speaker here, the joke comes across fine and I literally laughed out loud. people who try to police words/grammar/humor like the guy you’re replying to are pathetic losers and nobody likes them. keep making funnies in my language and i’ll keep laughing and upvoting them!

whine about literacy

proceed to call two sentences “a lot of words” and pretend it’s a lot to read

this guy desperately making an asshole of himself trying to troll people is funnier than the meme