A thread about the BBC, Netflix and the Israel government. Goes into a feverish tirade about American genocide.

How’s that whole “destabilizing the west” op going? They paying you well over there? Or is this like a “they have my family” situation?

Bless.

Fairly confident I wound up with some malware from a “GOG” download from one of the sites in the megathread. I’ve already formatted and the files are long gone but I’ll tuck this link away for the future.

Hey, I also had immediately reacted to the graph and headline without reading, and came back to do the edit afterwards. I’m right here with you, fam. It was just an interesting topic point for me, so I dug in a little more.

In Canada, we are contracted to be in the building for ~6 hours of work a day, but for employment insurance purposes, it is considered an 8 hour day. The expectation is that every 6 hour in-building day has about 2 hours of work at home. Obviously, this is largely untrue: there are weeks where I work exactly 30 hours, and weeks where I work 60 hours dealing with every assignment, test and paper all coming in at the same time. But, in the surface, it is legally recorded to be a 40 hour work week even though those are not the hours I am required to work.

No idea how, exactly, this relates to Japan’s situation, but I thought it could be interesting for context.

Edit: Okay, I actually read the article, and it does talk about this.

The results showed that Japanese teachers were largely preoccupied with out-of-classroom activities.

They spent 17.8 hours a week on teaching, which is shorter than the international average of 22.7 hours.

However, lesson preparation in Japan took 8.2 hours a week (international average 7.4 hours); extracurricular activities, such as supervising clubs, consumed 5.6 hours (international average 1.7 hours); and administrative tasks, such as paperwork, took 5.2 hours (international average 3 hours).

Where a Japanese teacher spends 17.8 hours a week on teaching, I spend ~22 hours (trying my best to omit in-school prep time, which is not uniform week-to-week).

For further comparison, I definitely spend far fewer hours on lesson preparation, as we tend to share a lot of our lesson plans across teachers, probably spend close to the international average on administrative tasks, and spend like… maaybe 1.2 hours pre week on extracirriculuars. And those extracurricular hours are also pure optional: I can simply just say no and not do it.

I think is is fascinating how much time Japanese teachers spendon extracurriculars and administrative tasks, in particular. I find myself cursing the inefficiencies that lead to a lot of that administration time, as I often feel we could save a lot of time in that space. I wonder if Japanese teachers have similiar issues.

But, the Democrats are the ones responsible for genocide in Ukraine! /s

Ah yes, gloss past the fact that they were nationalists before they were socialists, even if you take their name at face value.

Fucking Polievere. Every time I think he can’t get any more unlikable.

Hitler famously didn’t pull Germany out of poverty, that’s just Nazi propaganda.

Fucking WOOSH.

“When they said it, it was propaganda, unlike glorious China!”

Yes, there are so many historical instances of the wonders of communism pulling countries from poverty. It’s famous for being an uncorruptable ideology where the people are never abused by ill-actors who work from a position of social elite status, unlike the disgusting systems of capitalism in the west. I hope I don’t need the /s here.

The irony of you telling me I’m attacking the “wrong enemy” is palpable, considering you painted an entire portrait of my ideologies, beliefs and behaviours based on my lemmy instance. It’s almost as ironic as you telling me to mind my business and stick to my own country, when all I said is that fascist China isn’t going to save us from fascist America, while you’re neither Chinese nor American. Of course, when you get involved to stand against the ignorant westerners, it’s virtuous, and when those ignorant westerners speak out against blatant lies and propaganda, they need to mind their own business.

Fuck off, tankie. I don’t need to waste my day picking apart half truths to discern where the dishonesty lies.

Ah yes, build a strawman “westerner,” surely that’ll help you. I wasn’t praising Canada’s practices, but whatever helps you project, I guess. My favorite part of your entire neurotic rant, honestly, is that you defend genocide by pointing to a worse genicide, like somehow that makes every insane, disgusting, and anti-humanitarian thing China had done totally fine, because, “but the West is worse!”

You can think whatever you want, but my suspicion is that you’re either lying or terribly misled. And yes, probably a tankie, but there’s room for error there.

“Say what you want about Hitler, but he pulled Germany out of poverty!”

God, I love triggering Tankies.

This China?

I suspect the people benefiting from the rise of fascism in the States seem pretty happy too.

Surely the fascists pretending to be communist will save us from the fascists pretend to be democratic!

Man, the .ml fascists have really ramped up the propaganda in the past week.

It’s almost like it coincides with an event causing great civil unrest in a notable Democratic nation.

Okay, but what stops literally any MMO with a pet class from challenging the patent and getting it thrown out the door? Definitely not a lawyer, but I was under the impression that if a property from before the patent proves it has existed as the patent describes before the patent came along, it just gets thrown out.

My Pixel 6’s battery recently started expanding. I considered getting a new phone, but when I asked the dude at the kiosk what my options are for something that isn’t filled with AI integration, he laughed.

I ordered a new battery online and had my phone fixed.

I picked up an RX6600 like 4 months ago for my partner to play Monster Hunter Wilds. It was $300 CAD (So, $220) and plays everything on the market at medium settings, 60fps.

It’s a lower mid range card that does what we expect in the price range. It was also a sale price, but we got it.

I’m not denying that prices are, in general, higher, particularly if you’re looking for traditional mid range options or even high end cards, but budget options exist.

0% homelessness in China btw.

Which is like the US declaring homelessness a federal crime, imprisoning everyone who lives on the streets, and calling homelessness a solved problem.

I agree. The war in Ukraine can only truly be resolved by removing it’s root causes. Remove Putin, and the war ends.

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick called Canada a “socialist regime”

God, I fucking wish.

Okay, this is a cute way to push Linux and all, but Windows 10 reaching end of service really doesn’t mean we have to give up using it. We could easily have years before the end of support causes compatibility issues for the average home user.

I believe we (as in, people) all have a responsibility to hold each other accountable. But we can also only do so much, and inserting yourself into a toxic community founded for the sole goal of normalizing that toxicity in some misguided attempt to reform such people is beyond what any one person can be expected to engage with.

I explicitly stay away from such groups. I call it out in person, and politely check my friends when they say something that they might not realize is harmful, exactly the same way I expect them to check me, but that’s just it. That kind of discourse isn’t welcome in these groups because they were created with one explicit purpose: to justify and normalize the absolute shittiest behavioursof the most sexiest of male culture.

She’s right, it isn’t a small amount of men. But it’s a supermajority in certain circles, and a tiny, neglible minority in others. She, unfortunately, exposed herself to the worst of men enmasse. We should instead go to those latter circles, and avoid/ostracize those former circles, until they realize if their only goal is sex, they’ll have to figure out how to be a decent person first. And men, choose to be better.