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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Hi there, gen Z person here. Things are bad but remember that, as always, you only see and hear about the vocal minority. No matter how poor American education standards are, it is irrefutable that Trumpism could not exist without idiots from all generations. The education paradigms we are emerging from cannot possibly be worse than those which produced tens of millions of conservatives and hundreds of millions of nonvoters. This is specifically because of those gen X leftists and millennial teachers you mentioned. We aren't competing as generations--failures of the past become the lessons of the present because older generations also have smart people. So how do you know gen Z won't do even better? Everything else aside, growing up under fascism creates widespread discontent. I'd say from personal knowledge that for every one gen Z kid that believes in the system are five who at least recognize it's broken.

Now, I won't pretend to be particularly optimistic either; things are bad. However, I also want to believe that we can and will do better. And maybe I'll be wrong, but at least I haven't given up hope.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

how lovely. i've always hated corners

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

collabora doesn't provide a frontend and isn't meant to be a standalone document editor. the "ok" is expected behavior and indicates the server is functional. you need a different service that supports collabora integration, such as nextcloud. then you just enter the address of your server and it should work

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

that's why i ran every request in a different chat session

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

i was curious so i tried it with chatgpt. here are the chat links:

overall it didn't seem too bad. it sort of started focusing on the ecological and astrobiological side of the same topic but didn't completely drift. to be honest, i think it would have done a lot worse if i made the prompt less specific. if it was just "summarize this text" and "expand on these points" i think chatgpt would get very distracted

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

though i'm sure you also make a conscious effort to avoid the kind of people who love ceos

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

lithium only has one valence electron. it really wants to get rid of that valence electron. halogens such as the pictured fluorine, chlorine, bromine, and iodine have seven valence electrons. they really want to obtain one more valence electron to form a stable outer shell. thus, the lithium donates its electron, forming an ionic compound

 

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (2 children)

yeah those people would not survive in ma pona pi toki pona. tons of variant orthography there

[–] [email protected] 22 points 6 months ago (1 children)

gen z here, can confirm. most of my peers just do not care about learning how things actually work

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

the comments on there are not encouraging at all

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago (1 children)

nice, thanks. arctic is definitely by far the best ios client

 
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