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Why is the student smug but internally crying about not knowing excel?
THIS MOTHER FUCKER MEMED WRONG
Believe it or not, straight to jail.
THIS MOTHER FUCKER MEMED RIGHT
Well yeah, his teacher yelled at him in meme class so he never learned how to meme.
I love the nearly racist truth that there are clear tiers for countries and helpful YouTube content.
Are you an Electrical Engineer? You want a man of Slavic descent.
Computer scientist? Indian man.
Programmer? You want either middle east or (vaguely) American white guy.
Physics? White girl; geographic region not important. Or black American man.
Mental Health: woman either American or vaguely from geographic region of India.
Mathematics? British accent or Asian descent.
I am not sure why this pattern seems to exist, but it feels present. If you seek help on YouTube with any of these subjects I imagine you’ve seen it.
Like if I’m looking for an explanation on Colombs Law, I want a guy that sounds like ElectroBoom. If I need to know about Discrete Finite Automata, Ill click the first guy with a turban. If I want to know about the poincare conjecture, Im looking for snaggletooths. If I want the latest from James web, I’m looking for a ponytail or Sabine.
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I feel like even SEO acknowledges this prejudice.
Are you an Electrical Engineer? You want a man of Slavic descent.
But the god of all electricians is Iranian
The rest I can’t argue with at all though
Iranians and Slavs are both Indo-European, which is almost what I wrote. And literally after googling ElectroBoom’s accent/nationality
Programmer? You want either middle east or (vaguely) American white guy.
Don’t discount Scandinavians here
Yeah, Aussies too. I should change that to “white dudes aged 25 to 35”
I feel called out by the electrical engineering part, I did tinker with electrical stuff ever since I was a kid and know a ton of shit about it >!(Also explains why I suck at programming but that’s not the point)!<
That sounds like an American pop culture and entertainment characters check list.
When I was young we had a Smith-Corona PC. It was like a suitcase.
Anyway, I had two things I could learn from - Lotus 1-2-3 and Leisure Suit Larry.
I didn’t learn spreadsheets.
Edit: add pic of Primitive portable PC preceding Passionate Patty’s play.
Lotus 1-2-3 […] I didn’t learn spreadsheets
What do you mean? Lotus 1-2-3 was a spreadsheet. It was THE spreadsheet.
He learned LSL instead.
Corona
Unfortunately named.
I don’t think they are losing a lot of sales since 2022.
Indian man on YouTube put me through college 10-14 years ago. He’s a real one.
It wasn’t that my instructors were discouraging me or anything. Indian man just has a way of explaining things.
I tried so hard to listen but the accents are too thick sometimes. You should get a certificate for being able to understand after all that.
It starts to really sink in after about 100 hours lol
My first job out of college, I worked with a lot of Indian people. It was like I was uniquely prepared to work there.
I laughed so hard at this 😂 I grew up amongst Indians and I know every word they say. This made me laugh.
My first job taught me to understand Indian accents, and my second taught me the tiny differences between Mexican and Castilian Spanish
You must do the needful
–Indian man
Nearly every time I’ve needed to learn how to get around an issue in flashing a custom ROM onto an Android device, it’s been South Asian YouTubers’ tutorials that saved the day.
What issues can you have. I have never had any problems with flashing roms to phones.
Well, that’s nice that you’ve never had problems. But issues I’ve seen over the years, range from not having certain functions working after the flash (generally needed specific firmware upgrades prior to the flash), not having the device recognized by the PC without additional steps, needing specific custom recoveries, bootloops, being stuck on splash screen, needing extra steps to unlock the bootloader (e.g. Xiaomi), not being able to easily downgrade Android version (sometimes needed as a first step prior to installing alternate OS’s like Ubunu Touch), even soft bricking. Plus, in learning how to flash custom ROM’s in the first place, guess who provided me with the info on how to do it.
I guess I was lucky with my mi 11 lite, but i wasn’t lucky with the hardware working. Well the 2017 redmi is way better anyway.
Teachers: “We’re doing the best we can. It’s all the parents’ fault for raising these no-learning-ass little monsters. We’ve tried literally everything, and there is NOTHING WE COULD POSSIBLY DO to rescue the nation from this nightmare of continually stupider people. None of it is our fault, and if you even think about suggesting that we should be held accountable for our job performance, you are actually evil.”
Also teachers: “If you kicked us an extra twenty or thirty grand per year, you’d really start to see a lot of improvement.”
Both can be true. Teachers can be doing everything they humanly can with the constraints and budgets they’re given by the people in charge, whether it is public or private schools. They’re still people who need food, water, shelter and clothing, and so many teachers pay for the supplies they need with their own money, cutting into their ability to afford basic necessities.
Having more money available to pay for teacher’s aides, and for the necessary supplies would remove a lot of the burden and barriers teachers face when actually teaching.
many teachers pay for the supplies they need with their own money
They just shouldn’t do that. It should be actually illegal to do that. I really mean that.
Imagine if this shit was going on, in the construction industry. Imagine if we got into a situation, where the people who hire construction contractors refused to pay for enough building materials, and then the contractors refused to pay for those materials, and then the actual construction workers started bringing in steel and concrete, from home.
That would be BEYOND STUPID. Nobody would do that. But if they DID ever do that, it would completely destroy the economy, and basically make sure that no buildings could ever be built or repaired.
Rather than telling the people at large that they need their asses kissed, the response should be to tell the districts: “well, I ran out of supplies, so I couldn’t teach.” If that functionally means a strike, then so be it. It is ethically problematic, because of the actual futures of the actual kids involved…but it should have been dealt with sharply and directly, all along.
Instead, teachers are coddling governments and middle managers by taking the burden onto themselves. I know it’s easier said than done, but they need to start saying “no,” rather than saying “please help me, out of the kindness of your hearts.”
Then the children would get worse education than they already get, it would be years until the pressure got enough to actually change anything in the administration, and then longer for it to have any effect on the funding that schools recieve from the government.
It’s not some problem that can just be hand waved away because they should have handled it better in the first place or something. This shit has measurable effects on outcomes for the rest of a person’s life.
The issue is that the consequences of any strong action from the teachers disproportionally effects the students, with little to no direct effect on the people that would need to be involved with improving the situation.
But sure, go off on how teachers are failing students by stretching themselves thin trying to keep students from being screwed over.
Same shit as telling schools to stop blowing absurd amounts of money on sports: it’s not nearly so simple. A lot of that money comes to the schools in ways (grants, etc) that legally obligates them to use it for sports and not where it would be more effective.
But no, the true reason things suck couldn’t possibly be because shit is fucking complicated. Everyone is just too dumb or cowardly to do things the way you identified as the solution.
I sincerely hope you grow to understand that most shit like this wouldn’t be a problem in the first place if any old layperson’s “hot take” idea could actually solve it. People are stupid, but not that fucking stupid.
It’s not some problem that can just be hand waved away because they should have handled it better in the first place or something
Nah, I think it was EXACTLY like that. That’s where I was going, with my analogy about the construction industry. If the construction workers started being asked to bring in concrete and steel for the jobs, out of their own pay, THEY WOULD BE INCREDIBLY STUPID TO START DOING IT.
They should refuse, immediately. They should absolutely nip that shit in the bud. Never give it any chance to become a massive problem.
Imagine if every teacher had said “nope, we don’t do that,” the first time they didn’t have enough supplies in their classrooms, and someone started making throat-clearing noises, implying that they could just bring that shit from home. If they had all showed solidarity with each other, from the start, things would be very different.
Now, of course, the practices are ingrained. It has been normalized.
It WAS a mistake for teachers to allow that shit. The problem is massively more difficult to solve, now.
