HenchmanNumber3

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[–] HenchmanNumber3@lemm.ee 51 points 1 year ago (3 children)

You don't have to like her music, but you have to respect her ability to sell her image and music.

Actually this is a point of conflict for some of her fans. Some of my friends are swifties and they hate consumerism and high concert prices and collectibles and marketing that incentivize FOMO to spend more money. They jokingly call her their capitalist queen.

[–] HenchmanNumber3@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

That's often how the word gets used. It can be benign in some contexts (usually academic), but a lot of the people who use female as a noun frequently are intentionally dehumanizing women.

[–] HenchmanNumber3@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

they consider it their safe space that's being violated.

Which is ironic because they're often the same toxic people who ruin multiplayer games for non-toxic people.

[–] HenchmanNumber3@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago

I wouldn't put a lot of stock into this video. It conflates different things that were deployed separately years apart and used differently. I'm not willing to waste more of my time, but just looking at the rest of the video titles and graphics, the source seems suspect and prone to sensationalizing for attention.

First, the mention of cost is deceptive because Google Suite for Education was free when initially released (as the fundamentals tier is today) for qualifying schools (and basically every public school qualified). Google Suite for Education wasn't treated by every school as a competitor or replacement to the Microsoft Office Suite. It was complementary. The initial benefit wasn't Google Docs or Sheets. It was the free student and instructor Gmail and Drive storage accounts, allowing students to save Word documents to the cloud and share them. That Google Docs was a decent alternative to Word was useful when not every student could afford a computer with Microsoft Office and any computer with a web browser could use it, so Macs and PCs were complementary, not competitive, devices.

Google Classroom is different than Google Suite for Education, so conflating them as the video did is odd. Google Classroom is the learning management software like Canvas, Blackboard, or Brightspace. But it's not really marketed as an alternative to them with the same features because it wasn't intended to disrupt their markets. Classroom is more appropriate for K12 and the expensive LMSs are more likely to be found in higher ed where institutions can afford the higher licensing fees.

I won't defend Chromebooks for advanced uses, but they weren't intended to be full replacements for laptops, so you don't even have to. The video presents this realization of the limitations of Chromebooks on the part of the educators as a failure of Google rather than the technology needs advancing over time.

Like with anything else when it comes to technology, different needs and use cases will have different solutions. There isn't one operating system, piece of hardware, cloud suite, or mobile device that is best for everyone's needs.

[–] HenchmanNumber3@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

Did you respond to the wrong comment? If not, you read a lot into what little I said and much I wouldn't have said, had I said more.

[–] HenchmanNumber3@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But Bezos' earnings are in addition to what Amazon uses for personnel expenditures, so that's not instead of, it's in addition to the number of people Amazon already can and does employ. Something like ~1.5 million employees, though that includes higher paid employees as well as the warehouse and delivery personnel.

[–] HenchmanNumber3@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

As a human, you've probably made a lot of mistakes, but that's okay as long as you learn from them and they didn't hurt anyone.

[–] HenchmanNumber3@lemm.ee 29 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I'm not saying I disagree with your position, but being a Trump supporter or anti-choice is a choice, whereas being LGBTQ isn't, so the comparison isn't of equal demographic descriptors.

[–] HenchmanNumber3@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago

The mom already caught a charge for it.

[–] HenchmanNumber3@lemm.ee 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

even their title is creepy, Human Resources

The only appropriate use of the term is when your cat is talking about you to other cats...

[–] HenchmanNumber3@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

#sapphoandherparkingjob

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