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  • Not sure if this is a joke or not, but I'm an only child.

    I was involved in quite a few organizations for homeschoolers, and the "peers" I refer to were kids I knew from those sorts of things:

    • I attended a weekly "co-op" ran by homeschoolers' parents where they'd teach various subjects. The one parent who was fluent in Spanish would teach Spanish. The one who was really passionate about history taught a history class. They'd also purchase frogs to dissect and have 20 kids or whatever dissect frogs (because it's a) not so easy to get formaldehyde-preserved frogs in quantites much less than that and b) a lot of the parents just wouldn't want to have to deal with that because it's icky and were happy to have someone else's parents have to deal with that while still ensuring their kids had the experience and learned what there was to learn from that exercise). Things like that.
    • I took a few classes at a local private (Christian -- very Christian) school that allowed homeschoolers to attend just one class here and one class there if they and their parents wanted. (The founder of that school had an affair with a secretary. The two of them kindof disappeared and got married, leaving the school without leadership, after which folks started to realize he was kindof a pathological liar and grifter from the start. Heh.)
    • I was in a symphony for homeschoolers for a while. (Played violin.)
    • There was also a homeschool chess club that I attended for a while.

    There were a few other things that I didn't attend but one or two times. Not enough to really get to know anyone there. And I'm probably forgetting one or two things. But you get the idea.

  • This is fantastic. There's nothing else to say about it except that I hope a lot of CS students read it. My employer and coworkers too.

  • Not ACE specifically. I actually hadn't heard of ACE until you mentioned it.

    Most of my peers did some combination of Abeka and Saxon curricula, with a smattering of whatever TF the annual "homeschool convention" had available to sell. And yes, the "science" curriculum always had at least one chapter on how stupid "mainstream scientists" are for believing the universe is more than 6,000 years old. (And some books were nothing but that stretched to the length of a text book.) And those chapters loved to quote Ken Ham and shit. My parents were in some ways less fundie than most of my peers, and they told me to skip that chapter. Lol.

  • "Quarterly earnings are down. How do we make number go up so shareholders don't riot?"

    "Lay off a bunch of people."

    "Well, yeah, but that'll look bad. We'll have to spin it somehow."

    "Two words: 'A' 'I'."

  • I was homeschooled for most of K-12, and all my peers were crazy fundies. I have so many stories.

  • People were healed of minor cuts and bruises more than a block away from the site.

  • Same reason why The Matrix 4 is the best Matrix movie.

  • "I'm not coming down until you promise to let me use ten- no fifteen percent of the electricity usage of El Salvadore."

  • It's downright laudable to "steal" from major corpos. Whether it's ethical to steal from a mom and pop shop is an "it depends" kind of situation. (I definitely know of small local businesses in my area that are run by absolute shit-bags.) And punishment isn't the right way for society to deal with antisocial behaviors among its inhabitants. (Not that stealing (particularly by a pro-capitalist's definition) is necessarily "antisocial".)

  • Had to shrink it a lot to parallel view it given how wide the images are. It can certainly be done, though.

  • Pardon me while I go change my name to "Starbuck Washburne Atreides".

  • There are definitely gas stations out there selling rotisserie chickens. I've never seen it. Never specifically heard of that being a thing. But there's no way there aren't any gas stations out there somewhere that are.

  • Her: We're discussing how I'm going to get the house.

    Him: I told you hackers hacked my computer and stole the house title NFT from my ETH wallet, so we don't own the house any more.

    Her: The lawyer says "funny joke".

  • Mmmmmoooooowwwooooowwooowoowoowoowoowoowoowoowoowoo

  • If there's a "babe" holding it, I'm not going to be able to pee.

  • Por que no los dos?

  • When Linux becomes illegal, only outlaws will run Linux.

  • "Well, this one's powered by an FPGA that used to be my dad's old retro gaming system. I repurposed it after he died. I still reprogram it to be an SNES every year on the anniversary of his death and play some Super Metroid and remember the good times with him. And then reprogram it back into a 3D printer main board whenever someone in the community needs a pair of shoes or parts for a Microlab. See these controller ports on the front of the printer casing here? I added those last year just so I don't have to disassemble and reassemble it every time I want to play Mario Kart. I just plug my controllers into the printer."

    "I've got a buddy down south who was able to reclaim a microcontroller from a vending machine to build a 3D printer. I've heard there are some folks out in the desert region experimenting with self-growing crystal lattice structures for 'growing' chips. But being honest, I think they're a long way out from producing anything workable with that. We'll keep our fingers crossed, but until we have a way to make chips, we'll keep scrounging chips out of old smart phones and DVD players. Occasionally, someone will get lucky and find a broken 3D printer in a landfill that just needs some TLC."

  • Let me see what I can do.

    The thing about the Fuck AI community is that it has a lot of mods, none of whom to my knowledge were consulted before being appointed as mods. I'm not sure how many of the mods of Fuck AI are even willing to mod.

    Whatever the case, we really don't have any consensus, or any way to go about achieving consensus. And the need to discuss whether we ought to unsticky some posts is far from the only thing that needs addressed with the current state of moderation on /c/fuck_ai.

    I've been reticent to be the one to try to rectify that problem. And right now I've got some health problems that need dealt with before I'm likely to be able to start that process. (Should be like a week or maybe less.) But it seems like there's pretty much zero chance of anything changing with the moderation situation here unless somebody... you know... changes it.

    So in short, be patient, but I am going to start the process of trying to make some things happen here sometime in the near future. Once we have some way of actually getting some consensus, I'll raise this as the first issue that needs addressed.

  • Solarpunk folks be like "would you be willing to CAD a tensegrity-constructed X and print it on your solar-powered 3d printer out of compostable polymer sustainably synthesized from hemp?"

    The answer, obviously, is "hell yeah".

  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world

    They should call cole slaw "sweetkraut"

  • No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world

    After opening a jar of pizza sauce, how long would you trust it was still good in the fridge?

  • Ask Men @lemmy.world

    DAE get super anxious and depressed when they don't masturbate (or have sex) regularly?

  • Dull Men's Club @lemmy.world

    I got a compliment on my t-shirt the other day

  • Show & Tell @programming.dev

    codecomic - A domain-specific language for making webcomic and story boards

    gitlab.com /AntiMS/codecomic
  • Free Software @lemmy.zip

    Help me choose a license

  • Artificial Ignorance @lemmy.ca

    I'll just google what temperature I should set my chest freezer to here

    hachyderm.io /@molly0xfff/115800875234565576
  • Programming @programming.dev

    The Compiler Is Your Best Friend, Stop Lying to It - Daniel Beskin's Blog

    blog.daniel-beskin.com /2025-12-22-the-compiler-is-your-best-friend-stop-lying-to-it
  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world

    Sheep dogs probably think sheep are just dumb dogs that need looked after

  • Fuck AI @lemmy.world

    Friends, we've lost Steve Yegge

    steve-yegge.medium.com /introducing-beads-a-coding-agent-memory-system-637d7d92514a
  • 3DPrinting @lemmy.world

    Any idea what might be going on with this print?

  • Nerdcore @lemmy.zip

    8 Bit Boys - 8 Bit Blisters

  • Fuck AI @lemmy.world

    Poets are now cybersecurity threats: Researchers used 'adversarial poetry' to trick AI into ignoring its safety guard rails and it worked 62% of the time

    www.pcgamer.com /software/ai/poets-are-now-cybersecurity-threats-researchers-used-adversarial-poetry-to-jailbreak-ai-and-it-worked-62-percent-of-the-time/
  • Ask Science @lemmy.world

    How is it that I can have alleles in my raw genetic data not listed as a possibility?

  • Video Game Music @lemmy.world

    Blaster Master (NES) - Area 4 -

  • Crazy Ideas @lemmy.world

    Getting the attention of people at a company/organization/agency via access logs and/or application monitoring/alerting.

  • Shitty Ask Lemmy @lemmy.ml

    Is it ok for a 500 year old to date a negative 25 year old?

  • Nostalgia @lemmy.ca

    Yoplait Trix Yogurt

  • New Communities @lemmy.world

    Covid Conscious - A support community for those still trying to prevent the spread

    lemmy.world /c/covidconscious
  • Lemmy Shitpost @lemmy.world

    A guide for our friends outside the U.S.