Idk how to embed audio to Lemmy but imagine it playing on the background lol
Lazlo bayne - I'm no superman
full version with credits
If only they made the hole square....
that's right! the square hole
[mental breakdown intensifies]
That's optimization for you. Just a 27% increase in size would allow a whole lot of more shapes, but think of the economy!
We don't want squares in society. Your free to make your own hole as long as you don't modify the walls or use the hole.
What is the real context of this pic ?
Probably star trek
The character is Gowron, from Star Trek TNG and DS9. It's an edit though.
Kingons from Star Trek have combat as a major part of their society/culture. They always seek honor and glory (in combat)
And jussssst in case anyone doesn't get it, we call that a "glory hole" and... Yeah... Look it up, but only if you're not at work and are over 18 lol
Wow, this really says a lot about S O C I E T Y
Truly we do live in one
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Just be yourself by changing everything about yourself until society approves or you will be ejected.
I recently made a comment bitching about how I didn't have time to enjoy my life because of the 9-5 grind and one of the replies I got basically amounted to this and "get screened for depression". No shit I'm depressed, I'm not compatible with the world I live in.
That's right, it goes in the square hole.
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Wait until you learn about the job market
The difference is that jobs and places to work are extremely diverse. It's not always easy but you can find something that at least is a tolerable way to make a living. For most folks there are lots of options. With the education system... if you don't fit into that cookie-cutter hole, there are no alternatives except don't go, which is straight up illegal in a lot of places until your 18.
This is such a bullshit moral for stories, and it's so overused that it boggles my brain. It's just an outright lie - accepting oneself will NOT magically solve all of one's problems, that's not how reality works.
I think that there’s a comfy middle ground between giving into every horrible trait you have to the detriment of everyone around you, and molding yourself into a character just to please everyone around you.
Learning how to “Be yourself” just means learning how to take your core personality and cultivate it into being your own person that also knows how to get along well with society at large.
This is definitely true. My litmus test is simply empathy. If I were them, would I want to have a stranger (me) do this thing I'm about to do? If the answer is no, then I don't do it.
I think most education systems actually work the other way around, the hole's there, but the teachers will hammer students into the "right" shape
Why do you think that hole has so many cracks around it?
Pretty sure the triangle can fit through that hole.
I still love this clip. Her reactions are so visceral.
Add the square as well, since it doesn't appear to be a cube.
So... which education system would that be?
I acknowledge that online the assumption is whenever you see memes like these it's always about the US, but maybe having that assumption is me internalizing that weirdness?
What education system is completely fair and equal in means and opportunity for children?
Are you American? Because "if it's not perfect it's just as bad as ours" is something I hear a lot from Americans and don't think that's how this works.
Nope.
But as long as that holds true, there will be children who cannot easily fit through the hole.
Seems to me like the size of the hole matters here. If I had to choose between a pinprick and a massive Hobbit door I know which one I'd prefer, even if they're both circles. You know, to torture the metaphor a bit further.
One where profit motive doesn't exist and the exams are only a minor fraction of the passing rubrics.
All of them.
Oh, ok. So no problem, then.
I mean, if all of them are like that then it's a fundamental, intrinsic problem of growing up and learning things and there's nothing to be done. No point complaining.
But I don't think you mean that, to be perfectly honest.
Not true. The state of the art of education is in a certain place where education systems that are doing the best anyone is doing are still doing so with ableist discrimination forward. Those looking to the "most successful" education systems will be imitating these practices as well. The current best is far from the best it could be though, and things could be changed radically to remove that ableist discrimination.
The way we do education is based on fundamentally flawed concepts, from the grading systems we use to the clear design towards specifically (neuro)typical and more privileged children. This is just true everywhere. Childhood psychology/developmental psychology and education are pretty complicated and poorly understood by most of the public, even educators. And obviously significant social biases also play a part in the education system.
Rich kids without ADHD generally do far better in school and get into far better colleges or professions initially than poor kids or kids with ADHD... there are exceptions, but for the most part, almost all of the kids that fail school either have some form of disability (often times an undiagnosed disorder) or are underprivileged in some way (like being poor). Generally those kids would excel in a better environment, hell usually the "gifted" classes are primarily neurodivergent kids in elementary/middle school (or equivalents).
"Your true self is a circle. You only think you're a triangle."
Why are you am? Did you try not to be am? I was am myself but myself being am wasn’t fitting well. Well fuck it there’s nothing wrong with being am and well. I am am too and proud of it.
EDIT: This comment is a remnant of past times. Only the ones who were there before will understand it.
Okay thanks for the tip
As you see I'm bad at everything else as well
It’s not just education, lol
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To be fair, the first panel is entirely unnecessary.
There are several hole shapes but not infinite and no guarantee that an individual person will be suited to a hole at all.
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