Glide

joined 2 years ago
[–] Glide@lemmy.ca 3 points 39 minutes ago

When people hit 10mil, they should prestiege. Give them a fancy title or add-on to their name, take all their wealth and tell them to do it again to hit the next prestiege. Easy fix, gives the 1% the sense of pride and accomplishment they deserve.

[–] Glide@lemmy.ca 22 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I promise you, they would take America with them. Willingly, out of spite, if nothing else.

[–] Glide@lemmy.ca 16 points 3 days ago

Authoritarians don't like nuance, full stop. You're trying to take a nuanced view to the varying opinions and perspectives that interact on Lemmy? Get the fuck out before you start inferring that we should see users who disagree with us as "people."

[–] Glide@lemmy.ca 7 points 3 days ago

Wait, this was ACTUALLY a quote from a famous dictator? I thought I was just being snarky and connecting this comment to the kind of rhetoric famously used by dictators. I didn't realize this is specific rhetoric used by a specific dictator.

You don't even need to read between the lines anymore. Insane.

[–] Glide@lemmy.ca 31 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Trump defended the order, stating, “He who saves his Country does not violate any Law.”

Okay, Adolf.

[–] Glide@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Hey man, uncalled for.

Don't go after good hydration like that.

[–] Glide@lemmy.ca -1 points 5 days ago

There's a massive difference between "believing you are the wrong gender is mental illness" and "being born/sorted into a gender that doesn't represent you causes mental illness." This is the latter.

[–] Glide@lemmy.ca 21 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Absolute freedom is oppression. Immediately, the powerful use their freedoms to strip away the freedom of those without power, whether that power is social, economic, military, or otherwise.

People who want genuine equitable freedom know better than demand absolute, unrestricted freedom.

[–] Glide@lemmy.ca 25 points 1 week ago

I'm with him. Deleting the entire Department of Government Efficiency would solve a lot of problems.

[–] Glide@lemmy.ca 18 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm not sure I've ever seen such blatantly and unapologetically racist government policy in my life time.

Don't get me wrong, we've come close, but this genuinely might just take the cake.

 

Apparently "nationalism is bad" is an uncivil take. Unless there's another reason someone would ban this comment... 🤔

 

So the situation is this: I am a junior high ELA teacher and I want to bring some videogames into the classroom. What I have to work with are the students Chromebooks. At first glance, I figured I'd throw some short, playable without install games on some flash drives and we could play through whatever game it is, and then talk about it like any other short story. Bring in the relevant terms, connect it to the course outcomes, easy. Then I began to learn the limitations of Chromebooks and how challenging it can be to run Windows .exe's on them, or find games that run natively on a Chromebook without installing.

Getting the rights to install anything on these devices is functionally out of the question. The request would have to go through the school board. Even if they agree that it's a good idea, the practicality of giving me the rights to install things without opening it up so the students can install things and without consuming an inordinate amount of class time in just setting up is unlikely. Ideally, I need games that can run on a Chromebook without running an install, or games that run in browser.

I'm googling around and considering emulator options. If anyone has experience in playing games in these circumstances, I'd love some options and insights. Additionally if people have recommendations for games that would be particularly good (narrative focused), I'd love to hear them. It's 2023; these kids don't need to learn what conflict is through short stories written by white men in the 1920s. With all the push towards student-focused learning and differentiated education, I want to start giving them choice and breadth in how they take in these concepts.

Thanks in advance for anyone who gives me their time and expertise on this.

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