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I like having noisy apartment neighbors because there's no chance of anyone complaining about my considerably lesser noise

Looking at how flat the base is on the side leads me to think this is a cut crystal. The top surface might be natural but the sides appear to be cut or sanded down.

When or how do credentials matter in your opinion when it comes to things like YouTube videos? That’s not a challenge, I’m just curious.

I’m a teacher and to me teaching is essentially interpersonal. Presenting information isn’t the same as teaching someone something. Specifically I think teaching has to involve feedback.

In my experience as a teacher these terms are usually used only when the person is formally presenting lessons or giving instruction. I personally wouldn’t say that everyone who creates educational content is an educator per se.
(By formally I mean the form the content takes, not that it is formal)

Video essays can also be personal essays which to me fits in a different category.

I don’t actually have any feelings about the word “infotainment” though.

I’d argue that is among the origins of the modern phenomenon. People want to learn stuff about the world and they want to be entertained. There were publications earlier on, and then there were TV shows. The internet massively lowered the cost of entry for creators which boosted quality a lot.

Weird that populists don’t implement popular policies

Good dog

Ooooooh nooooooo

The real problem with unfalsifiable claims is not that they can’t be disproven, but rather that they cannot be corroborated by evidence

Yeah. It's not easy out here for the pedantic.

This has to be a bot right? This response makes no sense.

Israeli and Palestinian aren’t religions. It’s an ethnic conflict over a perceived homeland, it’s not a religious conflict. How Israel treats people of different religions within their own country is beside the point.

What would the US be like if Republicans actually made the government smaller instead of just making it more evil

That’s crazy, I didn’t know pyrite could form fossils at all

Build a dome and make the moon pay for it

It doesn't matter how loudly you say something is obviously true; if huge numbers of people disagree, then it's not obviously true

PSA: Some wheelchair users can *GASP* walk Wheelchairs are used for many disabilities; it could be very painful to walk, one may lack the strength to walk, be prone to fainting, have hypermobility, shortness of lung capacity, fragility of joints, muscles, or skin etc. REBLOG so people STOP harassing wheelchair users when they stand up and even WALK out their chairs in public.

It's called being an "ambulatory wheelchair user"

you ever just whisper-scream at the top of your lungs

That's a weird take. Personally I think voters should be saying out loud what they want candidates/politicians to do.

I have this question too. It doesn't really make sense. Gender queerness seems like the future though

You don't get to be on the right side or the wrong side. You're always going to be right and you're always going to be wrong.

Being wrong isn't a character flaw. Embrace being wrong as normal and help one another be wrong less.

Punishing an error only incentivizes never admitting error.

You’re well within your rights to take it personally and get offended by it, but it very clearly was not intended to be taken personally.

Most people know the US is politically divided. If they know anything about our political situation, it’s probably that. We’re currently not very democratic tho

I’m not on board with “Red vs Blue” politics. I’m not on the blue team despite opposing the red team.

Yes that phrase is implying that the US is not such a beacon. It doesn’t imply anything about what all Americans think

The US has a failed education system, that’s basically it. Trump supporters can’t be reasoned with anymore, they have become so unhinged from reality that they can deny things in front of their eyes, literally. I’m not exaggerating.

How did you get that interpretation? Whether the US is a beacon of democracy or not depends on our government, not what individual citizens think. You’re offending yourself with something you made up

I'm sitting on this post for a very special day. If a political figure publicly mocks or politicizes the death of an opponent or public figure, they forfeit the ability to credibly demand universal decorum when death later touches their own side. The world will celebrate while giving zero fucks.

Or just working less. Life shouldn’t be about wage labor