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[–] [email protected] 90 points 3 months ago (2 children)

We're censoring out the letters "wtf" now? Fucking seriously?

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 months ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

How dare they censor a meme taken from a different context that may have required censorship to post? How dare they not swear for my pleasure? This displeases me and I will not stand for it! What *** Fuck is wrong with them?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Hahaha, people are not getting *** joke

[–] [email protected] 47 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Aye cmon now, i have some idea of what's going on.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 3 months ago

I'm usually just late lol

[–] [email protected] 37 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Why is "what" blurred? And how is this science memes?

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Probably is "wtf" - there's been a big shift in censoring "swear words" on the internet recently

[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 months ago (2 children)

It's mostly because algorithms now push that shit down the rankings. I've seen people on tiktok censoring "hell" and "crap" unironically

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Sounds more like it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Is it "what" or "wtf"? Latter makes a lil more sense to blur.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Yeah, but it's the internet and no one gives a fuck really.

[–] MajorHavoc 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I was told we can't fucking swear here...

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

God fucking damnit, I forgot.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

Weiner! Butthole! Poop!

It is fun to say bad words, isn't it. Makes you look cool, too!

[–] [email protected] 36 points 3 months ago (3 children)

For conferences, there's the ones who stand at the very back so they can easily leave if the talk is uninteresting/boring.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago

Listen, don't judge us.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

Shhhh, don't spoil our secrets!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Look maybe I just am tired of sitting, did you ever think of that?!

Lol, nah it's because I was late. Or might leave.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago

Yellow = weak bladder

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Back for me because I have a pretty disgusted, annoyed resting face. If I sit too close I'm focusing too much on keeping a pleasant listening face that I don't pay enough attention to the material and give myself a tension headache.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Haha! I'm the EXACT same way. I'm glad I'm not alone. I feel for you!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

Nah the side rows are for when you expect the lecture to be boring or unproductive and you want to leave early.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

our uni had mandatory chemistry for all engineering degrees, even industrial economics and computer engineering, so naturally a lot of people had to re-take it. the registrations weren't done processing for weeks, and during that time you had to assume you were in, or you'd be hopelessly behind. that lecture hall was filled to the brim the first few weeks every semester. people were sitting in the aisles, on the stairs, in the window sills, two to a chair... it was insanity. i really hope they fixed that.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (4 children)

I wonder why universities classrooms are designed more like movie theatres?

[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago

Yes, this is the simple and correct answer. Yikes everyone else, you try seating 300 people in a research 1 university classroom.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

You wouldn't be able to see otherwise

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

i thiiink it's to help everyone see & hear better, like in ancient Greek theatres

this is all guesswork but, i'm guessing that since university education historically (and in a lot of places to this day) is more a thing of the rich they actually put some thought into the design of the lecture halls. And for the education of the poors that's simply made to condition them to work in factories they just put some tables and chairs in a room and called it a day - and since then the design stuck

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Your guesswork is doing a bit too much there. Rich schools also have flat classrooms for smaller groups, e.g 30ish.

The reasons for stadium seating is for size, and that's true for most schools including community colleges (and even vocational schools). Usually it's used for classes everyone has to take, like a pre-req. High schools aren't standardized in the same way, so you generally wouldn't have a class of 80. High schoolers need more one on one anyway, and teachers require less specialized knowledge, so the numbers just work better that way.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

yea true, though (and again i'm just speculating and talking out of my ass, do tell me if you find that annoying i can do research i just don't feel like it atm) wouldn't first schools have been made just for the working class kids? The rich kids were getting home schooled by best professors and then sent off to universities. The working class kids would be sent to the newly established general schools where they could learn and find new opportunities (and get conditioned to work in factories). I don't think you'd see many rich kids in schools with "the poors". And once schools became the norm, and rich kids schools began popping up then the schematic of what a pre-university school looked like was already established

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It's been a while since I learned the history, but if I remecmber right the first schools in the US were religious in nature. But public schooling was generally a huge equalizer, and made the most advances along with workers rights movements, etc.

That said, there's plenty to be upset about class-wise, just not the class size thing. It's true that rich families have always done what they could do to get their kids ahead, generally with private school and tutoring. They have a much higher odds of getting into the better colleges, and the more elite schools tend to lead to higher pay after graduation. They're also doing everything they can to gut public education, which is the whole point of the push for vouchers (which was especially big during the Trump administration).

There's a thousand more reasons to be pissed off at the rich regarding education, but if I wanted to get into every single one I'd still be in academia (My PhD in Ed was all about that). Actually, now that I think of it, take a look at Learning to Labour by Willis, as I think it reflects your train of thought.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

ooo fascinating! thank you for the information :)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

There was a time when professors performed burlesque shows to better teach their subject. The puritans got them though. ;-;

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

@fossilesque Don't forget those of us in the back row because we slept in and got there late!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

Yeah, I’m a second-row person all the way; green describes me right. Purple as a backup.

Thank goodness my college only had one of these kinds of rooms, and I was only there for a class about movies.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Had three classes (5 hours) back to back in the same room one semester. I ended up switching seats to break up the monotony. I started at nerd and slowly progressed to the back for sleep.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

What a shit.

I just tried to get to the front, even beeing 20 min late.

I had to update my glasses while in university for each semester.

So I would sit at any of these seats. When friends reserved one seat in the back, I would take it but tell them that next time I have to sit in the front.

In my country students aren't judging people at such minor interactions.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

I see myself in all of these