Yeah the internet is a pile of shit and should probably be switched off, but the reason for keeping kids off it being “because minors lack the legal capacity to contract” makes whatever these assholes want sound even worse.
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Americans think goon is a weird slang for wine, but also think Dick and Randy are just ordinary first names.
Oh, “it’s giving” is just another way of saying “it’s like” or “it’s akin to” or “this is reminiscent of”. This seems very rad. Sorry, it’s giving very rad.
Yeah, a mob with a guillotine has never achieved anything. Everyone knows that.
In a capitalist society we are constantly judging and being judged as having moral character based on our consumption. Pierre Bourdieu called this “distinction” and argued that the objects we buy and surround ourselves with represent “taste” that demonstrates and furthers class positioning in a capitalist society. Under capitalism, these objects carry great meaning and a person can communicate complex ideas and social information simply by how they hold a specific consumer good in their hand. Bourdieu argued that class struggle is also a “classification struggle”.
Not only is this an out of touch and irresponsible expectation to put on high school kids, but if FOSS was nothing but a box ticking exercise for unpaid child labour, then the proportion of abandoned and unfinished projects would be worse than it is for Netflix Originals.
Professional training courses and certifications: all scams.
Expecting people to do unpaid spec work when they’re 16: not scams.
A bad one, and what it more broadly represents, can severely limit your freedom of movement.
What do you need a wall for when you have bad credit scores and drug possession charges?
Five years of experience straight out of finishing a four year bachelor’s degree means that you need to start grinding for your career when you’re still a high school kid. To put it extremely politely: this is an unrealistic expectation.
Yet that’s generally what needs to be done. You couldn’t borrow one of William Randolph Hurst’s printing presses to print your commie newspaper back in 1902. Perhaps we shouldn’t expect a commie chat show to ‘win’ the YouTube algorithm and beat all of the fascist and reactionary chat shows that have dominated political discourses on the platform.
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A restaurant that serves dinner closing by 8pm is some extremely Anglo shit that would not pass as reasonable in much of the world.