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
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If only they made the hole square…
that’s right! the square hole
[mental breakdown intensifies]
Can you guess which hole these shapes go through?
That’s optimization for you. Just a 27% increase in size would allow a whole lot of more shapes, but think of the economy!
Wow, this really says a lot about S O C I E T Y
Truly we do live in one
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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.
That’s right, it goes in the square hole.
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That’s a great vid lol
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?
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 it’s simpler than that. If you need to pretend to be a different person so others will accept you, then you’ll spend your life pretending to be something you’re not. If you just be yourself, then anyone who accepts you is accepting the real you rather than a false front you put on.
Note that there’s a difference between pretending to be what you’re not vs changing yourself into something different.
Yeah and if you’re someone like me you shouldn’t accept yourself.
I’m actual human garbage.
My point is that coming to terms with who you are isn’t the destination, but the first step in a road of self improvement.
You’re only garbage if you stop there. Do better, one little bit at a time.
Recently I saw someone complaining that he’ll always be a virgin and will never get laid. In my advice I recommended making changes to improve himself, like being kind and generous, learning to be better socially, and taking up hobbies that involve being around people.
He said I was telling him to “fake himself.”
All of the “just be yourself” and “you’re perfect just the way you are” platitudes are meant to improve confidence, but unfortunately it means some people genuinely don’t think they need to fix things. That they are just, like, owed success from society or something.
Obviously there are aspects that you don’t need to change, like you don’t have to pretend to like things you don’t, and you don’t have to try to change your orientation or identity, but if you’re an asshole you should try to not be an asshole. If you smell bad you should shower. If you suffer from social anxiety there are both medical and practical ways to address that.
No one is perfect. We can all stand to improve things about ourselves and thus progress towards whatever goals we may have. And the more we lie about not needing to change, or indeed not being able to change, the more we let people wallow in self-pity. I don’t have data to back this up, but I suspect this sort of thinking leads in part to the wave of loneliness and incel-ness we see in our society today.
Pretty sure the triangle can fit through that hole.
Add the square as well, since it doesn’t appear to be a cube.
“Your true self is a circle. You only think you’re a triangle.”
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.
Thats why it feels like youre being chiseled out by the education system
Teachers are on the other side with hammers trying to force everyone through.
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
I kind of regret you remove your happy mistake my friend, but I respect your decision.
As you see I’m bad at everything else as well
Don’t say that. You’re perfect just the way you are.
Don’t say that. You’re perfect just the way you are
Don’t say that. I can’t speak for them, but I know I’m not. :P
I’ve been on the internet since the before before times, I do not recognize this one. I must have been distracted at the time it happened.
Still made sense to me though… So IDK. Maybe the internet has warped my mind. I’ve seen a lot.
OP made a little typo in the title of its post. It made sense then.
That would be it. Thanks stranger.
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To be fair, the first panel is entirely unnecessary.
Thank you, mate, I’ll add to the body as credits
It’s not just education, lol
successpictures energy
Square peg, Round hole. Story of my life.
