By just reading the title I can say that you grew up in hell. Now let me read your description to see if it was normal hell or super hell.

Edit: So it looks like you grew up in normal hell. Which doesn’t diminish the impact it has on you. I personally grew up in normal hell but had friends that grew up in super hell.

There’s probably a lot you have yet to process. I still randomly have shit come up two and half decades later and realize how abnormal it was. Also fuck your dad and your brother. Both them are assholes that are probably repressed dipshits. I hope you can get past it and not let it fuck with your life too much.

You’re telling me that the facebook picture that says that liberal blue haired lesbian women get an average of 300 abortion per minute is lying? Well I just don’t think I can believe you.

I can answer this for you. So imagine a genre of game that you grew up playing, loved, and sunk possibly thousands of hours in. Now imagine for like 15 years they only made the most dogshit version of that genre of game. Then someone comes along and makes a decent, even passable, modern version of that game.

It’s like giving dirty water to a dehydrated person. Is the water good? Fuck yeah in the moment it’s fantastic. Is the water the greatest water you’ve ever had? Well technically no, but please don’t take away the dirty water please.

Huh opposite for me. I have played Slay the Spire for like 2000 hours. I have beaten it through ascension 20 on all 4 characters like 20ish times at this point. I still pick it up and play it when I’m bored and it still is fun somehow.

I could not get into Balatro like that. I think I have roughly 50 hours in it and like 3/4 of the way through it with all the decks and challenges and simply cannot bring myself to complete it. The last 10 or so hours just felt like a slog. Still a good game but the sheen wore off for me well before I could 100% it much less start replaying.

To each their own I guess! Funny how similar the games are and how there’s just some people that love one but can’t get into the other.

You said retroactive thought crime is a big no no, but many cancellations of recent past (last 5-7 years at least) have been what you would label “retroactive thought crimes”.

Gonna need some examples because every time I’ve seen this sort of thing it generally turns out to be not true and not backed by examples. “Canceling” in most cases is someone saying something incredibly shitty then being shocked that the group that they said it about gets annoyed with them on the internet. This rarely has real world repercussions for that person and in the rare times it does it’s because they recently said something super racists/sexist/awful and the backlash from said group is significant enough that companies distance themselves from that person. These are almost exclusively public figures that it happens to and rarely, if ever, non-public figures.

The only time I’ve seen actual “canceling” happen to regular ass people is from the recent Charlie Kirk shit. If you can cite examples that would be stupendous. Otherwise I’m going to assume you’re kind of full of shit.

Mark and Sarah King are the web admins and claim to have been designated to stay behind on the away mission to continue to spread their message. Although there’s still some contention around them from ex members that left before they all put on the white suits, laced up their Nikes, and drank the kool aid.

I vaguely remember a documentary where they were interviewed but can’t recall many specifics. There was also a sub reddit that (supposed) ex-members used to post in and many of them had a bone to pick with Mark and Sarah King about some of their claims.

Don’t be evil

Be evil when it makes money.

What information are professors giving you that you can’t get anywhere else?

It’s more the experience of learning from someone that is highly experienced in their field. They can guide you through multiple sources, and help understand your misconceptions and correct them. There’s also the advantage of having a question about a source and having someone who can help bring more context, and additional sources, to the discussion quickly. There’s just a lot that I personally gained from learning from another professional and I don’t think there’s a ton of on the job training, or independent study, that gets you that sort of intellectual understanding nearly as effectively.

Maybe my educational experience varies greatly from yours? There’s just an absolute ton I learned in college that wouldn’t have been nearly as efficient, quick, broad, or dense compared to doing independent study. I think that’s probably mostly true for most people in most fields as well. Having the experience of learning from someone that has already experienced many pitfalls of learning a subject is quite valuable.

I think you have some wires crossed somewhere because I didn’t say the thing you quoted me as saying here:

everything they teach should come from a source other than the professor.

I’m not sure how to rebuttal this section because it seems to rest on the fact that I said the aforementioned quote.

However, none of that requires college in order to learn. It’s honestly something that our parents should be teaching us, because it’s relevant to considerably more than history.

I will say I think it’s incredibly silly to put the burden of learning a highly specific subject on your parents. There’s just no way for anyone’s parents to give you a complete understanding of any field out there that’s comparable to someone who has devoted decades to a highly specific subject. That’s just incredibly naive and honestly gave me a chuckle.

You have a very poor understanding of how to learn history and what historians do professionally. I only have a history minor but know several professional historians. What you’re describing is a historian hobbiest. Ironically this misconception is one that a lot of people clear up by going to college.

College didn’t just teach me about history, that’s just one of the many things I learned there. The biggest thing I learned was strategies for learning (learned how to learn better), and that learning from an expert in their field can accelerate that learning more than most other methods.

The rest of your gripe seems to be misplaced understanding of what happens at a normal undergraduate institution and cost of education. I don’t think I can approach your misunderstandings in this format, but as for cost of education? Give me a piece of paper that says college should be free for everyone and I’ll sign it. The only thing I personally paid for to go to college was food. I don’t think starving was really an option for 3.5 years so I probably would’ve had to pay for that anyway.

Dunno what college you’re talking about but that was one of the first places where I learned history without a incredible spin. Was also taught that a lot of history is/was written by the victors in their favor and how to approach the study of history to try and remove some of those biases.

Maybe some institutions are shitty at teaching, and slant one way or the other, but I don’t think that’s the norm.

Drink verification can to access refrigerator.

So it’s worse? Also was he implying that Barack Obama should’ve married a white dude? Cause that’s kind of hilarious.

It worked in the USA. It is currently not working for the USA.

Source: See the current state of the USA.

The Rock, Chris Rock, and Crack Rock

60+ years of conservative polcies have removed social safety nets, supressed wages, irresponsibly deregulated key industries, and funneled money to the ultra rich. These policies are largely responsible for the decline of the middle class, lack of accessible medical care, and decline if upward economic mobility. In this essay we will only be reviewing the 5,897 polcies enacted since George H. W. Bush that have directly affected these key socioeconomic systems for the middle and working class…

Yeah that doesn’t quite have the same ring to it as “brown people did it” does it?

Was pleasantly surprised that this wasn’t some crackpot pushing a misunderstanding Strait of Gibraltar/Mediterranean Sea flood. The Zanclean flood most likely did happen at some point, but was some 5 million years ago which is well before humans. Was a pretty good analysis of shared flood stories and their origins. Very analytical and doesn’t stray into pseudo-science nonsense. Very refreshing in the age of bullshit conspiracy archeology.

Completing education is the 5th. From the census study linked in the article

…reaching five milestones of adulthood: living away from their parents, completing their education, labor force participation, marrying, and living with a child.

They also mention it later in the article:

The completion of education, another marker of adulthood, has overshadowed other milestones over the years as an increasing number of young adults enroll in college, according to the paper.

Because, uhhh, whoa what’s that? ducks behind the podium

Ah gotcha! I for sure was not following what you were saying. I don’t know if that’s he real thrust of the point in my above comment, but I was more referring to the fact that artificial vanilla doesn’t necessarily come from vanilla beans. I should’ve been more precise with my language, but it’s worth noting that artificial vanilla is largely synthesized and comes from a variety of sources, not just vanilla beans (see below for the source/pertinent excerpt).

It also gets weird as to how the FDA regulates the term. I believe the key term is actually “Pure” in the “Pure Vanilla Extract” but don’t quote me on that. Not sure how it’s done by other regulatory agencies but it’s probably equally convoluted in a lot of places.

Source: https://www.sigmaaldrich.com/US/en/technical-documents/technical-article/food-and-beverage-testing-and-manufacturing/flavor-and-fragrance-formulation/vanilla-regulations

Pertinent excerpt:

However, many alternate routes to vanillin are well documented, including vanillin derived from spruce tree lignin, corn sugar, rice or wheat bran, clove oil, curcumin, or guaiacol.