DeviantOvary

slovene

Howdy, neighbor 😁 Matura is such a joke, lol.

Illiad was in our curriculum, too. But I think the worst I gave a shot to were the few works from my country's literature several centuries old that literally over half had to be translated to the modern language for us to understand. It was exhausting to read.

Lol, thanks for reminding me of something with the Achilles bit. We have state exams at the end of 12 year education that are also a requirement for college admittance. There are (were?) two levels of difficulty. I took the higher one. But the lower one had an especially egregious question. It was so controversial, it ended in newspapers, was debated among teachers and politicians alike. The question was which color a certain character's ring was from a book we had as required reading at some point in school. Something, as you can imagine, absolutely irrelevant to test in the final state exams (which test knowledge of the four high school years on multiple subjects).

School systems nowadays suck so much for so many reasons.

We had that basically from the first grade of primary school. Each month a new book. It started with just summarizing the text, then gradually went from writing what you think the moral of the story is, to giving a full breakdown and analysis. 12 years of that, for the books I found mind-numbingly boring, that I ended up weaseling/cheatig my way through most of it without even reading. I remember giving my best to try read through the entire Crime and Punishment, but giving up 1/3 into the book. All the classic literature—just not for my brain.

Didn't help that while my primary school teacher had tried to cultivate my creative writing (45 minute, graded assignment), my secondary school teacher was a snob who graded me lower just because she "didn't like my style". God, I hated school, lol.

I still like reading modern fantasy and some other genres, so there's that, but school almost completely turned me off from reading.

Same here. If I could I'd only WFH, but we only get a few days a week. I don't have an issue disconnecting mentally from work. However, I think a big contributor is I don't exactly hate my current job. I sometimes surprise myself how easily and quickly I switch off.

My TL on the other hand prefers the office, probably because they have two young kids, who can be quite loud and require lots of attention.

Look, some of us are monster fuckers and you'll have to deal with it.

Which scene exactly? I've read a lot of complaints about different parts, but my biggest issue is

I never played the game, but I did know about the first game's ending and about Joel's fate in the second one, due to the controversy. I really liked the first season, but the second one just ruined it. It had its moments—sure. However, the entire story hinges on an extremely flawed premise. I just couldn't get immersed being reminded of it at every step.

I decided to take a peek at the fandom reactions and thought I was taking the crazy pills. Gamers loved it, and of course anyone who disagreed was a bigot or a hater. I guess it's just my luck to stumble into shows that turn into shit and then get gaslighted by the fandom into believing I'm somehow the crazy one.

For TLOU S2 in particular, Abby can go get fucked, for all I care, and the writers can shove the victim blaming up their ass.

For a European citizens' initiative to be valid, it must obtain at least one million valid signatures and meet the minimum thresholds in at least seven countries.

Countries over 100% have overpassed their thresholds.

Look up a higher res version. The middle is transparent.

True, though IMO these things would come her way anyway because people like the franchise and corpos take advantage of it, and many people don't know she's a bigot.

But my original point still stands. You could take all that away today, and she'd still be able to hurt people with her wealth until she croaks. She's that incredibly wealthy. Just one more reason why wealth should be capped.

Is she though? From the article:

“Lots of people are offering to contribute, which I truly appreciate, but there are many other women’s rights orgs that could do with the money, so donate away, just not to me!”

I'm not saying don't boycott her. I'm just pointing out that alone won't do much, if anything, to prevent her from hurting people.

While I do agree that we shouldn't support her, boycotting really won't do anything in this case. She's a billionaire. If she stopped getting any money right this moment, she'd still have plenty left to keep hurting people for the rest of her life, and then some. We need better laws to protect the vulnerable. That's basically the only way aside from taking away her and other billionaires' wealth and redistributing it