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   Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 01-Feb-2024 04:05:48 JST Bread up, Bro
   I had to write sentences more complex than that in basically all my classes in HS. I don't know if you can blame covid for this.
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 01-Feb-2024 04:09:52 JST Bread up, Bro

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     • yockeypuck
     @yockeypuck it's like the dream the boomers always wanted, but it's a nightmare. Great.
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     yockeypuck (yockeypuck@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 01-Feb-2024 04:09:53 JST yockeypuck

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     @sickburnbro On the one hand we will never be able to retire, but on the other hand if the gen alphas are functionally retarded we'll always have work?
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 01-Feb-2024 04:16:20 JST Bread up, Bro

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     • skylar :confederateflag:??? :z:
     @skylar 🤷 being able to read well is pretty essential.
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     skylar :confederateflag:??? :z: (skylar@misskey.yandere.love)'s status on Thursday, 01-Feb-2024 04:16:21 JST skylar :confederateflag:??? :z:

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     @sickburnbro book nerds desperately crying, seething, pissing their pants
     >NOOOOOOO YOU HAVE TO LIKE THE SAME HOBBY AS ME
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     EvilSandmich (evilsandmich@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 01-Feb-2024 04:21:39 JST EvilSandmich

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     • skylar :confederateflag:??? :z:
     @skylar @sickburnbro I was gonna say: devils advocate->If a book has a hook I can get into I will skip sleep to read it; however *no* book assigned in school meets that criteria. I struggled to get through single chapters of dreck from the likes of John Steinbeck and as a guy I knew I wasn't alone in my suffering. Many a "book report" was just a rephrased hash of the summary on the back of the book jacket. Everything would be spelled and phrased correctly though so it was an easy 'C'.
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 01-Feb-2024 04:21:39 JST Bread up, Bro

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     • EvilSandmich
     @EvilSandmich @skylar Well, that's what happens when you have wine aunts teaching your literature classes. I got to read the Illiad in HS, and guess what it was fucking sweet.
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 01-Feb-2024 04:28:02 JST Bread up, Bro

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     • skylar :confederateflag:??? :z:
     @skylar I mean, there it tons of good stuff that is actually difficult to read, because it was written back when you had to be parsimonious
     
     Reading doesn't mean "read the literary drivel that was published in the last 14 months"
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     skylar :confederateflag:??? :z: (skylar@misskey.yandere.love)'s status on Thursday, 01-Feb-2024 04:28:03 JST skylar :confederateflag:??? :z:

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     @sickburnbro is it
     is it really
     the wordcel nonsense has gotten so far out of hand that a solid 90% of text is completely worthless and has no reason to exist. decades of wordcels have convinced other wordcels that more text == better writing, pajeet SEO spam sites have contributed countless tomes of worthless text, and now AI is working hard at surpassing their numbers.
     
     what is there to even read? some kike journalist making up lies to smear white people? jew lawyer shit mean to WELL AKSHUALLY other jew lawyers? a 50 page user manual on a toaster oven in 43 brown people languages warning folks not to put their dick in it?
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 01-Feb-2024 04:32:09 JST Bread up, Bro

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     • EvilSandmich
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     • pepsi_man
     @pepsi_man @samjayganges @EvilSandmich @skylar yeah, it takes the asshole like me to not feel sorry
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     samjay ganges (samjayganges@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 01-Feb-2024 04:32:10 JST samjay ganges

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     • EvilSandmich
     @EvilSandmich @skylar @sickburnbro I skipped reading a book and bullshitted the discussion in class. Ended up I was completely, 100% incorrect in my comments (can't remember the details, but it was as incorrect as claiming it took place in a tropical jungle when it actually took place in the Sahara desert) but strangely the teacher and class didn't notice and went along with it.
     
     It was odd but if you make statements confidently and passionately most people won't notice or care nothing you are saying is correct or even remotely makes sense.
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     pepsi_man (pepsi_man@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 01-Feb-2024 04:32:10 JST pepsi_man

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     • EvilSandmich
     • samjay ganges
     @samjayganges
     It's possible they just think you're a tard and they feel bad for you.
     @EvilSandmich @skylar @sickburnbro
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     skylar :confederateflag:??? :z: (skylar@misskey.yandere.love)'s status on Thursday, 01-Feb-2024 04:32:53 JST skylar :confederateflag:??? :z:

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     • EvilSandmich
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     • pepsi_man
     @pepsi_man @EvilSandmich @samjayganges @sickburnbro it's likely that no one else gave enough of a shit about it either and were all just waiting for the class to end
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     Giganova8 :sob2: :nacho_love: (giganova8@varishangout.net)'s status on Thursday, 01-Feb-2024 04:33:58 JST Giganova8 :sob2: :nacho_love:

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     @sickburnbro
     I don't even think this is some grand "dumbing down" of the next generation either, I think it's just the natural consequence of the whole "no child left behind" bullshit. These kids aren't stupid intrinsically, they're just conditioned to do the bare minimum (or less) because they've never encountered consequences of any kind for doing so. 🤷
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 01-Feb-2024 04:33:58 JST Bread up, Bro

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     • Giganova8 :sob2: :nacho_love:
     @Giganova8 who knows exactly, because people don't want to find out .. but the implications range from really bad to nightmare.
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     Mamako (mamako@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 01-Feb-2024 04:34:06 JST Mamako

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     • EvilSandmich
     @skylar @EvilSandmich @sickburnbro I read everything Edgar Allen Poe ever wrote in elementary school.
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     skylar :confederateflag:??? :z: (skylar@misskey.yandere.love)'s status on Thursday, 01-Feb-2024 04:34:07 JST skylar :confederateflag:??? :z:

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     • EvilSandmich
     @EvilSandmich @sickburnbro yeah schools are probably the last place you'd find an interesting book.
     but it's not like this is a new thing. books were just as fucking boring when i was a kid. hell, the TV and video games were boring too and only useful as something to do when the weather was terrible.
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 01-Feb-2024 04:36:03 JST Bread up, Bro

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     • EvilSandmich
     @Mamako @skylar @EvilSandmich most poe isn't crazy long. did you read en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Narrative_of_Arthur_Gordon_Pym_of_Nantucket though ( I haven't )
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 01-Feb-2024 04:36:51 JST Bread up, Bro

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     • EvilSandmich
     @skylar @Mamako @EvilSandmich forget internet over pigeon, what about short story over poe crow
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     skylar :confederateflag:??? :z: (skylar@misskey.yandere.love)'s status on Thursday, 01-Feb-2024 04:36:52 JST skylar :confederateflag:??? :z:

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     • EvilSandmich
     @Mamako @EvilSandmich @sickburnbro i don't know who that is but i assume he wrote some technical manuals for PoE (power over ethernet)
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 01-Feb-2024 04:38:05 JST Bread up, Bro

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     • samjay ganges
     @samjayganges @EvilSandmich @skylar a lot of stuff on reflection has it, you just didn't notice it because it wasn't 24/7 every fucking day
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     samjay ganges (samjayganges@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 01-Feb-2024 04:38:06 JST samjay ganges

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     • EvilSandmich
     @EvilSandmich @skylar @sickburnbro The Martian book is very good. Read it in a day or two and finished it late at night.
     
     The movie with mWAT DAMon is okay, even with the stronk wahmen and magic negro.
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     EvilSandmich (evilsandmich@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 01-Feb-2024 04:38:06 JST EvilSandmich

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     • samjay ganges
     @samjayganges @skylar @sickburnbro Book had stronk wahmen and magic negro though 🙄
     It is an easy, entertaining read though.
     To your point one of the happier days of my life was in 7th grade when I realized I could read well enough to plow through Arthur C Clark books and was no longer penned-in to what the girls in the class wanted to read.
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     samjay ganges (samjayganges@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 01-Feb-2024 04:38:06 JST samjay ganges

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     • EvilSandmich
     @EvilSandmich @skylar @sickburnbro Oh did it? I guess I just blanked out that aspect and made them all White guys in my mind.
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 01-Feb-2024 06:07:00 JST Bread up, Bro

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     • skylar :confederateflag:??? :z:
     @skylar for sure, I'm not concerned about the "likes to read for pleasure", but what I am concerned about is the amount of time people spend glued to screens, passive consumers.
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     skylar :confederateflag:??? :z: (skylar@misskey.yandere.love)'s status on Thursday, 01-Feb-2024 06:07:01 JST skylar :confederateflag:??? :z:

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     @sickburnbro i honestly doubt that many people liked reading for pleasure even back when literature was supposedly good
     maybe there was a brief period in like the late 20th century but that's about it
     before then, there were so many other things folks could do for entertainment that weren't paywalled beyond what average people could afford or cockblocked by bureaucratic red tape. would you rather sit around reading some wordcel shit or pay a nickel to go bowling with your friends at the bowling alley that didn't allow coloreds? or go fishing in the creek without paying some government faggot for a fishing loicense?
     i'm betting it was mostly a thing for snooty upper class people
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     Soyak (hwabag@bae.st)'s status on Thursday, 01-Feb-2024 23:17:23 JST Soyak

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     @sickburnbro gen z is at the tipping point in terms of racial demographics.
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     Pleroma-tan (kirby@lab.nyanide.com)'s status on Thursday, 01-Feb-2024 23:29:23 JST Pleroma-tan

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     @sickburnbro skill issue for this mans little brother if u cant read a fucking book survival of the fittest is not going to change for u
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     MMS21 :blobcatkirby: (mms21@seal.cafe)'s status on Friday, 02-Feb-2024 02:28:27 JST MMS21 :blobcatkirby:

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     • skylar :confederateflag:??? :z:
     just go on goodreads and look for a topic you're interested in. what is it with people complaining about all media nigga you're supposed to find what you're interested in!
     
     maybe check out cobalt red https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60784614-cobalt-red which is on my reading list because i want to learn more about how EVs are total shit
     
     interested in the history of the internet? https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53261015-the-system
     
     annoyed with how bullshit the job economy is? https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34466958-bullshit-jobs
     
     think your public school experience was complete shit and want evidence? https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/225850.Dumbing_Us_Down
     
     hate copyright and want arguments against this jewish system? https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3770306-against-intellectual-monopoly
     
     as for seo spam shit why dont you check out blogs written by real people like https://achimpisblogging.xyz/ (created by @thegreatape)
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 02-Feb-2024 02:28:45 JST Bread up, Bro

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     • MMS21 :blobcatkirby:
     @skylar @MMS21 well, better learn to like it, when China nukes our internet you're gonna have lots of spare time
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     skylar :confederateflag:??? :z: (skylar@misskey.yandere.love)'s status on Friday, 02-Feb-2024 02:28:46 JST skylar :confederateflag:??? :z:

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     @MMS21 @sickburnbro but reading is the form of media i'm not interested in
     videos are better cause you don't have to read text
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 02-Feb-2024 02:31:32 JST Bread up, Bro

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     • MMS21 :blobcatkirby:
     @skylar @MMS21 yeah, they aren't going to do that ( that's where all their studyhards are who are placed in the USA )
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     skylar :confederateflag:??? :z: (skylar@misskey.yandere.love)'s status on Friday, 02-Feb-2024 02:31:33 JST skylar :confederateflag:??? :z:

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     @sickburnbro @MMS21 no fuck you i will help china destroy the libraries
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 02-Feb-2024 03:28:21 JST Bread up, Bro

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     • Peter
     @MCMLXVIIOTG @skylar @MMS21 ssh, don't ruin the kayfabe, very unprofessional.
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     Peter (mcmlxviiotg@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Friday, 02-Feb-2024 03:28:22 JST Peter

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     • MMS21 :blobcatkirby:
     >but reading is the form of media i'm not interested in
     >videos are better cause you don't have to read text
     ^^^ Is text. 🤨