@mactonite my personal hack was always to be the second worst; that way you apply the least effort and draw the least attention: even if the worst performing person in the class draws enough ire and gets expelled or something, moving up to the second worst position again is easy
the thing about schools is that schools aren't there for learning how it goes on: you get an assignment, you complete an assignment, and then you get graded getting graded efficiently destroys the very foundation of studying and learning: fucking up, and fucking up royally at times a bad grade is a punishment by itself, and depending on a kid's luck or lack of it, this punishment has further punishments attached to it, be so "no sweets for you" or getting beaten up to the point of getting into a hospital therefore a child has no real reason for learning, only for memorising stuff for enough time to write a test and forget it forever if diligent, or just not giving a shit if normal or troubled again, a student can also be diligent but not neurotypical enough to just memorize shit without attaching any meaning to it, resulting in a diligent student with bad grades and this is the rotten system that makes the foundation of pretty much everything
@LukeAlmighty unfortunately many people are that retarded, and then they congregate into "Concerned Parents Against Shit" groups and try to ban videogames or harass actors who dared to play the role of a baddie in a movie
@LukeAlmighty I just hate seeing absolutely bottom-tier criticism of this move on my TL over and over take that popular post "hurr durr, why did she remember a rando and not her husband", like bro, first of all survivors of a tragedy tend to remember the tragedy pretty vividly; and second she was specifically called and asked to remember wtf has happened to a gem she received from Mr. Psychopath as a gift, nobody there gave a shit about her lifetime husband
@LukeAlmighty although tbh I don't remember whether that entire sequence was before or after that moment, I have also watched this movie a long time ago :blobthinkingdown:
@LukeAlmighty I get your point, and maybe if he was alone he could just get splattered across that door or w/e but the worst case scenario was that the plank couldn't hold his weight even if he was alone anyway but yeah, due to that entire "got handcuffed and left to die" there's no possible scenario of him getting into water alone, he would've drowned by that point
@LukeAlmighty no she didn't, and in fact, this thing right here is what allowed Jack to live for a bit longer when Rose literally risked her life to save his when he was handcuffed by Mr. "totally not an abusive psychopath" to a pipe and left to die and buoyancy is still a thing, even if there's enough space this doesn't mean that the thing could hold enough weight
@LukeAlmighty I just think it's boring and I am not a fan of DiCaprio's and "a typical Hollywood lady who keeps her mouth open for 80% of screentime" acting, but seething about things like "that piece of wood was enough for two" just reads as "I am a retard who doesn't know about buoyancy"
men unironically shitting on Titanic for wrong reasons is just exhibit #18474 of media literacy being at the lowest point in history, because at least when the majority of ppl couldn't read they also couldn't write with pride about being illiterate
@LukeAlmighty@picandor if girl scouts are a registered big organisation supporting all current big org trends, then they're a subject to rules and regulations allowing at least some pushback against corpos and allowing people not to get poisoned by unpaid child labor cookies you forget that every time a journo tries to appeal to your feelings through "a poow wittwe giwl was UNJUSTLY punished by Evil Cops 😢 #ACAB#BLM" the journo lies
@LukeAlmighty@picandor you guys comparing the girl scouts to "old man fixing your shit" like girl scouts aren't an organisation making money through unpaid child labor
when youtubers criticizing shit make a Very Important Remark in the video that they "don't have a problem" with yet another movie replacing a redhead character with a black character they clearly don't see that they're part of the problem they're criticizing in a first place bonus points if they ever talked shit about horrible miscast of the Avatar movie (not the CGI cartoon with blue people): oh, apparently you *do* have a problem with miscasts, now isn't that interesting!
remember that #InternationalWomenDay is first and foremost for workers, and achieving true workplace equality not marred by late stage capitalism shenanigans is the way towards avoiding deaths from overwork