Fairytale? We don’t even have that.

We did have “study hall periods”, but you weren’t allowed to disappear and do what ever. You had to sign up for them, and if you never showed up they forced you take a normal class. (And it was a few times a week, not every day).

You could pretty much either stay in the classroom or go to the library. And the library kicked groups out if they weren’t really doing anything beside being noisy. They didn’t really care before/after school hours so much.

Some of the schools had a courtyard, but they didn’t really let us use it freely.

My school spent a lot money (grant, I think) to build a nice lounge area and then didn’t let students use it because they were afraid the soft cushions we’re going to get wrecked.

The cafeteria and library were pretty much the main “hang out” spots before/after school. We only had 5 minutes between classes, so it was always a mess of students rushing across the building.

Fair, I just used an obvious example.

Behaviorally, yes there’s the typical bullying, occasional fights, social cliques, nice people, “nice” people, and the anime club that learned a little too much from the romance dramas. Big parties and dances where less of a thing in real life, sure they do happen, but it was never a significant event across the school.

I guess overall movies are accurate, but still exaggerated; way too much homework, there are crazy science teachers and evil history teachers and teens not having all their screws tightened yet is a real thing.

Well as far as accuracy goes, not really, or heavily exaggerated.

For example; Most American schools don’t have an “outside area” where all the students seem to hang out.

We had play grounds in the early grades, but that’s about it.

Random question, whats your address and work schedule?

When discussing data transferring between devices like this, I’d treat WiFi as another “invisible” port on the switch.

Charge whoever pushed this “telematic update” for reckless endangerment or something.

They’re lucky there were no accidents related to this (as far as we know).

Plenty I’m sure, but its not as news worthy.

And part of its the social circle they are in. They work with other actors/actresses and their social circle is going to be limited due to the time/travel requirements of the job.

Are people are actually upset about an auto update feature? A feature that has been pretty standard in programs for a very long time?

I understood some of the upset when they added telemetry, but auto-update?

In other words tasks that “AI” is actually good for, not attempting to generate your music or apply some kind of “magic filter”.

Relevant xkcd

In Need for Speed, how many other cars did you hit or do you play with traffic off? In a video game there are no consequences, so you end up hitting dozens and can keep going as you learn the game. In real life, you hit one car and someone is either dead, wishes they were, or incredibly lucky.

How about hitting the trees, the road barriers, going through grass? All that stuff costs the community money to fix.

Let’s say you’re the best (or luckiest) player in the world and never hit anything, how much did your little cousin hit when you first gave up the controller?

Street racing is a crime because its dangerous to other people. You are intentionally putting other people’s life at risk for your own personal entertainment.

Not sure how long its been around, but you can learn about the dangers of Dihydrogen Monoxide here:

https://dhmo.org/facts.html

Solomon’s Keep and Solomon’s Boneyard.

Keep is a traditional dungeon crawler and Boneyard is an endless wave survival game.

Better to catch them with a robot kid than with real ones.

Thanks!

It’s just a bit of self-mockery.

You all looking at this through the lens of a civilized society.

The American version is “treat others like if you piss them off, they’ll shoot you, so be nice, but not too nice or they’ll sue you for harassment.”

Magnetic whiteboard

I use fossify for most of my core apps, they are what their predecessor was; simple.

And like other said, “Simple” was bought out, but the fork lives on.

It’s big reminder of the dark times we live in. We’ve become insensitive to the school shootings, they have been weighing less and less on “societies collective mind” since Sandy Hook. They’re covered for a day, and vanish from the mind.

This time it was a person most of us knew of and have formed an opinion about. Weather you liked him or not, there is an emotional connection there.

The stark difference in how people are reacting is chilling. Honestly, its difficult to accept a group cheering on his death to an extreme degree. Making a meme is whatever, but the videos and comments are filled such hate that it is unsettling to witness.

At the end of the day, he was a dude exercising his free speech. His words may be misguided, but he had his opinions and was willing to debate them with people.