Have you surveyed a large percentage of all high school physics teachers, or are you just projecting your extremely limited personal experience onto the rest of the world’s physics teachers?

There are positives and negatives to everything - highlighting just one side is the modus operandi for manufacturing consent.

A poorly educated public is one of the major underpinnings of a fascist dictator state. It’s why school funding has been on the decline for decades - capitalist alpha-type one-percenters have been pulling the politicians’ reigns (particularly the willing Republicans, but over time the Democrats have been bought, too) & playing the long game, and it’s now reached fruition.

I’m sure it’s an attempt at intimidation for the upcoming election.

Last I knew, Opera was owned by a Chinese company. I don’t have a problem with the Chinese people, but their onerous government gives me pause. I don’t want to contribute to them financially any more than I absolutely have to (considering it’s virtually impossible to buy much of anything nowadays that doesn’t have their hooks in it outside of food - and there’s probably even something I’m missing there).

Isn’t teletherapy the same? It can work IF done right (and, yes - that’s a BIG “if”).

Ironic: I think the idea is to indicate how open you feel at that moment to being social. I get how doing that without actually socializing seems ironic, but I can also see how this would help avoid social interactions going needlessly bad because one participant just wasn’t in the right mood.

I have strong doubts about people keeping this up to date, however. I could see it being used as a kind of S.O.S. by someone who needs some support, but doesn’t want to impose on others who might not be up for providing it.

You’re absolutely right about the lack of integration into other platforms that actually facilitate that socialization, however.

Quick intro for those wondering how it works:

1. It does ask for an email first thing, but it’s presented as just an optional backup for your account.

2. Then comes the explanation I was looking for in my other comment.

Your Social Battery - Drag the dial to set how social you’re feeling — from drained to fully charged. Your friends see this in real time.

Share Your Invite Link - Tap “Share your link” and send it to friends. When they join via your link you’re connected automatically. https: //socialbattery. space/?ref={username}

See Friends’ Levels - Once connected, you both appear in each other’s friends list with live battery updates.

Then you’re plopped on this screen:

Settings lets you select a profile picture, nickname (so you can show your real or gamer name presumably, but since your username is part of the link you share it doesn’t do anything for security or privacy), and light or dark mode. ETA: I think the nickname feature should also be on a per-friend level, not global.

I think that should be sufficient to give people an idea what to expect when deciding whether to give it a try.

ETA: I am curious what happens when you don’t have the PWA open. Do your friends just perpetually see what you last selected, or is there a timeout where it’ll just say “offline” (and what is that timeout)?

I’ve made several edits/additions to this throughout, so you may want to scan it for those if you’ve already read this.

Would be nice if your mention of the site was actually a link, although I’ll admit I’m just scrolling through “all” and have no idea if that’s against the rules in this community (which would seem silly if a self-promoting post was allowed to begin with).

ETA: some explanation, and/or demo of how it actually works in practice would also be helpful so we can decide whether we want to invest the time.

It wasn’t snark, but mild confusion. If my response was snark, then your question prompting it could be interpreted as condescending brag. Compounded now by the seemingly absurd attempt at justification by claiming some people go through the effort of creating & providing needless non-paywall archive links just because they can. Never mind the arrogant, self-righteous tone.

Whatever. This is pointless. Chao.

I’m well aware, and I’m sure most users of the term are aware as well. Language is always evolving, however. There are numerous words that been made up, but eventually enter the official lexicons due to popularity. Others like “cool” that have had additional interpretations added depending upon context which have little association with their original meaning.

The examples you quoted are words people are actually trying to use with the full original meaning, but misspelled (sometimes deliberately). While “sike/psych/syke/etc.” falls into a similar vein, it’s not quite the same because - as you noted - it doesn’t just mean the same as “psychology,” but to use it in a particular manner.

MN is the postal abbreviation for Minnesota in the USA.

I’ve seen several variations of it. Since it’s slang, there’s no formal proper spelling.

Maybe it’s just my experience, but it seems to me that’s how it used to be. Over the past couple decades there’s been a transition to many more jobs paying weekly - at least the non-salaried ones.

He put on a pretty good front up until his stroke right before the primary. It’s debatable whether what he has become since is who he was all along, but he definitely won for more reasons than merely not being Oz, the carpetbagger.

Can’t imagine why I’d have commented with that otherwise.

Paywall-free archive version.