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@chad The hard part is dealing with nobody caring if you expire. Certs have a harsh life AND death!

@VeroniqueB99 Next time, order hijo de puta soup. Some chicken stuff should cure the cold!

@AppleFanboy Ah, the second most troubling. At least it wasn't military language and you don't have to "attack" a task, right?

@the_etrain Wait, is the server in that closet?

I might have an idea why you had that outage - superficial reasons nonewithstanding.

@CorvidCrone It shall forever remain a mystery why capitalists didn't think of paying children to do the homework.

I mean the condescending "i will trick you" non-solution is not surprising in itself, but not thinking of money is remarkably off-brand, i think.

I'm an alpha mail. Which means people want to send me away quickly.

@CorvidCrone No, any tests we had were free form (whatever the teacher found, i guess?) and always with content, not just for style/form.

The only similarly ugly thing was the wino music teacher that demanded we copy everything we write by hand at home. He got ignored right from the start.

@CorvidCrone I'm not sure what is done in schools (except driving underpaid teachers crazy, that should be the same here and there), but from what i remember german language lessons were interspersed with interpreting texts to a laughable degree somewhere in the middle at least.

Is that different in english lessons?

Anyways, filling out forms was way too practical, we learned nothing of the like.

@CorvidCrone On the other hand primary language teachers tend to interpret so much into texts that the meaning might be otherwise obscured.

@OpenComputeDesign It's like filling a shape perfectly to 99% and then drawing lines all over the place, amazing.

@OpenComputeDesign Well my example wasn't chosen very well, but with a better example it becomes more powerful...

"I wish i could fly to Pluto and explore" is way better than trying to do it to make others notice.

And for the self-knowledge, thinking about this could lead to understanding underlying, more basic wishes - not useless!

@OpenComputeDesign They can help understanding oneself and communication with others.

Bit hard to make a pie so you can show someone that you wanted a pie. Better say "i wish i had a pie", right?

@OpenComputeDesign It seems like you ascribe some magical properties to wishing?
I do wish i had not been bullied in school, but i still want to keep the learnings i had from it. Not actually a contradiction, since i cannot change the past. More "dreaming of a nicer world", without accepting fake responsibility that nobody asked me to bear.

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