It is, because the US numbers are so incredibly dragged down by the worst of its school systems. I live in New Jersey, and we rank highly and are considered globally competitive (although I never really understand how you can compare them, they’re very different approaches to learning), but if you go to the shit hole parts of the US it’s a stark contrast. That being said, NJ has over 500 school systems, so there’s even stark contrast within the state.

But yeah, the DOD school system is consistently the best place to educate your kids. And it’s all free (if you’re doing your part).

Yeah, I’m from Jersey, and I guess the majority of people I know are just transplants to other states, but it’s shoes off everywhere to me. Home is comfort and comfort is shoes off.

Shoes offer.

Yes, it was. Nobody was going to jail over weed though. They handed it a year of probation if you got caught by the cops.

Can’t wait! I’d eat like 4-5k calories a day, and literally couldn’t put on weight, although swimming competitively helped a bit I’m sure. Was just a bean pole.

Smoked an unhealthy amount of weed as a kid too, and my go-to high snack was a half gallon of milk and an Entemann’s All Butter French Crunbcake. Believe it or not, I cannot eat like that anymore.

You’re absolutely right. What’s it got to do with this post?

What in the original post has anything to do with America? Do you think it’s good to just go comment unrelated shit all over the place? Nothing says anything relating to America at all, and yet, no surprise, someone makes it about America somehow. How does that not bother you? We’re in shitpost for fucks sake.

Yeah, but there’s also seatbelts in the back. The car is either straddling the line between generations or it’s set design fucking with us.

I really understand how people with otherwise good lives get to an age where they no longer want to live forever.

I kinda take solace in this a bit. I’m 38, got young kids, and I don’t generally stop to think about my mortality but when I do it’s always with the thought that I’d miss stuff, mainly related to my kids and them growing and us all being a family. But presumably the rigors of life just become life, and you get to a point where you’re okay saying “Welp, that’s enough!” Perhaps I’m just rationalizing my future fears or something, I dunno, but that’s my hope, that I’ll reach an age where I can comfortably say I think I’ve seen it all, or seen enough that I can go peacefully into nothingness.

Obviously the darker alternative is that I’ve seen enough pain and I can’t take anymore. But I am not here for that! Good feelings only!

For some reason missed the text above the pic box, and I was like shrimp possessing and doing blow brings you joy? The context of your context cropping helped me enjoy it more.

That was my first though: Is this the cure to erections lasting more than four hours?

I appreciate what you’re saying, but I wasn’t aware that commenting on a post suddenly made me adopt any and all of it’s opinions. But when I see folks turn a post about a cheese and onion sandwich into an America bad jerkfest, I just felt compelled to point out how stupid that is, in spite of the fact that I probably agree with them.

Turning every tech post into Linux praise and every anything post into America bad does not create a healthy, entertaining community. It’s boring and repetitive. You understand that. Right?

I like the joke, and maybe I’ll steal it in 20 years or so.

Well that’s weird, but you Midwesterners are weird to me, so it makes sense!

I always liked to joke that, like, west of Wisconsin and Minnesota is the Midwest, and then Montana and Nevada are the West, and that Illinois and Indiana are the Mideast. It’s not a good joke.

I didn’t make the joke. I think the sandwich looks awful no matter who’s eating it. I do not discriminate in my hate for awful sandwiches, I will dole it out accordingly.

I appreciate what you’re saying. I will agree 100% it’s gotten worse. I use it because I have a software that will never work on anything else, and a piece of hardware that only has drivers for windows.

I just find the argument to be disingenuous that Linux is this - to use the Ron Popwil catchphrase - set it and forget it OS. And I’m not suggesting you made that, but I see it often.

And so because I’m stuck with my work software (which I will use until I die because retirement isn’t real), I just don’t feel like going over to Linux is going to somehow better my life. I get along more than fine on Windows, same as I always have. I do get the itch to try Linux though, just to see, and so the constant bombardment here on Lemmy might be working. I did try Red Hat briefly 20+ years ago, but that’s about the limit of my experience. I wanted to take over a MUD that had gone extinct.

I like how you look at a picture of a dude eating a raw onion and a slab of cheese on a roll and think “fucking Americans.”

Yawn yawn yawn, get new material Lemmy.

Except that’s not true. The little tweaks, remove onedrive, turn off copilot, use powertoys to reprogram the Copilot key to right control. Little, useful tips to improve user experience.

And the thing is, it’s something we’ve been doing for as long as I can remember. I remember screwing around with windows 98 to improve my experience. It’s been a fact of life with windows, and it’s fine.

The piece of nuance every one of these threads seems to miss. I have software that literally only runs on windows. What do? Rather than talk about how to make Windows work better, the best you get is jump ship!

It hurts my mind when you say it was before your time and you never had kids when it was popular. You’re both too young and too old to have watched Teletubbies.

I was 10 when it came out, fortunately, otherwise I may have grown up watching what appears to me to have been such a strange show. I recall it coming out and it being very weird.