whiskers165 [she/her, she/her]

It was not accredited as a private school. I was participating in a home school program administered at a church. I graduated from a home school program, I worked on home school curriculum, it’s a subtle distinction but no just because there’s kids in a building learning does not mean it’s legally a school

There were several other Christian private schools in my area and they were nothing like my program. They were stricter and more intensive than public school, complete opposite of what I experienced

I finished high school at a private Christian home school program that functioned like a small school run out of a church. Four days a week, late start to the day, get out hours earlier than public school. There was Bible verse trivia in every subject but they only counted as extra credit. Creation in the biology class

Honestly shit was way better than public school. My public school was a cursed mold infested nightmare build on top of an old plantation and the descendants of the slaves work there as janitors still bearing the same name as the school. The teachers at the home school program was just as good but much much nicer and more permissive. Hats on inside, take a snack break whenever, iPods on in class. Only like 10-20 kids per grade level, everything was really personal.

At public school they would be oppressing us, sick from the nasty environment, strict rules, constant trouble, kids acting horrible because the environment was so toxic

Say what you will about Christian homeschool but done right it’s a massive improvement over the nightmare that is secular public school in the American South. I graduated and went to college earlier because of Christian homeschool. Public school had me needing surgery every other year because of how bad the moldy environment was fucking my body up.

The issue is that without paying for lab analysis its really hard to differentiate between toxic and nontoxic molds. It’s not something you can see or smell. Not to mention white, green, and brown molds can also be toxic so unless you wanna gamble with your quality of life it’s best to consider any visible mold growth in an indoor living area as a health hazard.

Are you the type of person who thinks it sanitary to wash your hands in the toilet water?

Yeah, the stalls lock but the sink is outside the lockable stall. Just a toilet and door. But I guess you can wash your hands in the toilet if that’s how you wanna live

I can pee without touching anything but my pants. Why tf would I wash my hands? Sink has got to be dirtier than my pants. Low dexterity MFers can’t pee without touching their genitals a bunch and getting piss all over their fingers

Also I’m trans so if it’s a multi stall public bathroom I’m not definitely not washing my hands because people are transphobic

Reddit algorithm feels like it’s trying to brainwash me. The admins and mods are unaccountable and out of control. The owners are capitalists, I will never trust them.

Theres lots of content but it feels like dead Internet. The niche communities are nice but not amazing. I don’t want reddit owners and shareholders privatizing niche communities anymore than I want Facebook doing it so I refuse to participate. Short term pain, id rather build the fediverse up and post here even if it takes a long time to manifest a bigger more fulfilling platform.

For the same reason I don’t invest in stocks or the market I don’t want to participate in niche communities on corporate owned social media platforms. I dont want to invest in a future where the capitalist class is empowered through control of my retirement or savings. I don’t want to participate in a future where the capitalist class controls the platforms where I engage with my communities online.

Software worked out of the box much more reliably. I miss certain software but there’s nothing I haven’t found a happy replacement for. There’s a little nostalgia in there somewhere but honestly the feeling is mostly good riddance

I’m an extremely privileged hedonistic inner city party queer. This shit weighs so heavily on me I’m consumed with visions of war whenever I go out to have fun now.

Tripping mushrooms at the beach unable to escape horrible visions of the cruel calculus of war. The anger and shortages spilling into violence, famine, and fleeing your home, the way hunger and exhaustion will beat you down long before a gun is ever in your face. Occult dance party the night after the war started, could barely dance or enjoy myself just weighed down by the war, as was my wife, so we left very early.

Asking other people who were around me at the dance party, on the beach, other recent concerts, no one else was that bothered by the war, it wasn’t something anyone had put much thought into.

I live very close to where the Battle of Atlanta started in the Civil War. It’s been 150+ years since this land and its people actually knew war. Sure there are soldiers overseas but that’s exactly it, overseas, out of sight out of mind. By and large I don’t think most Americans comprehend in the slightest what war is. A lot of us grew up in the Global War on Terror where aside from the toxic political discourse a persistent state of war really didn’t feel all that much different than peace felt before.

A lot of Americans have also wised up to the idea that we fight forever wars, to a lot of people they can’t even keep up with when the fighting has started or stopped, just this vague awareness there are constant military actions happening in the backgound. So when they hear about all this with Iran it’s just another drop in the bucket of forever wars, something they have become desensitized to after decades of the Bush’s, Obama’s, and Clinton’s killing sprees around the world. So much murder not only can they not keep up they just tune out.

So in conclusion I think America has fully internalized the Orwellian mantra War Is Peace. They just can’t tell the difference anymore not that they would’ve cared much about Iran back when they could.

Americans acting normal as fuck. People were crashing out 10x harder when the invasion of Ukraine started in 2022

Now I’m personally a Fedora KDE user but my wife’s 2017 era gaming PC runs Ubuntu flawlessly, it’s got an Nvidia GPU in it too. I think a lot of the issues you hear about Ubuntu basically boil down to user error. My wife occasionally will struggle with something on the machine but I’ll pop on and fix it pretty quickly. I imagine if she didn’t have me in house to troubleshoot she would be one of the people complaining about Ubuntu.

I’ve honestly been pretty impressed with Ubuntu using it on her machine; only thing wrong with Ubuntu is Canonical lol

I’m not much of a gamer anymore, I only play stuff from the prepandemic, mostly 10+ year old games but tbh Linux works great for everything. Mostly been using Steam on both Ubuntu and Fedora KDE but it works flawlessly so long as you have your graphics drivers configured correctly.

I haven’t tried to pirate any games or install anything with WINE/Lutris so I can’t comment on that but I did manage to get the non-Steam Windows only version of Final Fantasy 14 working for my wife using a third party launcher. I got the impression doing that that an adept user would easily be able to set up standalone or pirated games without much trouble

After LSD was made illegal this guy was disgraced and became a laughing stock. He got so depressed that he invented doing ketamine in the sensory deprivation tank where he would repeatedly k hole to learn about the secrets of the universe.

Two dualing forces who’s contradictions hold all of reality in balance. Solid State Intelligence, SSI, cold, robotic, still, from the vacuum of space they seek to integrate all material into their computer matrix. On the other side ECCO, the Earth Coincidence Control Office, who’s psychic powers derive from the oceans and organic matter. They organize ‘coincidences’ that involve unwitting life forms in their plans to spread and preserve organic life

Direct line straight from giving LSD to dolphins to Ecco the Dolphin video games

Life is literally so easy once you understand this one trick.

I fuck with your style

This is my mental illness, I change, rearrange, add, and substract screens constantly in my array. It’s mostly for leaving ambient video playing in the background at my house, kinda like a little zen garden. I dream of programming all the TVs at a night club.

I got five computers in the array when this pic was taken. Three 2012 MacBook Pros, one on MacOS 10.15 Catalina, one on Windows 10, and one on Mint. Down low I have two gaming PCs, a 2014 build running Fedora and a 2017 build on Ubuntu.

You can’t see my face but I’m cheesing so hard, this was one of the more ridiculous arrangements I’ve set up. I will use between three and seven screens at once on a normal day, but eight was an accomplishment lol

https://19hz.info/

I love dancing and vibing to good music until sunrise. 19hz shows me electronic music event listings all over the US and Canada. I love using it at home but I really love using it when I travel. If I wanna get out and have fun in city I’m not familiar with it’s my first stop

The censorship on reddit sickened me. I felt like I was being brainwashed scrolling through the feed. One day I just couldn’t tolerate it any longer and like that I was free

I don’t understand why English speaker’s imaginary fears of being “shit talked” outweigh the comfort of a Spanish speaker using their mother tongue? I don’t understand how English speakers having anxiety translates into Spanish speakers being rude? It sounds like a personal psychological problem certain English speakers project onto people who speak other language; it it’s not prejudice I’m having trouble seeing the difference

The happy medium would be Fedora KDE

I was in school in the late 90’s through the Bush years, two different public school systems in the Atlanta metro. All classrooms had a landline phone, the office would call in sometimes or we could call them. There was also a two way intercom and the office would spy on you or just become a voice in the sky

I got three 2012 MacBook Pros I run different operating systems on. They handle Linux great, even the little 13" one with the i5 and no GPU/dedicated VRAM