Obligatory Sold a Story podcast link.

I can’t help but feel that a lot of this is deliberate, the end result of decades of dismantling the public education system to further divide kids into the upper class in private schools, religious fundamentalists in home schooling, and everyone else abandoned to keep the population uneducated and in worse economic precarity.

Somebody please tell me that the kids are alright yea

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    “knowing what a file directory is and how to navigate it”

    god DAMN that one gets me hard, I have had to explain the basic concepts of filesystems (literally just a file can go in a folder, but so can other folders, see? so you have to put the files in the correct folder) to a number of young people in the past year. Young people who are already working on PROGRAMMING courses (I do not work in education).

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        No it peaked with boomers. In my family the boomers are fine. Then, except for me gen xers and younger dont know a file system from their ass.

        And, of the milenials i know only the wierd nerds know how to use a pc. Even in programing class. As in, “man you are suposedley a chemichal engeenier this is your computer dont tell me you dont know wich key is the exponentiation sing?”

        This is why all the boomers were into q anon and 4 chan memes. I think it has to do with boomer entitlment, the same thing that makes them go out without a mask and spit in each othets faces, they feel they are the best and invincible and so they give these computer things a try and learn to use them because its not that hard.

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      I’m a bit of a ludite but the course that I teach uses R so the first few labs is just learning to set a working directory and now more than ever all of these students have clouds that double all their file locations and it’s been annoying because I hate clouds and macs and that’s all the damn kids use.