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It was right there with flying cars and domed cities on the moon. That was part of the whole Disneyworld/OMNI Magazine promise about life in the year 2000.

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[–] LunchMoneyThief@links.hackliberty.org 13 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Actually, your kids will be taught dependency on proprietary corporate software that spies on them and conditions them into corporate vendors walled gardens in order to a create lifelong customers (+ data mining sources) in order to enrich giant tech corporations.

Ideally, your kids would be taught genuine computer literacy so that they can be digitally self sufficient but that is never going to happen in a school setting.

Here's an unrelated picture of a North American wood ape:

[–] TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

and the computers they ARE given are so locked down to the point where the subject material is blocked and you can't do the lesson the teacher has assigned for years before. Literally had that happen well over a dozen times in the last 3.5 years of hs

edit: just remembered the time someone got assigned to make a PowerPoint about boobytraps. Didn't go well lol

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

.............you make me sad to be alive, using only facts and the truth.