we were talking about school and stuff so i linked the two
i do think when you're a kid you tend to have a more positive view of growing older than when you're an adult, though
like i remember when i was little, i couldn't understand why it was rude to ask an older woman her age, because to me a birthday felt like an achievement
I think the point is that the nostalgia derived from looking back at your early years is derived from the combination of a lack of empathy and the ability to bully one's peers.
i think the joke is the contrast between the two characters' views on aging, they've both been looking forward to the future, but for quite different reasons
character in the panel 1 sees it as a status thing, character in panel 2 sees it as the light at the end of the tunnel
Have sleep deprivation. Am cranky. Want to be indulged in everything and given hundred-dollar bills and cheese. Not able to focus on first day of school.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Lecture is over
Taking Chemistry 1210 instead of Chemistry 1250 was a good choice
Instead of "you should already know this, moving on" the instructor's like "I'll explain this just in case you didn't already know"
And, well, I didn't take chemistry in high school, so I need all the help I can get with this college-level stuff ._.
i think the joke is the contrast between the two characters' views on aging, they've both been looking forward to the future, but for quite different reasons
character in the panel 1 sees it as a status thing, character in panel 2 sees it as the light at the end of the tunnel
they're the same people, the kid in the letterman is the balding man, the kid in the glasses is the man in the glasses
Have sleep deprivation. Am cranky. Want to be indulged in everything and given hundred-dollar bills and cheese. Not able to focus on first day of school.
"Wow I bet I could learn a lot from doing [x]" ----> Does X ----> "Wow I learned nothing aside from there being lots of stuff involved and stuff I can get on the 1st page of Google + stuff I knew already"
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Re: American schools can afford to be less stingy: It certainly helps that Ohio State is the flagship school of Ohio's state college system--thus the name The Ohio State University--which basically means we get the most government money of any school in the state.
Not to mention big-name donors...our university hospital is named after a local CEO who graduated from Ohio State and frequently donates.
i have a busted computer power supply from my parents' computer
i kinda want to take it apart, that's supposed to be a good way to learn about computers, right?
but i feel like i'd most likely just be like, 'i've taken it apart, wow, there sure was a lot of stuff inside' and learn nothing
Electronics are a little harder to "learn" by disassembly since you won't recognize any of the parts. But if you're bored you could still learn a thing or two about how electronics are sealed by doing so, which will make you more comfortable should you try to open something more important later.
Taking it apart and maybe looking on the internet to see PSU components or something could be more educational, should you be interested in the components of a power supply. I'm pretty sure it serves a a transformer for the computer (I guess you would also learn what a transformer is by doing this search).
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
When I was a little kid (6-7) my mother would give me old broken electronics to take apart
It didn't really teach me anything about how they worked, but it was a lot of fun
She gave me pliers and stuff but I was the kind of kid who liked wrenching components off the PCBs with my bare hands
David Benatar apparently doesn't allow people to take picture of him, or film him, so I had to make him into a cyborg (since I had nothing to go off of). That's convenient, of course, because then he can be extra evil.
It's odd how some Universities are named after the city that are located, like University of Sheffield, and others are names after the county they are located in, like Staffordshire University.
i have a busted computer power supply from my parents' computer
i kinda want to take it apart, that's supposed to be a good way to learn about computers, right?
but i feel like i'd most likely just be like, 'i've taken it apart, wow, there sure was a lot of stuff inside' and learn nothing
Electronics are a little harder to "learn" by disassembly since you won't recognize any of the parts. But if you're bored you could still learn a thing or two about how electronics are sealed by doing so, which will make you more comfortable should you try to open something more important later.
Taking it apart and maybe looking on the internet to see PSU components or something could be more educational, should you be interested in the components of a power supply. I'm pretty sure it serves a a transformer for the computer (I guess you would also learn what a transformer is by doing this search).
This seems like a better idea than just dismantling it and trying to figure it out for myself, yeah.
Don't stop yourself from doing something like this unless you're lacking spare time, since all it costs yourself is time, really. It is almost guaranteed to be more productive than using the internet traditionally, lol.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
When I was a little kid (6-7) my mother would give me old broken electronics to take apart
It didn't really teach me anything about how they worked, but it was a lot of fun
She gave me pliers and stuff but I was the kind of kid who liked wrenching components off the PCBs with my bare hands
Well, you wound up with an interest in computers, so what's to say you didn't learn anything?
And now you're studying to be an engineer, so there's that.
The thing is, I didn't know what anything was or what it did. Nobody in my immediate family had a background in electronics, so I didn't have anyone to say "this thing with the stripes is a resistor, it lowers the voltage" etc. Even now I only know the bare basics of such things.
If today's Internet existed back then I could have just Googled diagrams of this stuff and found out what all the components were, but that wasn't really an option in 1996-97...
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Somehow it's weird to me that the President has the power to just rename mountains
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i don't think i was ever in much of a hurry to grow up
we were talking about school and stuff so i linked the two
i do think when you're a kid you tend to have a more positive view of growing older than when you're an adult, though
like i remember when i was little, i couldn't understand why it was rude to ask an older woman her age, because to me a birthday felt like an achievement
i assumed we weren't cuz they get undermined by panel 2
i mean old people really do look forward to retirement, it's a common sentiment
Hence why it's bizarre.
well, maybe
i guess i just didn't take that away from it
i think the joke is the contrast between the two characters' views on aging, they've both been looking forward to the future, but for quite different reasons
character in the panel 1 sees it as a status thing, character in panel 2 sees it as the light at the end of the tunnel
parallelogram
risk
respite
drizzle
snooze
squill
discus
shambling
jockey
snip
grotesque
duodecimo
sympathize
Taking Chemistry 1210 instead of Chemistry 1250 was a good choice
Instead of "you should already know this, moving on" the instructor's like "I'll explain this just in case you didn't already know"
And, well, I didn't take chemistry in high school, so I need all the help I can get with this college-level stuff ._.
well, even knowing that, i think my reading stands
the joke is then that he's still looking forward, but now it's become about praying for the end, rather than wanting higher status
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
if you're despairing you're not looking forward to your retirement
I hate him so much.
i kinda want to take it apart, that's supposed to be a good way to learn about computers, right?
but i feel like i'd most likely just be like, 'i've taken it apart, wow, there sure was a lot of stuff inside' and learn nothing
Taking it apart and maybe looking on the internet to see PSU components or something could be more educational, should you be interested in the components of a power supply. I'm pretty sure it serves a a transformer for the computer (I guess you would also learn what a transformer is by doing this search).
And now you're studying to be an engineer, so there's that.