• Duenan@aussie.zone
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    28 days ago

    Dumbest thing I’ve done in a bit today.

    I went to grab a snack from the lunchroom and ended up with a little biscuit and tried to eat it.

    The texture strange and didn’t break up like I thought so I chucked it in the bin.

    Couple of hours later I look again at the box of snacks and see in light pen on the lid “Not Edible”.

    It now dawns on me that I tried to eat a biscuit made out of plasticine.

    I was tired this morning :(

  • SpinMeAround@aussie.zone
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    28 days ago

    Three days into a hardcore diet change and while I know it’s what I needed to do to break some bad habits… ouchhhhh… just a hurdle to get over though!

    • TinyBreak@aussie.zone
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      28 days ago

      your still setting the routine. It gets easier when you start to feel better from it and the habit sets in.

  • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone
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    28 days ago

    This is the perfect weather to make health and fitness changes if you need to. Also getting rid of clutter. C’mon guys. You’ve got this!

  • Seagoon_@aussie.zone
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    28 days ago

    Ted is such a champ. Here he is enjoying the balcony. 🙂

    And I found Bill after much searching , grabbed him, put him in bathroom with food water and a tray. He is better n. He must have felt so uncomfortable, poor little guy.

  • LowExperience2368@aussie.zone
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    28 days ago
    just my rant about the education system

    The school I’m at has very low standards for its students. Most students are not interested in tertiary education or are doing unscored VCE, so all they have to do is fill in a worksheet for each subject (barring English I think) and there’s their satisfactory. They don’t even have to pass the unit tests, and if they want to pass, all they really have to do is regurgitate information from a textbook and tailor to different scenarios.

    Then there’s the UK’s curriculum and IB, requiring students to write essays in their science subjects and conduct their own research projects. GCSEs probably have more rigour than the VCE system, and that’s not even the final qualification if you do A levels.

    I understand education in the academic setting is not for everyone, but I feel like as someone who actually wanted to develop better critical thinking skills throughout my education, the system has failed me. All I learnt from doing VCE was how to memorise a bunch of pretty much useless facts, so I when I got to uni, I knew fuck all about writing essays. Heck, I still can’t write a very good essay or write well in general. Maybe my experience would’ve been different if I did more humanities subjects.

    But I’m about to go on and teach kids content that they’re going to have to memorise for an exam. At least with one of my subjects, it’s easier to deviate from the whole “here are some slides, now take notes” thing and make it more hands-on.

    • imoldgreeeg@aussie.zone
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      27 days ago

      Low, you sound like a teacher already - yep its a frustrating job, and that is a super sucky placement. But you care about those kids. Which is really important. And there are other schools out there. Yep, the education system sucks. So does the health system. So do most of the systems (yay, late stage capitalism). But people care, and if you can find a group of them that do it’s awesome. There are schools with better cultures.

      This also reminded me - I learned how to write essays in year 10. Not because it was on the curriculum, but I happened to have one ace english teacher and she taught us the principles one day. Decades later I am still grateful for that teacher, and use that info still, and my science/maths teacher who pushed me into trying when I wanted to just fail.

      Edit: posted then worried that sounded lecturey - was trying to be empathetic and share in response…

  • Seagoon_@aussie.zone
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    27 days ago

    I’m pretty beat. So many stairs .

    Another early night I think.

    Sorry I haven’t been here as much as I would like. Love you all. Special hugs to Spud’s partner, to Tinyest for talking and to Melbs for being a great cat mum and community gardener. 😘😘😘

  • LowExperience2368@aussie.zone
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    27 days ago

    My mum and I were going to get something from the local chicken shop for dinner, but then I saw I had a $20 off Uber Eats for first time use. So we got a whole charcoal chicken for $5. A steal.

  • dumblederp@aussie.zone
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    27 days ago

    Is there a lemmy suggestions box? I like to be able to hide users without blocking them and I’d like to be able to disable comment replys. God dam making some comments out of the instance and I get a bunch of updates from aggressive nerds that I really don’t care for. I tended to disable comments on reddit as soon as I’d commented due to notification avoidance.

      • dumblederp@aussie.zone
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        27 days ago

        Hiding feels more like I’m not interested in their content, blocking is for people I don’t like. Sometimes when dealing with my own struggles I can do without hearing about someone else’s. Even just being able to have their posts auto collapsed.

  • underwatermagpies@aussie.zone
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    28 days ago

    I’ve just done psychometric testing for the first time, for a potential job. This seems like a really dumb way to select candidates.