Been having a great week, all things considered, and this scum sucking dick wad of a brain has to be all ooeeewwwhhh my chemicals.

Fucking bastard. Who decided Chronic should be a part of this Depression thing? I want to speak to their manager.

From this year and on, schools in Greece will have more than one book available for each subject for the teachers to teach from, that will be chosen by the teachers. This is the so called "Multi-Book" (Πολλαπλό Βιβλίο). There are pros and cons with this new approach that our government decided to enforce, but this post is not about them.

A friend recently sent me some screenshots of excerpts from the new textbook of "Social and Political Education", a subject for the 9th grade. The excerpts have been chosen and highlighted by the Instagram account @sexismproject.

I have translated the more important parts to English. In each expert, besides my translation, you will be able to find my opinion on the ideas that the text promotes and the original screenshot of the text (in Greek, as taken from the Instagram account).

Let's begin!

People are not born equal. From nature, they have different development abilities, since nature grants them different abilities and skills. (emphasis mine)

This is not too bad but I think it promotes the idea that people are unequal, and therefore some people should are superior or they should have more rights, "from nature" as the text says.

::: spoiler Screenshot of text :::

Self-improvement requires self-awareness and self-assessment. If these exist, the improvement process is relatively easy. Of course, there shouldn't be any anxiety or rush. We should want our improvement. And if we want it, we can succeed at it. There is no "I can't", there is only "I don't want to". So: if I want something, I can get it.

This is literally wrong. If people got something because they just wanted it, I suppose there wouldn't be any homeless people, because I'm sure that they want to own a house. Or maybe they don't want it hard enough I guess? This just promotes the grind mindset to kids and teaches them things that are just not true.

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The teacher's role is important. This important role requires important people, meaning teachers that will have, in theory and practice, vision and passion for a better education system and society. Teachers that can enlighten the students and contribute to the improvement of the education system. Attention: not with their own and personal, political, ideological criteria, but with the criteria of the society, as they are expressed by the education policy of the current government. (emphasis mine)

This is the worst of all in my opinion. So the teachers should always teach the students only whatever the government believes, and nothing else. And we'll be teaching the students that this is "the perfect teacher", a teacher that repeats all the propaganda that is served to them by television and social media, making the kids of the new generation perfect government-supporting machines. What else can I say? Literally 1984.

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However, young girls should be informed from a young age for the biological and mental differences that they have from men. A few practical pieces of advice for facing men are:

• Remember that men are bigger in volume and in strength.
• Avoid "dangerous places".
• Avoid violent, aggressive, arrogant, narcissist, manipulative men, those who don't have empathy.
• Stop your relationship, if your partner uses violence, because even if they apologize a thousand times, he will use violence again.

This promotes that men are superior to women, they may use violence against them and women will just have to protect themselves. So now young girls learn that they will have to fear men, and just tolerate the sexism. Also the last bullet point looks like it was written by Donald Trump himself.

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@sexismproject has uploaded more screenshots of more similiar texts from the same books, talking about marriage and drugs, I just couldn't bother to manually translate them.

Anyway, if you made it to the end thanks for reading, sorry for any grammar errors you may find, I will try to correct them as soon as possible.

Big thanks to @sexismproject for pointing all these out! I'm not affiliated in any way with them, I just saw them, I got mad and now I'm trying to get more people to know about the stuff our government is pushing to the new generation.

My city has a pretty nice park in it. This past spring, they spent a ton of money installing almost two dozen new tennis courts.

I haven't played tennis in years, but the wife and I have been trying to be more active and get in shape. So we saw that there were all these new courts, and they were usually pretty empty, so why not? We bought a couple of cheap racquets and some balls, and drove over to the park.

There, we discovered that the courts were behind a pin-code locked gate. A big sign said, "Open to the public 5AM to 9PM" and had a QR code under it. I'm abnormally paranoid about QR codes posted in unmonitored public spaces, so I went to the city's website and clicked around until I find out what was going on: you need to scan the code to go to a website to reserve a court for a certain time slot, and then they will email you with a unique code for the gate five minutes before your reservation.

This is, on its own, an insane system. The only upside I could come up with is that, if you save the link and book in advance, you'll always be sure to have a court to use. But, again, there's nearly two dozen of them and I've never seen more than three in use at a time.

But we were there, we had our equipment, so I caved and began signing up for this bullshit. They had me create a username and password, and finally I was able to select a court, select a time, and click "reserve."

Except that when I clicked, it took me to another website to make another login. This was not a .gov, but some private company that I guess the city contracted with? And to make a login there, they needed my email, my phone number, my DOB, my zip code, and even my gender.

So to play a game on a public court, in a public park, in a city that I pay taxes to, I need to surrender tons of personal identifying information to a third party? Fucking why?! Who thought this was a good idea? What part of the community does this serve?

So, yeah, I'm taking the tennis stuff back to the store, I guess, and the spouse and I will need to find another hobby.

Yes, thank you so much. I totally wanted and have time for a scavenger hunt + jigsaw puzzle. Clearly you understand enough of the issue to know that I need to handle it but can't be bothered to spend 45 seconds to summarize the relevant bits.

First you needed to create an account to view reviews on the IMDB website.

As of today, the same has now been implemented for the mobile app. So far it was excluded from the enshittification but fuck IMDB and fuck Amazon who own IMDB.

What is another good movie / series review app that does not need an anal probe to look at reviews?

Fucking morons. I’ve been looking for a new apartment and messaging a ton of real estate agents lately, and WhatsApp just decided to block me for 'suspicious activity.' They already restricted my account a couple of days ago, and I almost missed an apartment viewing because of it. And I‘ve already done that for three moves before with zero issues. I live in a country where literally all communication with real estate agents happens on WhatsApp, so now I’ll have to go out tomorrow and get a whole new phone number if they don’t unblock me or Im gonna end up on the street. Fucking morons. Fuck you, Crapsapp, and your piece-of-shit messenger

This is basically MKUltra being used by the corpos. These techniques, when practiced by paid intelligence operatives, I think generally involve manipulation in the real world in addition to internet stalking.

For example, going into someone’s home when they’re going to be gone for a while and moving things around. Something seemingly innocuous like an item being in an unusual or suggestive place can invoke a fear response in the target if it remains unexplained or is followed by additional incidents.

This could be coupled with targeted information placed in public in places the target is likely to frequent, such as their commute to work.

Targets are discouraged from talking about the incidents by stigma surrounding mental health, and if they get targeted enough it will become difficult for them to distinguish the actual attacks from regular information floating about.

https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00642208.pdf

This one is worth at least three dagnabbits, a golly gee and two daggums.

I use KeePass, or some of it's forks, flavors and versions, for password management. I store the database locally on each device and keep them synced between devices with Syncthing.

I got a notice that a password on one of my accounts had been compromised. So I went to that website on my desktop, logged in, changed my password, and updated the entry in KeePass, saved and quit the application. I checked my phone to see if the change had propagated there...it hadn't.

I started poking around, making sure Syncthing was running, I went so far as to copy the database on my PC somewhere, delete it from both systems, and then put it back on my PC to see if I could get it to resync the whole file at once. The change didn't propagate.

Somehow I ended up in Keepass' settings menu on the phone, and noticed an option called "Database Caching." Turns out, it had copied the database to the app's cache directory, and it was pulling from there rather than the actual file. I guess assuming that the database would be stored in the cloud or something, rather than in the device's onboard storage.

That's 25 minutes I'm not going to get back, and now neither will you!

Yes, the upper left half is "done".

Don’t expect members of my profession to track down the story. We’re too busy listening to Donald Trump berate NATO, lie about his investments, revive the Red Scare and call Iranian leaders “scum,” while at the same time declaring we’ve defeated Iran in a war everyone believes we shouldn’t have started in the first place. (For those keeping track, Trump has claimed he has ended the conflict close to 40 times. I can’t count how often he’s “completely obliterated” the Islamic Republic’s military, even though they keep firing missiles and sending drones against us.)

cross-posted from: https://ani.social/post/34163200

by Kokko

Twitter・Danbooru

Yes there were red flags, but the mission was to unseat Collins, so we were all willing to look the other way on some of them and were hoping that we were going to vote for the man he is now, to make this happen. Everyone who was supporting him did say that if something came out that was truly disqualifying, we'd drop him like a hot rock, and this clearly the case.

We are never gonna unseat Collins. This bitch has more lives than a cat! FML (flips a table)

Literally they had one job. This has a schuko plug sized receptacle but with Italian plug size holes. So it can convert from Italian 10A plug to Italian 10A plug... really useful...

Producing who know how many millions of useless converters and shipping them in a different continent without trying them or even reading the specs....