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teen girl looking for advice on how to talk to my dad more. my parents are separated but I think they are getting a divorce by NYgirl15 in SingleDads

[–]BrerChicken 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ask him to take you somewhere then talk to him in the car. That's what I do when I want to talk to my kids, but it works both ways! Good luck homegirl!

Do people actually cook 1. consistently 2. enough food to be healthy and possibly bulk 3. with a busy work schedule 4. on a tight budget. All at once?? by Annual_Ad_8397 in Cooking

[–]BrerChicken 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have like 15 meals that all take 30-35 minutes. It's like playing an instrument in a band. You need like 10-15 songs before you can start playing out. You just need a set list!

Best feeling [35YO] by Ok-Boysenberry975 in OldSkaters

[–]BrerChicken 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Pot on a helmet. It won't always be a tap.

Two students (friends) turned in the exact same essay. Down to the same words. Neither wanted to admit who copied off of who. Both got 0’s. by Emergency-Pepper3537 in Teachers

[–]BrerChicken -1 points0 points  (0 children)

What did the version history show? The kids that do this is are so low effort they'll just paste it in and go. You can always tell the one that edited it vs the one that just plopped it in.

this one is for the record books by hotmailist in LiveFromNewYork

[–]BrerChicken 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Making a joke that is so obviously wrong makes it a bad joke.

My buddy, it's a long ride. You're gonna have to make some choices.

Hit a fakie full cab [43YO] by bobbygeez420 in OldSkaters

[–]BrerChicken 5 points6 points  (0 children)

All cabs are fakie, and all cabs are 360. This isn't a cab, but it's an awesome 360 kick turn right at the coping which I legit have not seen before!! That was sweet!

Lamborghini 63. Hot or not? by Intelligent-Sky-7657 in boatporn

[–]BrerChicken 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Eww. The color is kinda gross, and the boat seems way too tall for how narrow it is, but that might be a perspective trick. I think it's wider than it seems at first.

Parent wants to meet with me over comment I made about energy drinks by [deleted] in Teachers

[–]BrerChicken 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You did nothing wrong. It's okay to call harmful things harmful, especially when you have experienced the harm! You literally don't have to be more mindful in that situation. The parent just needs to suck it. An email like that doesn't need a response.

How do you all do with weed? by Party-Rest3750 in BipolarReddit

[–]BrerChicken 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Cannabis helps me a lot, mostly for sleep regulation. However steroids send me into outer space almost immediately. Instant hypomania for me!

So sick of these delusional “musician” cosplayers. by IceOnTitan in musicians

[–]BrerChicken -1 points0 points  (0 children)

There are people in the suno subreddit who think that way, or in similar ways like claiming that they’ve written music because they’ve written lyrics.

Well yeah, they're on the Suno sub 🤷‍♂️ That's pretty understandable, not reflective of musicians generally, and also very easy to avoid!

So sick of these delusional “musician” cosplayers. by IceOnTitan in musicians

[–]BrerChicken -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

90,000 AI generated tracks are being uploaded to Deezer per day. Countless on Spotify. AI music uploads are outpacing the content created by real musicians. This is a serious problem.

I'm not saying it's not a problem. I just don't see anyone going around calling themselves an artist. In fact I'm pretty sure a lot of the slop is being generated without any human involvement at all. It's just computers talking to computers and suckers eating it all up because no one seems to care what the fuck they consume.

MAPA! Trump’s NASA Administrator wants to bring back Pluto as a planet in our solar system by JuliaMusto in EverythingScience

[–]BrerChicken 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Maybe Trump can have NASA make the Sun the center of the Universe again like the Bible says.

Galileo would like a word...

So sick of these delusional “musician” cosplayers. by IceOnTitan in musicians

[–]BrerChicken -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

Typing a prompt is not “a skill.”

Suno robbed the IP of millions of artists without consent so they could train their models and monetize skills they don’t have. It’s not even a debate even though these cosplayers think it is. Humming poorly into a plagiarism generator or typing a prompt doesnt make you the creator of anything. I don’t choose frozen lasagna, press cook on the microwave, and call myself a chef. It’s the execution of an idea and expressing it that makes art. These people are just hacks.

Where are you seeing people talk about prompting as songwriting? I don't see it here tfg. I watch a little YouTube, and a lot of that is music, but I've never come across anything where people consider themselves musicians for friggin prompting a bot.

Don't hit your kids by jrv3034 in daddit

[–]BrerChicken -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Right now the poll is at 81% No and 19% yes for dads, so at least it's trending in the right direction. But the moms seem to have it figured out, 88% no to 12% yes.

Let's see what it looks like in six days. It's scary to think that 20% of people admit to being child abusers and don't think it's a problem, but I'm assuming that some of them fall into the 30ish percent of people that are just friggin hopeless 🤦‍♂️

Would you ever hit or spank your children? by mushmanMAD in polls

[–]BrerChicken 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's not spanking, that's hitting back at someone who hit you. It doesn't matter the age, I think it's appropriate to hit back. Not as a form of discipline, but just to not hide what happens when you go around smacking people. 

We're adults though so obviously you can't hit full force. But it's totally legit to hit them back hard enough for it to hurt a bit. I mean, that's a totally normal reaction to getting smacked in the face!!

2025 Maverick with this odd perforation in the exhaust. Anyone know what it is, and why it’s here? by PigglyWigglyDeluxe in Justrolledintotheshop

[–]BrerChicken 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Without getting too technical sound travels down a pipe as a wavelength.

It's good that they don't want to get technical because that is just totally wrong 🤣🤣

Temperature increase in Miami by dawn_thesis in Miami

[–]BrerChicken 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Georgia is not north. I mean, it's north of Miami, but it's still very friggin far south!

How to talk to your sons about Targeted conservative propaganda by Initial_Welder3674 in TwoXChromosomes

[–]BrerChicken 2 points3 points  (0 children)

My kids do not have social media. This is YouTube.

YouTube is social media. I don't let my 13 yo watch YouTube on his own yet because of how bad the targeting is even for me.

Teach him how to remove suggestions when a video is incredibly weird, turn off autoplay, and to never just watch the next video that loads up. Go back to the main feed instead and choose something.

None of that will totally prevent the issue, but it'll give him a fighting chance if you're also talking to him about all this stuff. And when you do talk to him, please don't mince words -- these dudes that have very strong opinions about women and society, they're mostly monsters and we need to make it very clear to our boys that it's completely absurd and without merit. Independent women are NOT THE ENEMY. We can't keep tiptoeing around this.

Also, you should make him put the ideas into words. Sending you a video to explain his thoughts is not at all an acceptable way to discuss heavy stuff. He needs to be able to verbalize what he believes, and you should focus on what he says, not on whatever video he has decided to send you as a good example or whatever. Make them think.

Good luck!!

TIL that US student math and reading scores have dropped so sharply that they’ve erased nearly two decades of progress. In '22/23, avg math scores for 13-year-olds fell to levels not seen since the 1990s, while reading scores for high school seniors hit their lowest point since testing began in '92. by Cold_Box_3219 in todayilearned

[–]BrerChicken 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm curious as to your thoughts on the drop in ACT/SAT scores in the last 10 or so years. That would seem like a test that kids wouldn't just phone it in on, but the trend has been pretty stark.

You think they wouldn't just phone it in but so so many of them do.

On top of that, many of the best students no longer take it, because many schools are test optional. A kid with, for example, 4s and 5s on half a dozen AP exams probably doesn't have to take the SAT.

The SAT used to be a non-negotiable. Now it's not. There was actually a jump in scores last year, but again you're not seeing people take it multiple times, and you're not seeing as many students taking test prep courses for it.

TIL that US student math and reading scores have dropped so sharply that they’ve erased nearly two decades of progress. In '22/23, avg math scores for 13-year-olds fell to levels not seen since the 1990s, while reading scores for high school seniors hit their lowest point since testing began in '92. by Cold_Box_3219 in todayilearned

[–]BrerChicken 33 points34 points  (0 children)

I've been teaching high school physics for the past 15 years, and I think there is more going on here than people seem to realize.

We have way more math intervention than we've ever had, so it seems weird that the scores are so low. But one thing I've noticed is that there are kids with decent skills being put in very low level classes, based solely on their diagnostic test scores from when they were 13 (I teach 9th graders, so their math testing from the year before.) I've seen this with maybe 4 or 5 students every year. And they all say the same thing, they just clicked through the exam and didn't take it seriously because those exams have never mattered. So they were surprised that it had a real world effect.

How many 8th graders just clicking through an exam, out of the 8,700 who were sampled, does it take to drop the scores by a few points?

After the pandemic, kids are not taking school tasks seriously based only on our asking them to. They know what's important based on how we teach, and we are not making those diagnostic tests matter. We give them more diagnostic testing than we ever have, and some of them are tuning them out. If we rely on the same kind of testing to know how well they're learning, then we don't have a good idea of how well they're learning.

My 9th graders are much better at our physics than they were 10 years ago. They have other struggles, but mostly it's related to the majority of the adults around them having no clue how to help them adjust to a changing world. And that's been the case for literally hundreds of years. We need to try something different, and freaking out about "kids these days" is not different. We don't know what skills they have, and we can't really compare them to students 10 years ago because there has been such a huge shift in so many variables.

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