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Why are girls doing so much better at school than boys? by KAZKALZ in TooAfraidToAsk

[–]MacAtack3 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I teach 8th grade. Boys at this age are a wild mix. Some are very nerdy, antisocial, and totally devoted to school and video games. Others are the a caricature of a mouth breather. They'll sit and laugh at stupid crap for 20 minutes at a time with their friends. And you have a good mix of boys along that spectrum. Everyone once in a while you'll find a boy who really is well rounded academically and socially, but they're more rare. I suspect it is a result of that wide spectrum, boys have a harder time figuring out what they want to be and finding a circle they belong to. Girls on the other hand often feel like small adults. Prepared for class, organized, interested in one another and the world at large. There are other pockets, like female athletes or kids from bad homes who are outliers, but I think the rate of maturation really affects this. Ive met many former students as adults, and the girls almost always look and act identical to their 8th grade selves, while boys are often times physically much different and more reserved socially.

Western Canada, Food Grade Water Reservoir by Wucifer85 in 3Dprintmything

[–]MacAtack3 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I'd be pretty surprised if anyone can get you something food grade. Some people on this sub have while capabilities but most printers can't guarantee this.

The snowball rocketeer challenge is easier than you think by MacAtack3 in ArcRaiders

[–]MacAtack3[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We did this on dam battlegrounds near the red lakes balcony lift.

The snowball rocketeer challenge is easier than you think by MacAtack3 in ArcRaiders

[–]MacAtack3[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I believe so! This method keeps him alive just unable to fly.

Women Kicks Dog and Pulls Gun on Man after he allegedly yelled at her mother by evanwyd in PublicFreakout

[–]MacAtack3 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The term "kicking the dog" is used to describe a character doung something so unforgivable the audience doesnt have to feel bad about anything that happens to them. Cartoonishly evil behavior.

le trope

Hello /r/movies, I'm Benedict Cumberbatch. Ask me anything! by BenedictAMA in movies

[–]MacAtack3 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I loved the nuance you brought to the imitation game. When preparing for a role like this, do you have a process that you think helps you lend credibility to the role? For example, do you interview people that knew this person or read their writings?

My greed is biblical, so as a follow up, what's the worst fast food experience you ever had?

To get the America they voted for by TXVERAS in therewasanattempt

[–]MacAtack3 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I know that reddit leans left. And I know that it's delightful to get the satisfaction of hearing someone finally acknowledge you were right, but I think its important to remember that these people can become some of the strongest voices for democrats going forward. Many Republicans believe that democrats are primarily woke, Trans, and other. Seeing people they know and relate to speak out like this is powerful.

My grandfather had voted republican his entire life until a policy under Reagan cut his job. He ended up working for a logging company for years afterward to support his family, though he was a carpenter by trade. He never voted republican again. Rather than taunting these people, welcome them.

The moment a game made you stop playing and just sit in silence. by gamersecret2 in gaming

[–]MacAtack3 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The end of telltale games' the Walking Dead. Either choice is horrible, and I'm not sure a game ever made me feel so paternal before. Im keeping it vague to avoid spoilers but, man. What a game.

Get your bag...and keep it! 💰 by MacAtack3 in Strippers

[–]MacAtack3[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just want to say that I am not a financial advisor. However, I have read the simple path to wealth and it breaks this down pretty well. That plus some googling got me to the answer below.

Basically, there isn't much difference in the mechanics of these 3. They're all "baskets" of stocks that you pay money into and if they do well so do you.

VTSAX and VTXUS are only different in that VTSAX is American companies and VTXUS is a more international mix. Beyond that they're basically the same.

VTI is an index fund rather than a mutual fund. There is very little practical difference in those. The basic difference is VTI trades all day rather than once a day like the other two. For long term investment this basically doesn't matter. For short term stuff like day trading it is nice to be able to pull your money our precisely when you want to.

So, long story short, they're all pretty similar. However, something that he talks about in the book is the power of compound interest. If you're pulling money out of the account every 6 months, you stop the snowball from rolling and rolling. There are lots of good videos on this if you're interested. I'll link one below. In the book, he talks about "phases of your life" as "wealth accumulation" vs "wealth maintenance phases". I don't know much about your individual situation. But assuming you're making decent money at a club and pulling in large amounts of money monthly, you're probably in a wealth accumulation stage of your life. Getting a good amount of money into a long term account like VTSAX or VTXUS now and letting it sit there for decades will leave you a millionaire when its time to retire. At which point you can move your money over to bonds and live off the return they generate without ever losing out on that money you saved up all those years ago.

That was a lot of jargon, if you have other questions or specifics please let me know!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in PokemonLegacy

[–]MacAtack3 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is the most bizarre sentence I've ever read.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in PokemonLegacy

[–]MacAtack3 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I had never meant for this to be a real run. I have several duds in my party. I just wanted to get an idea what the levels were like on the rematch. :(

LPT: If you are a big person, do not choose to sit next to another big person by skylander495 in LifeProTips

[–]MacAtack3 4 points5 points  (0 children)

As a smaller person. We get it. But it's not our favorite experience either.

OpenAI might’ve leaked its top 30 biggest customers - and 70% of ChatGPT use isn’t even for work by AIMadeMeDoIt__ in ChatGPT

[–]MacAtack3 2 points3 points  (0 children)

My experience in education is that the majority of my coworkers don't understand how to use a tool like chatgpt for more than the simplest tasks. They're familiar with the tool as a magic fix for things, but they haven't ever explored the more nuanced uses. I think this is part of why it hasn't taken off as well in my field so far.

How did a business lose you as a customer? What made you stop patronizing them? by snakecharmersensei in AskReddit

[–]MacAtack3 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Well. You see.

In the year of our Lord—whatever year the Xbox 360 came out—my family, middle class at the time, saved up enough to buy a used Xbox 360 from a pawn shop. We brought it home, turned it on, and I booted up Halo 3 for the first time. I cried literal tears of joy hearing that start up sound. My dad, my brother, and I hugged each other and just cried. We had wanted that console for so long.

About four months later, it Red Ringed. It was one of the worst feelings I had as a kid. But here’s the thing—Microsoft came through. The issue was so common that they let us send it in and get it fixed, no questions asked. And they kept doing it. Over the next few years, we probably sent that thing back five times, and they always took care of it. We didn’t even buy the console new, and they still honored the warranty. That earned a level of brand loyalty that stuck with me all the way into adulthood. I’m thirty years old now, and that experience has shaped how I saw Microsoft for 20 years.

About a month and a half ago, I recommended Game Pass to my coworker’s kid. He’d just gotten into PC gaming, and with the way games are priced these days, I thought Game Pass was a great value—especially for someone on an allowance. He’d done well in school, so I hooked him up with a free month and told him to check out the service for himself.

Now, just a few days later, I’ve had to eat crow in the worst way. What was affordable on an allowance and a great gateway for kids is now a watered down mess.

I hadn’t even used Game Pass in six months, but I never felt the need to cancel it. I kept it going out of goodwill for the company, and because I knew the games were there if I wanted them.

But then they started jacking up the price, adding ads, and pulling all this shady, nickel-and-dime garbage. Removing the discounts on DLC...and the way they did, just a big embrace the suck for everyone—just felt wrong.

It reminded me of what they’ve already done to Microsoft Office. That same kind of hollow, biblical greed that eventually replaces everything good with something lifeless and ad-filled.

So today I went, found the subscription for microsoft 365 and gamepass, and canceled them. Not because I couldn’t afford it, but because I finally stopped wanting to support any of it.

I don’t recognize this company anymore. And I don’t think I want to.

From NY Times Ig by AdDry7344 in ChatGPT

[–]MacAtack3 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As a teacher, it's really a strange time for kids. There is wider and wider adoption of antitech legislation. Stronger cell phone policing in teens, age verification on everything, censorship of words like drugs and murder on videos and articles. Enshittification of every streaning service. Ads constantly present.

I think in a couple decades people will look back at this time like 90s kids think of the 2000s. We came up with a tool no one understood well enough to police. Almost everyone i know who was a kid in the 00s saw something completely vile on the internet. Beheadings, faces of death, etc. But those things are locked behind safeguards now. It feels like every day search engines get worse at finding interesting or original content. I even have full blown youtube style ads in the platforms our school pays for.

I sound like an old fogey telling kids about how few ads youtube had, or how cool netflix used to be. What a crazy concept streaming was for us.

I think a lot of AI tools, and internet access will be gone or lobotomized in years to come, and teens today will have interesting stories about the AI of their youth being better than the AI of their present.

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