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Resistance Is Futile, Puny Earthlings.

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  • It seems great at first, but lack of socialization is a huge problem. Don’t get me wrong, I hate public school, but even as someone who went to public school and even I still have problems with socialization. I can only imagine home schooling would be worse.

    And do you even have time to curate their home-school learning materials? I mean I manage to learn a lot by myself from reading a lot of science, politics, history, and articles on various topics on the internet, but are most kids gonna be intetested in that? Or are they just gonna browse tiktok all day? (Since you’re gonna need to be at work and you can’t watch them all day)

    The middle-ground would be for parents to create their own sort of private school, but then that’s gonna need a lot of funding, and its basically only viable for rich people (or at least “middle class” people), its not an option if you’re broke as fuck. Also, running your own “ghetto” school (for lack of a better word) is really gonna get the authorities on the radar, and you have a lot of legal liability issues if kids start fighting each other or get sick, especially if you cannot even afford to cover legal funds to defend your little “private school” organization.

    You can even end up like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1985_MOVE_bombing





  • Are you in EU? Because in America, that’s not the norm.

    To clarify, they do provide devices for things you do on the job, like scanning inventory for example, but not for the stuff you do outside of the job, stuff like checking your pay statements, schedule, and to call in sick, that’s expected to be done on your own devices, because that’s technically not needed for the job itself, even though its practically needed as a prerequisite for getting that job in the first place (Because how are you gonna fill out your job application? They don’t even take paper applications anymore, its all done online. You’ll need a phone number and some companies require an email address as well).

    If your phone breaks after you got the job, that’s fine, you probably won’t have any problems if you work at a warehouse or fastfood place, but just hope you don’t get sick and need that phone to call them (because “no call, no show” get you fired).


  • Maybe not a smartphone, I mean you can still use calls and texts to call out sick answer calls about job interviews.

    But yeah you’re not wrong in that smartphone do make life a lot smoother. For example if you want to check your payroll and w2 info, that is gonna require an app on a smartphone, and some of them even requires an app for 2fa because of (supposedly) the increase in fraud, and banking and job applications, while you don’t need a smartphone for those, you’re still gonna need access to a computer, so for someone without a computer, might as well get a smartphone instead of a dumbphone + a computer.