Those weren’t any of the points that I brought up. And are poor arguments against telling people their options.

It shouldn’t be pushed on people, but it should be talked about to give people more choice and agency in their home computing.

“I bet this would look better in landscape, let me just turn my phone.” Phone refuses to orient properly, no matter how hard I try to shake it.

“Let me just browse Lemmy while I lay in bed on my side.” No matter how I orient the phone, it will be sure to change screen orientation as soon as I adjust to reading it that way.

He’s also so awkward, if you just put headphones on and ignored/pretended not to hear him, he’d just give up and leave you alone.

5 or 9, pretty sure either of then would just out headphones on, and very likely they would end up falling asleep.

Stanley is slightly safer than Toby, since Toby would probably be the target of some shenanigans…

So, right in that meta-analysis, it was showing that all but one study they reviewed indicated that content warnings increased avoidance, and that in cases of avoidance anticipatory anxiety was slightly raised. Which makes sense, that’s what anxiety is. The analysis also showed that non-avoidance with a content warning did not improve anxiety responses through time to emotionally and mentally prepare for the content, compared to exposure without a content warning.

So… it gives people the choice to not engage, and offers a better outcome if you choose to not engage. Yeah, there’s more anxiety than if you didn’t come across the content warning (or content) at all, but it offers choice.

I think the how and when content warnings are used needs to be further refined and more uniformly applied, but this meta-analysis does not conclude “content warnings are a bane to society”.

LIGHTNING BOLT! LIGHTNING BOLT!

But I am le tired

I’ll be careful

No, UDIMM!

Enshittification and planned obsolescence are absolutely different things from this, though they all do make products worse.

The phenomenon of major producers of media “playing it safe” and taking options meant to please the mass, general public at the expense of catering to fans, and in turn making milquetoast products that no one is really happy about definitely happens in other forms of media, and did not originate with nerd culture. Movies and specifically Hollywood has been doing it for a while, “Best Seller” listed books are guilty of it, and it’s pretty much genre agnostic. It’s a result of producers being unwilling to take risks, and the more money being pumped into something, generally the worse it gets.

Yeah, whether or not they are fired, because it is certainly unprofessional behavior, it isnt criminal. Unless you count that they were somehow putting the children in direct danger, but that probably isn’t the case for a geography or math teacher. Drunk woodshop teacher, maybe?

Just document, document, document. Cover your own ass. If they don’t get back to you through teams or email, document that you asked for time they are available for you to assist but never heard back. If you do decided to go walk to their desk and they are either unavailable or working from home, document that you attempted. This way it becomes their problem or their manager’s problem if they complain about it.

Where the fuck does this comic make the assertion “all men”? What makes this comic creator an asshole (from this comic, I’m not aware of any of their other work)?