Quando bater a saudade de São Paulo, eu também lembro das obras do vizinho de baixo, que iniciaram em outubro de 2020 e que ainda continuam até nós saímos no final de novembro de 2021.
Jeremy 🇧🇷🇺🇸
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Living in Brazil since 2010. São Paulo ➡️ São José.
"You're such a {state demonym}."
Would you take that as a compliment or not? I suppose it might depend on the state, but even more on the intention. "You're such a Minnesotan!" (Probably a great compliment.) "You're such a New Yorker." (They just accused you of being insufferable.)
I can see how new users can find the Fediverse confusing. "I made an account but when I go to Mastodon.social / join-lemmy.org I'm not there!"
I still get turned around trying to follow Mastodon accounts that I find outside of my feed. A click takes me to their instance, and I am not considered "logged in" there.
Are there too many hurdles for smooth, general-public adoption?
As a lifelong procrastinator, I finally understand that it doesn't help to treat any time or day as special. It's probably one of the primary enablers of putting things off: "I'll do that on a weekday," "I'll save that for a Sunday," and so on. Days of the week are meaningless, time is time.
#Perplexity's perspective on an alternative to the Google Premium suite of cloud storage, scheduling and videoconferencing.
Any thoughts on #Zoho ?
Overtly racist statements go without any finding of necessary action on Meta's part. I was about to post some of the examples here, but suffice it to say they are ugly comments regarding indigenous people, non-white people, and even celebrations of violence.
Hypocrisy or just incompetence in action?
Meta claims to police hate speech, that is, expressions against people for who they are: https://transparency.meta.com/policies/community-standards/hateful-conduct/
"We define hateful conduct as direct attacks against people — rather than concepts or institutions — on the basis of what we call protected characteristics (PCs): race, ethnicity, national origin, disability, religious affiliation, caste, sexual orientation, sex, gender identity, and serious disease."
BUT
Meta claims to police hate speech, that is, expressions against people for who they are: https://transparency.meta.com/policies/community-standards/hateful-conduct/
"We define hateful conduct as direct attacks against people — rather than concepts or institutions — on the basis of what we call protected characteristics (PCs): race, ethnicity, national origin, disability, religious affiliation, caste, sexual orientation, sex, gender identity, and serious disease."
BUT
Acabou o gás: véspera de Natal, 21:30
Also, the tasks of initial assessments, free trial classes, periodic evaluations, lesson planning and feedback generally fall to the teacher. Free trial classes are on the teacher's time and not compensated by the school.
The school takes its percentage, which I've seen at 50% and 70%, indefinitely, for having done the initial work of finding and then merely billing thereafter. It's as if a headhunter received half of an employee's salary for their entire term with an employer.
As a language teacher, pros of working with a school:
· fewer payment headaches
· no need to be a salesperson
Cons:
· retention comes before the interest of the students ("This is a business!")
· the customer is always right ("They won't do homework. Don't ask them to practice outside of class, you'll only irritate them.")
· the owner is always right ("Do YOU think you dictate how we teach??")