Background: My cousin’s wife is a diehard republican trumpy anti-mask anti-vax moron. A few weeks ago she shared a video of her oldest kid (10ish) making an anti-mask speech at a school board meeting. The school defied the state mandate and didn’t require masks. She is now complaining about how frustrating it is that the kids are now being virtual schooled because of COVID exposure/quarantine and how sick of it she is. She just stopped making them virtual school because “it’s frustrating and they’ll have to relearn it when they’re back anyway because so many kids are out.” Like, you were part of causing it! You have no room to complain! Also, you’re just not schooling them? She’s a SAHM that will pawn her kids off on anyone at any time. She sent them to their cabin with my cousin while she stays home.
Am I just an old for finding the whole TikTok lip synching to totally unrelated content thing really, really dumb? I wouldn’t really care except so many of my feeds are inundated with this crap, and the algorithms are supposed to know better.
I don’t do TikTok so I haven’t seen the videos but it sounds hella dumb and I don’t think you’re an old for thinking it’s crap.
Yeah but you can’t really expect an app that started as a video platform for lip synching to rise above.
I don’t expect TikTok to evolve, and that’s why I’m not on it. I just dislike that my feeds are SO MUCH TikTok without me being on it.
We seriously need to up our science education game in this country. I'm going to pilot a snarky dramedy for teens and adults about science teachers in love or something.