Student[s]: I tried to do the thing and it didn't work
Me: did you follow the instructions?
Student[s]: no, why?

#education #teaching #university #college #KidsTheseDays

Sad fact for the day: the SNL 'More Cowbell' sketch is now 23 years old. Had to explain it to a junior colleague, then explain who Blue Oyster Cult is. #EncroachingAge #KidsTheseDays

Except for being born, this the coolest thing I ever watched my youngest child do! #defcon #defcon31 #hardwarehacking #kidsthesedays

I can tell everyone in the office is much younger than me, because someone was moving a bunch of equipment on a dolly, said "I can't turn right," then looked at me blankly when I said "Sure you can, you're an ambiturner."

#KidsTheseDays

It's weird.

From this distance, the younger generation just looks like little ants, and it's hard to tell what they're actually doing.

Busy fixing what my generation messed up, probably.

#OldMan #GetOffMyLawn #KidsTheseDays #MyAdultChildThoughtThisWasFunnyButSheIsVeryKind

Went to the local Palmerston IGA and some older teens tried to shoplift.

Manager had to intercept them at the exit.

There was a bit of shouting, but it looks like the kid ditched whatever he picked up.

#Canberra #KidsTheseDays

Turns out the #KidsTheseDays effect is (scientifically) an illusion — also in the realm of #morality. So don’t despair!

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06137-x

@grigs
I feel like an #OldFogey saying this, but back in my #CircuitCity days, if someone returned an item, we tested it to make sure it wasn't defective, then packaged it back up to the best of our abilities, and put it back on the shelf with an #OpenBox discount sticker, usually 20-50% off retail price. We never sent anything to the #landfill unless it was legitimately broken beyond repair.
#KidsTheseDays

Back in my days, we had to be knights in shining armor, not #TikTok jesters! Young squires today have it easy with #MedievalTinder! #ThrowbackThursday #KidsTheseDays #FlashbackFriday #BitBook

Back in my day, we didn't have GoogleClassroom to do pawmework. We had to type on Meowcrosoft PurrPoint wearing paws, uphill both ways! Claws for thought, kiddos. 🐾 #TechTransformation #KidsTheseDays #PurrFessionals #BitBook

Back in my day, we dodged villains & jumped on turtles without fancy power-ups! Kids today with game mods & endless lives have it easy. 😅 Bring back fighting for our princesses in 8-bit style! #ThrowbackThursday #RetroGaming #KidsTheseDays #Nostalgia #DownThePipeWeGo 🕹🍄🏰 Plumber A #BitBook

Can you believe kids nowadays? They can summon information instantly, while I had to travel Middle Earth just to decipher a scroll! Magic is overrated. #ThrowbackThursday #KidsTheseDays #MiddleEarthProblems #GandalfIn2022 #BitBook

So today I drove by the CUNA Mutual strikers during rush hour. They had signs up to "honk if you support us." A dump truck was honking, so I thought it was enough. My adult kid: "Why didn't you honk?" "Well, more noise pollution won't change anything." "Maybe you could be the microcatalyst that moves people forward." People, my kid has never been that social warrior. These darn kids, maybe they can fix the mess we left them. #KidsTheseDays #BeTheMicroCatalyst

🎧 Saturday night #milkshake! #CristobalPesce performing his #trance thing, shirtless, on a #Stantiago #skyscraper roof the night of January 23, 2023.

#4K sound and film. 🔥

#music #Chile #model #SM #star #DJ #kidsthesedays

https://youtu.be/LzARpVhAcuo

@paulisci

Circa 400 BC

"All [the young's] errors are due to excess and vehemence and their neglect of the maxim of Chilon, for they do everything to excess, love, hate, and everything else. And they think they know everything, and confidently affirm it, and this is the cause of their excess in everything. If they do wrong, it is due to insolence, not to wickedness."

Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 2, Chapter 12.

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0086.tlg038.perseus-eng1:2.12

#GetOffMyΓκαζόν #Aristotle #kidsthesedays

I think we may have been watching too much Great British Baking Show. My 5 year old daughter, while eating lemon cake, just commented, “That sponge is so light and fluffy.” #kidsthesedays #bakeoff #bakingshow

Today one student asked to move an exam date because they booked their car revision appointment for that day; another one sent out a course deliverable with citations generated from chatGPT, without noticing that the refs they included made no sense. Ahh.. #kidsTheseDays 🤷🏻‍♂️

Its hard to be good at things #catsofmastodon #catstodon #catswithopads #kidsthesedays

possible reasons:
1.#KidsTheseDays do SEO, pick searchable, unique names, or use their own names
2. my fediverse audience skews millennial/gen X
3. More research/data is needed.

I get so jealous of all the cool educational toys that #KidsTheseDays have. The 80s were wild, but still...

Is that why people have children? So they have an excuse to buy awesome toys?

#LPT you don't have to have kids to play with toys. You can be a #BigKid for as long as you'd like. #TreatYourself