… at what age do children learn how to not have

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… at what age do children learn how to not have every single conversation at a full-on howl?
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deputychairman replied to your post “Jesus

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deputychairman replied to your post “Jesus Christ of fucking course there aren’t any tutorials on how to…”

HATING VIDEOS SOLIDARITY FISTBUMP like who has the splendid isolation required to learn stuff from videos that require SOUND? losers, that’s who.

splendid isolation– that’s it precisely. i basically never have splendid isolation. if i do, i’m spending that precious shit on SLEEP. 

The other problem is that in writing, you can kind of read ahead and see how it’s going to go and make sure they’re really talking about the specific thing you want. If it’s a video, you can’t. You have to sit there and be captive to however fast they talk. And so the first TWO I watched BOTH showed the WRONG THING first, and then the person was like “so that didn’t work so I did this instead” OH MY GOD. Both times. I’m trying to follow along but I haven’t watched the whole thing first because who has that kind of time, and BOTH TIMES– ugh I had to quit the program without saving changes, and reopen it, because their abortive false starts had been so confusing I couldn’t even undo what I’d let them fool me into doing.

TWO DIFFERENT VIDEOS. I would punch both of these people if I could. This is a SIMPLE THING that I want to do. WHY, if you’re making a video on how to do this simple thing, would you INCLUDE YOUR FUCK-UP? Ughhh. If they’d written it down they’d have either been sensible enough not to include the false starts, or would have said “first I tried this thing, which didn’t work, but I’m telling you so that you can know why I’m not doing it this way”, which was the justification in-video AFTERWARD. [Both these videos were made by men. HMMMM.]

(If there’d been captions I could have at least scrubbed forward through the video to see how it ended. Without captions there’s never any guarantee you’ll know what’s going on if you do that; usually I can’t understand anything if I skip forward so it’s a useless exercise. Not to mention that I could have actually heard what they were saying if there were captions…)

Also I don’t always understand spoken language well and don’t retain things said to me nearly as well as things written down but who cares about that!

And I forgot my headphones at home, ugh.
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walburgablack replied to your post

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otoh (sorry it got sent before i meant it to) maybe turn on the closed captioning? i assume headphones are a no-go

Does YouTube have closed captioning? I assumed that if video don’t have captions displayed, they’re not available. Is there a setting?? These are like… the personal videos of randos, for the most part, because they’re what comes up top with the search algorithm, and I don’t know enough to find a like, learning academy or official of any kind sort of video. 

And no, I have no headphones; I carried them in this bag for like a year and finally took them out because I was worried they’d break, and now of course I need them.
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uwmspeccoll: Staff Pick of the Week This week’s

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Staff Pick of the Week

This week’s staff pick is Das Farbige Malerbuch, or “The Colored Painter’s Book” by Karl Eyth. It was published in 1901 by E.A. Seemann, in Leipzig, Germany, as a color supplement to Karl Eyth and Franz Sales Meyer’s Die Dekorationsmalerei, published in 1899, which was entirely in black and white. In the introduction to Das Farbige Malerbuch, the publisher notes that color printing would have been too expensive in the first book, and that it could be done with this one at a relatively cheap cost through the use of three-color printing. Using the three primary colors blue, red and yellow, all color gradations and tones are achieved.

Karl Eyth (1856-1929) was a painter and a professor at the Arts and Crafts school in Karlsruhe, Germany. Das Farbige Malerbuch consists of 96 plates, many of which are illustrations by Eyth’s students. The book is meant as a technical work in the decorative arts, providing inspiration for interior painting, glasswork, and furniture design.  

I chose this book as my staff pick because I find the Art Nouveau style of the illustrations visually stunning, and at this point in my academic career I find books without words deeply satisfying.

–Sarah, Special Collections Undergraduate Assistant
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A reflection on the lasting legacy of 1970s USDA Secretary Earl Butz

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A reflection on the lasting legacy of 1970s USDA Secretary Earl Butz:
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plantyhamchuk:

This essay is from 2008, but it’s still very relevant and excellent. If you’ve ever been curious as to how agriculture in the US ended up with giant agribusinesses gobbling up small farms, this is a great explainer.

Some countries still have lots of small farms and small farmers, they usually have policies on the books that some would call “protectionist”, others would consider “vote buying”, and yet others would consider “leveling the playing field”.

Highly recommended read.

For those who have seen it, he was featured in the documentary King Corn.

Saving this for later. I hate the USDA
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