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WIST Quotationswist@my-place.social
2025-06-16

A quotation from John Adams

The Stream of Life sometimes glides smoothly on, through flowry meadows and enamell’d planes. At other times it draggs a winding reluctant Course through offensive Boggs and dismal gloomy Swamps. The same road now leads us thro’ a spacious Country fraught with evry delightful object, Then plunges us at once, into miry Sloughs, or stops our passage with craggy and inaccessible mountains. The free roving Songster of the forest, now rambles unconfin’d, and hopps from Spray to Spray but the next hour perhaps he alights to pick the scattered Grain and is entangled in the Snare. The Ship, which, wafted by a favourable gale, sails prosperously upon the peaceful Surface, by a sudden Change of weather may be tossed by the Tempest, and driven by furious, opposite winds, upon rocks or quicksands. In short nothing in this world enjoys a constant Series of Joy and prosperity.

John Adams (1735-1826) American lawyer, Founding Father, statesman, US President (1797-1801)
Diary (1756-03-27)

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/adams-john/30195/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #humancondition #struggle #change #difficulty #disaster #fortune #joy #life #metaphor #misfortune #problems #prosperity #troubles #variability

Adrian SegarASegar
2025-06-14

What can we learn from the story of a man with no problems? More than you might think! Because, as Jerry Weinberg said: "There's always a problem!"

conferencesthatwork.com/index.

photograph of a candy wrapper, torn at the corner, with the name "no" in large pink letters. A sticker has been added that says "problem". Photo credit: Flick user themaxsons
N-gated Hacker Newsngate
2025-06-14

In today's episode of coding masochism, let's defy the laws of logic by writing an in , because who doesn't love playing god with problems? 🚀🤖 Spoiler alert: by the time you've deciphered this jargon-filled treatise, the universe will have moved on, rendering your newfound 'insights' as helpful as a screen door on a submarine. 🧙‍♂️🔮
lambda-cove.net/posts/truth-or

Rowan Brad QuniQNFO@mstdn.science
2025-06-14

#Philosophy and #logic should be required courses valued in any #STEM #education, not "liberal arts" electives. #Science desperately needs #interdisciplinary thinkers to #innovate pressing #problems, not #groupthink #human robots marching in lockstep to #ConventionalWisdom

Adrian SegarASegar
2025-06-13

We spend a lot of time talking about problems, effects, and causes. Sadly, we fixate on problems' effects rather than focus on their causes.

conferencesthatwork.com/index.

An illustration of London's Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament partially submerged by rising waters. The caption reads "Everybody talks about the climate, but nobody does anything about it."
Comics and Jokes @ Lucentinian Works Co Ltdcomics@social.lucentinian.com
2025-06-10
12sknnews12sknnews
2025-06-10

10 lines by Shakespeare that help accept and move on from modern life problems

Love yourself “Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, as self-neglecting.” - Shakespeare was probably one of the first people to talk about self-care, and this quote is proof. He taught people that neglecting yourself is a sin, so focus on self-love.

12sknnews.com/10-lines-by-shak

2025-06-10

If why, switch off and on and still why then reset #Apple #problems #ITwisdom

Rowan Brad QuniQNFO@mstdn.science
2025-06-10

“[G]ood #scientists #study the most important #problems they think they can solve. It is, after, all their professional business to solve problems, not merely to grapple with them.” (Peter Medawar)

The most important #problem I can #think of is our collective #ignorance.

2025-06-09

There's No Better Time to Deal with Your Problems Than Right Now
Are you stuck in the concept of waiting for tomorrow?
buff.ly/ir25Mp9
#jillreid #reallife #problems #life #lifelessons #mindset

Markus Feilnermfeilner
2025-06-08

Alles erwartbar, vorhergesagt und von Technokraten und geldgeilen Glücksrittern wegignoriert.

10 Times AI And Robotics Have Done Horrible Things

buzzfeed.com/mikespohr/10-time

2025-06-06

FILM REVIEW: K.C.I.: BEYOND THE THREE R’S

Available for free on the National Film Board of Canada’s website: K.C.I: Beyond The Three R’s is a fascinating portrait of one of Canada’s oldest high schools during the early 80s. The film serves as not only a trip down memory lane, but concurrently a look into the problems that faced teenagers and secondary schools during the 80s. What’s uncanny is the timely chord that many of these problems strike: as times have changed and moved forward, many of the same problems and attitudes plague teenagers just the same way in the 80s, as they do today. Kids these days.

The film opens on a familiar scene: a student is late to school, mumbling something about mistaking 8 a.m. for 7 p.m. because their bedroom is too dark. 

“You should get a light next to your bed or something,” comes the dry suggestion from the secretary. 

From here, the film leads the viewer through an all-encompassing portrait of K.C.I and the students and teachers that make the school what it is. The documentary captures a rich inner life inside of K.C.I. Students make goofy faces during choir practice and dive into spirited debates in philosophy class. A girl matter-of-factly recounts seeing a drug deal in the hallway. 

“I see two guys by a locker and one guy gives him some money, the other gives him a bag of weed and I say hey—it does happen in the high schools, it’s not just in movies,” she said.

Much of the film is also concerned with the different ways education is expected to train our youth. The film tries to highlight the ways in which external circumstances, as well as the students’ own desires influence their wants and needs from secondary school. Many students fear that their studies will not prepare them for life outside of high school.

“I know how to add, and I know how to read and I know how to write. And what I need to learn now is how to deal with problems. And getting a trigonometry problem is not gonna be much use [in the outside world]. [But getting a problem] like my wife had an illegitimate child, I’d like to know how to deal with that,” one candid student said.

K.C.I Beyond The Three R’s also tracks early experiments in connecting education with a broader community and work placements. The film frames the high school Co-Op program as a program still in its early trial periods, with varying successes. Now a standard for most high schools, seeing these programs from their early days helps give context to the current education system. 

Seeing the ways in which formal education has shifted since 1982 towards higher university enrollment is telling. As outlined in the documentary, in 1982 only 17 per cent of Canadian high school students moved on to university. According to the Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario that number has now moved to 52 per cent. 

By the end of the documentary, a complete portrait of K.C.I during the 80s has been painted. The documentary ends from a voice over quote. 

“It is harder than ever to respond to all the demands being made on them. Some are failing. KCI has problems, but it provides a good example of how secondary education is adapting to a rapidly changing world,” the narrator states. 

#AydenElworthy #candidStudent #coOpStudents #educationSystem #highSchool #higherEducationQualityCouncilOfOntario #kCIBeyondTheThreeRs #nationalFilmBoardOfCanada #outsideWorld #problems #Students

Black and white image of the Kitchener Collegiate Institute, taken from the documentary film "KCI: Beyond The Three R's".
Comics and Jokes @ Lucentinian Works Co Ltdcomics@social.lucentinian.com
2025-06-06
2025-06-02

Sweeping Your Problems Under the Rug Won't Make Them Go Away
Why do you avoid doing the hard stuff?
buff.ly/GYvGN5Z
#jillreid #reallife #responsibility #problems #life #lifelessons #mindset

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