timorl @timorl@social.cleverlibre.org

@freemo I think of the first part you write about as a necessary evil, rather than an inherent property of protests. Social change is difficult, the less inconvenience people trying to enact it face, the better.

As for the second part, I can think of few other things non-adults could do, that would exert more pressure on the institutions, and all of them either illegal or infeasible. It's worth remembering that, while schools certainly are a form of education, they also have different roles -- in particular keeping children/teenagers in a relatively safe place where their parents or society don't have to worry about them doing something stupid. If kids don't go to school, society has to figure out different solutions for these problems and that might be sufficiently annoying.

It would be better if the kids could do something more directly targeted at the institutions responsible, but those are governments. Influencing them can almost exclusively be done by voting or lobbying (neither possible for non-adaults, usually), so in this case they have to be targeted indirectly through society.

Maybe it's just my imagination that is failing me -- what form of protest would you suggest to teenagers, that would not be easy to ignore and legal?

@freemo This is a very strange way of looking at things. The walkouts are supposed to be a protest, right? Would you call any people advocating strikes "anti-work"?

@freemo
Huh, how is she anti-education?

@freemo
I assumed it was mostly a joke, but the options you presented don't seem extremely serious either, so it seemed to fit.

@freemo
Considering your name on mastodon, why isn't dr@jeffreyfreeman.me an option?

Today, I encountered a mention of Mastodon in meatspace. We mainstream now?

@InternetKevin
That's certainly useful on the employer side of things, but considering the context of the original post, the question in this case is about what to do to make more kinds of people want to work somewhere. It takes two sides to have an employment agreement.
@szbalint

That's a first for me: I just reported a bug in #golang: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/36509 . Never before have I gone so far upstream.

@freemo Aaaa, this should be CWd as "Copenhagen interpretation". D:<

@grainloom Does saying I think you are cool count as affection? 'Cause I think you are cool.

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@freemo
Not starting any wars was a big reason I believed some smart people might still want to vote for him. If this whole debacle ends up as a war then he will literally lose his last redeeming quality in my eyes.