Turfster

@Turfster

he/him

Coder, pun perpetrator
Grumpiness elemental
Hyperbole abuser

Tools programmer
Writer-wannabe
Did translations once upon a time
I contain multitudes

(TurfsterNTE off Twitter)

Trans rights
Black lives matter

Be excellent to each other

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Github

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Turfster @Turfster8/7/2023, 4:51 PM

Amy Dentata @amydentata

Noel B @NoelBWrites8/6/2023, 10:17 PM

getting real tired of adult education resources, and especially those aimed at immigrants, having a layer of condescension to make the audience feel like they are wasting their time considering education in the first place <3

I just need a fucking guide to the labyrinthine bureaucracy that is the US higher education system and attached financial aid bullshit, I don't need you to coo at me about how I did a great job "demonstrating resilience ☺️" or whatever the fuck.

(also this resource in particular also has language learning tracks but they're all "Spanish for Hotel Professionals," and "English for Hotel Customer Service" - "Spanish for Healthcare Professionals" and "English for Home Aides" like... if you want to learn Spanish, you're a "professional" and if you speak Spanish and want to learn English, you're clearly not. )

Noel B @NoelBWrites8/7/2023, 4:43 PM

@ everyone making and sharing resources for "non traditional learners":

I know you mean well but I need you to understand the reason your audience has trouble navigating the US higher education system is because it's a bullshit system on every level.

"Non traditional learners" aren't brave little souls trying their darn hardest to rise above their ignorance and simple-mindedness, they're just new to an unnecessarily convoluted system that is, like everything in the US, designed to be as adversarial as possible. It's actually a normal and smart reaction to be confused and frustrated at a system that tries to obfuscate and obscure information at every turn while purporting to be there to help.

#my least favorite thing of living in the US is how I feel like I'm trying to dodge scams even when interacting with official government stuff #also this is an accessibility thing #someone with chronic fatigue shouldn't have to calculate if they have enough energy to fill their taxes the same week they are washing their hair #to name one thing #don't get me started on ADHD #or anything related to healthcare #what the hell is a credit score and why do you guys put up with it

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Amy Dentata @amydentata8/7/2023, 4:45 PM

yes! literally everything in this country feels like a scam, even the things that aren't. this is what full-throated neoliberalism does to a nation

Noel B @NoelBWrites8/7/2023, 4:53 PM

Sometimes I have trouble explaining to people born here how much it doesn't have to be like this! No wonder people in the US are exhausted all the time and always have their guard up.

It's not just that interacting with anything feels like a scam, but also that there are a bunch of scams popping up around every system because they are so confusing and annoying you can fleece people if you promise to make it easier for them🙃

Amy Dentata @amydentata8/7/2023, 4:54 PM

yeah it's a nightmare and we still only have leaders that are true believers in this shit

nys @nys8/7/2023, 4:58 PM

fun fact! i hate what’s been done to this country! but some of those gov’t programs are so cut back they have functionally become scams! or some are actually designed just to waste time as a way of “making sure you actually need it.” neolibs and conservatives should all enjoy the nice fires of hell!!

but also, anyone who doesn’t realized they have internalized all the fucked ways things in this country have been twisted due to the wide variety of perverse incentives are delusional!!

Noel B @NoelBWrites8/7/2023, 5:28 PM

I feel like this is part of the protestant ethos that undercuts everything here. Like if you're not willing to suffer the convoluted path to reach Form A-24275, then you don't deserve to fill out Form A-24275.

nys @nys8/7/2023, 6:23 PM

Through filling out form A-24275 we achieve enlightenment (needs based reimbursement for the fee required for form E-8465)

Echo Cian @EchoCian8/7/2023, 8:30 PM

And that's before the website breaks for the form you need to upload and there's no listed way to contact anyone for help besides a registration form that's completely filled out to well beyond the due date and they didn't bother telling you about this until 9 days before said due date when you need a note from a doctor (who was gone for 2 weeks and thus also booked until well past the due date so you hand the paper in and HOPE she gets the time to look at it, because healthcare itself is another disaster)

It's infuriating how much we have to put up with to "prove" we deserve whatever help we're trying to access. Why not make billionaires and corporations prove they deserve tax breaks, instead of making those of us who pay and also would benefit from taxes prove we deserve what we already put into the system?

I heard someone recently say that a lot of colleges have funding sitting around that goes to waste because nobody claims it. Dear colleges: HAVE YOU EVER FOR ONE SECOND CONSIDERED WHY THAT IS? Nobody told me about part-time programs. Nobody advertises this stuff. The student support staff don't know about and don't suggest it. It requires a million forms and has a bunch of limitations on who gets to qualify and sometimes wants notes from the doctor so they can prove that you're disabled even though you're already registered with the school as a disabled student and that is all the form mentioned it needed when you filled it out. You could simply GIVE these funds to students in need instead of putting the entire weight of even finding they exist on the student's back when they're already trying to figure out college itself.

Nobody gives a fuck.

Andréa, Canis Lanonbinary @CERESUltra8/7/2023, 10:38 PM

Speaking as someone born and raised in the US, there is nothing more detrimental to organizing people than the fact that being born and raised in a system completely designed around making money and not at any point helping people, eventually destroys their ability to comprehend that it's not how things should work. Mark Fisher's Capitalist Realism is a really good read on this, but it also doesn't dig into the white supremacy quietly behind it at much as I would like, either.

The idea that people should have to "earn" anything is so fucking often expounded by those who never actually worked to earn anything and instead were guided their way through those system infuriates me, especially in the ways it was done for me. It's stupid and misanthropic and I hate it.