this post was submitted on 23 May 2025
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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 hours ago

This is exactly how I remember primary schools in France in the 2000's

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 hours ago

Or you can interpret the image: Students get brainwashed via headphone propaganda while real books are shredded.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 hours ago

It's a LLM which eats books to learn. Quite precise

[–] [email protected] 61 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

My favourite part in that picture is that seemingly one of the students has to miss out on that knowledge since they need to operate the crank.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

If they put a motor on the knowledge machine, that kid will be out of a job and his family has to move back to the country to tend the fields.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

Bold of you to assume they aren't outsourcing the farm jobs to big machinery producers(John Deere) or prison forced labor.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 hours ago

"10 hours straight. He's a machine... and my arms are tired from the crank"

"I know Kung-fu"

"You better, that was our last copy of Kung Fu Elements, by Shou-Yu Liang"

[–] [email protected] 22 points 7 hours ago

That's the whole problem with education today - lazy teachers want a motorized crank!

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 hours ago

Misguided future interpretation aside, I'm very fond of the user's icon of Big-fat-ugly-bug-face-baby-eating O'Brien from Muppet Treasure Island.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 hours ago

Oh this is great. Google has a treasure trove of these kind of pictures.