Really don’t think it was made to be useful or practical in any way, just seems like some dude making shit that looks cool for funsies and trying to fund it, plus i mean its culturally relevant and stuff like that is in tons of media

every dollar prevented from going to cengage or pearson is a win for college students

but their online homework and grading subscriptions that they tie in with textbooks is definitely making it harder, especially the way they pay off schools to push their texts and curriculum on professors in stem fields, it’s awful and puts students in a position where they’re forced to pay for a textbook regardless

Not at all, from my experience they teach you how to use the websites and programs needed to complete assignments and nothing more, same went for teachers and faculty who would have no idea how to do things like change inputs on displays, turn on projectors, tell the difference between online and local versions of software, etc

i literally just listen to jungle and watch the occasional vid on sociology i’m just as confused as u are

oh for sure, it’s just on other platforms that usually only happens for content that I engage with or have engaged with in the past, which isn’t the case for what I’ve been seeing on youtube. there’s no reason for the algorithm to push content that I engage with less than all other types of content