foxontherocks [undecided, undecided]

Unfortunately, I love highly specific software and this has reduced my ability to use Linux. It is genuinely great that I can have any extremely narrow, bizarre need and some person wrote a program fixing that need in windows. Like what if I need to mux my mice and I am stuck on linux.

at the same time though, libs were claiming their canvassers were asking the GOP men in households to speak to their democrat voting wives and getting rebuffed.

Yes they run everything and have everything they want but do they know that? It is really hard to tell what revanchists actually believe and what they only say they believe. Political factions have made some incredibly weird, irrational choices in the past.

Prereleases can be fun but they can also be awful. I had someone get up and “go to the bathroom” in the middle of a game in a pre-release only to go to the judge’s table and write down that he won. I’ve also had someone threaten to stab me during a pre-release for playing an aggressive BR deck. I would still be playing magic if it weren’t for its players who are, imo, the worst in the board gaming community.

I had to keep teaching online (kindergarten) during the lockdown in Shanghai. The online teaching tools provided were a little rough at the start but got better over the course of the lockdown (and after I set up dozens of macros to manage the class, and eventually some OBS gimmicks). Major difference between what I saw and what American teachers saw was supervision during class time. Almost everyone lives with their grandparents. I had to constantly beg grandma and grandpa to stop answering for students, stop hand feeding students during class so they could answer, to wear clothes during class, to tell their grandchild to wear clothes during class. My students all met academic goals pretty close to their normal ones. The only thing that was really hard to teach was tracing and copying for the computer kids, but the tablet kids did okay.

KOSA had bipartisan support

i think it is nice that some folk in vietnam and india can extract a living from facebook by creating shrimp jesus

And it is supposed to be a La Nina year.

Genuinely fascinating that this was built. I feel like anyone could have told the architect that this structure is off-putting, even scary. No one has ever had nightmares about the Bean. NYC really needed the staircase from Pathologic?

If it is anything like my old state, NY, you can ignore a lot of the standards. Over specificity means extremely low number of test questions on that standard and low variety in the test questions when they show up.

The fact that TPT exists in the way that it does is baffling. We spend so much on education, the federal government or a large state could just buy TPT, run it at cost. New teachers are swamped by the need to develop a curriculum, lesson plans, and make materials and those are all things a government would be good at providing. Why does every teacher need to reinvent the wheel.

Testing random students daily would be a lower workload than what was expected the previous school I worked at where I had to test all students daily.

Nope, the classroom part is easy. Even if the kids are annoying, most of them will learn. But most importantly the amount of energy you can spend in each class is capped. It is, at worst, 45 minutes of walking and yelling. And admin very rarely watches the classes. They are out of their element in the classes. They just want to see the lesson plans and their expectations for those lesson plans are infinite and bizarre, 6+ pages per 45 minute class, timed to the minute, all content squeezed into a spreadsheet where most columns only have one word and one column has paragraphs, mandatory template looks like shit so they always have something to complain about.

Bolsonaro is the closest politician to Trump in the world and he has been in the hospital almost dead his entire life.

but there are some differences

pinball

There is no mindfuck. They sing 20 Frank Sinatra songs, mostly in earnest.

The movie is all covers. There is like one original song.

The movie is bad but Phoenix’s performance is really good. His cartoon chicken impression is worth $20 million.

Yes, it is that bad. It barely even qualifies as a musical. None of its music is original so none of its music really matches the scene. It felt like Suicide Squad, slop with licensed music on top, except even more boring.