So teachers must never share any details about their personal lives and only ever speak about books?

One would think that reflection of the impact of literature on ones personal life is an important part of analysis.

Also that teachers should be fully and authentically present for their students, not just glorified YouTube lectures.

Bravo this got me laughing way too hard. The spelling of “JOYYKIN’” especially sold the whole effect

the parrot Iago THE ARISTOCRATS

RETURN TO CRABB

This article feels like it was written by an old man yelling at clouds. “… Back in my day we smoked mid and we liked it” shakes fist and then uses it as a reason to go back to prohibition. Why can’t we just make it legal and let the free market figure it out.

Turns out more THC for the buck means people can make a few months supply of edibles out of a few grams. Cost effective!

An opinion that ignores all actual research.

Gender affirming surgery helps 99% of people who receive it! So sure, technically, there’s a tiny minority who regret it. More people regret Lasik and boob jobs, should we ban those too? Many people regret a night out drinking, how about we ban that too. Drinking causes way more harm than giving estrogen or testosterone pills to folks.

On the other hand, I like that my friends have the freedom to express themselves any way they want. They aren’t hurting anyone so let’s let them be free to wear whatever clothes they want and take whatever hormones they want.

So join the side of American freedom and let’s stop policing what clothes people wear or what name they use.

accordion intensifies

With an open field, who would you vote for president?

Now given the field has two candidates, who do you think will do a better job between the two? I’m actually curious to hear your answers and why.

Your comment here indicates you think being able to talk over others is an important part of the job. Why do you see that as an important attribute? Does the President of the most powerful country in the world often need to be the loudest person in the room? Do they need to dominate conversations, preventing other people from talking, to do their job effectively?

Make that hose in their hands an electric guitar and they’re ready for the Waterworld equivalent of WITNESS ME

This looks uncannily like my shelf, I’m trying to buy land now for my permaculture forest 😭

When I first learned to bake bread and pizza.

Five years later I was 60lb/27kg heavier and needed to go on keto to break the bread habit. Sigh. Took me almost as long to lose an the weight, but I’ve kept it off now for almost ten years!

OVER EGG THE PUDDING

I’m dying what a great phrase

I know a Thomas too! He’s the straight cis eye of a queer hurricane. And it wasn’t always this way, he just keeps pulling folks into his massive orbit. Folks who later realize they are queer. He never brings it up or even seems to notice.

I finally realized what’s going on and it’s just a little weird. Like, what the hell is going on? Do my friends even have free will?! Do I?!

I conclude that Thomas has such a pure heart and loves so freely that he innervates people with restless souls. They/we are drawn to this vibe like planets in his solar orbit.

I should write him a poem about this

Thomas’ pure heart

Orbit for expanding souls

A queer hurricane

Just run the numbers before you do. It restarts the amortization schedule, which depending on how long you’ve had it and what the fees will be could mean it’s significantly worse to refinance.

People think 5% is just a flat 5% a year, when it’s all front loaded. So it’s might be more like 5% interest the first year, but then by year 10 you’ve already paid almost half of all the interest you will pay.

Add on the extra fees, and it might be better to just keep the existing mortgage.

Just be sure to run the numbers first is all.

Yeah next house will have a better rate and be 50% more expensive

Whoa this song absolutely slaps. I’m so glad you posted this!

Oh yeah, all my code is dotnet core running on Ubuntu servers in docker.

Just all this legacy code is written in dotnet framework which doesn’t run on Linux, and requires some moderate effort to switch (relies on libraries that are framework, and those also rely on framework libraries, etc)

It’s completely possible, but for now, I’ve got these 2022 servers running “good enough” to go to production, and I’ll convert them as soon as the first issue arises.

THE ORANGUTAN IS A STAND USER?!

(JoJo’s Bizarre Adventures Stardust Crusaders rewatch)

I love that show so much. I rewatch it all the time

Yeah, TBF I was really just making a snarky dig at the misogyny in the evangelical world.

I can immediately think of a counter example: the Golden Compass. It’s written by a man, but basically takes the stance that the devil is the good guy and has a main character whose best skill is the ability to lie so well she can pretty much always get what she wants. The church equivalent abuses children and looks the other way about it when confronted 💀

Unsurprisingly that series isn’t too popular among fundies