Being a Republican allows you to be a smug.Asshole and call it politics
I can't think of a better way to help troubled youth than to give them something to do with their life that matters.
For real how bad ass is fighting fires real fires? So long as the kids want to do it and aren't coerced into it this sounds like an amazing opportunity for them To build some pride in themselves which they can use to figure out what they're doing with their lives.
So what im hearing is that 9/11 was a messed up speed run?
The real question is if they are vector or pixel... where do they end and the border begin?
Jesus fuck. I hate everything I read anymore.
It has a sort of logic to it. In a capitalist system to best way to fight is using massive amounts of money. Or violence. And the choices seem rather limited these days...
No casual politics forum so hope this is OK here.
Today I saw a totem pole made of skeletons. I tried to come up with a word for it, something like skeletotem pole and accidentally imagined a similar sounding scrotum-totem pole.
Now you are going to imagine one. Do you draw faces on them? Position them to make eyes and stretch them out?
You're welcome.
Video of people making crazy crystal balls
I am feeling pretty detached at the moment. Figure I would use this space to think aloud.
I have been fighting with admin at my school for proper support for me as a teacher and for help fixing a broken program for my students. I got laid off effective the end of the school year. Think it might be because I was a pain in the ass, but I don't know for sure. I wasn't doing a great job because they overloaded me. More different classes than most teachers. Shit support.
Covid money ran out, they had to lay off some of the conditionally certified teachers and I was one of them. The timing was just... all my complaints, I they were making me cover a position that was vacant while doing my regular teaching, and the students were missing out. I don't think I could prove it but it feels like they got rid of me because I was not satisfied with their answers.
I can't bring myself to finish getting my teacher certification. I'd have to go out of county to teach.
I worked 10 years with the homeless, burnt out and fucked it up. Then 2 years working for a law firm supposedly helping people and figure out its just bullshit, helping people was incidental and barely helped. Worked for the cops supposedly helping addicts in person, they just wanted me to do data entry. No idea what I should do.
It took a lot of courage to get myself to try being a teacher. 3 years at the schools and now I fucking again have to figure out what to do all over again.
And I have to go into the school for over a month and pretend everything is okay. Fuck I hate this.
What's the best game deal you ever got?
For me it was the original Subnautica. Was a free give away before it got popular and I had no expectations when I played it. Really enjoyed the exploration and the pacing.
Second was Axiom Verge - I got it for free before it became popular but I don't remember how. I bought it when it went to Steam because I wanted to support the creator.
Both are fun exploration sorts of games if you haven't played them. Axiom Verge is a metroidvania. Kinda a weird game, but in a good way.
What's a good basic table saw? I look at them online and can't really tell much a difference. I'm tempted to just get a harbor freight one but know the fence will probably be loose and other annoyances...
Anyone have a specific recommendation for someone who is only occasionally playing around with simple carpentry?
I play with Bard, Bing, OpenAI, and I get annoyed when it tells me it can't do something.
Believe it or not I don't care about porn or lewd stuff, I just want to be absurd and sometimes that goes weird places and gets filtered.
So what should I try? I want ease of use and am willing to pay for it. Ideally it has an offline mode and does not store user data.