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[Great Order]

Back to uni, back to the lecturer who is super fucking boring. I almost fell asleep today because I was a tiny bit tired and she was so dull it turned into very tired for a full hour.

[TD1]

Yea, but if you thought she was boring, imagine what she thought about the fella sleeping in her front row 

[hector13]

Yea, but if you thought she was boring, imagine what she thought about the fella sleeping in her front row 

I once woke up in a lecture with the lecturer looking at me.

I was too tired to actually figure out what the look meant, and probably went back to sleep.

[nenjin]

I once decided to rest in a high school science class. I put my head down on my desk over my text book. Still awake, listening to what's going on, just with my head down.

I hear the class suddenly go dead quiet.

The teacher takes the book and slams it down on my desk right next to my head.

He expects me to sit bolt upright.

Instead, being prepared, I just remain there motionless for about 4 seconds.

I slowly raise my head up and look at him, and he asks me the question he'd last left off with, and I gave him the correct answer.

You could hear the classes' internal ooooooooooooooooooooooohhhhhhh shi-- going off.

The teacher was so pissed he didn't catch me out. Quietly told me to stay awake in class and went on with this lesson, then pulled me aside after class to essentially say "I didn't appreciate you disrespecting me in my own class."

By doing what, you sweaty goblin? Not giving you the satisfaction of being startled?

He got let go by the school system about a year later.

Still one of my proudest "napping in class" moments. Nothing like always having the right answer despite looking like you don't.

[Great Order]

Someone linked this again, The Death of a King.

[McTraveller]

This xenophobic attitude being fostered by governments and media.

I just don't understand this "the other is our enemy, we can't let them develop any technology, we will ban imports of their products, we will ban use of their products that are already in our borders."

All this does is actually create enmity, where perhaps none existed before.  It then escalates into actual violence...

Why must we act this way? Aren't we above petty tribalism?

[Great Order]

Ah, that's the thing about that mentality. It relies on everyone to use it, otherwise one party dominates everyone else.

Sadly humans have proven, repeatedly, to be duplicitous, power-craving bastards when organised into governments.

[hector13]

It isn’t even anything particularly nefarious. Politicians do it because the easiest way to get voted is to make people think you’re the head of their in-group, or at the very least in the side of their in-group. The easiest way to do that is to create a Them.

[Great Order]

Insomnia. I know why, too. Sertraline I'm on has been making me sleepy this time but I ran out because the doctor evidently forgot to put it on repeat prescription, so I need to get an appointment to get more rather than just bunging the letter through the door. Thankfully the appointment's tomorrow. Anyway, my brain's obviously gotten used to having the sertraline there to assist it in making me tired, so without it it kind of... doesn't. End result, I don't feel tired until I hit a wall and suddenly feel absolutely shattered.