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Eh... talking about the patches when you're talking oceanic plastic pollution isn't even a majority of the problem, though, from what I understand of the current state of things. Someone concerned with oceanic plastic pollution would have worries well beyond the patch accumulations, and bottle compositions would just... not be much of a concern, especially if they're not personally dumping bottles in the drink.

The patches aren't even remotely a good thing, of course, but what seems to be getting folks concerned these days is more microplastic pollution... some of which floats down off the garbage patch stuff, but a lot (maybe most, don't recall right now) seems to be getting sourced from non-oceanic origin -- coming in through runoff or floating in on the wind.

It's apparently pretty damn insidious junk, too. Folks have started looking and they're finding the shit basically goddamn everywhere, from ocean trenches to arctic glaciers, sometimes in concentrations it's killing or sickening stuff.

And yet in spite of it Florida still exists, which is the real disaster. 

Right well I underestimated Harvey a bit and I'll retract "major hurricane" but let me reemphasize: I said crisis, and in the grand scheme of things hurricanes are not really a crisis in terms of what an administration actually does unless it's a very unusual incident.

Like, just to reiterate, but Michael was the highest category hurricane to hit the florida panhandle since we've been tracking hurricane strength. It was a literally historic storm for this region, fema et al didn't manage nearly enough, and the high level decision making did, in fact, get involved and was handled pretty shit.

I didn't have power outside a generator for a month straight. My area is still fixing shit from the damage. More than one of the hurricanes we've had over the course of this administration have, in fact, been bloody unusual.

This administration has been so goddamn clownshoes its consistently extremely shit response to disasters maybe doesn't register well in the grand scheme of things, I guess, and maybe the unceasing cavalcade of horseshit or the unending time malaise of 2020 has made it harder to recall the earlier fuckups, but while covid is undoubtedly the widest scale non-self-inflicted crisis trump and co have dropped the ball on it damn sure ain't the only or the first. S'all I'm sayin'.

To be honest barring a few hurricanes (none of which were major; in spite of my northeastern origins I feel qualified to discuss what a major hurricane is), the coronavirus was the very first crisis the administration faced that was not of its own making.

Man, I say this with as much respect as I can, but fuck off with that. A cat five fucking bumrushed the florida panhandle in 2018, and we're still picking shit up from it two years later. The scale literally doesn't get more major than that. Pretty sure Harvey hard fucked texas a year or two earlier than that, and I think I'm forgetting at least one more serious hurricane for this administration. The crow plague isn't even remotely the first crisis not of their own making the shitgibbon's faced and been found hella' wanting in relation to.

... any case, so far as the teacher thing goes, so far as I'm aware most teachers were/still are handling 50-60 students per day at a minimum. 20-ish classroom, 2-3 classes per day. Whatever the actual ratio is to employed teachers vs. students, that means roughly fuck-all for how many students any particularly teacher works with. Least from what I've seen about the only time you'd actually have one teacher handling 15-ish students is with very small areas and their special ed students. Everywhere else you'd have a teacher teaching, testing, and grading for several dozen as a baseline. The hours or some statistical asshattery might come out to 1:15, but that is not even remotely representative of what a teacher deals with in reality. Most I know would borderline kill to only be dealing with 15 students. It's literally many a teacher's dream, and damn sure not their reality.

FYI metal max 3 on the DS got fantranz'd in the last year or so, if you hadn't already noticed. It's pretty delightful, heh.

They did, yeah. Within the last year or so, I think? With the whole plague time dilation thing that seems to be going on for most people, sense of time is a sketchy thing these days, ha.

Not like they wouldn't be also screwed by their kids cosplaying typhoid mary at their school's insistence, so... one of these choices is inconvenient. The other is nurgle worship :V

I think the dynamic itself is likely a near-constant in human society. I think that in our age things like social media have just used it to whip people up into a frenzied caricature of generational differences.

Where before there'd have been frustration, there's now liquid hate.

I mean, some things are different now, too, like the literal extinction event (and functionally guaranteed literally historic-for-our-species disruptions burning their way up the pipe) we're potentially looking down the barrel of. Probably some other stuff, too, but there's a fairly major standout in "ways the previous generation has fucked/is fucking the subsequent one(s)" at the moment.

Eh... I've noticed it, and it's a staggering pile of probably illegal horseshit as a concept, but I hadn't heard anything of anything particularly actionable regarding it yet. Just the shitgibbon being shitty and some stupid takes from other corners, not tiktok actually even mildly considering capitulating or M$ going along with the farce.