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General Discussion / Re: How Bad Schooling Is Discussion Thread
« on: September 14, 2019, 10:55:55 pm »
It also generally completely ignores that the pressures parents face these days have pretty radically changed, as has the expectations being lumped both on them and children/young adults, for what's that worth. Most societies fail the parents pretty hard in a lot of ways, too... and we're a lot less willing to accept or ignore the consequences of that nowadays. Even if we're still pretty damn willing to ignore anything that might mitigate that.

At the end of the day there's no singular major failure point to identify with education, imo, save maybe that ground level teachers generally don't have the support (fiscal or otherwise) they need, as the primary reason results seem so sketchy at times. There's just piles and piles of different sorts of garbage being input for all sorts of reasons giving us varyingly garbage output.

... on top of being increasingly aware of how garbage that output is, of course. And less willing to accept things like, "Well, maybe the kid starves or dies or something" as a results of child rearing. It's like we're in an in-between point between thinking beating a child into a facsimile of compliance is okay, recognizing how fucking shit that is in terms of both ethics and efficacy, and figuring out what the better game plan is. Or something. Extra complications coming from all the people that are really invested in not acknowledging how fucking shit yesteryear was on most fronts, ha.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: September 14, 2019, 07:04:53 pm »
Quote from: Monster Pet Evolution, chapter 40 something
Monster Weakness]: 1. Fire 2. Rapid loss of water leading to death via dehydration 3. Being cut into pieces will result in death
Like, okay. These things are basically pokemon and some aren't weak to fire. Okay. 1 passes muster. Some don't need water or whatever, so alright. 2 gets a pass. But. Three. They haven't introduced or even hinted at anything that doesn't die when cut into pieces. This isn't a meaningful weakness, this is a "it dies when it is killed". Why are you even there, weakness 3 ;_;

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: September 14, 2019, 08:09:33 am »
... what's 100% in this context? 'Cause if it's 'see/loot literally everything' you might want to set your eyes on a smaller elder scrolls game. I think arena was fairly self-contained, maybe? There was one or another, somewhere.

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General Discussion / Re: How to get an avatar?
« on: September 13, 2019, 09:21:20 pm »
I have no idea, tbh. I don't even have an account or whatev', heh. It's been pretty solid for the simple/small stuff I do with pictures, but I don't do super much on that front, so... yeah. It's easily one of the least painful image upload services I've interacted with for straightforward/one-off screenshot uploads or whatever, though.

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General Discussion / Re: How to get an avatar?
« on: September 13, 2019, 09:04:19 pm »
You can also... not... use imgur, heh. Upl.co's been my go-to for a while. Generally with avatars I'd recommend using your own upload rather than trying to piggyback off someone else's, if you're thinking about just shoving some random picture's link into the avatar address box whatist. There's a fair amount of finicky stuff that can bypass.

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Pretty sure Data is the canonical answer.  That does make me wonder how this should work though, and while we see the helmsmen rotate out, I assume every position should have rotating shifts.  I assume Data, as the second officer, would normally be in charge at some point anyway.
I couldn't cite examples, but I'm pretty sure there's episodes sprinkled around multiple of the ST series where folks lower down the totem pole are doing command oversight or whatev'. There'll occasionally be someone odd (that's not, like, Q or some shit) in the captain's chair, or just no one and the other stations handling things on their own. Folks shift in and out, basically, just... mostly off camera.

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General Discussion / Re: AmeriPol thread
« on: September 13, 2019, 07:10:23 pm »
Who is the real candidate?
Since sanders has ruled out pushing to nuke the filibuster, of the major ones it basically just leaves warren, tbh. Biden's biden, sanders has more or less committed to functionally neutering his presidency if he got elected, and unless something changes between now and the primaries there's not really a fourth option :-\

Biden seems the best choice as far as moderate democrats go. Him and kamala are pretty sensible. I just like Andrew Yang cause of the free 1k lol. The others which are popular with some democrats are as far left as trump supporters are far right.
That's complete bullshit, though. There's not really anything popular among dems that is any further left than bog standard european(/other major developed countries) stuff.

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General Discussion / Re: AmeriPol thread
« on: September 13, 2019, 06:47:49 pm »
I mean... fortunately warren seems to be gaining ground while biden's teeth falls out and he has various senior moments. Whether it makes a difference when a lot of people seem pretty okay with him, I'unno, but there's still good odds he withers. Here's hoping.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: September 13, 2019, 01:46:55 pm »
So the chest buster hasn't started moving yet?

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Nah, it's already erupted. Hans's brain is just reliving the last moments of their life as they bleed out.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: September 12, 2019, 05:49:21 pm »
Your libido probably has at least another decade or two left in the tank, for better or worse. Iirc that shit doesn't really start backing off until like late forties or fifties.

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Other Games / Re: SALES Thread
« on: September 12, 2019, 12:36:36 pm »
It's over a day by my view. Do note that's just endless space and its disharmony expansion, near as I can tell, and requires signing up to their newsletter.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« on: September 12, 2019, 07:32:32 am »
I mean... probably. Do you actually believe that, or are you just heated up and lashing out? Least in my experience women don't exactly get treated more leniently in the situation you're describing (barring maybe other considerations, corruption, cultural stereotypes vis a vis the position being sought, whatever).

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General Discussion / Re: I like anime, do you like anime?
« on: September 12, 2019, 06:38:16 am »
And now you know why they changed the name to canola oil :P

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: September 12, 2019, 12:56:57 am »
By and large they don't seem to be, though? Most former major flash sites have been phasing it out over the last few years, switching over to html5 (for video, mostly) or unity or somethin'. Adobe's dropping support in part because usage of flash based services have straight up fucking tanked over the last while. Vendors aren't going to fund a flash emulator or whatever, they're going to drop flash and migrate to something else. Most already have. Once official support stops that's almost certainly going to get worse, not see some kind of commerical scramble for something able to run .swfs.

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General Discussion / Re: AmeriPol thread
« on: September 11, 2019, 11:33:16 pm »
I... like, I kinda' totally agree with what you're saying, but that is nearly impossible. There aren't exactly many folks like AOC that's managed what AOC has, heh. Though that it was an easier time in their particular situation to reach congress than claw through education debt is, indeed, basically a bloody farce.

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