I don’t post too much Star Trek but it felt particularly relevant ha.

Dax: Steamed azna would put years on your life.

Sisko: Dax, I don’t want years on my life, if I can only eat steamed azna.

Deep Space 9

Something clicked reading this comment and I realized how much my tabletop roleplay matches the way I approach conflict in real life. I always go for high charisma and try to talk down enemies and resolve through dialogue. I’ll usually go for persuasion before deception and intimidation. Likewise I’m super averse to lying and getting in heated arguments in my real life encounters.

Hmm.

Yeah, I’m doing my best to learn the concepts but I have a ways to go.

Horseshoe theory strikes again.

Unfortunately, failing classes in public education is not at all common anymore. It requires a lot of documentation, meetings, calls, individualized curriculum adjustments, and a multitude of second chances. On top of that, administration is not a fan because it makes the school look bad in their eyes.

A lot of the teachers I worked with would vent their frustration that it was way too much work to fail a student or get them dropped from the program. Unfortunately, I was too busy figuring out how to update the curriculum from Windows 7, on machines built to run Windows 7, as well as just learning how to teach (my “training” was about half a day of sitting in on other classes), to fight that kind of battle. At some point, it’s a disservice to the rest of the class to spend that time and energy on the ones who are there to coast.

I tried my best. Hopefully everybody learned a few things. If nothing else, I certainly did.

The lack of etiquette is really frustrating. Had a tech student that was always putting in both earbuds as I was speaking. Had to walk over and wave my hand in front of the screen to get their attention.

When they graduated they said they were excited to get a job in the industry. Internally can’t help but think “with what knowledge or experience? You spent the entire class blocking it out.”

If you’re on Android, BuzzKill can set your notifications to “cool down”, so if you get multiple within a short time, you will only get buzzed again once a set amount of time has passed.

I just imagined a world where for 10 years I told my child I loved them and then for them to within less than a year, stop responding and then actively shame you for doing so.

Whenever I hear a single-sentence story about how a parent did nothing but love their child and the child decided to drop contact out of nowhere, I always wonder what context has been withheld.

The Missing Missing Reasons

I played in a FFG Star Wars group for a few months and it really was so freaking unintuitive the symbols and colors that they used. It felt like they wanted to simplify things but instead you had to keep track of green, yellow, purple, red, black, blue dice and like 5 or 6 different possible roll outcomes, you have to remember which symbol cancels which and also keep track of which skills are adding or subtracting dice…it really made me miss the simplicity of a D20.

Northerners just don’t engage if it’s not in their backyard. It’s a lot easier since there is a lower density of POC.

Trade (noun)

a skilled job, typically one requiring manual skills and special training.

“the fundamentals of the construction trade”

synonyms: craft, occupation, job, day job, career, profession, business, pursuit, living, livelihood, line, line of work, line of business, vocation, calling, walk of life, province, field, work, employment, métier

I love these. I wish there were fighting game and arcade stick communities on lemmy but it doesn’t seem to have a big demographic here.

You might get better answers from FetLife, basically social media for “kinksters”.

I vaped some essential oil once upon a time…

Isn’t that generally ill-advised? Or are there essential oils that are safe for that?

India has aligned itself with China, Russia, Brazil, and South Africa. All countries that have been kicked out of the international adults table

…because their leadership act like babies.

Second quote is me completing the original. Why did you cut that last part of the sentence out?

You are aware you just counted 40% of the world population, and with them comes 20% more? So you dismissed more than half of human population in one sentence?

Ah that’s why. Yeah no they didn’t. They were talking about the people leading those countries, not the entire population.

Let’s not even talk about racist part, which I hope is not intentional, when you take a look of who left on your “interational adult table”.

It’s racist to call someone of another race “boy”.

It’s not racist to say that a country’s leadership is acting childish. Heck it would actually be racist if someone were to say “all Indians are childish.” But that’s not what happened.

People call other people childish all the time without a hint of racist intent.

Good timing, recently started watching Hot Mess House and really want to figure out how to organize my apartment without damaging the walls (Command strips aren’t allowed).

So 6 victims and no deaths over 4 months. Less crazy for sure but could have been better.

I’m sorry, there was a sniper killing people for 3 years?? I’m sure the victims got no help from police whatsoever being the 1980s. I can’t imagine feeling so helpless.

Can we please let this meme hate die? How have you people not adjusted to the concept of putting on a costume and roleplaying, we do it every October.