andros_rex
@andros_rex@lemmy.world
- Comment on 18-26 year olds, How do you plan to dodge the draft? 19 hours ago:
Heritage Foundation is working on making HRT illegal.
- Comment on FADED. 🥴 2 days ago:
Would the “law of return” apply to Lamanites?
- Comment on Causes of death, or track list for latest black metal album? 4 days ago:
- Comment on nothing really matters 1 week ago:
I haven’t owned a microwave in three years, so not really lol
- Comment on nothing really matters 1 week ago:
Double time, half power.
- Comment on McDonald’s CEO’s awkward taste test sparks mocking online: ‘His aura screams kale salad’ 1 week ago:
Do we think this CEO fucks his employees too?
What even qualifies someone to be a CEO? I’ve been doing writing coach work for business majors and it’s just amazing how easy the work is. Imagine your term paper being “write a professional email.”
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- Comment on Trans people in Kansas are being ordered to surrender their drivers licenses 1 week ago:
It won’t take much for them to make being trans an illegal offense punishable by death.
What they’ll do is make something like “the sexual abuse of children” punishable by death, but define being trans (probably verbiage would be “crossdressing”) within so many feet of a child as sexual abuse.
Then, when people try to argue against it, they can be like “oh, you want to protect pedophiles?”
- Comment on Trans people in Kansas are being ordered to surrender their drivers licenses 2 weeks ago:
Fed isn’t revoking current passports. I’ve heard stories of renewals being returned to natal sex (and confiscated, but fewer incidents of that), but not “your current identification is invalid and you need to replace it ASAP.”
Do you realize how terrifying that would be? Get pulled over for a burned out tail light, your drivers license doesn’t count any more (realistically - how quickly could you clear out a day to visit the DMV?)
You can’t vote till you replace it? Kansas is probably following some ALEC/P26 playbook, and other states will follow. Closer to midterms likely.
I occasionally like to travel to rural areas. I used to spend a great deal of time volunteering in rural areas. Places where an incongruity between appearance and classification could be harmful. Minimum is being unable to grab a beer perhaps, but i don’t think it takes much imagination for other outcome.
Why do licenses need gender or sex at all?
- Comment on Trans people in Kansas are being ordered to surrender their drivers licenses 2 weeks ago:
You either find a job and then move, or move and then find a job
Okay, but jobs don’t want to hire you if you don’t live there, and apartments want proof of income. That feels like a catch-22.
Also, just not sure about how much to save up. I’m guessing I’ll need at least $1000 for the Uhaul, but otherwise I’m just trying to save as much as I can. (Working four jobs atm)
There’s also a bunch of auxiliary paperwork things - getting a new drivers license, transferring car title? I don’t know. I’ve been jumping through hoops to get my certifications and work licenses transferred.
It’s overwhelming and I struggle with paperwork and planning these kinds of things at the best of times. I’ve reached out to those types of trans help orgs a few times to see if someone could just sit with me and walk through the finances. Give me a checklist.
- Comment on Trans people in Kansas are being ordered to surrender their drivers licenses 2 weeks ago:
Know of any resources for Pennsylvania? Not in KS but close.
Not even wanting money really, just how the fuck do I figure out how to move halfway across the country? OK isn’t revoking licenses, but in ‘28 when I renew it’ll probably say “F,” which ain’t conducive to my employment.
- Comment on Trans people in Kansas are being ordered to surrender their drivers licenses 2 weeks ago:
The SAVE Act will make it harder to vote if your documentation doesn’t match your birth certificate. (article is from last year, but the bill just now passed the House I believe.)
It costs money to get a drivers license replaced.
- Comment on Trans people in Kansas are being ordered to surrender their drivers licenses 2 weeks ago:
If they try this shit in my state, I’d fucking sue.
I had surgery BECAUSE it would let me change my drivers license. I paid $5500 as a broke college student because I was getting turned down for jobs with that stupid “F.”
I don’t understand how any of this is legal. The constitution prohibits “ex post facto” laws - how can you revoke someone’s documentation when they complied with the laws as they were at the time?
- Comment on Tulsa police pepper sprayed children for walking out/protesting 2 weeks ago:
They totally just only did it to the students who were fighting guys!
One parent is furious that her son had to go to the hospital because of this.
Monique Goudau’s 12-year-old son, Keenan Pettis, is in the sixth grade at Will Rogers. She says he was outside protesting against ICE with his classmates when a fight broke out between students near the football field.
Keenan says he wasn’t part of the fight, so he and other students went back into the school to keep protesting. That’s when he says campus police pepper-sprayed him.
“I don’t really remember it. I was just, it was… it was just hurting, I don’t know,” said Keenan.
- Comment on Tulsa police pepper sprayed children for walking out/protesting 2 weeks ago:
I’ve been expected to break up fights in the only district in Oklahoma worse than TPS, and I managed to never need to pepper spray or send anyone to the hospital.
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- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Are you really comfortable with Meta having videos of your children?
- Comment on It makes me shudder 2 weeks ago:
because most US therapists don’t know that much about autism.
Fun fact - many textbooks still say girls can’t be autistic. I tutor psychology occasionally and I’ve seen it more than once.
- Comment on Always there, just waiting. 2 weeks ago:
I remember reading like a Williams-Sonoma catalog that had several “pear of the month” clubs, and wondered how so many people were so into luxury pears.
- Comment on This MF is quadrupling down and dropping Alien files before dropping the full, unredacted Epstein Files. GODDAMN. 2 weeks ago:
Catholics aren’t opposed to it.
Father Funes went on to say that Christ’s incarnation and sacrifice was a unique and unrepeatable event. But he said he was sure that, if needed, God’s mercy would be offered to aliens, as it was to humans.
I don’t think this is like official doctrine, but it seems to be the most common attitude I’m finding.
As far as Protestants: the flat earth types might be against aliens because that goes against their everything. I’m really only talking your KJV-onliest or freaky Pentecostal teetering into cult types that would think aliens were literal demons.
But I think most fundies would probably be fine with aliens if they were allowed to proselytize to them, and most mainline Christian churches would be fine with aliens existing.
- Comment on the wok agenda 3 weeks ago:
Is it like Grindr (eg, mostly male + hookups)?
- Comment on Parents opt kids out of school computers, insisting on pen-and-paper instead 3 weeks ago:
Even for students without disabilities, a calculator removes the cognitive demand of the arithmetic. If I am teaching algebra, I want most of their cognition to be taken up by the algebra, not the arithmetic.
- Comment on Parents opt kids out of school computers, insisting on pen-and-paper instead 3 weeks ago:
I disagree.
I tutored a college student who had dysgraphia. They originally had a calculator accommodation, but this was removed at the request of the instructor.
The student was in no way incapable of learning the material in the class - a remedial math course mostly on basic statistics and presenting data. But they were incapable of remembering most of the multiplication table.
There’s no reason to force a person to do long division by hand. The student was perfectly capable of understanding the process of calculating an average, but actually doing the problem meant that they were counting out by threes on their hand to do 3x7.
I’ve worked with dyslexic students on writing assignments - they are just as capable of intelligently responding to a writing prompt if you ask them verbally. Why should they be punished because they can’t spell (especially when we had like a decade of NOT TEACHING PHONICS)?
I draw a hard line at generative AI, but as long as the thoughts are theirs, I’ve never been concerned too much with students using tools to help them.
- Comment on Parents opt kids out of school computers, insisting on pen-and-paper instead 3 weeks ago:
Sure, you can do that once. Then you are out the job. Talking about politics will get you in more trouble than raping a kid.
I went into teaching because I care about making the world a better place. It cost me my marriage, it has sunk me into some of the deepest pits of despair that my mental health could take, it has meant physical and verbal abuse.
Buying pencils for kids is the kind of thing that you don’t mind too much, because at least it is a problem you can fix.
Once, I had a student ask me for a pencil. (He’d ask me everyday - usually in response to me asking why he wasn’t doing his work.) He looked me in the eye, snapped it in half, and asked for another.
I gave it to him. Who cares. I couldn’t fix the sinks which didn’t work and stunk because kids shoved shit into them, but I could fix the fucking pencil.
It’s a terrible job where you are expected to save the world and hated for everything you do. But, as a dog returns to his vomit, I’ve ended up saying yes to a middle school position and start tomorrow. It’s part of my soul.
- Comment on Parents opt kids out of school computers, insisting on pen-and-paper instead 3 weeks ago:
Bingo.
First week of the job: “hey, stop talking about your college experiences with the kids. These kids are never going to college, so none of it will ever connect with them.”
- Comment on Parents opt kids out of school computers, insisting on pen-and-paper instead 3 weeks ago:
Canvas has a very neat “annotation” tool, where the teacher can upload a document and students can write on it and submit.
I also see a lot of canvas assignments where the answer is in an auto graded quiz, but the teacher has the students take a picture and upload to show their scratch work. This can be added as a “question” to the assignment.
There are good ways to use the tools for sure - I did really like that the auto graded quizzes on canvas could use randomized numbers. Eg, when I did speed/distance/time, I could write a word problem where it would randomize the quantities so each student got a unique quiz and couldn’t cheat.
Tools like PHeT/CK12/other simulation programs are also a godsend. Even working with college chemistry, being able to show visual representations of acid/base dissociation or how to balance an equation makes things so much easier.
The platforms are great - the work flow problems are more consequent to the way the school system is set up, especially in the Title 1 hell schools that are left to fall through the cracks.
- Comment on Parents opt kids out of school computers, insisting on pen-and-paper instead 3 weeks ago:
White flight and a state that hates education.
The rest of the science department were “emergency certified” - eg, random bachelors degrees.
I know for the fact the district has put teachers in without BACKGROUND CHECKS.
- Comment on Parents opt kids out of school computers, insisting on pen-and-paper instead 3 weeks ago:
Also spent several hundred just on vinegar and baking soda for labs.
But yeah, I actually had to quit teaching after my divorce because I could no longer afford to do it!
- Comment on Parents opt kids out of school computers, insisting on pen-and-paper instead 3 weeks ago:
The most I dealt with was around 36. I had around 28 chairs.
However, the feeder middle school had class sizes of 60+. There were literal riots, with multiple teachers injured, that the district covered up.
