Warl0k3
@Warl0k3@lemmy.world
- Comment on Catbox.moe got screwed 😿 2 days ago:
If we’re randomly declaring things with zero basis except our wounded pride, I’m declaring you the prettiest unicorn to ever grace the boards and I shall brook no challengers to your glorious reign-bow.
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I’ll figure out how this reflects my wounded pride later. - Comment on Catbox.moe got screwed 😿 2 days ago:
Yes, it’s the bare minimum precaution you can implement. But at the same time, it’s the bare minimum precaution you can implement. There’s really no excuse for not doing it, and it catches a shocking number of images.
- Comment on Airbuddy 🦛 3 days ago:
just Tumblr Brain things
- Comment on Definitions 4 days ago:
IDK maybe they’re just really bad at cutting pizza.
- Comment on FBI Wants Access To Encrypted iPhone And Android Data—So Does Europe 5 days ago:
So did anyone else in the study turn to terrorism to express themselves…?
- Comment on FBI Wants Access To Encrypted iPhone And Android Data—So Does Europe 5 days ago:
For anyone who doesn’t know who this was, it’s a photo of Ted Kaczynski - the unabomber- a terrorist who over approx. 20 years mailed and placed a series of bombs targeting universities and other technology-focused places and people, killing three and permanently injuring more than a dozen others.
Posting him here is a reference to his manifesto in which he lays out many grievances against technology and industrialization, including increased ability for governments to surveil their citizens.
- Comment on Late 5 days ago:
Hmm. If you don’t mind me asking, what field was your masters in? During my grad work, you’d have been thrown out after a week if you did similar, but assignments were very much supplemental to the lecture and didn’t overlap with the lecture material much at all.
- Comment on Late 6 days ago:
You know, I’ve had students attempt this every quarter and I’ve still never seen it actually work. It might be a reflection of how teaching has had to shift as a result of the changes brought on by AI + the pandemic, though. I started professing only a little bit before then, so I never really saw the era where you could get away with such strict adherence to the textbook.
- Comment on Late 6 days ago:
While it’s good that you are disciplined enough that you can succeed without it, many students benefit greatly from a rigid structure more in line with the educational environment they experienced up to that point. After freshman year, attendance requirements are usually hreatly relaxed once people get into the swing of things (like not having to ask to to go to the bathroom anymore, god what even is the public school system). Personally I don’t care if you show up or not, you’ll learn something important either way and if someone uninterested isn’t there it means I have more time for the other students.
Also I can 100% promise that clicker thing was a contractual obligation from the publisher and not the instructor’s idea. Those things are fuckin’ awful to support on the instructor’s side, and goddamn Pearson managed to tie using their shitfucking software (including those goddamn clickers) to the state and federal grants unis rely on for funding. Fuck pearson.
- Comment on Late 6 days ago:
Okay setting aside that I’ve never ever seen that actually succeed, why would someone shell out for a college lecture if they’re going to do that? (You also can’t replicate lab or seminar time on your own, so I’m just not sure what you’re basing this on.)
- Comment on Late 6 days ago:
I accepted “I’m sorry, it was just too nice a day to spend it sitting in a basement with no windows” once because man, they had a point.
- Comment on Late 6 days ago:
I’ll generally accept any excuse unless it’s becoming a habit - in those rare cases I’ll happily work with them to try and figure out a solution. 80% of the time it’s family medical appointments or childcare scheduling issues (and my gosh I am so happy to accommodate people dealing with that) and the rare cases it’s not we can usually find a way to make up for what they’ve missed.
- Comment on Late 6 days ago:
If you can pass my class without attending lecture, why wouldn’t you just ask to test out of the class???
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I scream, into the void. - Comment on Late 6 days ago:
I really really should have noticed that, thank you that makes this so much better.
- Comment on Late 1 week ago:
Even sending me a note that you’re going to be late is more consideration than I usually get. I’ve got enough on-spectrum students that I can very much see this being a legit scenario, too (though I teach CS so it’s a little expected). IDK, if they’re an otherwise decent student I might let this slide, though almost entirely for the novelty of someone actually letting me know they’re running late.
- Comment on Really chess.com? 1 week ago:
If you look, you can see that the cream sections are also blended, its just much subtler than the green blended parts.
- Comment on Common British L 1 week ago:
I guess? The alternatives to capsaicin (mustard, garlic, horseradish, etc) are all pretty overwhelming flavors, so if you want things even moderately pungent they’re the only thing you’re going to be tasting in a dish. I personally loathe the taste of most hot peppers (but love spicy food) so the trend of "spicy everything" is getting pretty tiresome.
- Comment on Common British L 1 week ago:
That the name of their unofficial national dish is in Persian/Hindi also suggets something, but I’m sure I don’t know what…
- Comment on Common British L 1 week ago:
Americans are borderline obsessed with hotsauces and spicy food, though. IME, the pushback about english mustard is usually the same as with vegemite - its too easy to use way too much, and thus obliterate the flavours of the rest of the dish. (Plus it doesn’t pair super well with a lot of regional menus.)
- Comment on Common British L 1 week ago:
Most american stereotypes I understand or even represent (fat white guy with too many guns here) but I’ve never understood the “american food is bland” thing - I can’t think of a region of the US known for bad food. Why the hell do you think we’re all so fat, if not because we have so much good food to tempt us into excess?
- Comment on Common British L 1 week ago:
Deep Fried Beer is a pretty good one, too. Not very good, though…
- Comment on Trump unveils plans for 'Golden Dome' missile shield for US 2 weeks ago:
Yeah but why this? It’s really come out of nowhere. Iron Dome hasn’t been in the press recently, at least as far as I can tell. It’s really weird, normally there’s a cause (if not a reason…) for his insanity…
- Comment on Trump unveils plans for 'Golden Dome' missile shield for US 2 weeks ago:
We already have multiple layers of ballistic missile defense in place, so this whole thing is just even dumber than usual for this admin.
- Comment on Trump unveils plans for 'Golden Dome' missile shield for US 2 weeks ago:
Ballistic missile defense on it’s own makes sense, and most nuclear powers have a program for it in place (and like BrikoX said, the US is among them). My point is that this idea has just come out of nowhere, there’s been no threat from any nuclear power, no talk about how being nukable makes us weak, no fearmongering about immigrants smuggling nukes in across the borders, nothing. It just showed up suddenly.
- Comment on Trump unveils plans for 'Golden Dome' missile shield for US 2 weeks ago:
Sure but my actual point was that they’re not fearmongering about this. It’s just come out of nowhere, there’s no national campaign about how the chinese are putting missiles in puerto rico or w/e. It’s just completely random.
- Comment on Trump unveils plans for 'Golden Dome' missile shield for US 2 weeks ago:
… Why, though? Who’s threatening the mainland US with missile strikes?
- Comment on The joy of going through pregnancy along with your sister 2 weeks ago:
It’s a shitposting community, I’m sincerely not sure what your point is.
- Comment on The joy of going through pregnancy along with your sister 2 weeks ago:
Why?
- Comment on The joy of going through pregnancy along with your sister 2 weeks ago:
Okay but… are we gonna make fun of them for this? No, seriously, if they’re happy and nobody’s being hurt, what does it matter to any of us what they’re doing?
- Comment on What can US citizens do to fight/prevent their country enabling genocide? 2 weeks ago:
We don’t put it in the tourism brochures, but it turns out guns are really expensive and the fash seems to have all the money at the moment.