So teachers must never share any details about their personal lives and only ever speak about books?

One would think that reflection of the impact of literature on ones personal life is an important part of analysis.

Also that teachers should be fully and authentically present for their students, not just glorified YouTube lectures.

Bravo this got me laughing way too hard. The spelling of "JOYYKIN'" especially sold the whole effect

the parrot Iago THE ARISTOCRATS

Whoa thanks kind stranger.

Does anyone have this meme template

RETURN TO CRABB

Fantastic, this got me chuckling!

This article feels like it was written by an old man yelling at clouds. "... Back in my day we smoked mid and we liked it" shakes fist and then uses it as a reason to go back to prohibition. Why can't we just make it legal and let the free market figure it out.

Turns out more THC for the buck means people can make a few months supply of edibles out of a few grams. Cost effective!

I like it pretty tart. I keep a bottle of honey simple syrup in the fridge, and I'll add a few drops if needed. I would say it's more tart than you'd get in the store.

The last pour of a 1L bottle though will have all the settled bits from the fruit, and that can be so sweet it's more like a juice. That is extra yummy.

An opinion that ignores all actual research.

Gender affirming surgery helps 99% of people who receive it! So sure, technically, there's a tiny minority who regret it. More people regret Lasik and boob jobs, should we ban those too? Many people regret a night out drinking, how about we ban that too. Drinking causes way more harm than giving estrogen or testosterone pills to folks.

On the other hand, I like that my friends have the freedom to express themselves any way they want. They aren't hurting anyone so let's let them be free to wear whatever clothes they want and take whatever hormones they want.

So join the side of American freedom and let's stop policing what clothes people wear or what name they use.

accordion intensifies

Make that hose in their hands an electric guitar and they're ready for the Waterworld equivalent of WITNESS ME

This looks uncannily like my shelf, I'm trying to buy land now for my permaculture forest 😭

When I first learned to bake bread and pizza.

Five years later I was 60lb/27kg heavier and needed to go on keto to break the bread habit. Sigh. Took me almost as long to lose an the weight, but I've kept it off now for almost ten years!

I've been in charge of hiring a few jobs now and I make sure to not care about any of the typical signals when interviewing. I tell recruiters and candidates alike that I'd "hire three raccoons in a trenchcoat if they could turn requirements into working code".

I've hired quite a few folks who didn't fit the typical mold, because they could write some sweet code. Who cares about eye contact, I want honest, hard working problem-solvers.

The biggest thing my less social folks struggle with (for anyone curious) is requirements gathering. That often takes interviews and repeated interactions with customers. But it's a skill like any other. Practice brings improvement!

OVER EGG THE PUDDING

I'm dying what a great phrase

I know a Thomas too! He's the straight cis eye of a queer hurricane. And it wasn't always this way, he just keeps pulling folks into his massive orbit. Folks who later realize they are queer. He never brings it up or even seems to notice.

I finally realized what's going on and it's just a little weird. Like, what the hell is going on? Do my friends even have free will?! Do I?!

I conclude that Thomas has such a pure heart and loves so freely that he innervates people with restless souls. They/we are drawn to this vibe like planets in his solar orbit.

I should write him a poem about this

Thomas' pure heart

Orbit for expanding souls

A queer hurricane

Just run the numbers before you do. It restarts the amortization schedule, which depending on how long you've had it and what the fees will be could mean it's significantly worse to refinance.

People think 5% is just a flat 5% a year, when it's all front loaded. So it's might be more like 5% interest the first year, but then by year 10 you've already paid almost half of all the interest you will pay.

Add on the extra fees, and it might be better to just keep the existing mortgage.

Just be sure to run the numbers first is all.

Yeah next house will have a better rate and be 50% more expensive

Whoa this song absolutely slaps. I'm so glad you posted this!

Better keep this one a secret from the Shogun

Oh yeah, all my code is dotnet core running on Ubuntu servers in docker.

Just all this legacy code is written in dotnet framework which doesn't run on Linux, and requires some moderate effort to switch (relies on libraries that are framework, and those also rely on framework libraries, etc)

It's completely possible, but for now, I've got these 2022 servers running "good enough" to go to production, and I'll convert them as soon as the first issue arises.

THE ORANGUTAN IS A STAND USER?!

(JoJo's Bizarre Adventures Stardust Crusaders rewatch)

I love that show so much. I rewatch it all the time

Yeah, TBF I was really just making a snarky dig at the misogyny in the evangelical world.

I can immediately think of a counter example: the Golden Compass. It's written by a man, but basically takes the stance that the devil is the good guy and has a main character whose best skill is the ability to lie so well she can pretty much always get what she wants. The church equivalent abuses children and looks the other way about it when confronted 💀

Unsurprisingly that series isn't too popular among fundies

Oof that's a rough one indeed!

I got a copy of it, excited to give it a listen!

Witchcraft is fine. Every evangelical I know was allowed to read Hobbit, LOTR, Dune, Narnia.

The problem is witchcraft written by women

Eugh watching him eat tomatoes was a terrible day to have eyes

This is great, thanks!

I forgot Dead Cells! It's so goooood.

And how could I forget Darkest Dungeons! MANY HAVE FALLEN IN THE FACE OF CHAOS, BUT NOT THIS ONE, NOT TODAY 😭

I'll have to add Hollow Knight to the list, thanks for the suggestion

It's my first playthrough and my makes my heart feel big feels. Also makes my blood pressure skyrocket. That wind level had me so tense, but then the feather came out and I was like who is cutting onions in here

One day I hope to hike the AT again but this time with a robot dog to carry my pack 🤣

I just want to see it's fancy little trot while carrying my water and food. I'll carry myself thank you very much.

Robot slackpacking

I listened to it while lifting, and now every time I lift while listening to something else I'm like "ugh this book is fine but it's no Silmarillion"

I've listened to dozens of great books at the gym, but there's only two I've wanted to listen to a second time: Silmarillion and Norse Mythology by Neil Gaimon

There's just such a vibe to those books. The stories are short, but they feel ancient. I feel rooted when I listen to them.

That and when I'm trying to fall asleep and it's winter. I'm cozy and feeling the hygge. I've got my warm drink and blankets and I want a bedtime story of how Morgoth was cast down

I'm playing it for the first time and it's so good but that game sure knows how to get my blood pressure up! By the end of the wind level you could see my fingerprints crushed into my controller. And then they hit me with the breathing game and I melted into a puddle of feels

We're living in a golden age of indie games! I've been loving games like:

• Celeste
• Manor Lords
• Predecessor
• Fire watch
• What remains of Edith Finch
• Curse of the Golden Idol
• Cuphead
• Stardew Valley
• Luck be a Landlord
• Return of the Obra Din

If you want good bigger budget games there's still great options like:

• Elden Ring
• Stellaris
• Palworld
• Balders Gate 3
• Deep Rock Galactic

Everett needs to relax, maybe break the pill in half next time or something

No HomerS club, we're allowed to have one!

Every day I don't use x/insta/meta/Google my jaw unclenches a little more

I used to get nauseous every morning for no reason. I still do, but now I have a reason