There is no way you can teach them everything they need to know about a concept and have them practice it to a satisfactory level in the few periods a week they get of every subject.

Without any exaggeration, I remember clearly from high school that classes that were an hour and a half long five days a week would cover less in a month than the classes I took in college would in a single class or at most a week (depending) and those were either 50 minutes long three times a week or two hours twice a week. High school classes move at a glacial pace and have tons of time. If that’s not good enough then the answer is surely improved methodology, not just increasing the period of ineffective busy work by another hour per day per class.

No, this is an old “study” by someone using scraping bots to gather up text and then subject it to a vague keyword scoring analysis where words related to violence increase a post’s violence score.

That’s clearly a dirt parking lot, which uh, it looks like it’s struggling with at a very low speed. I’m pretty sure I’ve seen paved parking lots less flat and smooth than that dirt one and that thing’s bouncing all over the place as it slowly crawls along.

That’s surprising, usually LL is a den of weirdo reactionaries.

Yeah, ESO is from ZOS, IIRC that’s Zenimax Online Studios or the like. Absolute dogshit company in general which is a shame because ESO is all the cool, weird shit in Elder Scrolls that the mainline hasn’t touched since Morrowind outside of the brief aside in Oblivion with the Shivering Isles.

Yeah, don’t get me wrong: “vampires are by a core conceit of the setting doomed to slowly lose themselves and become twisted mockeries of anything they once were” doesn’t mean they can’t be narratively interesting or hold out for a long time, it’s just the deck is stacked against them.

It makes more sense when one considers that vampires are ontologically parasitic and aristocratic regardless of what they may have believed when they were alive, because of both their material interests being that they are super special treat lads whose treats are the literal lifeblood of others and the fact that they’re literally animated by a sort of demon that’s both demanding that they feed and kill and also subtly trying to twist them around to the point that they believe that’s what they want to do anyways.

So she’s basically a first world sucdem wanting equity and fair treatment for vampires at the expense of humanity.

The belief that “this is all in the past” is a key part of what was the dominant propaganda strategy for a long time (as opposed to the current push towards complete denialism): instead of completely denying the horrors of the past they gloss over them and teach about how this or that event “ended” them. The end result is people come out of high school with this idea of a horrible past that’s still heavily whitewashed, believing they’ve learned the truth when they just got a watered down and sanitized version of it (which still manages to be horrific), and believing this all to be in the past.

Entire decades of cruelty and horror get turned into single sentences like “this gave way to the sharecropping system and its problems,” with no elaboration on what those problems were or that it was ongoing up into the middle of the 20th century. Things like the coup and seizure of Hawaii by American mercenaries and marines get garbled into nonsense in textbooks. The century of pogroms and systematic exclusion and terror against PoC following the end of chattel slavery is glossed over or omitted completely, as is the way the enslavement of prisoners who were then leased to private interests quickly emerged as a way to continue the systems of the antebellum south.

And when the sanitized and content light horrors of the past are taught, every step of the way they take pains to make them seem more distant: horrors that persisted up through the 20th century get pushed back into the late 19th instead, the legal end of American apartheid is some distant and historic thing instead of something that happened in living memory and that much of the ruling class were already adults for, if it’s mentioned at all forced sterilizations and mass ethnic cleansing are things that last happened in the 50s when both are alive and well with ICE and its concentration camp system.

In short, what people are taught in schools is little more than “things were bad, like definitely real bad and not good, as I’m sure you know. No I will not elaborate and besides that’s all done with anyways, now moving on…”

Literally the 4chan copypasta about the old sub, except in earnest this time lmao.

Everyone’s so focused on the absurdly proportioned tits they miss the clearly defined dick bulge.

Darktide, a game about killing militant antivaxxers.

Yeah. The ship builder itself is actually a great framework that just has some bafflingly bad constraints put on it and is missing specific features (like choosing where habs connect) or parts (like stairwells or multi-level habs).

Unfortunately there’s not. I’ve been keeping an eye on that and so far all there are are some tweaks to let stuff overlap or increase the size you can make ships.

It can go either way. For me it got worse early on, then went away completely after a year or two along with dysphoria in general. So everyone is different.

Cool, I’ll have to look into it and see if I can find some.

Interesting, do you know their climate tolerance or where one could get seeds?

Holy shit that is 100% in character for that character.

Fuck those are all expensive as hell. Guess I’m stuck grinding the peppercorns in a mortar and pestle whenever I can get them at a discount.

Think of what they will do to themselves if Sichuan peppercorns ever get really popular. They will create a tasteless chip with so much numbing power it will cause permenent jaw paralysis.

Ok real talk if one could concentrate and preserve the active chemical in sichuan peppercorns in a sauce that would actually be amazing. It’s so hard getting the right amount cooked just enough, not to mention how they lose their potency pretty rapidly. Just being able to splash some sauce into a bowl of soup or drizzle it over a dish with whatever other seasoning sauces one wants would be so nice.

Unfortunately AFAIK it’s too volatile and delicate for that.

I’ve wanted to grow some ghost peppers in my yard (though I haven’t because I worry the neighbor’s dog might get into it and get hurt)

Anything that would be bothered by the capsaicin would keep away due to the smell. Ghost peppers grown in a garden also aren’t going to be ridiculously hot: I’ve grown them before and actively eaten them fresh off the plant and in my experience they don’t get particularly hot unless put under nutritional and water stress.