I played guitar for the first time in like ten years the other day, had fun but also felt like crap because I couldn’t do anything on it.

Did you hear they’re rolling out a new item called a Subscription Ball?

I don’t know much about the Red Army Faction so I looked it up and

The RAF has been held responsible for 34 deaths, including industrialist Hanns Martin Schleyer, the Dresdner Bank head Jürgen Ponto, federal prosecutor Siegfried Buback, police officers, American servicemen stationed in Germany

they sound pretty great ngl.

But they are pretty thick, since that means more impact-absorbing foam.

the dormitories of the African cardinals have been paved over to make room for the new highway

In the 90s the US dropped regulations and some uranium glass is still made today, albeit not as large glassware pieces anymore. Despite the name and the association of uranium with radiation, uranium glass is only negligibly radioactive and totally safe (assuming they didn’t put any lead paint on it).

Getting my car professionally detailed cuz I think I’m probably going to have to drive for uber this month, I lifted up the back seats and found almost an entire dog worth of Husky fur hiding there. Tipped the guy an extra $15 cuz that’s probably the worst car he’ll see all day, lmao

The treatlerites, they’re no good, folks.

new popemobile is a fat ass SUV that doesn’t fit on tiny European streets

Just got a new job. We have great benefits here at bringdownthegovernment.biz

Happy Gilmore

IIRC it was a running joke on that movie that “Shooter” McGavin’s one liners weren’t working. Like he said “and Grizzly Adams had a beard” sarcastically, only for a random guy to reply “Grizzly Adams did have a beard.”

“We should do thing from Starship Troopers because in the book it totally works!”

It works because Heinlein believed it would work, not because it would work that way in reality!

(cw meat) My grocery store sells chicken quarters for $1/lb… or you can buy drumsticks or thighs for $2/lb, or the mixed bag from Tyson which is about $3/lb. I genuinely don’t understand how anything except the big bag has any sales at all.

Makin’ spaghetti!

Many years ago I learned to check if spaghetti is done by flinging a noodle at the window and seeing if it sticks. Now as an adult I still repeat this ritual, but I always wonder why I bother when it cooks in the same amount of time every time.

a log table should be provided.

I did flight school with a slide rule twentyish years ago, so I would be at home with this.

Same. All my classes where I got As were classes like this, or classes where they gave us all the homework at the top and I was able to essentially ignore the lecture and do the work at my own pace during class.

Ideally I think researching and critically evaluating your sources should be taught and reinforced well before college, but from what I’ve heard from my friends who went to high school in the States (I’m American but I lucked out in this regard) attending an American High School is like being one of the feral children in Logan’s Run.

Asmongold is a streamer known for his really poor hygeine. He once related a story about wiping blood from his gums onto his walls because it was easier than getting out of bed. If your gums are bleeding that badly then you probably have some kind of advanced gum disease, which is prevented by proper dental hygiene.

I hate it when that happens!

I have a hypothesis that college can solve this problem by “inversing” lectures and homework.

edit: sounds like a lot of places do this already so that’s cool.

Have your students watch lectures and do reading on their own time. Hell, they can ask ChatGPT to summarize it for them if “it’s just a tool” and they want to use it! But everything that gets a grade should be done in class. You will write the essay by hand, you will do the math with no more powerful a calculator than a TI-83, you will give a presentation to show that you understand the material. Book is open, accommodations for special needs are available, and the teacher is here to help and give guidance and clarification, but internet connections are banned.

Buuuuut American colleges would never do this because ensuring that your graduates actually learn things was never the point.