foxontherocks

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I think the raven's bigger problem is that they are just too weak. Humans aren't very strong by animal standards but we are strong enough to break wood and rocks. How would a raven ever get past the stone age. You'd need an entire flock of ravens with stone axes to fell a tree.

[–] [email protected] 60 points 6 months ago (9 children)

His politics were awful but what if he changed. People can change. He read the Lorax.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

I mean, yes, Youdao, but I am not sure how well a Chinese translation app would would for you.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

The escalators in some stations are way too long. Being on the escalator for more than 5 minutes is scary. These ones are always very steep too. Feels like I am being escalatored down to hell.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

i don't like that when i look down at the tracks the only things i can see in the track zone are rats and roaches. they should introduce some biodiversity down there. no one on inaturalist wants to see more pictures of rats and roaches.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (3 children)

This doesn't work because all of your revolutions also failed. The USSR fell. The CCP liberalized.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Unfortunately, I love highly specific software and this has reduced my ability to use Linux. It is genuinely great that I can have any extremely narrow, bizarre need and some person wrote a program fixing that need in windows. Like what if I need to mux my mice and I am stuck on linux.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago (1 children)

at the same time though, libs were claiming their canvassers were asking the GOP men in households to speak to their democrat voting wives and getting rebuffed.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago (3 children)

I do like that Stein is out there, at every major left wing protest causing trouble and getting arrested for it. I remember she vandalized a bulldozer at the DAPL protests and thought that was worth some support. PSL is invisible. I have literally never seen La Riva or De la Cruz in person. They aren't running around trying to be seen. No one knows who they are and it is because they aren't hustling like Jill is.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Prereleases can be fun but they can also be awful. I had someone get up and "go to the bathroom" in the middle of a game in a pre-release only to go to the judge's table and write down that he won. I've also had someone threaten to stab me during a pre-release for playing an aggressive BR deck. I would still be playing magic if it weren't for its players who are, imo, the worst in the board gaming community.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I had to keep teaching online (kindergarten) during the lockdown in Shanghai. The online teaching tools provided were a little rough at the start but got better over the course of the lockdown (and after I set up dozens of macros to manage the class, and eventually some OBS gimmicks). Major difference between what I saw and what American teachers saw was supervision during class time. Almost everyone lives with their grandparents. I had to constantly beg grandma and grandpa to stop answering for students, stop hand feeding students during class so they could answer, to wear clothes during class, to tell their grandchild to wear clothes during class. My students all met academic goals pretty close to their normal ones. The only thing that was really hard to teach was tracing and copying for the computer kids, but the tablet kids did okay.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago (3 children)

I lived in Shanghai for the lockdown. We were really inside for 3 months, not allowed to leave our apartment complex except for a daily test at the local school. To get out of the lockdown you would have had to jump over a 10 foot gate and people did to buy cigarettes on the black market. About two months in I found a man online that was delivering some expat foods (the government declared foreign foods nonessential) to expats. I bought a baguette. That man was arrested.

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