left wing parties have given up on that message

As if america, where republicans exist, has any left wing parties that are ever heard. They may be the lesser of two evils, but still fuck the dnc.

Completely agree with you, which is why I find myself tearing my hair out when a quote has punctuation inside of it that is necessary to convey the original meaning, but ALSO the outside text is being presented in a certain manner that needs punctuation to be read/understood correctly. For example, if the person who is doing the quote is yelling. Putting the exclamation point inside the quote makes it seem like the original quote was doing the yelling, but putting the quote earlier so you can put the speaker’s words last, and thus together with the exclamation point, sometimes makes the phrasing awkward.

the connection felt loose and it would charge unreliably, but changing out the cable has completely removed all issues.

Isn’t that because the attachments are placed on the cable side, purposefully, because changing cables is easier than replacing parts of the phone/device? I think that’s one of the more noticeable issues with the iIdiot lightning chargers: Once the grabbing parts of the port are borked in the device, no cable ever stays in.

The issue with that is the old cables had the same problem, they just were less noticeable because you didn’t expect them to do what the USB-C is capable of. I had some USB micro cables that would pass power only, and it drove me nuts if they ended up near my computer.

If the edge crust isn’t as much a pleasure to eat as the center of the pizza, you’re doing pizza wrong. There’s a local place that brushes an herb mix on, and I swear to god they could sell the edge crust as a bread appetizer and make more money than the pizzas. It takes you right to the edge, I swear to god.

In the same breath, I hate when people tell you they want to meet in the morning, or call you, and then wait until 1130 hours. Fuck that shit. We need terms to describe portions of the morning just like we do for afternoon, evening, and night.

I do get my evil grins on when they do that to me and then I call them at 0530 hours the next time we’re scheduled for ‘morning.’

No, it’s morphed into one of those pearls of wisdom that people pass down and truly believe. They all have their ‘true story’ of blipping the throttle and “suddenly the car that was moving over to smush me stopped!!!” The assholes who know it isn’t true can be discerned from the true believers by the humor they find in their tales of blasting people with sounds.

Legitimate? Sure. As good as other options? Hell nah, brother. I’ve got too many other delicious options that take up cheese space to waste on pineapple.

Spoiling milk is all about the ratio of the fat. It’s why cream is used in alcoholic drinks. The higher fat content of the cream means it can take more without spoiling. Try yours with skim milk vs. whole and taste the difference.

I definitely got the cornucopia from the saccharine depictions of ‘the origin’ of thanksgivings. I always thought the logo came from those.

The best thing about the fixed gear was the quick and sudden slides you can do with the rear wheel.

But most people would say that single speed has none of the disadvantages of fixed.

The incessant pedaling even as you’re slowing or cruising can be horrible though. The single speed definitely fixes that.

I think I’d prefer my preferred hand in the place of high precision, which is changing the gears… and especially the very precise twist of the volume knob if I’m messing with the radio. Honestly, the preferred hand is mostly training anyway, so by the time you learn to drive a manual without grinding your gears every other shift, you shouldn’t have an issue steering with your ‘off’ hand.

got a shower

That made me shudder. Are you a dog and being showered by someone else, or was it a gift granted to you for hard work that day? ;)

Them’s just the facts, ain’t they? Though I usually say chicken strips because they’re often not one-bite sized.

Professor=overworked and pushed to do the coursework more quickly so they can get everything; research, classwork, grant writing; done in the limited time they have. Not bringing in enough grant money or publishing enough well liked research often gets you fired, you know.

Parent=overworked and pushed to get to work faster so they’re not late. Being late often get you fired, you know.

Both are being pushed into actions that are detrimental to society. Speeding creates a slew of cascading issues, starting with small things like increased frustrations in all drivers and building to large things like much more serious wrecks. It’s a terrible thing. Giving up control of the curriculum and passing the buck to pearson (in the original OP’s case) to teach students, make tests, grade coursework (that can no longer be anywhere near as inventive or applicable because it has to be in some format that a computer can grade), etc. is a terrible thing.

No disagreement on the overworked and underpaid bits, but I look at it like this: a parent with a full time job is extremely overburdened. Get the kid up in the morning, get the kid dressed, get the kid fed, deal with the inevitable breakdown from not getting the right cereal or the other kid taking the favorite seat, getting the kid’s backpack and homework sorted, and finally get the kid to the bus stop or take said kid directly to school because there was a fight and now the kid isn’t allowed on the bus… and they still have to drive to work by 0800 hours. Just because they’re late to work and in a rush doesn’t excuse the speeding. Teaching is a shitty, hard profession. You don’t get appreciated despite almost literally doing nothing but try to improve the next generation. I still think that turning over the task of teaching (which the courses I had to take did; it was entirely book+online portal driven, very little teacher) to the textbook company is a bad track to take.

It’s also about making it the equivalent of pushing a button for the professor. Want a test that covers chapters X-y? Push three buttons and the students have a test over those chapters. No effort means they can jerk off in the direction of the grant that was just rejected because they used a bad word according to the government.

Probably my favorite thing is that I haven’t seen any posts from that account in a while. Is it still up and running?

People got IP banned all the time. How would they do that based on a post if there wasn’t IP data connected to the messages? Combine with text being small storage size, and I can’t believe that anyone over the age of 22 thought that there was any true anonymity from the backend.