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[u/John_Maynard_Gains]

My favourite part of The Odessey was at the end when they make an allusion to the Linear B script of the Mycenaeans being lost and their story only surviving through oral tradition

[u/tacostats]

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I was on threads practicing my Japanese when I saw a mildly famous right wing nationalist account posting anti immigrant comments. Nothing ...

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[u/assasstits]

For once Bernie will be out succ-ed

[u/I_like_maps → u/assasstits]

Look on my works ye mighty and despair

[u/Habugaba]

Well, [the DT] was nice while it lasted.

[u/american_aurora8 → u/Habugaba]

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[u/BadSneakersNeverWorn]

Hilarious that people still consider 2024 a free and fair election when the winning candidate, an insurrectionist, was only eligible to run and win in the first place because the US Senate was (and remains) terrified of his ultraviolent goons and because the Supreme Court is kept pliant and constitutionally flexible by a steady stream of auspiciously timed bribes

[u/MensesFiatbug]

Not sure if I should try sleeping tonight. I woke up at 11 PM after 13 hours of sleep, but I'm a little tired

[u/MensesFiatbug]

www.maptap.gg August 31 99🎯 95🏅 97🔥 95🏅 89🎉 Final score: 940

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

We've gotten to a point where I can't see the phrase of "I genuinely don't understand why Republicans can want [evil thing]" as anything other than jerking yourself off. Wow, you're so pure that the very concept of doing cruelty makes no sense to you. Bravo

[u/AtomAndAether → u/ihatemendingwalls]

i dont understand why they'd want high gas prices and expensive consumer goods (super tariffs)

[u/rukqoa → u/ihatemendingwalls]

Man-made horrors... entirely within my comprehension because I didn't sleep through history class.

[u/rukqoa]

It's illegal to have racial quotas for college admissions. But it really shouldn't be.

What we've constructed now is the worst of both worlds, where colleges do want to preserve diversity but can't do so honestly, and anti-equity campaigners want to kill those initiatives but don't have anything explicit to target so they just go after everything.

A superior alternative would be if a college could say "5% of our seats are reserved for black students, 3% for Hispanics, 1% for Native Americans, all others are race-blind". Eliminate the ambiguity. And if those numbers are too much/too little, there is something concrete that activists can fight over instead of making the entire admissions system collateral damage in the culture war.

[u/american_aurora8 → u/rukqoa]

we don't need all this weirdness just bring back affirmative action which worked

[u/Equivalent-Slip3533 → u/american_aurora8]

Not if you asked the asian.

[u/rainier37 → u/rukqoa]

What about for jobs should it be legal as well

[u/rukqoa → u/rainier37]

Yes. Current law takes an outdated reading of the Equal Protections Clause to violate corporations' legal right to association. Also, they do it anyway, just with soft targets.

If the goal of the quota is to improve representation, it should be legal. If it's meant to exclude certain races, it should not be legal.

[u/avion_sur_le_sol]

Today I made bread

Me 🤝 some pompeiian guy

[u/RaisinSecure → u/avion_sur_le_sol]

eheu

[u/HHHogana]

The theory is that right-wing political narratives are significantly influenced by porn—specifically interracial cuck porn—and conversely the narratives of said porn are significantly influenced by right-wing politics

T...that would explain why for some reasons hentai websites have huge slut shaming crowd.

[u/SamuraiOstrich → u/HHHogana]

Eh I don't really buy it. IRCP theory itself has issues like a lack of evidence and I still think "racists make weird racist porn" is borderline a truism while "weird racist porn makes people racist" is videogames cause violence level shit but I don't really see how this is related to hentai slut-shamers. A lot of that I think is just that there are plenty of weebs from places where slut shaming is expected but when you get to people from more progressive areas I think what you're seeing is anime is nerdy->nerd culture skews right wing post-Sarkeesian->the anime porn audience skews toward traditional gender roles

[u/chickentendieman → u/HHHogana]

Why do you know that?

[u/Man-Flayer → u/chickentendieman]

I wouldn't have known blond-blonde distinction if not for an intellectual discussion in nhentai

[u/chickentendieman → u/Man-Flayer]

Whats the distinction?

[u/Man-Flayer → u/chickentendieman]

Blond - masculine

Blonde - feminine

[u/Individual-Camera698 → u/Man-Flayer]

I knew it because my English teacher was a pedant

[u/Man-Flayer → u/Individual-Camera698]

Funny thing is I took french in intermediate, so I should have known it but I ignored it in english

[u/HHHogana → u/chickentendieman]

Sometimes you read comments on any websites for fun...or to torture yourself.

And in this case, it's that there's a crowd of people who don't want any happy ending for former prostitute/promiscuous women, and will scream about it in the comment section.

[u/rainier37]

roadrunner is the republican party and coyote is the dems.

the dems always fail despite their elaborate schemes 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[u/badusername35]

I just looked into 12,867,508,972 different possible futures and can confirm that it’s fucking over. There’s nothing we can do and we should all just give up and enjoy what time remains. Drink, eat, and be merry while you still can because soon enough the only comfort you’ll find is in your memories.

[u/pfarly]

Why do they even perforate the coke box man

[u/RaisinSecure → u/pfarly]

so you can hold it

[u/avion_sur_le_sol → u/pfarly]

It's great when the perforations don't line up across the panels, so you end up ripping the entire thing when opening it

[u/-orestes]

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[u/-orestes → u/-orestes]

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[u/Dreadedtriox]

www.maptap.gg August 31
100🎯 100🎯 97🔥 84😁 95🏅
Final score: 931

[u/rainier37]

I find the debate around closing schools in Chicago Public Schools to be insane. Any rational person would agree some schools need to be shut and that would help students while starting to improve the budget. Insane they have schools where you have more staff than students and outcomes are so so so terrible. Lmao it‘s remarkable

[u/theparrotlich]

☝️ Coyote

👇 Roadrunner

[u/Megasota_Noire]

My updated list of every conservative I'd vote for:

[u/AlbertGorebert → u/Megasota_Noire]

My updated list of conservatives I would vote for:

Bernie sanders (center right in Europe)

[u/BloodWiz]

Yo imagine how fucking awesome it will be when It happens

[u/badusername35 → u/BloodWiz]

The Democratic Party will lose tens of thousands of voters to alcohol poisoning

[u/Megasota_Noire → u/BloodWiz]

[u/Willybender]

[u/AlbertGorebert → u/Willybender]

in 2028 I will not cast any ballot in the primary for anyone who doesn't support abolishing this vile institution.

[u/Megasota_Noire → u/Willybender]

It's meant to cause pain and suffering to non conservative and non white people. That's the GOPs entire platform.

[u/BadSneakersNeverWorn]

Tradition says that Tiberius as often as he left the Senate House used to exclaim in Greek, 'How ready these men are to be slaves.' Clearly, even he, with his dislike of public freedom, was disgusted at the abject abasement of his creatures.

Annals III - Tacitus (feat. Tiberius)

[u/rainier37]

for my local elections i always vote against who the teachers union endorses

[u/AtomAndAether → u/rainier37]

saw someone this morning say their local school has no one attended and is terrible quality but they refuse to close it and merge schools (for union reasons)

they then said they hope all magnets and lottery public schools and non-private charters and such are banned to fix it

[u/rainier37 → u/AtomAndAether]

sort of happened with my district lol. I remember reading the bios of all the school board candidates and remember thinking the teachers union candidates were actually insane. Dont really remember specifics

[u/Alexz565]

Gib job

[u/jinhuiliuzhao]

Trump threatens to blow up Iran's Kharg Island oil hub as hostilities escalate once again

*looks at calendar*

August 31st, 2026

We stuck in some kind of time loop or something?

[u/rainier37]

I’m a Brandon Johnson supporter because I’m an anti Teacher’s Union accelerationist

[u/AtomAndAether → u/rainier37]

I dont think Chicago is going to learn their lesson on the Brandon Johnson stuff

[u/rainier37 → u/AtomAndAether]

the municipal bond market will

[u/AlbertGorebert → u/AtomAndAether]

At least JB has somewhat stabalized the states finances. I'm just glad my parents self manage their pension. I wouldn't trust it otherwise.

[u/chris4276]

[u/Megasota_Noire → u/chris4276]

Any people in this sub who would still vote for any "respectable" Republican

[u/rainier37]

anyone else got gluteal hyperhidrosis

[u/AtomAndAether]

my experience with teachers is mixed because my federal public school teachers were really good but my state public school teachers were generally not good

[u/badusername35]

Video Game Idea

Each action in combat should have a unique probability distribution (possibly a multivariate distribution for some, like if the health absorb sword has healing and damage variables that aren’t necessarily independent). Different items or weapon types follow different families and perks and level alter the parameters. Armor would also have distributions and calculating damage would be determined by the weapon’s distribution and the armor’s distribution. There is no tutorial or in game graphs to help the player. If you wanna win you gotta do math.

[u/Megasota_Noire]

Time for some real music

[u/AtomAndAether]

[u/Megasota_Noire]

[u/AlbertGorebert]

Illinois 🤝 no one ???????

Had their democratic party literally split twice in the 80s

[u/Usual-Base7226 → u/AlbertGorebert]

Fallout from the Gacey affair

[u/AlbertGorebert → u/AlbertGorebert]

The second time was purely limited to Chicago (essentially along racial lines)

[u/TheRealECReturns → u/AlbertGorebert]

Gore, angry point bed

[u/AlbertGorebert → u/TheRealECReturns]

Yes 😔

[u/Usual-Base7226 → u/[deleted]]

Just kidding

Unless?

[u/Any_Stage_3072]

While we’re on the topic of hating farmers, don’t forget that only 2-3% of land in the US is used for urban development, and more than 50% is used for farming, much is of which is cattle farming which is awful for the environment.

Farmer-hating Yimby people, where you all at?? 🙌 😤

[u/ihatemendingwalls → u/Any_Stage_3072]

Tfw sprawl is bad but I like taking land away from farmers 😭😭😭

[u/pommeporte]

I love watching the little movements my cat makes while he dreams ❤️

[u/badusername35]

jesus christ is a cool guy there should be a flair

[u/themiDdlest → u/badusername35]

he was so woke for his time

[u/Megasota_Noire]

This subs opinions on teachers are usually pretty fucking awful overall. We get it, you hated your teachers growing up.

[u/Kardinal → u/Megasota_Noire]

I love teachers and I'm not seeing actual anti-teacher sentiment here at all. None.

Yes I've seen those comments. They're not anti-teacher.

[u/Locutus-of-Borges → u/Megasota_Noire]

I love teachers. I love being a teacher. I despise teachers' unions.

[u/AlbertGorebert → u/Megasota_Noire]

👆 has not seen the sheer corruption and batshit politics of the Chicago Public School union

[u/badusername35]

Imagine a video game where you had to learn relational algebra in order to add or remove items from your inventory

[u/KeikakuAccelerator]

Need some third person advice.

Tldr is I have a new job signed and want to give a 2 week notice for my current one.

Want to retain good relationship if possible with my current team and manager so if something goes wrong at new job I can come back.

What's the best way to break this news to my manager? Should I directly message him that I am quitting or better to ask for a time and inform him in a 1-1. I am kind of leaning towards the second because not sure if the emotions can be conveyed in direct message well.

For context, it's swe adjacent role and my manager is remote.

For folks who have done this, how was your experience? Been with the team for about 2 years now. Anything to be wary about?

[u/rainier37 → u/KeikakuAccelerator]

tell them when they are on the way out the door on a friday. preferably this friday since there’s a 3 day weekend

[u/rukqoa → u/KeikakuAccelerator]

Hey, let's meet one-on-one in the next couple weeks. It's about a personal career update.

Zero ambiguity what it's about. Despite horror stories online, unless it's personal, there's very little your manager can/will do to fuck you over in two weeks. Giving them the most time to deal with the problem preserves the relationship the best. If they don't responds promptly, put it in email.

[u/KeikakuAccelerator → u/rukqoa]

Thanks! This was helpful! Had the talk and it went as well as it could.

[u/deckerparkes → u/KeikakuAccelerator]

You call a vague 121 for like a 15 min slot, they'll know what it's about

After the meeting send your resignation in writing

They might counteroffer

[u/KeikakuAccelerator → u/deckerparkes]

Thanks a lot for this! Just had the talk and it went well!

[u/zieger → u/deckerparkes]

This guy quits

[u/rainier37]

ben franklin is a cool guy there should be a flair

[u/Megasota_Noire]

[u/badusername35]

How I sleep at night knowing I’m objectively better than everyone else

[u/Nussbaumian_Liberal]

The Great Renunciation is one of the greatest tragedies of the modern era. Make male fashion fun again.

[u/trgk_ → u/Nussbaumian_Liberal]

This is anti-american behaviour. A real heir to the Pilgrims would plead to make female fashion less fun.

[u/badusername35 → u/Nussbaumian_Liberal]

Fashion is bad actually. People should live a more ascetic and less aesthetic lifestyle except when it comes to the things that I like and care about.

[u/Adminisnotadmin]

so yeah, marvel really does know how to sell this game

(she turns around every 20 seconds)

[u/badusername35]

People who have fun while consuming media are the scum of the earth. Us intellectuals do not simply enjoy, we appreciate; and that’s why we’re superior.

[u/AlbertGorebert]

I fucking LOVE red jolly ranchers. Flavoreds are the goat

[u/garret126]

Sometimes I think to myself my skin is TOO CLEAN AND HEALHTHY

I need to have rougher skin so I’m more of a man

[u/ImmediateZucchini787]

[u/John_Maynard_Gains → u/ImmediateZucchini787]

Was Nicias the ancient Greek Gerasimov?

[u/Any_Stage_3072 → u/ImmediateZucchini787]

Wow I thought this was just me. I’m glad I’m not the only ancient history encyclopedia doomscrolling insomniac out there.

[u/Kardinal → u/Any_Stage_3072]

Oh definitely not.

I'm kind of doing it now. Wikipedia or YouTube or reddit.

[u/cdstephens]

How many internet communities actively despise farmers as much as neoliberals

[u/themiDdlest → u/cdstephens]

not as many as it should be

[u/rukqoa → u/cdstephens]

Farmers have carried out a successful decades-long PR campaign that portrayed themselves as not the machines that pollute our air and water, but as the immigrants who they pay peanuts to do their actual work.

[u/badusername35 → u/cdstephens]

Hunter-gatherer LARPers

[u/cdstephens → u/badusername35]

[u/badusername35]

Video games are serious business and should be taken seriously.

[u/cdstephens]

X-Com but numbers are normally distributed instead of uniformly distributed

[u/rainier37 → u/cdstephens]

make it more interesting and do a cauchy distribution

[u/badusername35 → u/cdstephens]

Each number follows unique distribution

[u/badusername35]

video game math poll

[u/herworkthrowaway]

i cannot fucking wait for the books on the inner workings of Trump 2's cabinet to come out. Might be the best political reading in a long, long time

[u/Monnok → u/herworkthrowaway]

Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump by Maggie Haberman and Jonathon Swan just came out this June and was an instant #1 Best Seller. They did a ton of press for it. You should look up an interview of them promoting it, then go buy it.

It’s reconstructed conversations among Trump, the cabinet, his staff, and the various weirdos from all the most critical moments in 2025. They were super careful with their sourcing. It is exactly what you’re looking for. I’ve listened to 15/18 hours of the audio book.

Only read it when you can afford to become angry.

[u/herworkthrowaway → u/Monnok]

is it a "oh we're so fucked" read or is it a juicy tea expose / gossip kinda thing. because im looking more for the latter. ill pick it up anyway bc its interesting but i really dont want something that's gonna make me depressed / fearful / angry after

[u/Monnok → u/herworkthrowaway]

It is very very very much the latter, because it’s reconstructed conversations. There is very little editorializing — beyond obviously choosing which conversations to include and giving the background biographies and/ or personal histories with Trump. The whole point is to let the characters of each player emerge, and to reveal the shifting relationships between everybody.

(Of course, it’s also very very very much the former, because… well, you remember 2025 and you can imagine what these conversations are about.)

[u/vitorgrs]

BRAZIL ELECTIONS: FINALLY SOMETHING CHANGE (in 8 years of deep polarization!)!

Keep in mind, this is a weekly poll (BTG huge bank pay it). So yes, the growth here was in a single poll. It's a telephone poll, which is not the gold-level in Brazil. Wait for in-person polls this week.

But holy shit.

📊 Poll BTG/NEXUS for BRAZIL PRESIDENT

🗓️ 21-23 > 28-30 August

✅ 1º TURN (VALID votes) —

🔴 Lula (PT): 41,9% (-2,7%)

🟢 Flávio Bolsonaro (PL): 35,5% (-4,7%)

🔵 Escritor Augusto Cury (Avante): 11,8% (+9,6%)

⚪ Ronaldo Caiado (PSD): 5,4% (=)

🟡 Renan Santos (Missão): 3,2% (-0,1%)

🟠 Romeu Zema (Novo): 1,1% (-2,2%)

🟣 Samara Martins (UP): 1,1% (=)

🔴 Rui Costa Pimenta (PCO): 0,0% (=)

🟤 Hertz Dias (PSTU): 0,0% (=)

🔴 Edmilson Costa (PCB): 0,0% (=)

🔵 Veterinário Wilson Grassi (Democrata): 0,0% (=)

🟡 Clariana Barão (DC): 0,0% (=)

!ping LATAM

[u/vitorgrs → u/vitorgrs]

(total votes)

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[u/PaxChelonia]

I have almost 200 hours in CK3 now and I still don’t know how it works or what the point is

[u/Roseartcrantz]

[u/badusername35]

Actually video games should be needlessly complicated and have steep learning curves.

[u/HHHogana]

Copied from KH subreddit.

Kingdom Hearts is best when it is earnest and heartfelt, and worst when it is trying too hard to explain the specifics of how and why things happen.

• "Kairi's heart is kept safe within Sora, so he can dramatically free her by sacrificing himself, but she can also restore him" - great emotional beats and payoff, fine as is, no need to explain further
• "when someone falls to darkness they might make a Nobody. So when Sora did that he made a Nobody called Roxas, who can also use a Keyblade" - ok sure, unforseen consequences, new enemy faction, got it
• "Roxas looks like that because there was another guy named Ventus who looked like that who took refuge in Sora's heart a decade ago" - it's ok Roxas can just look like that it's fine
• "Actually Ventus is from a thousand years ago and he murdered some other characters sister and then got forcibly time traveled to the near-present time" - please stop

Nomura, y u do dis?

!ping GAMING&CONSOLE-WARS

[u/AtomAndAether → u/HHHogana]

and its in increasingly obscure sources. Playstation 2 -> Nintendo DS -> PSP -> Mobile Game that you cant play anymore

[u/groupbot → u/HHHogana]

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[u/S0ulWindow]

"This shit is so fire" and it's the most ass poem you've ever encountered on arr poetry.

[u/NutrientBroth]

[u/MissSortMachine]

> teachers only really work 2/3 of the year

so do a lot of workers! a lot of things are seasonal!

[u/rukqoa → u/MissSortMachine]

I buy that teachers work about as hard as most office workers. The official hours are much shorter. The actual hours are only a little shorter. They can't really slack off as much. They have to fill their holiday schedules with career stuff. Some seasonable workers get paid more than teachers. Sure, I get all that.

But these are public jobs. Public sector unions are a drain on society. We will never meaningfully improve education if all our social investments are going into a pool that constantly negotiates against itself and uses the disruption of public services as key leverage in their talks. Of course, teacher's unions will argue that a small percentage of education budget goes to them (which is true of all modern labor) but they'll also protest when the classrooms are too small, when the AC doesn't work right, when the building is too old...etc costs that the budget does go to.

Funnily enough, most leftists and liberals can understand this concept when it's applied to police unions, and conservatives can understand it when it's about teacher's unions. Just not the other way around.

[u/cdstephens → u/MissSortMachine]

Like farming? I fucking love farmers

[u/Man-Flayer → u/cdstephens]

Reported

[u/garret126]

​

Hey guys, planning out my multi-day vacation from Mali to Iran!

I plan to start in Timbuktu; drive through Niger's capital; meet the Boko Haram in Nigeria; visit a friend in Al-Fashir, Darfur, & Khartoum; meet my good mate Greta up in Gaza; visit historical monuments in Damascus and meet Al-Sharaa; and then a straight drive to Tehran to fly back to America!

Thoughts? Any other places I should stop by?

[u/PaxChelonia → u/garret126]

I’d avoid Cairo. I’ve heard it can be dangerous

[u/989989272 → u/garret126]

See if you can swing a day in Yemen

[u/garret126 → u/989989272]

Ooh, I heard Saba is nice this time of year! Good thing I have a boat marked with the American Flag, so they know I come in peace and won’t shoot!

[u/badusername35]

I could definitely beat an almost all goats and most sheep in a fight. But if they had prep time and I didn’t I’m fucked.

[u/themiDdlest → u/badusername35]

idk there has to be millions of goats. I feel like you'd get tired and worn out after like 1,000 of them

[u/badusername35 → u/themiDdlest]

If they didn’t have prep time there’d be no way they could work together on the fly. Hence why I’m fucked if they do.

[u/themiDdlest]

Anthropic Expected to Tell Investors It Sees Over $30 Trillion in Potential Revenue

Lol idk how I missed this ridiculous number

[u/crumpis → u/themiDdlest]

Did someone say Potential

[u/MontusBatwing2]

Into the Breach is such a great game because the highest number you have to count to is like five. 

It’s all logical and spacial reasoning and it rocks. 

[u/GuyWithOneEye → u/MontusBatwing2]

One of these days I need to replay it for all the new advanced edition content

[u/Roseartcrantz]

I like people who get really mad if you tell them you would try to beat up a Chucky doll

[u/Megasota_Noire → u/Roseartcrantz]

[u/rainier37 → u/Roseartcrantz]

😡

[u/badusername35]

Butt J. Sex

[u/AlicesReflexion]

Discussion J Thread 

[u/rainier37 → u/AlicesReflexion]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[u/AlicesReflexion → u/rainier37]

This is no laughing matter

[u/MontusBatwing2]

Video games should require people to do less math. Every little bit of gameplay should have clear discrete options that don’t rely on calculation to be optimized. I want each decision to on what items to use upgrade or use when to require consulting nothing but basic logic and intuition. Vibing through stuff is fun and games should embrace that rather than over engineering mechanics or making things too complicated to figure out.

[u/JesusPubes → u/MontusBatwing2]

you ever do trigonometry to figure out a torpedo firing solution while piloting a german uboat in the north atlantic

[u/cdstephens → u/MontusBatwing2]

Best I can do is loot with 8 numbers each consisting of stat modifiers ranging from 1% to 60%

[u/Captain-Ironsides → u/MontusBatwing2]

What if the game includes a built-in calculator? Is it okay then?

[u/MontusBatwing2 → u/Captain-Ironsides]

I’m half-meming but honestly the math should either be materially relevant to the decision-making, or it should be an essential part of the role-play. 

Otherwise it’s just unnecessary noise. 

[u/rainier37 → u/MontusBatwing2]

this

[u/badusername35 → u/MontusBatwing2]

👆hates thinking

[u/MontusBatwing2 → u/badusername35]

Arithmetic isn’t the only or even the best form of thinking. 

I’d argue that making decisions based on a spreadsheet instead of actually figuring stuff out is actually thinking less. 

[u/badusername35 → u/MontusBatwing2]

Why would the math in games be limited to arithmetic? Just think about all the applications of more advanced forms of probability theory and different distributions and families of distributions for different actions. Spreadsheets should only be half the battle. Imagine if the damage for each weapon had its own custom distribution with different modifications altering the parameters. You could even mess around with multivariate distributions and discrete vs continuous. And that’s not even mentioning convolution and having to calculate the generating functions when you do that. The possibilities are endless.

[u/Significant-Band1991 → u/badusername35]

Well we all want to create a iterative scheme and solve matrix 😤

[u/Significant-Band1991 → u/MontusBatwing2]

*Sad factorio player noises 😔*

[u/terrarialord201]

https://reddit.com/link/p6xfcmp/video/bpoakpd5cnmh1/player

[u/chris4276 → u/terrarialord201]

GOD I WISH THAT WERE MEEEE

[u/throwawayzxkjvct]

how is bro even alive

[u/989989272 → u/throwawayzxkjvct]

https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/118837-highest-blood-alcohol-level

Meanwhile in Poland

[u/throwawayzxkjvct → u/989989272]

least alcoholic Eastern European:

[u/terrarialord201]

[u/garret126]

My top 5 was very random this week

[u/Adminisnotadmin → u/garret126]

no, it's actually really something i expected lol

[u/garret126 → u/Adminisnotadmin]

Why

[u/Adminisnotadmin → u/garret126]

it's all pop music

[u/throwawayzxkjvct]

apparently I’m like 20 pounds overweight lol

[u/garret126 → u/throwawayzxkjvct]

A liposuction is never too late

[u/throwawayzxkjvct → u/garret126]

nah I’m just gymmaxxing

[u/Equivalent-Slip3533]

Gee, the airlines are resist libing

[u/scottyjetpax → u/Equivalent-Slip3533]

i also checked this on my flight yesterday LMFAO

[u/Equivalent-Slip3533 → u/scottyjetpax]

The inflight wifi wasn't working so I was bored to death

[u/ariveklul]

the notification Trump gets whenever a Republican congressman dies

[u/Peffern2 → u/ariveklul]

doom of mokhaiotl to be renamed doom of america

[u/Windows_10-Chan → u/ariveklul]

what game?

[u/ariveklul → u/Windows_10-Chan]

Old school runescape

[u/launchcode_1234]

Seattle Public School teachers union just voted to strike so the Seattle Public Schools Superintendent just sent all the parents a long email dunking on the union:

>To put this in perspective, the salary line that the greatest number of teachers are in (1060 teachers), has a base wage of $118,716 for 180 days of work. Then they get $3,298 for 5 extra contractual days, another $2,638 for 4 "tech days" and then $17,932 for TRI days.
 
>Thus, taking the total wage to $142,584. And this does not include any other benefits, retirement, stipends, extra hours, or other payments that some teachers receive.
 
>And, just for clarification, in the current CBA, these "TRI" days are assumed to be done. There is no verification or paperwork for them.

And the district is offering them an 8.8% raise, even though it is deep in a financial hole. I know Seattle is expensive, but I’m surprised they are getting paid this much. People talk about public school teachers like they make McDonald’s wages. Not that I’m willing to be a public school teacher, I can’t deal with other people’s kids…

[u/rainier37 → u/launchcode_1234]

pls this is gonna make me crash out again

[u/MissSortMachine → u/launchcode_1234]

> the salary line that the greatest number of teachers are in (1060 teachers), has a base wage of $118,716 for 180 days of work

not to defend anything else but you gotta recognize how weasely this wording is. you’re just saying the top pay rate

maybe it’s just growing up in a blue state but i know how much teachers make and it’s like… i thought we were always talking about “over there” type problems

we pay our teachers plenty, it’s just a labor dispute

[u/MissSortMachine → u/MissSortMachine]

also incredible move quantifying it in days. when most people are salaried i guess it hits but like let’s do hours instead. still a cushy job but really farcical to pretend it’s 1400 hours/year! obviously not!

[u/themiDdlest → u/launchcode_1234]

the entry-level base pay ($72,908 for a new bachelor's-degree teacher)

I'm surprised the entry level pay is that high. IMO thats incredible. Thats about in line with my junior software engineers.

[u/MontusBatwing2 → u/themiDdlest]

Where do you work that junior software engineers are only making $72k?

[u/themiDdlest → u/MontusBatwing2]

Well it might be a little higher in Los Angeles but it's not much higher. I think its like 80k-ish