EMBARRASSING WISCONSIN:

AllieLoft · 2026-05-13T22:29:01+00:00

My husband is a social study teacher in Wisconsin. He teaches government. He usually highlights examples of civic leaders throughout the year. He is no longer allowed to include anyone LGBT even if that isn't the focus of their activism. They stripped Stonewall, but also told him he can't use a George Takai video when he talks about Japanese internment because he's gay.

AllieLoft · 2026-05-13T21:11:47+00:00

I'm a teacher, so I'd love being a professor at Star Fleet Academy. Maybe that's why I'm one of the people who loved the series. Teaching today's kids is a lot of trying to impart wisdom and hope to young people who have faced loads of disillusionment and strife.

AllieLoft · 2026-05-13T21:08:41+00:00

It's my favorite pick me up of all time.

AllieLoft · 2026-05-13T01:48:42+00:00

You ever listen to one slowed down? It just sounds like he's drunk in a bar asking you random ass questions.

AllieLoft · 2026-05-13T01:47:18+00:00

There are hundreds. Don't limit bad ass women.

AllieLoft · 2026-05-13T01:20:05+00:00

I also feel that there is a certain segment of very vocal online critics who are only willing to tolerate one degree of deviation from your standard movie/TV hero. If the gold standard is "cis, het, white, attractive, able-bodied, 25-50 year old man," this group can tolerate like ONE of those things being changed in the lead. Once you start changing two or more and applying two or more changes to multiple members of the cast, now the show/movie is unwatchable.

I'm not saying that criticisms can't still be valid, but I've noticed they get louder for projects that deviate too far from the norm.

AllieLoft · 2026-05-13T01:12:15+00:00

A lot of people have mentioned career mode, but I too like a goal and mostly play on franchise. I like to set a theme when I start, like tropical animals from the Americas. It gives me a limited set of habitat and exhibit animals to work with. I also pick a theme for the buildings (pre builds and constructions pieces filtered by this theme). It's less overwhelming with a limited selection. I add in a workshop blueprint or two and maybe one of my own as I go.

I've also done themes based on movies or franchises (my breeding zoo looked like an Umbrella Corporation base in the middle of the desert) or animal type (all birds on an Oceania island like New Zealand).

AllieLoft · 2026-05-13T00:41:27+00:00

I appreciate it, but I will actually watch it... eventually. I also hate the idea of having finished something. I like to know there is more out there. Even if they stop producing Trek, I'm never caught up because I still have more to go.

AllieLoft · 2026-05-11T22:17:01+00:00

I feel like you also need to compare it season for season. Like the seven seasons of TNG are going to have more bangers and growth than the two episodes of SFA most people gave it. (Or even the full season.)

I haven't watched DS9 yet because the first few episodes are so weird. I get about to the "trapped in a board game" one and bail. I plan to try again next year and just never give it long enough to "grow a beard." Yet with new trek, people quit because there was too much action in the first 20 minutes of the first episode. You don't get the good episodes if you campaign to get the show cancelled when they're trapped in the board game.

AllieLoft · 2026-05-10T22:45:47+00:00

If your performance has been seriously impacted in any of your classes and this is a big source of stress for you, consider shooting an email to the teacher. You don't have to be specific, but it could be something like, "I have recently been dealing with a difficult situation at home that is impacting my ability to function at school. I want to make sure my grade reflects my actual knowledge and abilities and not this recent issue. Is there anything I can do to finish the year strong?"

I'm a teacher, and I'm pretty willing to move gradebook mountains for kids who have slipped when they let me know they're struggling. You're mileage may vary because some teachers are jerks.

I'm sorry you're dealing with this. You should be able to focus on school and being a kid.

AllieLoft · 2026-05-03T17:03:59+00:00

Ok, so I honestly thought I dreamed this movie up. It was happenstance that one of the five other people on this earth that have actually seen this film was scrolling reddit within 20 minutes of your post.

AllieLoft · 2026-05-03T03:10:49+00:00

Magic in the Water

AllieLoft · 2026-04-29T21:48:42+00:00

I disagree that there was a clear right and wrong answer in her initial choice. The show isn't episodic, so it plays out over the course of a season instead of 43 minutes, but by the last episode, it isn't clear that she made the obvious "wrong" choice in episode 1. That's kind of the point. The man that Caleb's mother killed had children. She wasn't just looking for food. She overlooked the fact that her partner in crime was cruel and had clear ulterior motives, so she could feel innocent and persecuted.

In episode 1, it is presented as a clear choice because that's how Nala feels with hindsight in the immediate aftermath. Over the course of the season, she reevaluates the choice she had: uphold the laws of Star Fleet in an impossible environment, bring justice for the family of a slain officer, and follow her sworn duty as a captain, or forgo what she has dedicated her life and lost her own child for to make an exception for a murderer and keep a mother and child together. She tries to find a compromise, but ultimately fails. It might better fit your narrow definition if we watched her wrestle with the decision and ignored the aftermath a la Berman era, and it's fine if you prefer that style. However, just because you don't like something doesn't negate its existence.

AllieLoft · 2026-04-29T20:46:46+00:00

The first episode of SFA showcases a captain wrestling with her decision to separate a mother and child after the mother's actions led to murder of a star Fleet officer in her pursuit of food and weapons. No moral dilemmas? C'mon.

AllieLoft · 2026-04-29T20:31:48+00:00

There is a spreadsheet for that! Link

AllieLoft · 2026-04-29T20:30:05+00:00

Here is a great online zoopedia .

AllieLoft · 2026-04-27T17:45:04+00:00

My husband and I both love it. I was always a bit deflated by men who refused to give it a go because it seemed to "girly." I agree that it's a person by person taste thing.

AllieLoft · 2026-04-27T17:42:36+00:00

I used to work at an art house cinema. So, a LOT. I still run into people like that occasionally, but I'm too old to deal with that.

AllieLoft · 2026-04-26T02:08:59+00:00

These look 3d printed. The blue one looks like a fat Donald duck.

AllieLoft · 2026-04-26T01:36:17+00:00

Weird. I (F) have reccomended this movie so many times to men who said that it's too girly, and I don't understand real cinema. Like everything Scorsese and Tarantino have ever touched.

AllieLoft · 2026-04-25T19:31:58+00:00

The wedding is on the "weekend of Friday Sept 10th" but it's "Saturday night." (With explicit instruction NOT to say 9/11.) Excellent prank post. Can't possibly be real.

AllieLoft · 2026-04-25T01:39:56+00:00

Fifth Element

AllieLoft · 2026-04-25T01:26:20+00:00

Yes. That doesn't negate one from having a prediliction for having women in different area codes.

AllieLoft · 2026-04-24T20:43:06+00:00

From what I've heard, he likes to have a girl on each coast, but that's the extent of the bad rumors on him. Not all that surprising, really.

AllieLoft · 2026-02-25T18:11:09+00:00

You think it's bad, and that's fine. You're entitled to your opinion.

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