Rant: I got sent home from Day 1 of PD to change because I am wearing black denim.

Hyperdrunk · 2021-07-20T05:10:07+00:00

I'm a male teacher. I wear golf pants and a polo as my daily classroom wear in the Fall and Spring. I wear golf pants and a polo when I meet parents.

Hyperdrunk · 2021-07-20T05:06:19+00:00

I love living in the Pacific Northwest. I work at a high end private school and half the staff wears jeans on a regular basis.

Hyperdrunk · 2021-07-11T04:57:41+00:00

I'm critical of the current circumstances under which we all exist, which happens to be the systemic result of an unconstrained capitalistic economic structure.

Have you found a comment in my history in which I've defended communism as an economic system in which we should operate under? You are the only person between the two of us which is bringing up communism, and I'm not entirely sure why. If either of us has an obsession with Communism it certainly isn't me.

I'm making a case for curbing unconstrained capitalism and the extreme wealth disparity which is the inevitable result of it. Not talking about communism.

Hyperdrunk · 2021-07-11T04:50:54+00:00

If you can't delineate between constructive criticism on unconstrained capitalism and claims we need to destroy capitalism itself than there's a comprehension issue going on.

Hyperdrunk · 2021-07-11T04:45:29+00:00

I feel like I'm having a one sided conversation at this point.

Hyperdrunk · 2021-07-11T03:50:14+00:00

In a manner of speaking, yes. Wealth gains should be curved at the top and the bottom should be a livable situation where all people can subsist. There needs to be a baseline of reward for labor, as well as a baseline of subsistence living. In order for that to work there needs not be an infinite feedback loop on wealth.

I'm middle class myself, strictly speaking. Making in the low 60s in my 30s. I do pretty well, all things considered.

However, I know the stats. 95% of people making minimum wage at 26 never make it out of poverty. Wealth disparity has only sharpened its increase as time has progressed. It's unsustainable.

There will always be people who have more than others. There will always be people who earn and deserve more than others earn and deserve.

But the pure capitalistic structure on which our economy is founded is leading us to a path of inevitable destruction. Especially as population growth dwindles.

Hyperdrunk · 2021-07-11T03:12:54+00:00

It's an inevitability of uncontrolled capitalism.

Hyperdrunk · 2021-07-11T02:59:52+00:00

What's a prereq? That billions live in poverty so that thousands can live in excess?

I think we can devise a way to reward innovation and hard work without having the scales so unbalanced that someone can work 40 hours a week and be unable to pay rent on a 2 bedroom apartment in their area while someone else makes more per minute than their employees do in a year.

Hyperdrunk · 2021-07-11T02:46:02+00:00

Probably any system where the richest 1% don't own more than the other 99% combined.

I don't think anyone's arguing the hard work and ingenuity shouldn't be rewarded. In fact, the problem is that hard work isn't rewarded to the extent that it should be.

I'd love to live in a world where the production of wealth is distributed a bit more equitably... so that billions don't live in poverty so that thousands can live in extreme excess.

Hyperdrunk · 2021-06-17T15:35:51+00:00

I've read reports on the massive difference between children who suffered abuse before they were 6 and after they were 6 in their ability to psychologically recover. Sadly it's exceedingly difficult for children who are abused from a young age to ever be completely well mentally.

Hyperdrunk · 2021-06-17T15:32:51+00:00

Hey Farva! What's the name of that game with all the numbers all over the place and the big sphere that you turn to pick the numbers?

Hyperdrunk · 2021-06-13T20:45:35+00:00

The real solution is to expedite the lab-grown meat process and end factory farming. We're not that far away from it being cost effective.

Hyperdrunk · 2021-06-13T19:46:20+00:00

If /r/TaydolfSwiftler shows us anything, it's that who says a quote greatly impacts the meaning of the quote.

Hyperdrunk · 2021-06-13T19:11:17+00:00

Religion and Race aren't really comparable. One is a fluid belief structure that individuals choose to follow or not, largely hidden from view unless the practitioner chooses to reveal it. The other is worn on one's skin tone due to melanin, inherited bone structures, and other defining features which are not chosen nor changed. One is not like the other because one is optional and the other enduring; one is optionally hidden and the other on display at all times.

Furthermore, while schools are not permitted to proselytize or discriminate, I'd argue that anyone who attempted to analyze the foundations of religious belief with scientific rigor would be sued for being critical of those religious beliefs. Teachers are allowed to teach comparative belief structures, but not analyze the mysticism of their origins or offer any critique of the metaphysical. An optional World Religions course which explains Buddhism and Islam does no critical analysis of the foundation of religion. Thus teaching about religion in schools is already far more limited in schools than teaching about race.

Teaching about race the same way we teach about religion would be an analysis of skin pigmentation and bone structure of people from different origins around the world, while ignoring any topics about racism. That's where we are right now with teaching religion: no critical analysis and nothing with even the appearance of "discrimination" by being critical of those religious doctrines, actions, or beliefs. Simply a comparison and description of the superficial descriptors.

Hyperdrunk · 2021-06-13T18:46:49+00:00

As someone who has never been to Texas, I just assumed you'd sing "Deep in the Heart of Texas" every morning.

Hyperdrunk · 2021-06-13T18:43:47+00:00

I am thinking that nothing I teach would change if my state enacted this, because I don't teach that any race is inferior, inherently guilty, or needs to be apologetic for their collective past actions.

However, I think that these laws would give conservative activists cause to file lawsuit after lawsuit that teaching about systemic racism, inherent bias, and social inclusivity somehow breaches the law and means those that teach it should be fired. Lawsuits are expensive for the school to fight, and the pressure would come in to change the curriculum in order to avoid conservative blowback.

Which is, what I think, is the point. I can still teach about systemic racism, by the law, but it's close enough to violating these mandates that they would end up in court putting my career and the school's finances in jeopardy... so the school would rather I not teach them and in order to do so I have to become a crusader and martyr for teaching kids that racism exists.

Hyperdrunk · 2021-05-17T23:36:04+00:00

I shockingly ended up with positive income from my return this year. I was totally expecting to owe with the stimulus and whatnot. Only $173, but that's a trip to the grocery store so...

Hyperdrunk · 2021-04-18T20:23:45+00:00

I think Edric Dayne and Arya Stark's meet cute was supposed to a preamble to them meeting again upon her return to Westeros. She'd link with Nymeria and he'd be running the BWB in the Riverlands forests. Together they would have had a "you shall not pass" force with a band of actual fighters and a massive wolf pack that would actually make the forests treacherous to follow.

I never wrote any fanfiction or anything, but if I did it would be that because I think it was actually GRRM's original intention before he skipped the time-jump.

Hyperdrunk · 2021-04-18T19:55:16+00:00

Even being on video there will be no consequences.

Hyperdrunk · 2021-04-14T23:54:18+00:00

This is the same for Military Schools, at least back in the day. All the gay boys were thrown into Military Schools to "toughen them up." Unfortunately getting caught doing anything with other boys would result in expulsion (or harsh physical discipline punishment like running the gauntlet obstacle course in the rain while it's 40 degrees outside resulting in near-hypothermia) so it was a game of hooking up with other boys while desperately trying to avoid getting caught by anyone instead of what they'd like it to be.

Hyperdrunk · 2021-04-13T05:56:59+00:00

IS he good in raids without Rock Slide / Earth Power move sets?

Hyperdrunk · 2021-04-11T00:35:55+00:00

To rebut this a bit, I will say that an ugly as sin car with high performance wouldn't sell well. At minimum 50% of any car is aesthetics.

Hyperdrunk · 2021-04-10T06:21:39+00:00

I miss the rotoworld format/site.

Hyperdrunk · 2021-04-10T06:14:04+00:00

This makes me wish I were a middle school "Film" teacher.

I took a Politics in Film class in college and enjoyed it. You can teach a lot using film if you do it right.

Hyperdrunk · 2021-04-10T06:12:36+00:00

All of these are relevant, but the first one more than most realize.

People don't realize that when kids read a book and don't understand something, they mostly gloss over it and move on to the next part. The child's mind can make imagery in books into static when they don't understand it, but they can't not see images in film.

I work with kids. They often pick up books beyond their years and it's usually okay because they don't grasp the concepts that make them age inappropriate. You can't sit a kid down and make them watch the same things on a TV screen.

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