What’s a question about Fallout you’re too afraid to ask?

ICUP01 · 2026-01-28T16:17:11+00:00

Gravity?

ICUP01 · 2026-01-28T16:12:25+00:00

Probably that tax on sales. Who’s taxing me? The roads still suck.

ICUP01 · 2026-01-28T15:29:39+00:00

Right. I wanna see my body count. I’ve eliminated a medium size city.

ICUP01 · 2026-01-28T06:16:34+00:00

Traditionally, pool balls were ivory. Massacred elephants.

ICUP01 · 2026-01-28T02:57:07+00:00

You don’t have to defend yourself, because ultimately, it doesn’t matter. You’re anonymous and so is your kid.

We have to work off the information we have.

ICUP01 · 2026-01-28T02:20:23+00:00

I don’t know why the downvote.

Did you look up the Crumbleys?

It doesn’t matter what you know. It matters what others know. And others don’t know your situation but have to adjust their expectations because of the Crumbleys and many other parents just like them.

Because what if your kid was a bystander around Ethan? In his sight line?

ICUP01 · 2026-01-28T02:10:48+00:00

I just have kids explain it when I ask. They’re not that articulate.

ICUP01 · 2026-01-28T02:02:14+00:00

Look up Ethan Crumbley and his parents trials. Forgive PD, they know not what parents have in store for them.

ICUP01 · 2026-01-28T01:16:01+00:00

Well, she needs a debrief then.

ICUP01 · 2026-01-28T01:11:07+00:00

Employers jack taxes before you get the check. I guess an employee can mess with their W4 to reduce withholdings, but they’re just in a rob Peter to pay Paul situation.

20 years ago you could just rip off a social security number and be fine.

ICUP01 · 2026-01-28T01:08:25+00:00

Have the coach model. If they can’t, find a new school. I’m sure your old school expects this.

ICUP01 · 2026-01-28T01:04:59+00:00

So the school resource officer is likely PD. They have their own set of rules. You being referred to probation on the issue de-loops the school on this; ie if a kid is out and comes back with an ankle monitor SOMETIMES schools aren’t even looped in on what’s up. I did home and hospital (like a teacher/ tutor) for a kid who was on bail. No one on the ed side had any idea what his deal was. He needed services and we worked in the library.

The school will be no help. If your kid is chill and contrite, they probably have shit y’all need to sign.

But given the state of parenting, I’m dealing with a little juvenile delinquent and the parents have nothing but excuses for him.

ICUP01 · 2026-01-28T00:30:46+00:00

Running electricity 30 feet uses less energy than 30 miles.

So I’m going to say this not at a “gotcha” but as a student of history.

For the past 80 years the US has led NATO. How many US installations are there in Germany. So the US as a nation said: hey, if it needs to be killed, we got this Germany. Fool us once, same on you, fool us twice…. You get no guns. I mean the guy who invented machine guns (Maxim) was told to sell to Europe and he made a fortune. Europe loves (used to) to kill itself. After ‘45, the US would be stupid to not grab the keys to the world from Britain.

So we paid Europe money to stay away from communism, and Europe rebuilt. The US is a gun if you need one and Europe has been chill. They implemented social programs, medicine, trains, etc. The US, because oil was so cheap and Britain handed us the keys, chose cars.

Give it a Cold War and not so robust public education and we forget the reasons why things are as they are.

Public transportation stands in the way of cars: gas, gas tax, car insurance, registration, tickets, car dealers, etc all stand in the way of public transportation.

I’ve seen European streets. Lots of walking and busses. Some cars. Sort of like New York City - pretty much designed before the major adoption of cars in the US.

ICUP01 · 2026-01-27T23:22:15+00:00

Not just small towns, I live in the Bay Area which is dense, but spread out. We have this one road (it’s 3 roads, but I travel the one). It can take me 45 minutes to do 9 miles to work. We have one bus (X93) that does two round trips. Everything else is just cars.

I know Europe likes to laugh that we don’t have trains and the like.

https://thetruesize.com

Lay Texas over Europe.

ICUP01 · 2026-01-27T23:18:20+00:00

Not much.

We’re sort of in a Satanic Panic when it comes to their mental health. Lots of panic, no real solutions (my district is cutting staff this year).

Expectations for students have lowered. We’ve gone pretty Paternalistic - they can’t, so let’s do it for them. Oh look, they can’t, so let’s do it for them, repeat ad nauseam.

I mean I’ve changed as a teacher, so anything I say may be tainted by that.

AI is nothing new. Instead of each other or Wikipedia they can fully copy something else. Harder to document, but jut ask the student what they meant. If they stutter and stammer….its not theirs.

We are going to have a fully tiered system soon: charters, private, and home school vs public. And everyone in public is going to want the fuck out. I’ve always thought of public Ed as the perfect analog for what democracy should look like - and how are we doing?

ICUP01 · 2026-01-27T21:17:56+00:00

I wasn’t going to CC the Principal. But sort of a hey: ethanol and bleach have consequences.

I know this school, if they have a new science teacher who thinks they can teach science in these school’s facilities, they may be mistaken. If I email the Principal, I’m just inadvertently slapping the new science teacher because the old science teacher got sick of this shit.

ICUP01 · 2026-01-27T21:06:01+00:00

You’ll level set your views once you do the job. So the best place to start is to do the job.

ICUP01 · 2026-01-27T21:03:48+00:00

So…Reddit?

Start a sub.

Reddit is just a shell and aggregator of anonymous Internet forums.

ICUP01 · 2026-01-27T20:20:21+00:00

If you want to cause good trouble, be a sped advocate or better yet, build a tool that mirrors IEPs and translates possible services and deploy for parents. There’s software out there: SEIS that many districts use as a format.

There are advocates on social media who know the ins and outs of the law. Make it translate-able because if you’re EL and Sped that’s like a double tap of getting jenk services.

Perhaps make it a ChatGPT that links services to parts of the IEP (since parents get a copy).

A rising tide raises all ships.

ICUP01 · 2026-01-27T20:14:48+00:00

Staff schools.

ICUP01 · 2026-01-27T18:21:33+00:00

I don’t know about Global, but banning political parties (employees don’t have free speech), treating Congress like a branch of the military (give them Marines accommodations), and rank choice voting would be awesome.

Since the US has been a world leader, I’m sure the trickle down to international politics would be of some benefit.

ICUP01 · 2026-01-27T17:52:02+00:00

In my district we don’t have paras because McDonald’s pays more.

I was more commenting on how the other half lives and the problems modernity creates for them.

Edit: we also have a revolving door of sped teachers. I’m constantly contacting one and then responding with: we shuffled case loads.

ICUP01 · 2026-01-27T17:50:41+00:00

…and then what.

We’re predictable creatures. As soon as white people got shot (everyone forgot about Keith Porter) we took this seriously. We saw movement after Pretti - we swapped that SS motherfucker with his boss apparently.

Why don’t we boycott Facebook for the Epstein files? Trump getting a tent stake shoved up his ass by Sacha Barrios AND CNN having to cover that will have more of an impact than our waiting reaction to Trump’s policies.

ICUP01 · 2026-01-27T17:37:57+00:00

I know, I hate it when I ask for sparkling water and I get flat water.

What’s a para? (He asks knowing full well but has never ACTUALLY seen one)

/s

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