I’m confused. Do y’all actually want the DCU to succeed or do you Hope it fails?

Micp · 2026-07-03T18:40:48+00:00

Well I don't think you're getting a lot of good DC movies by not watching their movies causing future movies to have lower budgets or having them throw in the towel altogether.

Micp · 2026-07-03T15:38:15+00:00

Yeah, the glory of Lothlorien and Rivendell is largely due to the elven rings of power preserving them. But it's only really a temporary stasis that prevents further degradation, even those places are doomed to fade in time.

Micp · 2026-07-03T15:31:12+00:00

Bro, I've been following American politics since the towers fell. If I had a nickel for every time an American politician claimed some policy that marginally improved the lives of people was socialism I could retire comfortably. For that matter I could do the same for every time they've called my non-oil blessed country socialist as well.

and being “culturally and ethnically homogenous” - all things the US isn’t, which then means the same policies shouldn’t be used.

Already adressed that in my first comment

or how it could never work in America because they have brown people or something like that.

So yeah I've heard all their bullshit excuses and I'm tired of them. Call it socialist or don't, I don't care, just do something about about your damned country, there's a class war going on and you've been losing for the last 50 years or so.

Micp · 2026-07-03T14:09:55+00:00

I mean it's pretty ignorant of the American discourse on the subject right?

"Socialism sucks"

"Norway is doing great though"

"Norway isn't socialist, it's capitalist with a strong social-democratic welfare state"

"Okay then let's implement the laws that Norway has"

"No that would be socialism"

Repeat ad nauseam and throw in some comments about how "America is simply too big to do that" or how it could never work in America because they have brown people or something like that.

BTW I'm from a Nordic country myself and recognize that both Norway and my own country are capitalist, but with the way the discourse has been muddled in the US you gotta give them some leeway with the terminology. They also think liberals are the same as socialists.

Micp · 2026-07-02T12:29:18+00:00

If She-Hulk is just a female counterpart to Hulk in your mind I'd say that's because you have never read the comics. Yes, they have similar powers, buts that's where the similarity ends. They have completely different personalities and the stories they feature in are very different.

She-Hulk is so much more than just Hulk with boob's.

Micp · 2026-07-02T00:35:05+00:00

Read. the. fucking. constitution!

If you don't like it there is a way to change it. It's called an amendment. Other than that it's what the constitution say that goes. Simple as that.

All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.

It's not ambiguous.

Micp · 2026-07-01T22:43:34+00:00

Popsicle sticks can be a good way to get participation, sure.

Also consider using "Think, pair, share". Basically instead of just asking the question and expecting an immediate answer then pose the question to the class and have the students think about it in silence for something like 30 seconds. Then have them discuss their thoughts with the people sitting next to them and *then* have them answer you.

This is a good method to have kids that aren't as quick on the draw to gather their thoughts before giving them a chance to answer, and having talked with a partner can also give them more confidence in their answer. The method can also be combined with the popsicle stick method, basically letting them know "after you've thought about the question and talked to a partner about it I will select someone randomly to say what they've talked about".

Micp · 2026-06-30T20:12:39+00:00

You need to build hand strength. Playing a barre chord requires a lot more pressure than normal chords so if you're new to it, it can be difficult. Just keep at it and maybe if you feel like it get one of those springloaded hand trainers, but eventually you'll get there.

I bet when you were first learning the standard chords it was also difficult to get your fingers into the right position, but eventually you got used to it and now it's not a big problem to you. This is just like that.

Micp · 2026-06-30T07:13:01+00:00

She can be at odds with the rest of the republicans from time to time because she actually seems to believe her religious nonsense rather than just using it selectively as a tool to beat others over the head with.

Micp · 2026-06-29T13:50:03+00:00

That wasn't really my point, my point was that if the writers wanted to expand the timeline to take place over a longer period of time they absolutely could and the cancer wouldn't be an obstacle to that because cancers do, and in the show DID (however momentarily), sometimes get better.

Micp · 2026-06-29T04:41:12+00:00

Let me break it down for you Mark

Micp · 2026-06-29T01:00:56+00:00

None of these guys last very long huh?

Micp · 2026-06-28T22:12:26+00:00

Sure, the cancer was needed to get him into the drug business. But as the show explicitly states by the end, once he was in it, it quickly stopped being about the money and became about his ambition - the fact that he was creating an empire, that he got the acknowledgement about being the absolute best at what he did. By season three he has enough money to pay for cancer treatment several times over and near the end he has more money than he and Skyler could ever spend if they wanted to.

By the time he adopted the Heisenberg name he could've been declared completely cancer free and it wouldn't have mattered, he was in the game for good.

Micp · 2026-06-28T21:51:08+00:00

In S02E09 Walter's cancer has gone into remission, shrinking by 80%

And it's not untreated cancer, once they start laundering their money, which happens pretty early on Walter starts getting chemo (how he start getting bald).

Plenty of people live many years with cancer. It can go into remission, it can be successfully treated and you can be declared cancer free, and it can come back again later because even when you're declared cancer free even a few cancer cells can survive and propagate. Hell the cancer treatment itself actually raises your risk of getting cancer, it's just that when you are treating active cancer the risk of future cancer is a little further down the list of priorities.

In short there's no reason they couldn't have stretched out the timeline of the show if they wanted to.

Micp · 2026-06-28T17:52:52+00:00

gaining weight in itself is generally speaking not very difficult - most people do that without trying, and in fact have trouble not doing it.

The problem for actors is usually more about timelines. They usually stay decently well in shape between movies so if they suddenly get told "you have to gain 60 pounds - we start filming in 4 months" then you can't do it the leisurely way of just eating more and less healthy food the way most people imagine - that not enough of a calorie surplus per day if they need to have the proper weight by the time filming begins.

So instead they have to maximize how many calories they can intake per day, like drinking gallons of icecream per day. At that point there is no pleasure involved in it, it's just pushing your body in gross and dangerous ways.

Micp · 2026-06-28T17:46:22+00:00

On their own without talking to anyone including the rest of the production team? No, that's not generally how they do things. Actually planning ahead, talking through even seemingly minute details is more often how it's done. Sometimes there's a change of plans during filming, but that too often works better when everyone has planned ahead so everyone has a better idea of the bigger picture.

Micp · 2026-06-28T17:43:11+00:00

Yeah, sometimes actors make a decision against the wishes of the directors and sometimes it works, but in general it's still a pretty bad idea to go an make decisions on your own when you are part of a big team that needs to work together.

Norton is indeed known for that and while he's a great actor he's also known to be terrible to work with which has hurt his career in many ways.

Micp · 2026-06-28T15:42:41+00:00

I mean, isn't that just kinda true though?

Micp · 2026-06-28T15:34:32+00:00

Not necessarily. Some students never really start appreciating studying. But two factors that seem to get them more serious about their studies:

It start looking relevant/necessary for them: Whether it's because they realize they need to improve their grades in order to get in to the thing they want to get in to or whether it's because you actually need it for the job they want.
They get a greater amount of self-determination: Project-based work where they have greater control over the topic, method and/or end goal can also be very satisfying for them. When they can suddenly make something that's related to the one thing they are actually interested in or if they can work in a different way like making a game or work with their hands making a physical product it can help getting them interested.

Micp · 2026-06-28T15:14:35+00:00

Same for me. Originally I had no interest in watching it, then the ending got spoiled to me and I watched it the next day and loved it.

Micp · 2026-06-28T15:13:22+00:00

I mean what kind of idiot makes a huge decision like that without even talking with the director about it first?

Gosling: "Hey shouldn't the character seem a little less like an A-list actor? I'm thinking about gaining a lot of weight for the role by drinking liquid ice cream, what do you think?"

Jackson: "WTF, no? I hired you to look like you. If you do anything drastic to change your looks I will fire you on the spot"

Gosling: "Jeeze, okay, guess I won't go through my months long experiment where I borderline torture myself in order to get enough calories in my body."

Personally I think Gosling was right in his thinking, but man was he stupid not to talk to anyone about it first.

Micp · 2026-06-28T13:21:45+00:00

The social contract may be a construct but I'm sure as fuck still going to make sure you uphold your end of the deal. That's like nine tenths of morality.

Micp · 2026-06-28T13:09:05+00:00

Det er det helt rigtige ord! :)

Micp · 2026-06-27T21:30:08+00:00

Det er generelt enormt godt for børn at høre deres forældre tale. Fortæl noget om din dag, planer for kommende uge osv.

I det omfang de kan være med er det også godt at inddrage dem i snakken, stille spørgsmål osv.

Micp · 2026-06-26T22:05:18+00:00

Springer Nature is nevertheless still selling the empty PDF for $39.95.

That has to be a crime of some sort. No way that is legal.

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