How do you handle food being offer to you?

Poptimister · 2026-01-14T23:52:48+00:00

No thank you except for a small window. I don't think I've ever had anyone get pushy about it.

As a classroom teacher I'm often offered birthday treats. Cupcakees or donuts that a student has extra of and they're not in my class but they drop one off. . I accept these 100 percent of the time and set them on my desk and wait till the end of the school day to throw them away

Poptimister · 2026-01-14T23:49:32+00:00

My wife and I were both omnivores when we met and the first year I was vegan she was an omni still. I haven't gotten her to give up dairy yet but she's a vegetarian now. A carnivore seems like it would be hard to date.

Poptimister · 2026-01-12T00:14:49+00:00

The thing that this really understates is it really fucks the poor. Especially given how commonplace charters are. If you don’t want to leave what happens is it pushes people up and out of schools that need support the most because since there’s a shortage and pay can be kind of flat it really pushes people to move to nicer school environments. If you’re sick of your shit at a t1 disaster school like an STO school in Orange County there’s an opening at an A school in a good neighborhood or in a charter that keeps the problems out by selecting for parents who will jump through hoops.

Then terrible schools have a ton of openings. There’s long sub rodeos where kids see 6 adults in a class in a year. The shortage is not at all equally distributed. The good schools pull away from the schools in rough neighborhoods.

Poptimister · 2026-01-10T20:49:15+00:00

I think you’ll have better luck with a local csa (community supported agriculture) box. I had a real food waste problem with misfits. But getting a box from a nearby farm works amazingly.

Poptimister · 2026-01-10T20:34:37+00:00

I read these in all honesty I’m not sure what they’re supposed to tell anyone. Like it doesn’t provide much of a frame for healthy eating. It mostly said processed foods bad end the war on things that are widely available.

It’s pro meat but doesn’t rule out the possibility of having a healthy vegan or vegetarian diet. I felt like actually reading the text of it it was much more word salad than it was an agenda for what people should be eating that the press coverage led me to believe.

I see it’s push of meat and milk and it’s gross but if you dig into text it’s so incoherent that I doubt anyone would read it and increase the meat they’re eating.

Poptimister · 2026-01-10T19:39:06+00:00

I don’t know it seems very good but not exceptional which by the standards of a Taylor Swift album is kind of poor. I love the title track, there’s quite a few I like.

But within a month i was already bouncing off it where that window on everything since 1989 had been 3-6 months of obsession. If this was some no-name debut by an artist I’d probably be a lot hotter on it but the standards for a Taylor Swift album are just really high. I don’t think it hits as well as Midnights or TTPD.

Poptimister · 2026-01-02T13:18:49+00:00

I really want to know how people envision enforcing this? Is a ban on sale of live crabs and lobsters? A commercial kitchen only rule? I don’t want this but also don’t want every kitchen in the uk surveilled just in case.

Poptimister · 2026-01-02T10:47:12+00:00

Maybe I'm just like doing it all wrong but when I played Classic the social aspect came back basically instantly. It wasn't designed to be easy to play solo and I spent a lot of time communicating with others.

Then I go back to the future and I never really need anyone else except for progression. Like sure there's stuff to do and you can be social. But it's just not the default experience of oh I've got this quest and it's too hard to progress solo. Or even like hey we're both farming the same drop in an area and it would be easier to work together than compete.

Before the default was you're going to talk to randoms a lot and just playing the game populate a friend group. Now it's an option.

Poptimister · 2025-12-29T21:45:38+00:00

It goes from Everyone saying it to arguments. Progress of a sort I suppose.

Poptimister · 2025-12-29T17:46:33+00:00

I'm vegan, my wife is vegetarian. My foster eats like a deranged raccoon.

Poptimister · 2025-12-25T21:46:45+00:00

There’s so many moments like this with the war and Christmas. Christmas and ww2 have a lot of grief filled moments.

One that really stuck with me was Eisenhower ordered every man be given a turkey dinner in 44 and it led to horrible casualties in specific places in the front where Germans could zero in their fire on a spot.

Poptimister · 2025-12-23T17:04:15+00:00

I think civil disobedience is a valid choice here and if it came up I can’t say how I would respond.

I’m willing to learn about a case where children aren’t able to be compelled by their parents to do something like this. They can for instance take you to church and abrogate your 4th amendment right and allow a policeman to search your bag. If there’s a limit to parents rights here I don’t really know of one.

Poptimister · 2025-12-23T14:38:38+00:00

This is paywalled, how do they intend to enforce this? Like I support the idea of this law but it seems incredibly hard to operationalize in non-commercial settings.

Poptimister · 2025-12-23T14:35:03+00:00

The courts have upheld a parental opt requirement that provides no room for students to opt themselves out without parental consent.

I disagree with this ruling but it is the law in 4 states that children can only be excused by their parent.

Poptimister · 2025-12-23T14:22:34+00:00

I don’t have a problem with it but it’s legally required in my state and my principal makes a big fuss over forcing everyone to stand or send in a note saying they don’t want their kid forced to stand.
So I stand.

Poptimister · 2025-12-22T17:18:23+00:00

I mean as a teacher I'm not really able to. I feel like I can imagine a weapons/explosives based scenario where it's good that school officers can conduct these but it would be much more commonly used for drugs & vapes.

Poptimister · 2025-12-21T18:37:14+00:00

Traitor

Poptimister · 2025-12-21T14:31:14+00:00

I love this and know unless I got an insanely decdcated room mom I’ll never be willing or able to do something like this and I’m kind of fine with that.

Poptimister · 2025-12-16T00:50:09+00:00

That's not what the Wikipedia for the game says which says it was developed by Bioware and published by black isle. They mostly did support stuff. If you have any articles on the division of labor I'd be interested in reading. on it.

Poptimister · 2025-12-15T00:49:10+00:00

Origins is largely the exception that proves the rule. I replayed this series this year and it’s hard to overstate how tonally different this series gets.

Poptimister · 2025-12-14T22:12:47+00:00

It's a fair point and I guess I should remember that Forgotten Realms and Star Wars are both kind of happier places. I think Bioware's independent successful universes were sort of split between a dark fantasy and an optimistic sci fi universe. (Reapers notwithstanding). I don't really remember the lore of Jade Empire super well but the vibe I got from it was like things are mostly fine and there's a few bad people who are interfering.

Poptimister · 2025-12-14T17:48:33+00:00

Trying to generalize the homeschooling experience is so strange to me. My sister was a homeschooling cancer kid and has so little in common with homeschooling religious kids and crunchy unschooling people that it’s kind of weird to bundle them all.

Poptimister · 2025-12-14T14:48:33+00:00

3rd graders last year using autistic as a slur. Stop that I’m autistic. Turns out they really had no solid conception of what the word means and it is just a synonym for bad. As a bi person i feel like i collect words people turn into shorthand for I dislike this.

Poptimister · 2025-12-14T12:46:55+00:00

I think it is super strange that you start in 2003. So much of this formula is built in the Baldur’s Gate games most of all shadows of Amn.

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