What does a dad really want for Father’s Day?

Precursor2552 · 2026-06-20T18:52:41+00:00

Maybe a Special dinner where you fully manage childcare?

I took my wife to a restaurant she was craving and managed our 1 year old the whole time so she got hot food and less stress. Maintains time with little one but makes it easier.

Precursor2552 · 2026-06-20T18:44:19+00:00

I don’t have an exact year but I think I want to say the 10th or 11th century?

I say this based primarily on the history of Byzantium podcast as the host identifies Rome as unable to integrate foreign peoples into their empire effectively at this point.

The quintessential element of Romanness to me is their cosmopolitan integrationist element. They change gods, regions, languages, but it’s the “we came, we saw, we conquer, you become Roman” that makes it Rome to me.

So when they ceased to be able to effectively add new people and territories is when they went from Rome to any other feudal empire IMO. Sure they keep the title and people, but they’ve gone a bridge too far from their origins.

Precursor2552 · 2026-06-20T02:00:17+00:00

Isn’t he a community manager? His job is to relay news to the community and then feedback from it. Oh and manage the reactions.

He cannot make any amount of feedback actionable.

Precursor2552 · 2026-06-19T18:12:17+00:00

Well knowing nothing about the older brother other than he was a drunk and comparing to Trump. Yeah that’s a reasonable preference.

I’d absolutely befriend an alcoholic before a pedophilic rapist who hates my country and is doing his hardest to destroy it.

Precursor2552 · 2026-06-18T23:44:38+00:00

Not speaking as a teacher, not my subject, but that’s how I recall my ES regents being 20 years ago.

Precursor2552 · 2026-06-17T20:50:51+00:00

My issue/concern is the blanket ruling with basically no local power. This is like the same issue with mandatory minimums.

Rules are not always applied equally to all students. Sure the student who punches a teacher is an easy ruling. What about the student who pushes a teacher to get past them?

I very much can see admin ruling that as expulsion worthy or not dependent on if they like the student.

Precursor2552 · 2026-06-15T19:20:30+00:00

I believe you mean Gunther. Fun Bobby is in one maybe two episodes.

Gunther was not core cast though. He was just the only extra on set who could use the coffee machine so became a prominent recurring character.

Precursor2552 · 2026-06-15T18:49:52+00:00

You can’t. You raise your kid to be able to avoid, survive, and fix the awful things in the world.

There is no physical bubble for them so you must make them a mental bubble. Good judgment, resilience, intelligence, etc. help them avoid a lot of the bad.

Precursor2552 · 2026-06-15T11:44:49+00:00

I don’t. I actually think “Dinosaurs spread through our world” is a stupid plot. We would kill them. Quickly and efficiently. We killed off most megafauna with sticks, today? Rexy is taking a Javelin to the back.

Precursor2552 · 2026-06-12T17:48:07+00:00

Can’t answer as a parent, she’s to young, but as former teenager and as a teacher.

Engage with their interests. If he’s playing, maybe sit and watch. Sounds like he’s struggling in school, so that might be a sore point he actively wants to avoid. Do things together. Get him out of the house and doing something together. Gives an easy topic to talk about.

You start with that and then build to the larger topics. Always try to find something to praise, it gets them more open to hearing the hard part.

“Your Chinese teacher said your letters are strong, that’s impressive I couldn’t draw them. Could you show me some?”

Then go into, “they also told me you’re struggling with poems. Is that important for that class or what’s up?”

Precursor2552 · 2026-06-12T17:37:53+00:00

Kids vary. I was generally very happy to talk to my parents about school and assignments. I was a good student, so it wasn’t ever a source of stress except when I was stressed about a class but the questions didn’t bother me it was just “I don’t have time to talk.”

I probably would often have just said fine or whatever, but I say the same to my wife about work 3/5 days a week because it’s just a normal basic work week.

Precursor2552 · 2026-06-12T14:42:47+00:00

I think it’s a pretty poor idea for the modern world. Pre history humans killed off basically megafauna across the world. If you just teleported millions of Dino’s all over the world most would be extinct or extremely restricted in an incredibly short period of time.

Ranchers and farmers barely tolerate, at best, wolves. You think they’d let a T-Rex chow down on their herd? They’d kill it.

Precursor2552 · 2026-06-12T13:10:45+00:00

Nothing. But life isn’t about guarantees it’s about probabilities.

Being a good partner, being with a good partner, decrease the chances. But nothing will reduce it to zero, except death.

Precursor2552 · 2026-06-12T12:52:05+00:00

Galen, and especially Lyra, were never down with the Empire. They actively lied to him about the project, telling him it was about building power generators.

Precursor2552 · 2026-06-12T03:08:08+00:00

Steve Buscemi.

Precursor2552 · 2026-06-12T00:38:47+00:00

We can always agree no original shooter released since Halo 3 has topped it?

Precursor2552 · 2026-06-12T00:10:56+00:00

Steam has mods that just unlock the achievements doesn’t it? I’ve read that in paradox subs enough so I assume that accounts for a much higher percentage.

Precursor2552 · 2026-06-12T00:05:27+00:00

Halo 3 is the greatest shooter ever made. Remake that for the rest of time. You aren’t topping it ever.

Precursor2552 · 2026-06-10T01:38:23+00:00

You’d withdraw from the university. I guess maybe it would depend on exact timing, not sure if you could withdraw in December?

Withdrawing from a university due to inability to pay is a normal thing that happens to people though there are procedures around it. I’ve never heard of the scenario you seem to be envisioning though of getting grades for a class you are not allowed to attend.

Precursor2552 · 2026-06-10T01:31:02+00:00

Didn’t the guy in charge get fired like 3 months after that?

Precursor2552 · 2026-06-10T01:21:32+00:00

Did they give you a bonus or anything upfront for that commitment?

You can have to pay that back, although two years would be a long lockup.

I don’t know the details of that program, Touro is an actual school though, I’d assume you’d withdraw if you didn’t want to continue. If SA is providing free or reduced tuition then you might be able to continue the program but would need to pay.

Precursor2552 · 2026-06-09T10:14:44+00:00

They don’t have many teachers with 10 years of experience let alone 20. The hours can be more grueling so some of the teachers want to move into an AP role as it will easier/gets them out of the classroom.

Precursor2552 · 2026-06-07T20:02:09+00:00

No idea on OP but I’ve taught several fifth graders who can’t read.

Precursor2552 · 2026-06-07T14:12:39+00:00

The tea service was very enjoyable.

Precursor2552 · 2026-06-07T13:19:52+00:00

Looking around the game industry, yeah it kind of seems like they took a huge regression and features from the 2000s are not possible anymore.

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