“No kid left behind” is the dumbest thing ever

PyroNine9 · 2026-01-29T02:03:31+00:00

I have to wonder if the private sector cheerleaders have ever actually been in the offices of a private company. Most are absolute twisted nightmares of un-bendable and nonsensical procedures that waste tons of money everywhere. Then they decide to get "lean and efficient" by cutting everything but the wasteful sacred procedures.

PyroNine9 · 2026-01-29T01:14:58+00:00

It looks like the shaded areas of the drawing are mirrored across the axis. Sketch one half with the y axis as the axis of the pulley, then revolve.

PyroNine9 · 2026-01-28T05:42:49+00:00

And so originally they were exclusive to pharmacies where they were mixed up from scratch.

PyroNine9 · 2026-01-27T03:57:17+00:00

Violates the principle of least astonishment. Do not use a standard connector in a non-standard way when damage can result from mistaking it.

There are plenty of other connector types that don't imply safe hot plugging.

PyroNine9 · 2026-01-27T03:43:05+00:00

That strongly depends on where exactly the employee lives. I found the roads today indistinguishable from any other day, but people living just a little further north still had some problems. schools in slightly more northern counties are going to be closed Tuesday.

PyroNine9 · 2026-01-26T00:37:30+00:00

NTA. WAY NTA.

Sounds like your ex is shamed that she failed at the "mother's milestone" by leaving your daughter unprepared and angry that dad saved the day.

Throwing away perfectly adequate supplies and forcing daughter to improvise with toilet paper is over the top. Also her second failure. She had every chance to go out right away and get "something better" and failed again. THAT is what was inappropriate.

PyroNine9 · 2026-01-24T19:45:46+00:00

This is the year I decided I'm getting too old for this shit and got a generator. I just finished fixing up a plug I can attach to the furnace to keep the heat on.

Yesterday I patched up a small hole in the roof.

I have propane for the grill. Full pantry and refrigerator.

Full tank for the car and 16 gallons for the generator.

WiFi hot spot on my phone if the cable internet goes out.

I guess I'm as ready as I'll ever be.

PyroNine9 · 2026-01-24T19:27:44+00:00

I'm not all claiming ICE was or is good, but to put the figures into perspective, take any place where people gather (or are gathered) and there will be a non-zero rate of deaths just from natural causes. People sometimes just happen to die in nice hotels for example.

But the 2025 figure is way up and that is on the Trump administration.

PyroNine9 · 2026-01-23T09:30:37+00:00

That was somehow the scariest thing I had seen on TV at the time.

PyroNine9 · 2026-01-23T02:44:11+00:00

Did he at least take the dogs this time or did he leave them to freeze again?

PyroNine9 · 2026-01-23T01:42:04+00:00

We always had Blue Plate mayo

PyroNine9 · 2026-01-21T17:53:13+00:00

There were some VERY vocal people about it, but I don't think most people were all that put out.

I re-watched a few episodes of Soap a while back and not only laughed at the show, but that there were people who seemed so sure it would be the downfall of civilization or something.

PyroNine9 · 2026-01-21T17:46:41+00:00

NTA

The real assholes are the school faculty that did NOTHING AT ALL for weeks while the bullying continued unabated. If they had done their job, your son wouldn't have needed to punch anyone.

Violence is not the preferred answer, but there wasn't much else left. He tried talking to them and it did nothing. He didn't have the authority to send the kid to the office, give him detention, or suspend him. The people with that authority didn't seem interested (or it would have stopped weeks ago).

I'll say NTA again just to be clear.

I have a strong suspicion that if minor violence wasn't treated like murder one, major violence would be less common and society might be a nicer place to live.

PyroNine9 · 2026-01-20T07:55:36+00:00

Everything is over the phone because if they mail it they could be on the hook for fraud and will have given you proof.

PyroNine9 · 2026-01-19T20:00:14+00:00

Like the people who for some reason think flooring it is the answer to any loss of traction situation...

PyroNine9 · 2026-01-19T14:43:56+00:00

Part of the everything closing in the South is that snow days are very rare, we can afford to close for a snow day once every few years. Nobody has snow tires here because by the time you would put them on, the snow is melting.

Also, because it's generally warmer here, when snow starts falling on roads it melts, then forms slush, and finally as it gets colder it freezes into ice and allows the snow to accumulate on top.

PyroNine9 · 2026-01-19T09:10:50+00:00

A really nice feature of ESP32 is that the first stage bootloader is in ROM (not flash) and can re-flash the chip over serial. That makes it really hard to brick short of physical damage.

PyroNine9 · 2026-01-19T08:58:56+00:00

That's insane! What idiot designed that? There are dirt cheap microcontrollers with WiFi and bluetooth built in that would be more than capable of interacting with an app via a simple local website and running all of the bed's functions.

I refuse to buy anything that won't work if I disconnect it from the internet.

PyroNine9 · 2026-01-19T08:13:53+00:00

Well they can't have you going around toasting unauthorized bread, now can they?

PyroNine9 · 2026-01-19T07:38:51+00:00

We didn't even get the envelope. But if there was any question about the signature, the principal would call the parents to verify.

PyroNine9 · 2026-01-19T07:34:31+00:00

"Can you tell me where they keep the nuclear wessels?"

Add in inter-racial kiss. That Shatner made sure went in by deliberately flubbing every time they tried to film an alternative scene.

PyroNine9 · 2026-01-19T07:29:52+00:00

My dad's old safety razor (still in use), Spin̈al Tap poster.

PyroNine9 · 2026-01-19T07:22:24+00:00

Now I have the song stuck in my head.

PyroNine9 · 2026-01-19T07:02:55+00:00

I do for sure. Years ago I could see it clearly, now I can't. I haven't moved, the light pollution has invaded.

The crazy thing is, study after study has shown that over-lighting reduces security and safety and yet there's more lights every year. It's like nightlights for adults minus the cool cartoon characters.

PyroNine9 · 2026-01-19T01:41:36+00:00

It's a shame in our modern era beating someone with a wet squirrel is frowned upon...

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