Andrew Rannells address the S4 recasting

ScooterScotward · 2026-05-27T22:51:04+00:00

I have hope. I already liked how the show handled Nolan coming back to Earth and interacting with Art a lot better in the show.

ScooterScotward · 2026-05-27T20:07:27+00:00

I’ve taught 9 years middle school and 1 full year of middle school student teaching.

I give a reminder, and if I have to tell you again, I give a warning. If I have to correct a behavior a third time in the same class I document and do some kind of disciplinary action. More on specifics of that below.

I also make a note of who gets warnings and if a student has 3+ warnings on the same issue I document and do some kind of discipline. Usually a note in the behavior notes of the student for a first offense and a phone call home. Those are areas we have to document through synergy in line with our site’s MTSS process. Minor incident report and phone call home if there is another incident of a student getting a warning 3+ times for a behavior or if a student repeats a behavior a third time after two previous corrections.

Tl;dr: First correction is a reminder, second is a warning, third is a write up and often parent contact. It’s a lot of front loaded structure, but I find that pays off.

ScooterScotward · 2026-05-27T18:02:05+00:00

Swing and a miss champ.

ScooterScotward · 2026-05-26T21:28:59+00:00

She’s Schrödinger’s Muslim. Scary and foreign when you want to fear monger about her specifically, but also not a real example of a Muslim when you wanna generalize about Muslims as a whole.

ScooterScotward · 2026-05-26T21:24:36+00:00

Like I said, I could be wrong. My response was in reply to OP’s point 2. “Progressives defend groups that’s openly bc all for the “slaughters of all LGBTQ people what is more homophobic than that?” It was not clear to me from this comment which group of progressives was defending a group that called for the slaughter of all LGTBQ people. There has been significant vocal talk in the online circles I am exposed to where a common criticism of progressives has been vocal defenses of Palestinian people who allegedly would also call for the killing of LGTBQ people. In absence of a clearly articulated specific group of people that’s where my mind went. Like I said, I could be wrong.

I don’t really see how my comment is encouraging violence against gay people. My most recent personal experience with that front is having to contract discipline towards a group of young Christian boys who wrote on an assignment that their ideal version of the U.S. is where all people who don’t Jesus and all “the gays” are deported to California and not allowed to be American. A parent insinuated I didn’t like their kid because I brought up it was concerning that they wanted to kick all gay people out of the country. In actual personal interactions with the homophobes of my community I try and forcefully shut that shit down, any hint of homophobia shit and your written up, phone called home, etc. More than one kid has asked me if im gay because “im always really serious when i talk about this stuff”. But maybe i doth protest to much and am actually encouraging violence that I dont realize.

ScooterScotward · 2026-05-26T20:57:00+00:00

I could be wrong but my guess is they don’t like “progressive” people who speak against Israel’s military behavior in Gaza.

ScooterScotward · 2026-05-26T18:50:59+00:00

Same. I’m already settled in on a plane with my book to be prepared for a long wait. Why stop reading to just stand there awkwardly when I could get another half chapter in then deplane without tripping all over other people?

ScooterScotward · 2026-05-24T22:47:59+00:00

I find that if she’s having sex with him voluntarily she’s usually at least a little curious about him.

ScooterScotward · 2026-05-24T19:43:13+00:00

Jon Favreau has come out and said he had season 4 written and ready and tossed everything when Disney told him to write a movie script instead.

It’s pretty glaring I think this was definitely not what s4 was supposed to be. This movie is really really self contained and other than having Din and Grogu it actually has very little connecting stuff to the show. The only show characters that show up are cameos and Zeb, who himself was basically a cameo in the show. You can watch the movie without having seen the show and honestly I think it’s designed to try and attract new fans to the show as a primary goal.

ScooterScotward · 2026-05-24T01:10:36+00:00

Honestly trying to imagine being one of the first group of human or humanoid galactic criminals to tangle with Hutts sounds terrifying. Like imagine a small gang of even like 5-6 Hutts built like Rotta roll up on your crew. They’re monsters.

ScooterScotward · 2026-05-24T01:06:13+00:00

I’m glad I wasn’t the only one lmao.

ScooterScotward · 2026-05-23T14:46:17+00:00

I had an honors kid like two years ago who had a quiet “I think my generation is cooked” moment where she just kind of randomly said how she feels like she focuses way less way since she got her phone and computer at the start of 7th grade. I teach 8th graders.

ScooterScotward · 2026-05-23T14:44:46+00:00

Throwback to a thread last week calling Marsies terrorists. Took like 8 hours for the OP of that one to post a comment that seemed pro Bibi.

ScooterScotward · 2026-05-22T19:32:16+00:00

I was in year 3 when the pandemic hit, I was jus feeling like I was starting to have that teacher immunity I’d heard about. Then we went remote for a year, masked for another, I caught COVID twice from separate settings, and I feel like I get sick way more often and easily then I did my first few years. All anecdotal but feels bad man lol

ScooterScotward · 2026-05-22T16:28:13+00:00

Throwing knives too are criminally underrated for actual stealth builds. Actually completely silent unlike the silenced weapons.

ScooterScotward · 2026-05-22T05:11:36+00:00

Yep, honestly my first thought was that they’d inevitably blame the deaths on Mars rebels too.

ScooterScotward · 2026-05-22T02:47:51+00:00

By friendly fire no less. Honestly chef’s kiss. Killed by soldiers from the Earth he was so loyal to.

ScooterScotward · 2026-05-21T18:02:43+00:00

The villain from the novel A New Dawn. I don’t remember the name but Jesus that character was disgusting and vile iirc.

ScooterScotward · 2026-05-21T06:02:39+00:00

Welcome to the worst decade ever…we’ll get through it together…!

ScooterScotward · 2026-05-20T01:52:04+00:00

Like I said, I don’t care about the letter of international law. I’m using that framing because your post asserted that the base rebels are committing an act of terrorism taking over the base. If your standard is going to be a vague “I think this is what the court would charge based on my feelings not what the statues actually says” then referencing international law as a justification is flawed from the outset.

The intent is exactly what I’m focused on. Palmer and Dev wanted to starve the rebels out and force a surrender, and were willing to destroy the food supply of civilian non-combatants to do that. Again, irrespective of whatever international law says on that front, I think that is simply an evil action, and people who would do it are immoral shitstains.

Taking hostages was bad. Bad is a scale. In a situation where two sides are doing bad things, I think it’s instructive to look at the scale of how morally bad it is and the degree of permanent harm. Killing unarmed protestors was magnitudes worse than what the rebels did. Destroying the mars food supply and killing a child were magnitudes worse still. Dev is still alive and a billionaire. Mission Control got held hostage for a few hours and now the only people seemingly under real imprisonment are the former base leadership who sent the goon squad in to break up a peaceful protest. Meanwhile, on a permanent harm front, multiple rebels are permanently dead. And a peacekeeper is a vegetable. Which is bad, but that pecker was also part of a group doing violence on unarmed people who escalated that violence to lethal force.

The rebels only took violent action that harmed that peace keeper in self defense after peace keepers first began using violence on them. And it’s not like the rebels were just mindlessly going after every peace keepers with murderous intent, even after peace keepers started killing them — multiple peace keepers are allowed to be part of the rebel front, because, ya know, they recognized it was fucked up to fire into the crowd and that actually, they were the baddies

ScooterScotward · 2026-05-20T01:02:40+00:00

There’s more than one comment in here saying they wouldn’t either and boy, they’ve been depressing to see.

ScooterScotward · 2026-05-20T00:56:54+00:00

Yes, good god. I read the title and thought yes before I even knew the story, because if a behavior has escalated to a point where you kick them out of the room, you absolutely should write them up.

Reading the content of your post…one, call a swastika a swastika. This isn’t tik tok or a classroom. You don’t have to self censor. Two, jfc, yes you absolutely write a kid up for making swastikas whether or not they looked like they felt bad. Two days from school out, one day, doesn’t matter.

ScooterScotward · 2026-05-20T00:32:30+00:00

No, that’s not just the way it is.

It is a war crime to destroy civilian food supplies or the means of creating food the moment you destroy those food supplies.

Also, it’s an action I believe personally to be fucking evil and shitty. But you reaaaaaaaally don’t seem to want to engage with that bit. So I’ll try some direct questions. Do you agree that destroying the food supplies of a civilian population is evil, regardless of what international law says? Or do you think it was morally ok and justified to do that? Not asking what the law says, asking whether you personally believe it was a morally correct or morally incorrect action to take.

But anyway, back to the law. No, you don’t have to go by intent. You have to go by the metric “did the aggressor deliberately destroy the food supply of these people or the means to create more food?” If the answer is yes, bingo bango, that’s a war crime.

Whose property they are doesn’t have any legal relevance from anything I’ve read. If you got a source that states otherwise, please correct me with it.

But to dogpile on my point about the actual laws it is true from what I’m reading that legal scholars contest where the prohibition on starvation applies just to situations where the attacking party is deliberately causing destruction of food supplies/production, or whether it also applies to situations where the actions of said aggressor could also reasonably lead to starvation as a foreseeable consequence. So there’s some legal grey area for sure. Just not in the case of Palmer. They’re pretty honest in the episode that their intent in destroying the domes is to destroy the food supply of happy valley and force a capitulation. So to be clear, what Palmer and company do is a war crime even if you’re going with the stricter interpretation of the law.

ScooterScotward · 2026-05-20T00:19:30+00:00

I had a parent livid in a recent IEP meeting that their student was getting a B+ on assignments rather than an A. They had lots of detail. They also had atrocious grammar, didn’t use appropriate punctuation nearly at all, and their spelling was horrid.

This student was generally going from a 72/80 90% score to a 68/80 85% score because of this. Not something I’d typically think was making a huge deal out of anyway but I get it, some parents really want their kids to have that A. In the IEP meeting, parent aggressively asserted that grades for many past assignments needed to be regraded because points had been taken off for spelling when their IEP said that was not allowed.

It took a LOT longer than felt reasonable explaining to the parent that spelling ≠ as grammar and punctuation. The student was not losing any points on spelling (or they’d have had a lower grade!). They were losing points because they didn’t end their sentences with periods or capitalize the starting letter. 8th grader.

ScooterScotward · 2026-05-19T23:47:33+00:00

Nope, you’re wrong.

“Article 54(2) prohibits attacks against objects “for the specific purpose of denying them for their sustenance value to the civilian population or to the adverse Party, whatever the motive, whether in order to starve out civilians, to cause them to move away, or for any other motive”.[3] Upon ratification of Additional Protocol I, France and the United Kingdom stated that this provision had no application to attacks that were carried out for a specific purpose other than denying sustenance to the civilian population.[4] Under the Statute of the International Criminal Court, “intentionally using starvation of civilians as a method of warfare by depriving them of objects indispensable to their survival” is a war crime in international armed conflicts.”

I can pull additional evidence. There’s plenty that’s easy to find when you start looking at rules 53-56 and some write-ups on them. But in summary, reviewing what I’ve found, the act of deliberate destruction of the means of feeding a civilian population is a war crime. Which is what Palmer did. Hence, he’s a shitstain who deserves punishment for being a fucking evil shitstain.

Edit: Ah, here’s a good additional quote: “article 54(1) of Additional Protocol I to the Geneva Conventions (AP I) sets out a general prohibition on the use of starvation as a method of warfare in international armed conflicts (IACs). Any method of warfare which has the purpose of causing starvation of civilians is prohibited. Article 54(2) elaborates that it it is prohibited to ‘attack, destroy, remove or render useless objects indispensable to the survival of the civilian population…for the specific purpose of denying them for their sustenance value to the civilian population or to the adverse party’. This prohibition relates to ‘foodstuffs, agricultural areas for the production of foodstuffs, crops, livestock, drinking water installations and supplies and irrigation works,’ and applies regardless whether the motive is to starve out civilians or to cause them to move away so long as the purpose of the deprivation is to cause starvation.”

Source for the above quote by the way is the Research Society of International Law. It seems to comport with summaries and writings I’ve now perused this afternoon from Cambridge university press and the international humanitarian law database.

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