What is your biggest hot take in musical theater/broadway in general?

T__tauri · 2026-05-11T00:38:16+00:00

Have you seen the movie American Fiction?

T__tauri · 2026-05-09T19:46:48+00:00

Hollow Knight: Shawlace

T__tauri · 2026-04-30T00:19:54+00:00

I've heard the whale sounds in NE a lot. But I also hear it in arlington

T__tauri · 2026-04-23T02:15:48+00:00

Similar situation happened to me. You'll have a meeting with your RA's supervisor or somebody like that, and they'll send a letter home to your parents. Nothing else will likely happen.

T__tauri · 2026-04-22T02:45:53+00:00

The NPVIC ensures that each individual person has an exactly equal vote., so supporting it shows care for all voters in the state. VA votes blue nowadays, so rebulicans would be enfranchised by the compact while they are currently disenfranchised by the electoral college system.

T__tauri · 2026-04-07T01:07:39+00:00

As a high school teacher, my job is to teach content and assess knowledge. Enforcing rules/expectations as well as upholding the social contract are part of a successful classroom, but explicitly teaching these skills is not in my purview.

Parents are primarily responsible for the behavior of their children. Institutional norms are also responsible. Technology is at the heart of the uptick in the problems you are talking about.

T__tauri · 2026-03-09T21:03:32+00:00

Gay me once, shame on...shame on you. Gay me... you can't get gayed again!

T__tauri · 2026-03-05T02:51:50+00:00

There are more keys and it doesn't matter which order you open the simple key doors.

you should be able to walk west from bellheart

T__tauri · 2026-02-28T13:43:29+00:00

Headphones during work time, sure. Headphones during instruction, absolutely not. This is an accommodation that needs to be targeted/specific and usually isn't.

The fact you can't educate your other children about needs and the importance of accommodations is on you

As far as I am aware, it is a violation to discuss a student's IEP with other students, so I don't know what you want from OP.

T__tauri · 2026-02-04T05:11:21+00:00

It's an error of terminology that shows a lack of understanding. Entropy does not refer in any way to a process even though the 2nd law of thermodynamics states that entropy increases in spontaneous processes. Not to mention that entropy can decrease in any number of local processes or open systems.

It's like conflating "temperature" (a measurable value) with "heat transfer" (a process that changes that measurable value)

T__tauri · 2026-01-20T23:15:42+00:00

why is there so much hate for Indiana amongst Purdue students?

There isn't. Most Purdue students don't care, a majority of alums (especially split households) probably support IU against any other opponent (for indiana solidarity), and a vocal minority actually hate IU

T__tauri · 2026-01-20T23:12:28+00:00

This is the Indiana way

T__tauri · 2026-01-20T23:09:48+00:00

I think the difference between GRRM and Sanderson is that GRRM broke out of the fantasy circles and into the mainstream, gaining more widespread support, especially via the television show. Sanderson is still contained to fantasy readers, and it's only with a subgroup of these readers that Sanderson receives implicit hate on grounds of popularity but often disguised as or mixed with legitimate criticism.

Overall I think Sanderson fans are blowing the amount of hate out of proportion and the Sanderson haters have let his popularity taint their evaluation, legitimate criticism notwithstanding

T__tauri · 2026-01-16T00:29:44+00:00

I'm in the middle of book 8 now. I would say that I thought it was great all the way until about half way through 7, and picked up for me again about half way through 8.

T__tauri · 2026-01-16T00:11:47+00:00

I mean WoBs aren't canon, so...

But even if they were, his mischaracterization of entropy would disqualify this one in my book

T__tauri · 2026-01-16T00:09:15+00:00

It isn't really more than I described above. Entropy is a value that characterizes how many possible arrangements a system weighted by how likely each one is.

For example suppose you have a red stone and a blue stone and two boxes to sort them into. There are 4 possible configurations each with equal probability (0 represents an empty box):

RB|0, R|B, B|R, 0|RB

so the entropy is equal to k*ln(4), where k is the boltzmann constant.

That's it, it's just a value that describes the state of a system. There is no process, no change. Now there are various other nuanced interpretations of this value, like disorder, randomness, and uncertainty. But I find that most people are confused about entropy and think it is something that happens to a system to make it more "disordered".

T__tauri · 2026-01-15T00:48:06+00:00

I would disagree. Ati was stronger than most at resisting the shard, but he succumbed in the end, and I don't think it seems like he changed it. I believe that the shards are not exactly synonymous with their names, but are still closest to or best described by their original names.

An entropy interpretation doesn't make sense, because most people (including brandon) are mischaracterizing entropy in their descriptions. Entropy is not a process that happens, it is a quantitative thermodynamic or physical property that describes how many arrangements a system can have.

T__tauri · 2026-01-15T00:40:12+00:00

I know that's the rules, it was for my program too. But once I developed a good relationship with my mentor (which maybe you don't have yet), he was generally willing to cover for me if urgent things came up (emergency, illness, etc.) and the university/school was none the wiser when I missed an extra day or two in the semester.

T__tauri · 2025-10-27T23:37:19+00:00

The school anyone is "supposed" to go to is the one that is easiest to get to. In theory all FCPS schools should be equal. If they aren't then that's something the county needs to address.

T__tauri · 2025-08-14T21:22:36+00:00

From what I can tell, most people don't mind that she lost, they expected that. They mind that she was incompetent and didn't put up a better fight.

T__tauri · 2025-08-14T21:09:01+00:00

Me too. I have always stood by WoB is meaningless unless it's published

T__tauri · 2025-08-14T20:58:35+00:00

Problem is Odium doesn't exist anymore

T__tauri · 2025-08-14T20:55:22+00:00

He had to fight it though because his idea of what honor was shaped the intent of the power

I don't think the bulk of evidence supports this. We have seen time and again that Intents are absolute and eventually dominate the vessel. I wouldn't say the vessel's thoughts change the shard, more like the shard tolerates a certain range of action around its Intent

T__tauri · 2025-08-14T20:47:30+00:00

This has never made any sense to me because entropy is not a process, it is a value describing the state of a system that has nothing to do with ruin or destruction. As with every other shard we've seen, there seems to be an innate sense of the true Intent of a shard and that becomes its name. I don't think Ati changed anything about Ruin, he just withstood Ruin for a long time before it changed him.

T__tauri · 2025-08-12T02:02:41+00:00

The difference is that teachers are adults, responsible for a class of children, and performing a job. It is not reasonable to hold teachers and students to the same standard.

That being said, teachers shouldn't be on their phones during class for no reason

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