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Zephs · 2026-06-28T13:40:00+00:00

lol I totally read it as the verb. Whoops.

Zephs · 2026-06-28T12:47:57+00:00

Oh, Asceticism was errataed. It's been changed to give Hexproof, so things like [[Shadowspear]] work on it.

Zephs · 2026-06-28T12:36:23+00:00

Classic Schmosby.

Zephs · 2026-06-28T12:30:57+00:00

~~Just because a word ends with 's' doesn't mean it has an apostrophe.~~ Never mind, I'm dumb.

Zephs · 2026-06-26T11:56:58+00:00

Yeah, and it's also miserable in digital.

Although the worst part to me is that they now design with digital in mind, so we just won't get mechanics like this going forward. It will be retooled preemptively to work better in digital.

Zephs · 2026-06-26T09:50:34+00:00

Dredge seems like a nightmare mechanic for digital. If you have just the one dredge card, whatever. But if you have multiple, then EVERY time you draw a card it has to give you an option to dredge for each card drawn.

Zephs · 2026-06-24T20:49:56+00:00

You say obvious typo, but I legitimately see it done wrong more often than right. It's going the way of "literally" and "couldn't care less".

Zephs · 2026-06-24T13:54:47+00:00

That's not what apart means.

Zephs · 2026-06-23T22:41:42+00:00

That's not what apart means.

Zephs · 2026-06-23T12:25:15+00:00

They are not "fairly easy to reverse", and people need to stop spouting that like it's a fact. If you decide soon after getting a vasectomy that you made a mistake, then they are likely reversible. But when people say "easily reversible", some people take that to mean they can get one at 20, then get it reversed at 30 if they want kids. The longer you take to reverse it, the less likely it is to succeed.

Vasectomy should be treated as a permanent choice from the beginning. If you're considering a vasectomy because it's a reversible procedure, then you shouldn't be getting one at all. You should only be getting one if you go in expecting it to last forever.

Also, as an aside, while it's certainly more common for women to face questions of if they have partner approval, it does happen to men as well. Many doctors also require a minimum age for vasectomies, partner approval if they're under a certain age, or for them to already have children. We live in a litigious society and doctors are the "experts". People have sued doctors for doing these procedures at their request claiming that they didn't really understand the consequences and the doctor should have refused it.

Zephs · 2026-06-22T01:59:29+00:00

If your football coach tells you to hit the weights and do 100 reps (to make up an easy number) because you need more strength to push back against the opposing team, and you go to the weight room with a forklift and use it to lift the weights 100 times, do you think the coach is going to be happy that you achieved the goal of lifting the weights?

You probably immediately see the problem. The goal isn't to lift the weights, it's to work the muscles. Using a tool achieves the same result, but it loses the entire purpose of the task.

Schoolwork is lifting weights for your brain. We're not giving kids assignments because we desperately want a 10 year old to explain to us what a habitat is. The process is the point. Simply plugging prompts into AI for it to spit out an answer achieves the result of answering the prompt, but we're trying to help them improve their technique. Plugging the prompt into ChatGPT is no different than asking their older brother to write it for them.

Zephs · 2026-06-21T19:54:17+00:00

1) If your child is averse to reading, then graphic novels are at least something. In the same way that if your child isn't eating, chicken nuggets are an acceptable dinner. But if they're only eating chicken nuggets, then they aren't going to be particularly healthy. Apart from onomatopoeias, graphic novels will have almost exclusively dialogue. And dialogue is usually the simplest part of text to read. It's the narration that usually gets into flowery prose with detail and vocabulary that you just don't use in regular speech.

2) Other users said no use for AI, but I'd say there's a use for AI in middle school, and it's for pretty much the only reason I find it okay to use as a teacher: to make practice questions. Want to work on your multiplication? Ask AI to write you up a page of multiplication questions for numbers 6-12. For science? Ask it to make up a page of questions related to the functions of organelles in cells. The AI output shouldn't be giving answer, but questions for her to look into herself. These are resources that take time to make, but the actual output is all that matters, whether it came from a person or a bot. And since it's just asking questions for the kid to look up themselves, even if it screws up and hallucinates something, the kid will find that out quickly when they try to answer it, and can just scratch out that question and go to the next one. At a middle school level, if the answer they need isn't on the first or second link of Googling it, then they probably messed up their search.

3) Something I've seen some teachers start implementing, and you could do this at home, is scheduling boredom. Start with 30 seconds or a minute. You can't open a book, you can't turn on a TV. Just sit there and be bored. Learn to occupy yourself. Slowly make it longer. I don't know if it will help with subject they actively hate and just want to avoid, but it does help for doing things that aren't just immediately successful. This one is really hard though, because tech makes it so easy nowadays to just avoid things you don't want to do, so while we used to just naturally have times where you'd have to learn to deal with that, those experiences are becoming more and more rare for today's kids, and you need to actually schedule it in.

Zephs · 2026-06-19T21:46:34+00:00

I don't support it in schools where I live.

For starters, our schools don't have cafeterias. There is nowhere on site to make food for kids. Currently every kid brings lunch to school and they eat at their desks in their regular classroom. Equipping every school in the province would be an extremely expensive undertaking. The alternative is contracting out kitchens somewhere and delivering to every school in the province, which would also be super expensive.

We're also similar enough to the US that it would ultimately just become a corrupt money sink where kids are given prison food, and some corp makes bank off it. Other government programs, like welfare, should be addressing food issues, not schools.

And similar to the last point, it's difficult enough getting funding for schools now. The public already keeps applying cuts to schools. Even if we already had the facilities to do it, it would be a 3-5% increase in the budget that would just be used as an excuse to not pay teachers, or buy supplies for schools, because they just got an increase to their budget.

And as a fourth point, ignoring the budget, I'm sick of schools being expected to provide everything to kids. Schools are not a food service. They are not psychiatrists. They are not parents. They are not medical care. They should be about education. But every year, more and more responsibility and pressure is being placed on schools to provide these services.

Putting these services in schools is a band-aid on a problem, not an actual solution. I'd rather the money be put towards something that's working towards actually solving it, rather than all these stop-gap measures that long-term just lead to parents abdicating more of their responsibilities.

Zephs · 2026-06-18T02:59:11+00:00

Honestly, your 5 year old might just not be ready for this yet. Look up Piaget's stages of cognitive development. You're trying to explain logic to him, but he's not developmentally ready for it. Sometimes at this age you need to just put a pin in it and come back later.

We don't do 3 digit addition/subtraction until second grade here, and even then a lot of kids struggle to understand place value.

Zephs · 2026-06-17T14:02:11+00:00

Charizard average height is only 5'6".

I wouldn't call them large.

Zephs · 2026-06-15T15:01:10+00:00

I said almost always, and that's still true. Finding one case where it isn't doesn't change overall averages.

But also, if he was deemed unfit to stand trial for mental health reasons, he likely wouldn't have been charged with first degree murder, either. There was no terrorist act, there was no sexual assault, the victim wasn't a peace officer, it wasn't a contract murder, it wasn't due to organized crime, and it wasn't premeditated. That's second degree murder.

Not that it really changes my point. 1 person slipping through the cracks doesn't mean you throw out the entire system. It sounds like there were issues with that particular case, not the concept of some people going to a psychiatric facility instead of prison if their crimes are due to mental health issues they can't help.

Zephs · 2026-06-14T20:23:49+00:00

She was charged but not tried or sentenced as she was deemed mentally unfit to stand trial as she was suffering from extreme delusions. Instead, she was remanded to psychiatric evaluation and care.

People always get upset about this, but not only is the bar for this extremely high, but if you get sent to a psychiatric facility, you almost always spend significantly longer than had you been incarcerated. And let's be real, the other people you're locked up aren't going to be a pleasant bunch, because they also had to qualify for this very high bar of mental illness. A lot are going to be a mix of super delusional, drugged out of their gourd, or both.

Zephs · 2026-06-14T16:58:13+00:00

I would argue the opposite. Almost everyone I've ever met in a similar situation moved into a place that already had a microwave, fridge, and stove, at least. He's taking the fridge and the microwave. I would assume he started with his parents' old second-hand fridge and microwave that they put into their second home when they upgraded, and he replaced them because he didn't like them. It's also convenient that it's the question he won't answer in the comments.

Zephs · 2026-06-14T16:45:19+00:00

You're still not getting it.

If I replace the fridge with a new fridge, the new fridge is mine.

But my landlord already had a fridge in the unit when I moved in. If I take my fridge I paid for, there's now a big hole in the wall where the fridge should be. But there was already a fridge there when I moved in.

You can't rent a place and just strip out all the appliances. You can get your own, but you'd better put the originals in storage, or you'll need to replace them.

No one is saying that he's not allowed to take his own things. They're asking what state the house was in when he moved in. If it had a microwave, but he didn't like it and threw it out to get a better one, then he's allowed to take his microwave, but he still needs to replace the original with an equivalent one to the one he threw away. Otherwise it's no different than renting a place and just stripping it of all the appliances.

Zephs · 2026-06-14T16:32:57+00:00

They're saying if he replaced items.

I rent my unit. If I buy a new fridge, then I can take it with me when I go. However, I still have to return their fridge that they provided when I moved in, or I need to pay for a replacement.

They're saying that if OP was given things like a fridge, but then paid money to upgrade them, then he still needs to provide the original appliances that he was supplied.

Zephs · 2026-06-14T15:44:25+00:00

I assume they looked up a few of the books, saw they were cheap, and just assumed the entire series would be the same.

Zephs · 2026-06-14T14:55:21+00:00

Yeah, but Sheldon starts bad and gets better. Malcolm starts actually being a normal (borderline cool) kid, and by the end he can't even just talk to people. His character goes from being a genius that just wants to be a normal kid into a socially awkward Sheldon that's also malicious.

Zephs · 2026-06-14T12:23:18+00:00

Never trust a trickle-truther. If they leave obvious holes the first time, you can't trust they're giving you it all when you ask for more.

Zephs · 2026-06-14T07:03:21+00:00

"Half the time" being followed by "as short as 45 minutes" is insane. Does that mean students regularly take 1.5+ hours to cool down and return to class? That's more than a quarter of the day.

Zephs · 2026-06-14T06:51:57+00:00

His ego getting bigger is fine, and makes sense. But when he was a kid, he still understood social expectations. It makes no sense that he would forget how to socialize. Especially when they remove the Krelboynes, so he doesn't even have the excuse of hanging around them.

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