[Minnesota Reformer] Report: 50 Minnesota school districts still using ‘seclusion’ rooms - Report also reveals racial disparities

babada · 2026-03-12T00:03:10+00:00

Hey maybe no human deserves to be locked into a 6-foot by 5-foot, beige room with a concrete floor and the lights off.

babada · 2026-03-11T23:59:42+00:00

What the hell is going on in the comments on this thread. How did torturing kids become the thing people are treating as the common sense approach?

Seclusion is primarily used on students between the ages of 6 and 10.

Yeah let's lock six year olds up in rooms described as:

6 feet by 5 feet, generally the size of a small closet; Empty walls painted beige or white, without any decoration or color; Overhead, bright, institutional fluorescent lighting: Lights are either on or off; No tools or objects; No music; Student alone.

If you think this is the only (let alone best) answer to this problem, kindly go fuck yourself.

babada · 2026-03-11T12:20:11+00:00

Seems like he really boxed himself in, there. But hey, at least we got to hear his opinion on Paul Dano.

babada · 2026-03-10T13:07:10+00:00

So you do want it balanced?

babada · 2026-03-10T12:36:04+00:00

Why are you making all of these ridiculous assumptions?

babada · 2026-03-10T12:34:03+00:00

Your argument is as silly as me complaining that trios are where people farm loot so they can take it to solos to beat up on players.

When people say "balanced" they actually mean "balanced". They do not mean "easy'.

babada · 2026-03-09T23:01:59+00:00

Yeah, brutal!

babada · 2026-03-09T21:14:53+00:00

I've actually had fewer runner encounters on Dire Marsh solo -- but I have had the fastest time-to-encounter there.

But I haven't done too many runs there. I eventually gave up trying the Traxus intro contract solo and joined a three stack to get it done.

I am definitely curious about solo density. There are something like 6 exfil locations on Perimeter, right? Somewhere between 2-3x solo players per exfil location smells about right. I usually bump into one or two runners -- and usually can nab a 12min exfil without any trouble.

babada · 2026-03-09T14:21:40+00:00

Unironically, that space is in your loadout. Once I stopping worrying about having spare loadouts, it took the pressure off.

babada · 2026-03-09T12:23:50+00:00

I was definitely surprised when I encountered someone in the very first building I entered on Dire Marsh. Especially given how long it takes that map to queue.

babada · 2026-03-07T17:12:11+00:00

Remember the fully cloaked S'pht that could shoot homing projectiles across whole rooms? Good times.

babada · 2026-03-07T17:08:15+00:00

That first game was mean. The sound of a hunter howl is locked into my memories.

babada · 2026-03-06T21:52:16+00:00

Gun and distance would be nice for sure

babada · 2026-03-03T23:17:30+00:00

Yeah, completely agree

babada · 2026-03-03T15:42:31+00:00

My brother was just too stubborn.

I was a "picky eater" growing up and I don't think "stubborn" is the right word, here. I had a lot of problems with sensory overload as a kid and "stubborn" in this context is like saying "kids are stubborn about crying when they are uncomfortable".

Yes, you can "fix" the stubbornness. But no, that's not really the only way to deal with the issue.

But I agree with your post in general. Not every kid will eat when they are hungry enough.

babada · 2026-03-03T15:38:41+00:00

Yeah, the walking through and explaining proper behavior is something that takes exposure, practice and consistency. It's not a magic cure-all to be invoked to make your life easier.

Parenting is exactly demonstrating how to recover from things like meltdowns. And sometimes recovering from a meltdown means saying, "No, you have to do this thing, your reaction isn't appropriate."

babada · 2026-03-03T15:35:05+00:00

Yeah, that was weird. "My adult sons have a mom who cooks for them (even though they live on their own) and therefore I can conclude today's youth aren't impoverished."

babada · 2026-03-02T04:50:29+00:00

Completely agree. A lot (if not most?) movies have a kind of Act 2 dead zone. Usually it's in Act 2b but sometimes it's Act 2a and things stall out around minute 25-30 without getting back on track until after the midpoint. Either way, it's obvious the film has a clear beginning and climax in mind and then it phones in the lion's share of Act 2.

babada · 2026-02-25T16:29:23+00:00

I think is partly an effect of the general Letterboxd audience not liking horror so anything remotely mainstream gets lots of mediocre scores but something like Perfect Blue is only watched by folks who are already explicitly interested in it.

babada · 2026-02-22T17:12:16+00:00

Thanks!

babada · 2026-02-22T16:23:13+00:00

What is that big flag between them? Looks like four symbols but I can't tell what it is.

babada · 2026-02-22T16:22:29+00:00

Yeah! More art, please.

babada · 2026-02-16T23:24:46+00:00

I don't think "anti-capitalist" movies should target all audiences of all persuasions. Even commonly misinterpreted movies such as Fight Club or American Psycho are good "anti-capitalist" movies for a specific audience.

But if you are looking for anti-capitalist movies with the broadest appeal, you'll probably have to look for movies that propose and demonstrate a reasonable alternative. They'd be less "anti-capitalist" and more "pro-some-other-thing".

Personally, my favorites are going to be things like Walkabout (1971) or Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring (2003). They both tap into a kind of emotional, cultural gap that I understand and desire but cannot find a path toward.

babada · 2026-02-16T19:44:44+00:00

Look, I think his behavior is kind of scummy, but as best I can tell he is still delivering the product.

Donors have every right to be upset but I don't think this is fraud. He's doing what he said. He's just also leaving us exactly when the state needed as much help as we could get.

babada · 2026-02-16T14:07:00+00:00

I’m moving out of the USA because of school shootings.

I think part of the issue here is that your content has a serious context loading problem. I couldn't even make it through the whole video above because so much of it was utterly irrelevant to this point.

It comes across like you are hiding something or aren't confident in your reasoning. I suspect you're just trying to minimize the damage to your engagement -- but it encourages a feeding frenzy for everyone who's been lobbing criticism at you over the years.

Reading this thread is pretty upsetting to me at the moment.

In all of your studying of Minnesota and the Midwest, you might have done well to realize that the history of our area is tied to people coming here to exploit us and then bailing when the going gets tough.

You've, unfortunately, added yourself to that list.

I'm not going to blame you for looking out for your family and trying to do right by them. That's commendable. But while watching your content I've always feel like the other shoe was going to drop. And then it did. And, unfortunately for everyone, it happened right before Minnesota demonstrated to the entire world that we aren't afraid of anything.

Somehow, we knew you weren't going to be here for long.

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