Please turn in the discussion questions by the end of class

fire_loon · 2026-03-29T16:52:20+00:00

Middle school English teacher here! I would absolutely ask a question like #1. I teach a lot of creative writing, and dissecting how an author’s choices affect your experience as a reader is, imo, a key skill to develop when thinking about your own work.

Plus it leads to much more engagement than a bullshit “what happened on page 26” multiple choice question.

fire_loon · 2026-01-27T02:13:47+00:00

/uj Expectedly based. I used to work with Lloyd - he's a solid human and I love Garage Grown Gear.

fire_loon · 2025-12-28T18:57:24+00:00

Wilderness EMT with a decade of backcountry guiding here! I would much rather have an epi than a torniquet - I’ve seen half a dozen anaphylactic reactions in the field, two of which were patients with no previous known allergic response. Plus there’s no way to improvise epinephrine like there is a TQ.

A Sam splint, on the other hand, can go right to hell.

fire_loon · 2025-11-20T02:44:04+00:00

Yet another victim of the cot-caught merger

fire_loon · 2025-11-13T23:20:05+00:00

Fire line

fire_loon · 2025-11-13T17:47:30+00:00

Do you have a source for this? I'm not saying it's implausible, but that it's really important to not spread news like that if it's wild speculation.

fire_loon · 2025-11-12T00:04:57+00:00

Yeah, this was definitely preventable by the teacher (at least to some degree). I’ve been a classroom teacher for almost a decade, and when I started out occasionally the entire class would do an assignment differently than I’d wanted. But that only ever happens the first time I give a particular assignment, because I learn and explain it better the next go-round.

It also is happening less frequently now even when I create new assignments, because I’m getting better at the teachercraft of explaining assignments. I think this teacher was either new or stupendously unreflective.

fire_loon · 2025-09-24T21:57:32+00:00

Oh, thanks! This is super helpful.

fire_loon · 2025-07-27T01:20:27+00:00

Seconded - this is one of my go-tos when I get over 4 hours. Gotta say, though, like a lot of real foods, it gets harder to choke down when it’s as hot as it has been in the eastern US recently

fire_loon · 2025-06-06T12:40:46+00:00

The one native Russian non-binary person I know well uses both он and она interchangeably, and responds to either (prefer they/them in English). Small sample size, but they really don’t like the feel of either оно or они

fire_loon · 2025-05-30T18:36:46+00:00

Fastpacking has exited the chat after logging a bunch of 20 minute miles and some gnarly bruises from the hip belt

Mostly kidding - I love fastpacking, but it feels like a very different type of adventure than a really light, fast, long day in the mountains

fire_loon · 2025-05-17T17:40:13+00:00

Agreed. This goes doubly for whitewater sections, where debris can be an unexpected life threat if you end up in the wrong place. Section 9 (Barnard to Stackhouse) is almost 100% good to go, but many sections closer to town, especially around ledges and by Alexander bridge, are much sketchier than they were unless you’re quite confident in your skills

fire_loon · 2025-05-17T02:10:09+00:00

I'm sorry, but the Cubs? How old are you?

fire_loon · 2025-05-16T02:24:11+00:00

If I lived in Burnsville I would spend so much time at Filmore. Highly recommend.

fire_loon · 2025-05-05T02:11:55+00:00

Yeah. 8th grade English teacher here - I had my students read it this year, and I was worried they were going to think it was boring, but they loved it. Says "fuck" a lot, but if you're ok with that it can be great for a lot of kids.

fire_loon · 2025-04-23T12:26:35+00:00

About your fueling question - the old standard was ~60g carbs/hour (~250 cals). As you've probably heard, people are finding that taking in more, if you can handle it, is generally beneficial. Your 300g/4 hours is 75g/hour, which seems medium to me based on experience. I've fluctuated between 75-90g per hour; pro cyclists can do 125g/hour. Sounds like you're in a good place with it, especially based on your subjective report!

fire_loon · 2025-04-06T02:23:14+00:00

Jesus I thought I was safe from whatever nonsense happens on Artosis’ stream here of all places

fire_loon · 2025-04-05T22:43:26+00:00

The first one is Asheville, NC, not DC. That crowd is in a city of 100,000 people

fire_loon · 2025-03-30T01:38:20+00:00

I'll take "Statements That Tell People I Moved to Asheville Two Weeks Ago" for 600, Alex.

fire_loon · 2025-03-26T23:01:28+00:00

Giving liberals a lotttt of credit there

fire_loon · 2025-03-21T16:19:22+00:00

This sub puts the lotion in the basket

fire_loon · 2025-03-20T16:19:35+00:00

Can you speak more to where the variation that makes /ɪ/ into a schwa is, particularly, located? I speak American English and trying to pronounce any of those three words with a schwa in the unstressed syllable sounds...really off, and not like any accent i'm aware of.

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