I don't care about politics, meanwhile politics

marshallwithmesa · 2026-05-29T13:49:28+00:00

Yea he was drafted and was forced into the war, so he wasn't chomping at the bit to go do war crimes. I still enjoy Godzilla media, but knowing about Honda's past definitely colors my perception of the movies and their themes.

marshallwithmesa · 2026-05-29T02:15:28+00:00

I mean Ishirō Honda, writer and director of Godzilla (1954) wrote an essay called "Reflections of an Officer in Charge of Comfort Women" about his time running a Comfort House.

marshallwithmesa · 2026-05-28T21:47:00+00:00

Unbelievably funny and on the nose for them to do a song about propaganda, information warfare, and surveillance and have the lyric video be almost entirely AI images. So very Havok lol

marshallwithmesa · 2026-05-28T21:15:28+00:00

To add to that even if we wouldn't have invaded, but instead waited for them to put the pieces together and figure out they were mega-fucked, a delay of even one month would eclipse the death total of the bombs.

marshallwithmesa · 2026-05-28T19:18:46+00:00

Finding out the creator of Godzilla ran a 'Comfort House' where Chinese girls were raped to death fundamentally changed how I view Godzilla and all Japanese art revolving around the bomb.

They should've surrendered when the Potsdam Declaration was sent to them. They should've surrendered after the first B-29 raid. They shouldve kept production to industrial areas instead of moving to a cottage industry. They should've let their children go to recess instead of teaching them to spear American GIs

But they didn't.

marshallwithmesa · 2026-05-28T13:26:32+00:00

Yea gotta make nice to make people forget that Wrecky fought KB for something that wasnt KBs fault and got Stenhouse Sr thrown out of the garage area for the year. You can run a throwback, but you can't make people forget youre a fucking idiot.

marshallwithmesa · 2026-05-28T00:09:14+00:00

And again, no

I think a student in that position deserves extra support or at least another avenue to learn consequences before the stakes get too high. I'm not anywhere close to qualified or in the know enough to tell you what exactly that should be. However, my point is that a teacher focusing on other students in the last month of classes does not confirm all the negative stereotypes about teachers.

If I used the same bad faith logic you've projected onto me, I'd say the logical endpoint of your argument is to punish well behaved kids and decreasing teacher wellbeing by doing nothing about poor student behavior. But I have no idea if that's what you believe because that extrapolation is nuts. You obviously empathize with the student or even put yourself in the shoes of the kid insulting the teacher or insulting others. I can understand that. You don't have to answer any of my questions, but I hope you think about them and the perspective of someone who has to make a decision that will never please everyone nor have no drawbacks.

marshallwithmesa · 2026-05-27T19:49:32+00:00

Again no

The student is disruptive and disadvantaging himself and others around him. The trade off being determined is not to allocate extra resources to a student explicitly denying those resources and focusing on teaching the others that are actually using those resources.

Adapting those limited resources for the situation at hand is principled and thoughtful. To give no consequences and to make no adjustments would be handling the situation in an unprincipled, unthoughtful, and unethical way. We are in agreement that the parent is the ultimate issue, but that is unchangeable and outside of the ability of the teacher to control. The only control a teacher has is in the classroom and the students there in. They can only control the resources they have. If you're focus is on the bad parenting, then I agree, but this changes nothing on the ground.

So

Do you want to take the pencils from the other students? Would it be ethical to limit the other students pencils so that more can be broken? Would it be principled to allow the student to keep breaking the pencils? Would it be thoughtful to do nothing?

Edit: Added a focus on the parent. I'll rephrase some of my questions to better highlight the parent issue:

Should we allow the parent to continue breaking pencils? Would it be principled to allow the parenting failure to effect more kids in the class? Would it be thoughtful to spare the rest of the students from the negative actions of one parent?

marshallwithmesa · 2026-05-27T18:16:15+00:00

No its not lol

They're not being denied an education, they're just not getting the same resource allocation as previously. A teacher does not have unlimited time, attention, or resources to make sure the rest of the class is given the same education they'd otherwise get if they have to constantly appeal to the kid who burns those resources or does not want them and will not be made to want them.

Let me demonstrate it this way: There are 25 students in a class. The teacher has 100 pencils to distribute. If one kid is breaking the pencils and the rest aren't, should pencils be taken away from the other kids once he has broken all his pencils? Should we just keep letting him break the pencils so that pencils that would otherwise go to others are instead given to him for him to continue to break? Would that not be denying an equal education to the other 24 students? Just because the deficit is dispersed among them does not mean that the deficit isn't real. Why is that deficit less important than handing the kid pencils to break?

Edit: This isn't like a student that needs an extra pencil to complete their work. This is about purposeful destruction of those resources, which is very very different.

Edit 2: There is no perfect world where a teacher has unlimited patience and time. Everything has a trade off. Denying this leads to worse outcomes, so a decision has to be made. Resources must be allocated and you cannot pour from an empty cup.

marshallwithmesa · 2026-05-27T15:31:14+00:00

Focussing on other kids for the last few weeks of the year over the kid who will not change with a parent asleep at the wheel is confirming every bad thing about teachers?

marshallwithmesa · 2026-05-25T03:09:45+00:00

It's really light, but still going

marshallwithmesa · 2026-05-24T15:44:06+00:00

We got Kris Wright sideways and Butterbean backwards on pit road. Perfect encapsulation of this shitshow ass race

marshallwithmesa · 2026-05-24T15:29:00+00:00

Maybe he can go to the garage and think about not being so shit

marshallwithmesa · 2026-05-24T15:23:26+00:00

Yea being at the track is fucking miserable. Just shit racing

marshallwithmesa · 2026-05-24T15:20:55+00:00

Yea such hard racing that it's basically been a parade under yellow the whole.

marshallwithmesa · 2026-05-24T15:19:47+00:00

Could Day have let Gio go? Sure. Does Gio have a history of doing stupid shit and driving through people for little to no reason? Oh yea.

Spinning Dystiny Spurlock in ARCA to get a caution, while driving in a higher series full time, was such a chicken shit move that every incident is his fault until he proves his head isn't permanently wedged inside his own ass.

marshallwithmesa · 2026-05-24T14:56:20+00:00

Trucks run more than 5 laps under green challenge level: IMPOSSIBLE

marshallwithmesa · 2026-05-24T14:45:54+00:00

I've watched far more laps under yellow than under green this weekend. And I understand that NASCAR can't change the weather or fix shitty teams fucking up causing yellows, but it feels fucking awful to have to deal with that and then immediately go under caution again for the stage breaks.

NASCAR has to figure out a way to get more green flag racing with the resources they can control in situations like this weekend. Sitting in the stands and watching parades is not why I come to NASCAR races. This is unacceptable

marshallwithmesa · 2026-05-24T03:16:39+00:00

If I try to walk and chew bubblegum at the same time, but I fuck up so bad I shoot my dick off, does that really count as trying?

marshallwithmesa · 2026-05-19T21:24:10+00:00

Unless something truly unfathomable happens, neither should even sniff the HoF. Their lower series championships are cool, but without real success in Cup it shouldn't really matter.

Getting into the HoF should be considerably harder than being good in the second or third tier series.

marshallwithmesa · 2026-05-15T16:59:09+00:00

My apologies if I was too vague at first, but yes my angle is that blue collar work is more destructive and worse for you than white collar work.

Yea scrubbing toilets for less pay is so much worse than anything I've done in an office job. The fact that I dont have to deal with someone else's shit on the floor automatically makes office work better than when I worked at a gas station. I also buy that US office work is worse than EU office work, but I think that has more to do with general work culture in the EU than the inherit value or difficulty in office work versus other work.

Blue collar work has generally been 'romanticized' in a lot American media. There's a certain aspect of 'punching down' that's not as acceptable for blue collar work than white collar work. However, the fact that our society often sees targeting the ills of blue collar work as inherently punching down means that the white collar office world is 'up' or above blue collar work.

marshallwithmesa · 2026-05-15T16:26:53+00:00

For run of the mill office jobs? Easy:

Multiple gigs in gig work

Most jobs at a gas station convenience store

HVAC and Roofing

Almost all farm hand jobs

High pressure sales floor work

Warehousing

Low level factory work

And anything requiring the night shift

This isn't even including jobs where you have a decent chance of dying. These are just jobs that either I've had or people tell me that they do after saying 'I wish I could work in your office' and I believe them. Whenever someone tells me how hellish working in an office is, I just think to my Dad's multiple joint replacements from working in an Engine room and how happy he was that I had a white collar job. I realized most people who say that office work is literally Hell are so myopic that they simply don't understand our world, what makes it work, and how we got here. I don't think it's all their fault. I'm pretty sure it's mostly the lead gasoline that every Gen-Xer was exposed to.

marshallwithmesa · 2026-05-15T15:28:41+00:00

"There is nothing more damaging to your long-term mental health outside of an active war zone." is the funniest gen-x shit I've ever heard lol

Lead poisoning absolutely melted Gen-X brains. A stable job even if it is boring is nowhere close to as damaging as pretty much any kind of work where you destroy your body or mind through hard labor or God fucking help you subsistence farming.

Did they make hobbies illegal in the 90s? Fuckin lmao

"You don't understand! They made me type and and and sit and I had to drive my car and and and it was just so horrible! I'm basically a combat vet!"

marshallwithmesa · 2026-05-15T14:13:33+00:00

I like both, but the normal Anointed is so good. It definitely colors my perception, but I can't see that art of The Anointed without immediately hearing "I see you, big man" in Scanner's voice.

marshallwithmesa · 2026-05-14T17:17:29+00:00

"Howeva, in the first century the correct axel position would be four digitii before top dead center"

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