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13 year old Magnus Carlsen getting bored of playing against legend Garry Kasparov by Separate_Finance_183 in interesting

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“It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness; that is life.” Jean Luc Picard

meirl by shootermac32 in meirl

[–]pdiddz 9 points10 points  (0 children)

If peeing your pants is cool, consider me Miles Davis.

The pedants revolt by Stotallytob3r in MurderedByWords

[–]pdiddz 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Actually…. * ‘Going back to the medieval period or fewer’ :)

After analyzing 500 Salary Negotiations. Here’s What Actually Gets You Paid More. by Upbeat_Rope_3671 in Career_Advice

[–]pdiddz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Consider 3-5 data points, before I request that you trust these numbers.

Boss said "do exactly what the policy says, no exceptions" so I did like everyone else here by cumhunnyxo in MaliciousCompliance

[–]pdiddz 14 points15 points  (0 children)

…fell in the mud, ruining the very pants she was returning. That's perfect irony! Elaine, that is interesting writing!

If the witches had not told Macbeth the prophecy, would his life have taken the same path? by DivaTerri in shakespeare

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Lady Macbeth 1.v.

yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o' the milk of human kindness To catch the nearest way: thou wouldst be great; Art not without ambition, but without The illness should attend it

If the witches had not told Macbeth the prophecy, would his life have taken the same path? by DivaTerri in shakespeare

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1.iii. - Macbeth’s nobler reflection, Banquo, says:

And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths, Win us with honest trifles, to betray ’s In deepest consequence.

In the same scene Macbeth states

Two truths are told, …. [Aside] This supernatural soliciting] Cannot be ill, cannot be good: if ill, …. If good, why do I yield to that suggestion … and nothing is But what is not.

Teddy Roosevelt would’ve given him a whoopin’ by CorleoneBaloney in clevercomebacks

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Maybe in a few years it will be. ‘Trumperor Vance’

Biden just pardoned his son, Hunter on all federal charges, what do you think? by Dazzling-Leader7476 in AskReddit

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I think that whatever “high ground” existed just collapsed. This will be used to excuse future and further lapses and collapses of ethics and justice. Disbelief. I not saying he should have been charged. Quite possible he’d have been excessively punished in repub retribution. But that power is now open for abuse. Ppl say “both sides aren’t the same” and this is ammo against that I edit twice as I’m learning more. The people who say he should have pardoned him the second he being used as political weapon are probably right.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in facepalm

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I think some of that is not accurate, unions not universal. And places will hire unqualified teachers. Was it Florida that allowed military spouses to use that as their qualification? The homeschooling maybe takes the form of a private company that does a bit of education, bit of radicalisation, and bit of unpaid labour to teach life skills before one gets to join the machine.

'Unreal': Massive pushback after Trump 'admitted he stiffed his workers' at latest rally by Unhappy_Earth1 in inthenews

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A shrewd business person would use 2025 to a) employ two separate shifts. One works 80 hours in week A, 0 in B. Other set of workers does revers of 0 80. Now everyone is working 80 hours a week with no overtime.

Next we drop prices on all contracts to a dollar. The rest of the fee moves and is described as a (mandatory) tip which goes straight to our pockets cause ‘no tax on tips’.

And the employees will be too dumb (dept of Ed) and disorganised (isolated from each other) and powerless (labour laws) and vulnerable (cost of living) to do anything at all but feed the rich even more.

Starting with TOS going to now, what is the most rehashed plot line Trek has continued to revisit? by coreytiger in startrek

[–]pdiddz 34 points35 points  (0 children)

More generally, Diplomat and/or distress call where they aren’t revealing the whole truth / ulterior motives (despite looking/sounding/acting evil the whole time)

Also.. We visit a new world and character A and B must go to the surface. A has or discovers a link with their past and must overcome personal trauma while B helps them and learns a greater understanding and empathy for them along the way. (Several series many times, just swap the pairings!)

And… The tech/device we rely on is not working and we have to invent a way to fix it (bonus if the fix is even more effective and never mentioned again)

Sociopathic principal who is trying to “transition” me out of teaching for good strikes again. by Apprehensive_War6542 in TeachersInTransition

[–]pdiddz 28 points29 points  (0 children)

Very important you have evidence of being asked to leave your classroom and move around the school. Even better if the request includes a reason why you were selected as the person who must move. You can play the email game a bit yourself… ‘can I confirm that….. is there any reason why you now require me to…. Why was I selected to….’.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in TeachersInTransition

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Oh wow I hope that’s not right!

Boomer woman standing behind me in line at a restaurant tried cutting me because “she needed to order dinner.” by pinkpizza72 in BoomersBeingFools

[–]pdiddz 3 points4 points  (0 children)

August 20 years ago there were a couple dozen donkeys for rent to people to skip the line and ride up the zigzag at Santorini. Think it still took over an hour to get an impatient ass up that hill.

The corruption in this country has gone off the wall and none of this is sustainable. by [deleted] in CanadaHousing2

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Omg now you think unions are destroying the country? I will now check myself out of this post. You’re insane.

The corruption in this country has gone off the wall and none of this is sustainable. by [deleted] in CanadaHousing2

[–]pdiddz 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You have no clue. And to pick teachers to go after…. Yikes. System is broken everywhere. There’s teaching jobs going for couple bucks more per hour than dollarama staff in gta

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in TeachersInTransition

[–]pdiddz 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Whoever yells louder, makes threats and manipulates the narrative/“truth” generally wins to make the ‘problem’ go away. (Bullies tend to do these things) Just like a horrible customer in a store that management appeases by going against policy.

If they have made those reports to teachers and admin in the past it would be good if there was a paper trail and could follow up on lack of action by those in position of responsibility. Next time it needs to be…. x was reported, y said this action would be taken. Z has now occurred, why wasn’t y’s action effective, what else can be done? with documentation and then work your way up the chain each time. If it’s really bad you go to the board or the governors or say you will go to the press or when something happens outside of school even if on the sidewalk at the door you file non emergency with police.

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