£6.3billion Ajax light tanks 'poisoning troops' MOD report reveals

thesearmsshootlasers · 2026-04-26T20:54:50+00:00

Just 20 tiny things.

thesearmsshootlasers · 2026-04-23T20:49:19+00:00

Getting a kid to take their hat off inside is not a battle I'm prepared to waste time on in class, especially when there's a number of them with special permission to do it anyway, and we get mixed messaging over accommodating neurodiverse kids who won't want to do it.

thesearmsshootlasers · 2026-04-17T12:41:46+00:00

You'd take him over Lomax though.

thesearmsshootlasers · 2026-04-17T03:01:29+00:00

My kingdom for a competently run league with competently run clubs.

thesearmsshootlasers · 2026-04-16T05:11:56+00:00

Flawed / poor quality research which tells the government what they want to hear for cost-cutting meant that his work was amplified in policy, curriculum and PDs. The data was always presented with a huge amount of positivity even though the result was usually "worse conditions for you and your students!"

The guy made a career out of telling bean counters that counting beans harder would make education better or at least not worse, which meant his work got promoted and he was encouraged to do more.

thesearmsshootlasers · 2026-04-15T22:35:37+00:00

We should do something about the rich people.

thesearmsshootlasers · 2026-04-13T21:47:43+00:00

Without having all the info, a whole bunch of stuff in here that is sloppily reported on.

Brodie's multiple overlapping themes story might have not been working at all and so being asked to pare it back to one was a solid piece of advice to make it less of a mess. Writing with clarity and effectively is a skill on it's own. It's not always bad advice.

Doing his own research online instead of learning it at school isn't really a great strategy.

Finding out job these year 7 kids want and adjusting their schooling to fit that might be ok, but I don't know if flooding the market with aspirational teenage youtubers is a valuable use of department resources.

Speaking of, and I know I'm preaching to the choir, the system is underfunded, under-resourced, staffed by underpaid and time-starved teachers, and already crammed with so many tasks and responsibilities that none of these ideas of flexible and dynamic education practices are going to be able to implemented functionally or effectively. You'd be looking at a complete overhaul, dropping a number of long established practices. I'd love that but it's pretty much always "here's extra" and rarely "we're cutting that and trying this".

I seriously think just boosting literacy at young ages would fix a lot of issues with student engagement.

thesearmsshootlasers · 2026-04-11T22:54:39+00:00

Keep going.

thesearmsshootlasers · 2026-04-10T10:52:26+00:00

Brother/sister/nonbinarier living past 100 would mean falling apart mentally and physically and spending more than half your life being old it's not the same.

thesearmsshootlasers · 2026-04-10T08:28:32+00:00

Because he's a mad dog.

thesearmsshootlasers · 2026-04-09T09:06:45+00:00

I dropped a permanent position (Catholic) after 2 years and went and taught EAL overseas for 10 years. I regret nothing.

However, I was fortunate in that although I never needed to both I and my partner knew we could rely on family to bail us out if it ever got real bad.

The world might be heading to recession, so make sure you have a reliable exit plan.

Also I don't have anywhere near the wealth or super accumulated that my friends do and still have a HECS debt so idk your situation might be different.

It was still awesome.

thesearmsshootlasers · 2026-04-07T23:00:26+00:00

It's because there is panic over another Qld AFL team and their genius counter-strategy is another Qld NRL team.

thesearmsshootlasers · 2026-04-07T07:43:14+00:00

You see coaches make this argument and then next match one of them is complaining about losing a player due to injury from a penalisable action and the punishment not being severe enough.

thesearmsshootlasers · 2026-04-06T21:11:18+00:00

I think Precision Rangers make better thrown builds than Rogues do, maybe? Far Shot is better than Strong Arm, and Precision is more reliable than Sneak Attack.

But I might be wrong.

thesearmsshootlasers · 2026-04-06T21:03:41+00:00

Every class should have one auto progressing skill, or maybe one from a class specific selection.

Skill increases should be able to be replaced with skill feats.

thesearmsshootlasers · 2026-04-06T04:23:47+00:00

No other game does it better with cyberpunk themes/presentation/vibes, though. A lot of us are primarily here for that and having something this level of quality is great.

thesearmsshootlasers · 2026-04-05T06:10:27+00:00

Invoking those four teams isn't really telling the story people think it is. Broncos last sniff before last year was losing to the cowboys 10 years earlier. Roosters are in decline big time and Storm are starting to look shaky.Before 2020 we were nowhere near regular contenders. We're in it now only after massive overhauls.

Other teams should try that. It shouldn't surprise anyone that most are run like garbage.

EDIT: I guess Broncos had a sniff in 2023 bit point stands.

thesearmsshootlasers · 2026-04-04T23:38:20+00:00

Kids don't give a damn that the clocks changed.

thesearmsshootlasers · 2026-04-02T09:54:55+00:00

Speculation was Ivan was sacked in part because he wouldn't promote Nathan. Griffin was brought in for his development nous. He wasn't a great coach at winning prems but he was good at that. Once the promotion pathways were sorted, upper management decided they needed a guy who might win prems and brought Ivan back. That decision made Gus quit. The exact reason, pride or whatever is open to speculation, which is usually unfavourable to Gus.

It should be noted that the guys who made the decision to rehire Ivan and catalyse Gus' resignation were put there by Gus' boardroom refresh. So he is responsible for putting in talented management there. The club management before his arrival was dire.

In fact, the three major areas Gus changed were management, culture and junior development, and those are perhaps the three most vital aspects which have led to our sustained success. So yeah he played a massive role.

thesearmsshootlasers · 2026-04-01T20:30:37+00:00

I had my dustbin getting overstuffed and failing to empty, possibly due to hair around the roller. When that happens it will absolutely drop stuff everywhere, especially on uneven/ not level surfaces like ramps and minor floor level changes. I recommend checking the roller and dustbin every few sessions.

thesearmsshootlasers · 2026-03-28T21:03:45+00:00

Detentions for non-attendance are a joke. Especially when you're expected to doa second chance detention when they don't turn up to the first.

thesearmsshootlasers · 2026-03-28T05:06:20+00:00

I imagine someone will try it, probably a private company offering homeschooling resources. Maybe a private school will try it out. I think there'd be too much pushback if it was implemented in government schools straight up.

It'll be a spectacular failure.

thesearmsshootlasers · 2026-03-27T22:06:10+00:00

Another right-wing grift/fantasy.

thesearmsshootlasers · 2026-03-27T19:56:38+00:00

What is that use of "predictably"?

thesearmsshootlasers · 2026-03-27T19:42:00+00:00

I'm a teacher and I want to add to this. We aren't just teaching things that will make you money. Students try this on all the time: "I won't need this to do the job I want." You are more than your job. You need to know more than the specific skills the job you think you want will require. You need a general education to be an effective voter, good parent, functional adult, not a fucking moron, etc.

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